Bummer: Less Than Half Of Citizens Think Ukraine Issue As Serious Problem

By William Teach September 29, 2019 – 7:49 am

Now, if this poll went the other way, it would be a featured article at the top of the webpage and page 1 in the dead tree edition. Since it is mostly good for Trump, it’s buried down in the politics section

Most Americans are ‘not surprised’ Trump asked the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden

The vast majority of Americans are not surprised that President Trump encouraged the Ukrainian president to investigate former vice president Joe Biden’s son, and fewer than half see it as a “very serious” problem, an ABC News-Ipsos poll released Sunday indicates.

Just about half of those polled said they are “not surprised at all” to hear of Trump’s actions. An additional 32 percent said they are “not surprised.”

The national poll, conducted Friday and Saturday, also finds that 63 percent of adults say it is a serious problem that Trump pushed the president of Ukraine to investigate the son of his potential 2020 opponent Joe Biden in a July call that has sparked an extraordinary whistleblower complaint and led Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry. Less than half of those polled, 43 percent, said Trump’s action was “very serious.” (snip)

Despite the Ukraine story dominating headlines, just about one-quarter of adults say they have followed the news “very closely.” More than 6 in 10 say they are following the issue at least “somewhat closely.”

As the short article notes, Democrats are betting that citizens will get behind the impeachment probe, but, not enough people think it is very serious, and not enough people are paying attention heavily. Further, that people were not surprised about the call could well mean that people understand Joe Biden and his son are rather shady and used Joe’s position to enrich themselves.

From ABC, which has a link to the actual poll in the article, we find

In a polarized electorate, attitudes about the severity of Trump’s actions broke strongly along partisan lines, with Democrats three times as likely to find the conversation a very or somewhat serious problem — 91% of Democrats compared with 32% of Republicans.

Democrats also were even more likely to have the most intense feelings, with nearly 3 in 4, about 72%, saying they thought the president’s comments were a very serious problem, compared to 41% of Independents.

So, Independents are rather blase about the whole thing. That’s really not helping the Democrat cause. Nor is this other article in the Washington Post

Pelosi turns to Schiff to lead House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry of Trump

No need to go beyond the headline: Pelosi is turning to one of the most Trump Deranged people in the U.S. Congress to lead this inquiry, a guy who makes things up, like he did Thursday (of course CNN is protecting him), and has claimed a gazillion times that he had the evidence against Trump for the Russia Russia Russia probe, and never showed it.

And this

(Breitbart) On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) wondered why, if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) believes President Trump should be removed from office, “why did she then leave town for two weeks?”

Scalise said, “[I]f they were so serious, why did Adam Schiff have to start his committee hearing with a parody, a joke, trying to make fun of this and actually lying about what really happened and trying to make up a conversation between the president and Ukraine President Zelensky? Why, by the way, if it’s so serious, and think about this, Nancy Pelosi is saying she wants to start impeachment proceedings against a president of the United States. She didn’t even require a House floor vote, which has always been the case to start impeachment. But, if she really thought he should be removed, why did she then leave town for two weeks?”

Things move pretty fast. What will be happening in two weeks? We had been talking a lot about gun control, now it’s deranged impeachment, what of two weeks from now?

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UN Flies In Jason Momoa For ‘Climate Change’, Exposes His Hatred Of Humanity

By William Teach September 28, 2019 – 3:36 pm

One has to wonder what was the carbon footprint of filming, distributing, and showing his movies? All the fossil fuels for travel for filming, all those who went to the theaters in fossil fueled vehicles. But, hey, I’ll be happy to skip all future Jason movies

What’s the carbon footprint in flying him in from Los Angelos?

(TMZ) Jason Momoa says we can’t wait any longer … the time to address the climate crisis is now, and he’s calling on all world leaders to quit “half-assing it” and go all in.

The “Aquaman” star and ocean activist addressed the United Nations Friday on behalf of small island nations, and made a direct and sobering plea for delegates to take a stand to save the planet.

The actor began by describing how his background has shown him how different places can be “oblivious to another” … but by abusing the environment, we are all hurting each other.

Momoa runs through a depressing list of the Earth’s current issues — rising sea levels, vanishing ecosystems, devastating plastic pollution — largely placing blame on the emissions and corporate greed of first world countries.

Momoa continues by calling on leaders to honor the Paris Agreement — which President Trump withdrew the U.S. from in 2017 — and demanding “global unity for a global crisis” to begin righting the wrongs we’ve committed for our children.

Aquaman, and the other movies he was in, were filmed all over the planet. And he couldn’t just telecommute for the U.N. thing? But, hey, science!

He closed by shouting “KÅ« KiaÊ»i Mauna” and putting up a triangle hand gesture, which Hawaiians know to be a show of support for the effort to stop the 30-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, the island’s tallest mountain.

Momoa has actually flown in for those protests, which are blocking construction, and end up blocking the use of existing telescopes, which perform actual science. Just another hypocritical celebuwarmist.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is neo-neocon, with a post on whistleblower rules being conveniently changed.

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ICE Blasts Wake County Sheriff For Releasing Illegal Convicted Of Sexual Assault On A Minor

By William Teach September 28, 2019 – 10:53 am

Remember, the Open Borders advocates tell us that they only want the good illegals, not the bad ones. Yet, they keep refusing to comply with ICE detainers for the bad ones

ICE blasts Wake sheriff over release of sex offender in US illegally

Federal immigration authorities on Friday criticized the Wake County Sheriff’s Office over the release from the county jail of a registered sex offender who is in the U.S. illegally.

Furmencio Miranda-Cortazar, 45, was convicted in June of two counts of sexual battery stemming from 2015 incidents involving a 13-year-old, according to court documents. He was sentenced to consecutive 150-day jail terms and was ordered to register as a sex offender and pay $3,000 to a a child advocacy group, records show.

Because he was given credit for the 11 months he had spent behind bars awaiting his day in court, Miranda-Cortazar was able to walk free the same day.

But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wanted him held, having identified the Mexican national as being in the U.S. illegally following his July 2018 arrest.

Three months after his release from jail in June, ICE agents arrested him at his home last weekend. He is now in ICE custody awaiting a deportation hearing.

“This is yet another example of a clear public safety threat being released into Wake County rather than into ICE custody due to the current sheriff’s policy on ICE non-cooperation,” John Tsoukaris, interim director of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office in Atlanta, said in a statement.

That would be Open Borders Gerald Baker

Sheriff Gerald Baker is among several North Carolina sheriffs who have stopped cooperating with ICE, either by not honoring requests to detain county jail inmates whose immigration status was in question or by opting out of the federal 287(g) program, in which local authorities check the immigration status of everyone booked into the jail and pass that information along to ICE.

The Wake County Sheriff’s office used to cooperate, but, now, with Baker, they are releasing all illegal aliens, no matter the crime. And, of course he’s a Democrat.

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Climate Anxiety Causes Warmist To No Longer Watch Her Favorite Movies Or Something

By William Teach September 28, 2019 – 7:32 am

Remember, we’re supposed to take this seriously, because this Science!

Climate doom derangement syndrome. From the screed we get a list of these movies, such as

“When Harry Met Sally”: It is unfair that Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan had twenty-plus years to figure out their relationship, but the United Nations gives my generation only eleven years to systematically change everything about society.

“Project X”: All the red plastic Solo cups are a trigger for me, especially now that China has stopped purchasing our garbage.

“Some Like It Hot”: I have never seen this film, but, unless “some” refers to greedy oil executives, the title does not hold up.

“Interstellar”: This is a spoiler, but I wish that a grassroots social revolution had saved humanity, not the last-minute introduction of a futuristic technology.

“Transformers”: I don’t like kids thinking that gas-burning vehicles are ever on our side.

“Finding Nemo”: Lulls us into a false sense of complacency. Just because Nemo is safe now doesn’t mean that the rest of the ocean does not need saving. What about all that coral?

“The Fate of the Furious”: Too many cars.

“Cars 3”: Too many “Cars.” Why does everything have to be a franchise?

“Sorry to Bother You”: Very glad it ended with a socialist revolution, but when I saw this in theatres it was a hundred and ten degrees outside, so for personal reasons it will always be a trigger for me.

No one explain the carbon footprint of the New Yorker, as it uses lots of energy and fossil fuels to make and distribute it’s magazine.

https://twitter.com/solitaryrider/status/1177701808694681600

It is in the humor section, but, does anyone think this isn’t dead on serious for Warmists?

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Washington Post: Even The Trump Deranged Are Skeptical Of Impeachment Push

By William Teach September 28, 2019 – 7:10 am

Even while most of the Trump stories and opinion pieces are all about Orange Man Bad, one other by Marc Fisher, Jenna Portnoy, Tim Craig, and Scott Wilson dumps some cold water on the push (which will be ignored by the Trump Deranged)

Across a divided nation, skepticism about impeachment

They don’t ordinarily agree with each other. They watch different channels, hear different versions of the news and view neighbors across a gaping, painful political divide. But in swing districts across the country, the idea of impeaching the president has brought some Americans together: They’re wary of deploying the Constitution’s ultimate weapon — one that takes the decision about who is president out of voters’ hands.

Derek Tsao is a Republican in California who has grown tired of President Trump’s behavior. Curtis Johnson is a Democrat in Florida who could never quite fathom why his fellow Americans chose a man like Trump. Lisa Foulds is a lifelong Republican in suburban Virginia whose kids have pushed her toward the center, so much so that she voted for a Democrat for Congress last year.

hey all say the president may have crossed a line when he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate one of Trump’s main political rivals. And despite their political differences, they say the Democrats’ move this week to start impeachment proceedings against Trump is the wrong tactic at the wrong time.

Polls have shown that public opinion has shifted slightly in favor of impeachment, but many still see it as “an exercise in futility,” as Johnson put it.

The retired steelworker from Indiana, now living in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., said he’s eager for Democrats to find a candidate who can beat Trump next year, but he fears that impeaching the president will make Trump’s reelection more likely. “There’s not enough time before the election and nothing will come of it,” said Johnson, 71. “This is going to hurt the Democrats because everyone’s going to say, ‘You’re putting all your energy into this?’ ”

As you can see, the four writers went out and found Trump haters and some regular Dem voters, and it’s not going well for pro-impeachment.

Launching an investigation and potentially putting Trump on trial in the Senate strikes Foulds, a 50-year-old who still considers herself a Republican after voting for independent Gary Johnson in 2016, as “a waste of the taxpayers’ money.”

“For something as trivial as gaining dirt on somebody? It just seems petty,” she said. “I just think it has to be much more egregious.”

Democrats should remember that they worked to gain dirt, and any investigation could turn right back around on them. They won’t be able to keep their own actions on the down-low.

Voters across the partisan spectrum argued that next year’s election — not impeachment — is the best way to resolve the country’s struggle with a divisive, unpopular president who now stands accused of betraying the nation’s interests.

So, even those suffering from TDS aren’t interested in impeachment. And they understand that this will help Trump. This talk continues on and on throughout the piece. But, Democrats have already put all the scratchy, course sheets on the bed. It’s just needs a blanket. They can’t unmake it at this point. If they go forward

The modern history of impeachment demonstrates that a sitting president can indeed turn the tables on his accusers, said Frank O. Bowman III, a professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and author of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” a history of impeachment. Bowman said that Clinton effectively pressed his case in the news media, portraying his Republican opponents as bad guys who wanted to use his extramarital sexual affair to remove him from office.

“Clinton managed to flip the public narrative from his own bad behavior to the behavior of those who attacked him,” the historian said. “Trump doesn’t need Clinton to teach him anything about fighting dirty. Any attempt to impeach Trump is going to invite the nastiest kinds of backlash, first of all against Joe Biden.”

And if they simply drop the issue, or let it fade away, Trump will still hammer them with it. And it will cause many people who would have otherwise voted Democrat to not vote Democrat in 2020. They might not vote for Trump and Republicans, but, they won’t pull the trigger for Democrats.

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You Are Not Safe From The Existential Dread Of ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 27, 2019 – 3:43 pm

This whole “everybody panic” stuff is just so 2006

You are not safe: My life under the existential dread of climate change

Weeks after I moved to New Orleans from Los Angeles, I awoke around 7:30 in the morning to the sound of crackling lightning and pouring rain. I looked out the window, and dark clouds blanketed the sky. The rain was nearly horizontal, and a couple of inches of water had accumulated on the grass outside. Within a few hours, the water was over a foot deep outside my house, which was raised off the ground to keep floodwater from getting inside.

I had never experienced a real flood before moving to New Orleans. It came without warning, and I didn’t know if things would worsen. When the rain let up, I put on some tennis shoes and went to see if the grocery store was open so I could get supplies. On the street, the water was roughly two feet deep. I shuffled through it for several blocks until I got out of the flooded part of the neighborhood and made my way to the store. This was the flash flood that struck New Orleans just days before Hurricane Barry made landfall in July.

Cool story, Thor Benson. If only there was some way to find out what the weather is going to do.

In 2009 at age 18, I moved from Maine to Santa Barbara, California. Months after I arrived, the Jesusita Fire engulfed the mountains above where I lived. My roommate and I each packed a bag and went to the beach to seek refuge. We watched the hills burn. We were lucky. Our home was intact when we returned, but that was the first time I ever worried about a natural disaster leaving me homeless. I lived through many large wildfires after that.

As a journalist who writes about the climate crisis, experiences like these have shown me firsthand the weight of the topic I’m covering. California has always had wildfires, but they’re becoming more frequent and more destructive. New Orleans has always experienced hurricanes, but they’re also becoming more powerful. Climate change is making natural disasters exponentially worse.

Interesting. The Jesusita Fire was tracked back to irresponsible contractors, not Hotcoldwetdry (or a UFO)

The existential dread you feel escaping a natural disaster is often intense. Suddenly the world around you is fundamentally unsafe. The unpredictability of the situation keeps you constantly on edge. When it’s your job to write about the bleak future we face as a society, this fear stays with you. This is the future for millions of Americans. Things probably aren’t going to get better, and no one knows what the consequences will be. (snip)

It’s difficult to cope with what often feels like an impending apocalypse. We tell ourselves that things will be fine in the long run, because we can’t handle the idea that things might not be okay. We imagine that someone is on top of this and will save the day eventually. The alternative is unthinkable. The alternative, if climate change is not stopped, is massive death tolls, billions of climate refugees, a dead ocean, constant droughts, widespread fires, Biblical storms and a world consumed by desperation. That’s not our future, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are trees that will soon die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the strategy of eco-worriors using Greta as a human shield.

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ICE Arrests 54 In Sanctuary State Of New Jersey

By William Teach September 27, 2019 – 11:12 am

Remember, the Open Borders advocates tell us that they only want the good illegals, not the bad ones, and ICE refers to these as “public safety threats”, meaning they aren’t just some schmuck who’s living here illegally

ICE arrests 54 in N.J., slams local jails for releasing wanted immigrants

Immigration officials arrested 54 people in New Jersey in a week-long operation targeting immigrants who had been previously released from local jails under a controversial policy that limits when police can cooperate with immigration agents, federal officials said Thursday.

The arrested immigrants included people from a dozen countries, including 21 from Mexico, nine from El Salvador and seven from Brazil, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials said.

The sweep targeted immigrants living in the country illegally who had been released from local jails in New Jersey instead of being turned over to ICE’s enforcement and removal operations — known as ERO — for possible deportation.

ICE officials also released a “wanted poster” showing other immigrants they are seeking who had been released from county jails in New Jersey.

The announcement of the 54 arrests, made at an ICE press conference in Newark, escalated a dispute between New Jersey officials and federal immigration officials over the state’s policies on when local jails can honor requests to hold prisoners.

The new rules – called the Immigrant Trust Directive — say local jails can’t honor an “ICE detainer” in New Jersey unless the detainee has been charged with or convicted of a serious crime or has a pending deportation order from a judge.

ICE calls New Jersey a sanctuary state over this rule, because, really, the jails end up releasing almost all illegals. And, while ICE did not release the names and crimes of the 54, they did note others they are looking for

—Luciano Trejo-Dominguez, 33, was arrested Aug. 12 by Vineland police for alleged sexual assault of a minor between 13 and 15 years old, ICE officials said. Immigration officials issued a detainer request that he be held at the Cumberland County Jail after his arrest, but he was released Aug. 23.

—Edgar Camarillo-Ruiz, 33, was arrested by New Brunswick police for alleged simple assault/ domestic violence Aug. 18, ICE officials said. Immigration officials issued a detainer request the following day, but he was released from the Middlesex County Jail.

—Elvis Rafael Cabrera-Vasquez, 38, was arrested on Christmas Eve last year by Perth Amboy police for alleged simple assault/ domestic violence. He was released from the Middlesex County Jail the same day despite an ICE detainer request, federal officials said. He was arrested again on Feb. 14 for allegedly violating a judge’s domestic violence restraining order and released again by county officials.

So, sexual assault on a child. Any Open Borders advocate want to defend releasing this scumbag? Further, the same Open Borders folks tend to also be gun grabbers, and would want to take the firearms away from anyone accused of domestic violence. Yet, they’ll allow illegal aliens to go free.

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United Nations Wants Whole New Economic System To Fight ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 27, 2019 – 7:09 am

And they think a global Green New Deal is the platform to make this happen

UN agency calls for global Green New Deal to overhaul financial system

Only a global Green New Deal can provide governments with the muscle needed to take on the climate crisis, a UN development agency report released on Wednesday said.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), which was founded in 1964 to help developing countries to access equitable international trade, called on governments to overhaul the rules of the international trade and monetary systems so that all countries – in particular developing ones – could carry out the necessary mass investments to decarbonize their economies.

Unctad secretary general Mukhisa Kituyi said meeting the UN sustainable development goals, which include reining in the heating of the planet, “requires rebuilding multilateralism around the idea of a global Green New Deal, and pursuing a financial future very different from the recent past”.

“The global economy does not serve all people equally,” said Richard Kozul-Wright, director of Unctad’s division on globalization and development strategies, who oversaw the report. “Under the current configuration of policies, rules, market dynamics and corporate power, economic gaps are likely to increase and environmental degradation intensify.”

We can charitably call this a “command economy”, where the means of production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government, in this case, the United Nations, an institution that puts nations like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, China, and Venezuela, among others, on its Human Rights Commission.

And they want to take all power away from sovereign nations and place it in the hands of unelected bureaucrats in the U.N.

The report found that global trade, be it under the form of regional or bilateral agreements, should not have the authority to shape questions such as the cross-border flow of capital, debt or equity. Instead, the international community should privilege capital controls and put an international system into place to oversee capital flow between countries, including developing ones.

And they want your money

“This is a big public investment push,” Kozul-Wright told Climate Home News. “It’s not going to be done by the private sector. You need public banks to finance this, because we don’t think that the current financial system as it is currently constructed will ever deliver finance to public goods of this kind on the scale that we’re talking about.”

You know the money isn’t coming out of the uber-rich in the U.N.

“This is a crisis that doesn’t belong in one place. It’s neither a north nor a south crisis and it requires global collaboration,” Pettifor said. “It’s echoing the revolutionary monetary theory that underpinned the New Deal.”

Funny how this supposed science issue is about changing the way the world works, eh?

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