Proposed Rule Would Cut Hotcoldwetdry Considerations From Infrastructure Planning

By William Teach January 5, 2020 – 2:38 pm

This has made climate cultists Very Upset

Proposed Trump Rule Cuts Out Climate Change Considerations in Infrastructure Planning

Federal agencies would no longer have to take climate change into account when they assess the environmental impacts of highways, pipelines and other major infrastructure projects, according to a Trump administration plan that would weaken the nation’s benchmark environmental law.

The proposed changes to the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act could sharply reduce obstacles to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and other fossil fuel projects that have been stymied when courts ruled that the Trump administration did not properly consider climate change when analyzing the environmental effects of the projects.

Said law had zero to do with anthropogenic climate change. It has been hijacked by climate cultists, just like they hijack most things.

According to one government official who has seen the proposed regulation but was not authorized to speak about it publicly, the administration will also narrow the range of projects that require environmental review. That could make it likely that more projects will sail through the approval process without having to disclose plans to do things like discharge waste, cut trees or increase air pollution.

The new rule would no longer require agencies to consider the “cumulative” consequences of new infrastructure. In recent years courts have interpreted that requirement as a mandate to study the effects of allowing more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. It also has meant understanding the impacts of rising sea levels and other results of climate change on a given project.

Good. It’s time to end this charade, this scam. The same climate cultists who whine about fixing the infrastructure are also the same people who make it that much harder to fix through their idiotic, dangerous requirements to include Hotcoldwetdry review.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 5, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil light that can’t be a world saving CLF, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on when Obama effectively killed Gaddafi without Congressional notification.

It’s reading week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 5, 2020 – 9:12 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking (woke me up), and we’re in a new decade. This pinup is by Vaughan Bass, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Right Scoop has video of the very instant Suleimani got to meet his 72 virgins
  2. The Lid features Trump noting that The Squad hates Jews
  3. The Daley Gator discusses the Left’s consistency problem
  4. Powerline takes on the meme that Suleimani was “over-rated”
  5. Political Clown Parade notes Iran’s red flag of revenge
  6. Pacific Pundit highlights Creepy Joe Biden sniffing children’s hair
  7. Newsbusters covers NBC News being a mouth-piece for Iran
  8. Moonbattery notes Sweden dying from their socialist welfare system
  9. Jihad Watch covers the number of U.S. soldiers dead due to Soleimani
  10. IOTW Report highlights Comrade Bernie refusing to release the cost of his Medicare for all scam
  11. Geller Report News covers Liz Warren touting her support from a Jew hating comic
  12. Doug Ross @ Journal has Modern Democrat Comix
  13. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers a university hiring a famous failure to hand out diplomas
  14. Real Climate Science discusses ‘climate change’ in Australia
  15. And last, but not least, No Tricks Zone covers opposition to the EU’s “Green New Deal”

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me.

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

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Trump Threatens Iran Against Retaliation, Democrats Defend Iran Even More

By William Teach January 5, 2020 – 7:55 am

This is what President Donald Trump put out Saturday

(Fox News) President Trump issued a stern warning to Iran on Saturday through a series of Twitter messages intended to deter the country from retaliating after the U.S.-ordered airstrike that killed Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week.

“Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently hundreds of Iranian protesters,” Trump tweeted.

“Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” Trump wrote Saturday, explicitly laying out that the U.S. will act if Iran retaliates.

Even if there were political components for the 2020 election involved (hey, politics is politics), you can bet that even in the wildest dreams of Trump and his team they couldn’t imagine how voraciously Democrats have attacked Trump and defended Iran

AOC calls Trump ‘a monster’ over threat to Iran; Omar, other Democrats warn of potential ‘war crimes’

Outspoken Democrats — from far-left “Squad” members to 2020 presidential hopefuls — wasted little time Saturday in denouncing President Trump’s warning to Iran about possible retaliation for the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., answered by calling the president a “monster.”

“This is a war crime,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “Threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children — which is what you’re doing by targeting cultural sites – does not make you a ‘tough guy,’ It does not make you ‘strategic.’ It makes you a monster.”

Outspoken Democrats — from far-left “Squad” members to 2020 presidential hopefuls — wasted little time Saturday in denouncing President Trump’s warning to Iran about possible retaliation for the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., answered by calling the president a “monster.”

“This is a war crime,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “Threatening to target and kill innocent families, women and children — which is what you’re doing by targeting cultural sites – does not make you a ‘tough guy,’ It does not make you ‘strategic.’ It makes you a monster.”

“You are threatening to commit war crimes,” Elizabeth Warren wrote. “We are not at war with Iran. The American people do not want a war with Iran. This is a democracy. You do not get to start a war with Iran, and your threats put our troops and diplomats at greater risk. Stop.”

“The more the walls close in on this guy, the more irrational he becomes,” Joe Biden wrote.

None of these Democrats are slamming Iran and their murderous regime. None of them are warning Iran to cease and desist, even as they continue chanting “Death To America” and calling us the Great Satan, something they’ve been doing since 1979. None seem to care that Soleimani, and Iran, were involved in the deaths of hundreds of U.S. military members, not too mention the countless Iraqis, Syrians, and others. None are defending America.

When Obama was drone striking terrorists, sending special forces after them, killing Osama Bin Laden, did any Republican yammer about war crimes and restricting his ability? How about his unilateral war over Libya? Yes, many were mad he failed to notify Congress over a major action, not just a single strike. Many Democrats were upset, as well.

Do Democrats realize that American citizens are watching, and other than the unhinged Dem base, they are pro-American, not pro-Iran?

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Cult of Climastrology Now Coming After …(spins wheel)… Outdoor Heaters

By William Teach January 4, 2020 – 4:02 pm

It’s always something with these people….well, except for making their own lives carbon neutral

Outdoor heaters banned in French city to tackle climate change

Smokers are feeling the cold in a French city that has banned outdoor heaters on café terraces, the last refuge of customers who want to savour a cigarette with their coffee.

Rennes, in Brittany, is the first city in France to take the controversial step aimed at limiting pollution in response to the climate emergency. Nice, Bordeaux and Angers are considering similar legislation.

After smoking became illegal inside French cafés in 2007, those wishing to indulge in a “café-clope” (coffee with a cigarette) were banished to pavement terraces. Café owners say a large part of their revenue now risks going up in smoke if their terraces become cold and unwelcoming in winter.

Supporters of the ban argue that heating a café terrace for one winter emits as much carbon dioxide as driving a new car 120,000 kilometres (72,000 miles), or three times the circumference of the Earth.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 4, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bus, which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

IAYS

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Leftists calling to get rid of the police.

BTW, is using Imgur working for everyone to see? Because Photobucket is still down.

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Good News: The Climate Apocalypse Is The New Normal

By William Teach January 4, 2020 – 11:55 am

Could some ask Excitable Paul Krugman if he will demand that the NY Times stop using fossil fueled vehicles to distribute all its dead tree editions around the world, as well as forgo using fossil fuels to gather their version of the news?

Apocalypse Becomes the New Normal

The past week’s images from Australia have been nightmarish: walls of flame, blood-red skies, residents huddled on beaches as they try to escape the inferno. The bush fires have been so intense that they have generated “fire tornadoes” powerful enough to flip over heavy trucks.

The thing is, Australia’s summer of fire is only the latest in a string of catastrophic weather events over the past year: unprecedented flooding in the Midwest, a heat wave in India that sent temperatures to 123 degrees, another heat wave that brought unheard-of temperatures to much of Europe.

And all of these catastrophes were related to climate change.

Still not proof of anthropogenic causation.

Notice that I said “related to” rather than “caused by” climate change. This is a distinction that has flummoxed many people over the years. Any individual weather event has multiple causes, which was one reason news reports used to avoid mentioning the possible role of climate change in natural disasters.

So, weasel words

Put it this way: While it will take generations for the full consequences of climate change to play out, there will be many localized, temporary disasters along the way. Apocalypse will become the new normal — and that’s happening right in front of our eyes.

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Bummer: Indonesians Not Particularly Concerned With Doing Something About ‘Climate Change’ After Floods

By William Teach January 4, 2020 – 7:23 am

Floods are nothing new. They’ve happened plenty of times. That’s part of life on Earth. But, these people in Indonesia are supposed to be worried about your carbon footprint

After Indonesia’s deadly floods, few hear climate ‘wake up call’

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Floods that killed more than 50 people in Indonesia’s capital after the biggest rainfall since records began should be a wake-up call to climate change in one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters, environmental groups said.

But, despite the catastrophe in Southeast Asia’s biggest city, authorities see no greater impetus for more cuts to planned carbon dioxide emission reductions or other measures to address climate change.

The floods “should serve as a strong reminder to the government that things can’t be business as usual,” said Yuyun Harmono, a campaign manager at the Indonesian Forum for the Environment, the country’s biggest green group.

With one of the world’s longest coastlines Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The metropolitan region of the capital Jakarta is home to 30 million people and parts of the city near the coast are sinking just as sea levels are rising.

There are no actual measurement stations: how do they know the sea is rising there? Further, it is highly tectonic: could that be a big reason? Oh, wait, sorry, you ate a burger with veggies from California, brought by fossil fueled 18 wheeler. This is your fault.

Social media users criticized the government for not doing enough on climate change after the flooding. Twitter user @wolfiecoconut said: “Indonesia is a country that is prone to disaster but we don’t care about the environment.”

But the green lobby has little sway in Indonesia.

Only 18% of Indonesians believe there is a link between human activity and climate change, according to a 2019 survey, the smallest percentage among the world’s 23 biggest countries.

You know why? Because the people are not rich or upper middle class like most of the people pushing the Cult of Climastrology. They have real worries in their lives. They don’t have the luxury of being a Climate Justice Warrior.

“There aren’t a lot of people who realize the impact of climate change,” said Nirwono Joga, a researcher at the Urban Studies Center in Jakarta.

“When the flood recedes and people get back to their homes and resume normal activities, flood management or concrete actions to combat climate change will be forgotten too.”

It’s pretty much forgotten now, too. When people are in the midst of a natural disaster, they don’t need cultists coming in and preaching about taking money away from those affected in the form of taxes and fees, nor removing more freedom, liberty, and choice.

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News Outlets: “Killing Suleimani Was Great, Buuuuuuut…..”

By William Teach January 4, 2020 – 7:06 am

See, now, if Obama (or Clinton) had done this, they’d be cheering. Killing one of the biggest terrorist fish in the sea would have been considered super-awesome. They’d be writing hosannas, telling us that Obama (or Clinton) had safeguarded American lives and stood up for the hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans killed due to Suleimani’s actions, not too mention all the Iraqis and Syrians and Israelis. But, Orange Man Bad

(NY Times Editorial Board) The real question to ask about the American drone attack that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was not whether it was justified, but whether it was wise. Many pieces of the puzzle are still missing, but the killing is a big leap in an uncertain direction. (snip)

It may well be that General Suleimani had come to Iraq in part to plot the next move against United States military personnel or civilians when his car was blown up by a missile from an American Reaper drone. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a senior commander of a Shiite militia in Iraq, was also killed. But then, General Suleimani and his whereabouts have long been well known to American and other intelligence services, and Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama had resisted killing him for fear of setting off a greater conflict with Iran and further destabilizing a chronically volatile region.

Assassinating General Suleimani, moreover, was not the same as hunting down Osama bin Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leaders of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, both terrorists who answered to no government. General Suleimani was a senior official of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and openly targeting him was a sharp escalation in the conflict between the United States and Iran, all but taunting Iran to strike back. And that by a president who had previously demonstrated strong aversion to American involvement in the Middle East, contempt for intelligence from the region and occasional reluctance to order the use of military force.

See, he was a horrible person, potentially involved in a plan to kill more Americans, but, it might not have been wise to stop this. Because….no matter what they are writing, it all comes down to Orange Man Bad.

Coming as Mr. Trump awaits Senate trial on his impeachment by the House of Representatives, the president’s ordering of the assassination raised discomfiting questions about his motive.

Timing questioning!!!! And then the Washington Post Editorial Board

Yes, Soleimani was an enemy. That doesn’t mean Trump made the right call.

MAJ. GEN. Qasem Soleimani was an implacable enemy of the United States who was responsible for hundreds of American deaths, as well as countless atrocities in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere. His death in a drone strike was being cheered Friday by U.S. allies and progressive forces across the region, from Israelis and Saudis to the pro-reform demonstrators of Beirut and Baghdad. That, however, doesn’t mean that President Trump’s decision to assassinate him was wise, or that it will ultimately benefit U.S. interests.

Should have stopped after “Baghdad.”

The consequences of the strike are unpredictable, but there is no denying the risk that the United States will be pulled more deeply into the Middle East and its conflicts. Having made clear that he wants to pull the nation out of those conflicts, and having said as recently as Tuesday that he wanted peace with Iran, Mr. Trump has committed an act of escalation and now is deploying more than 4,000 additional troops to Kuwait as a hedge against Iranian counterstrikes.

It was clearly a message that said “don’t f*ck with the United States under Donald Trump. We won’t be sending a Strongly Worded Note.” Then there’s this silliness in the NJ Star Ledger by William Lambers

Instead of bombs, send diplomacy and food to Iran, Iraq, rest of the Middle East

President Trump ordering bombings in Iraq and the Middle East will do nothing to bring peace to the region. It will only escalate tensions and lead to more violence and war. We need a different approach.

We should use diplomacy, including reinstating the Iran nuclear deal. We should send more food to the starving peoples of the Middle East. We should do more to help the millions of refugees from Middle East wars. These are actions that can bring us stability and peace.

So, instead of whacking the guy responsible for American deaths, we should send food and Hallmark cards? Say, how’d it work out sending pallets of cash to Iran, as well as removing sanctions that allowed Iran to sell their oil and become flush with cash?

That’s enough hot-takes for the moment.

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Ireland Looks To Ban Fossil Fueled Vehicles To Stop Climate Apocalypse

By William Teach January 3, 2020 – 3:47 pm

So, will the Ireland government be getting rid of their own fossil fueled vehicles? How about boats? Get rid of the airports?

New Law to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars in Ireland to Avoid ‘Climate Apocalypse’

The government of Ireland is preparing to ban the registration of new petrol and diesel cars by the year 2030 as a part of its “Climate Action Plan”.

Drivers in Ireland will be forced to buy electric vehicles within ten years according to a new law by the left-wing government in Dublin.

By banning the registration of new petrol and diesel cars the government aims to have one-third of the cars on Irish roads be powered by electric batteries, totaling some 936,000 electric vehicles and hybrids, reports RTE.

The initiative is part of a broader campaign to avert a ‘climate apocalypse‘ by making Ireland carbon neutral by the year 2050.

Because we can all afford a $40k minimum electric vehicle, right?

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