St. Greta Affect Driving Kids Into Careers Telling Other People What To Do

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 10:30 am

These careers are just another form of spreading awareness/nagging the hell out of people, ones which quite often are low paying so they can’t repay the massive college loans they took out and now want wiped out

‘Greta effect’ boosting demand for climate change careers, RSC claims

Greta Thunberg may not be a scientist herself, but her passionate calls for world leaders to “listen to the science” on climate change may be rubbing off on young people keen to pursue careers in the subject, the Royal Society for Chemistry (RSC) has claimed.

In a YouGov poll commissioned by the RSC, almost a quarter – 23 per cent – of people aged 15 to 18 said they were likely to consider pursuing a career related to combatting climate change, while 26 per cent said scientists had the biggest role to play in addressing the problem.

The survey, which took in responses from more than 1,000 young people, saw 58 per cent rate climate change as the biggest problem facing the world, while 77 per cent of respondents said Thunberg had influenced their thinking.

In addition, 78 per cent of respondents said they believed chemistry had a key role to play in tackling declining natural resources, 53 per cent said the subject was important for combatting hunger, and 88 per cent said chemistry could help improve health and tackle disease, the poll results released late last week show.

Despite saying how important science is, how many of them will go into a STEM discipline, as opposed to the silly crap they tend to major in lately? Again, let’s make all these kids live the life they want for Everyone Else, and see how much they want to Do Something about this scam.

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Washington Post: Trump And Comrade Sanders Are Ignoring Reality Of Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 8:16 am

According to Wikipedia, “Frederick Samuel “Fred” Hiatt (born April 30, 1955) is the editorial page editor of The Washington Post. He also writes fake news for the page, as well as a biweekly column that appears on Mondays.” Huh, someone stealth edited the Wiki. Anyhow, Fred is rather vexed

How Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both reject the reality of climate change

The survival of our planet as we know it is in danger.

We have at hand a bipartisan, rigorous plan to address that danger.

And now it is more than possible that we will end up with two presidential candidates who reject that plan in favor of two varieties of utter unseriousness.

The first is the denialism of President Trump. He either believes or cynically pretends to believe that climate change is not a threat. His administration has gravely aggravated the threat, for example by recklessly relaxing regulation of the super-warming gas methane.

The second version is the fantasy extremism of Sen. Bernie Sanders. He would prosecute oil executives “for the destruction they have knowingly caused” (he “welcomes their hatred”) and phase out carbon-neutral nuclear power. The Vermont independent would ban the fracking of natural gas, which is — if you control the methane emissions — a useful transitional fuel from dirty coal to clean wind and solar.

As though by magic, Sanders’s proposals will “dramatically decrease the cost of energy storage” and (why not?) make electricity “virtually free” after 2035 (though, sadly, we would still have to pay for “operations and maintenance costs”). All fossil fuels will be gone by 2030, the renewable energy that takes its place will be “publicly owned,” and — not to worry — the plan “will pay for itself over 15 years.”

Fred’s not impressed by Sanders waving his magic wand, therefore, Comrade Bernie is ignoring reality. What is reality according to Fred, who, remember, is the guy in charge of the opinion page at the Washington Post

Which brings us back to the plan, put forward this month by the Climate Leadership Council, that would actually work. Supported by energy companies (including Total) and environmental groups alike, it would impose a steadily rising tax on carbon. That would lead to reduced consumption and increased innovation in alternatives, including battery storage for solar and wind power. To get buy-in from industry, the plan would do away with a lot of regulation — but only so long as emissions were, in fact, going down.

The plan itself would also place a carbon tax on imports. Magically, the cost of living due to increased cost on all these goods and fuels is not mentioned.

Fossil fuels companies wouldn’t be pimping a carbon tax unless they thought something was in it for them. They won’t be paying it: the cost would be passed on. I suggest that every company and rich person/politician that pushes a carbon tax should have it apply directly to them. Let’s make the whole news sector part of this. Would Fred and the rest of the people in the opinion pages (as well as straight news) at the Washington Post be so glib about introducing a carbon tax if it was going to be placed directly on the operations of the WP?

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Surprise: National Security Wiretap System Is A Mess

By William Teach February 24, 2020 – 7:57 am

The NY Times notices a big problem

National Security Wiretap System Was Long Plagued by Risk of Errors and Omissions

In the 1990s, F.B.I. agents hunting for a Russian mole zeroed in on a C.I.A. official as their main suspect as they tried to determine who had sold secrets that had led to the deaths of American spies. When they sought court permission to wiretap him, they kept quiet about facts that cast doubts on their theory.

But the mole turned out to instead be one of the F.B.I.’s own, Robert P. Hanssen, and the agents were later exposed for cherry-picking evidence against the innocent C.I.A. official in their surveillance applications.

That little-known aspect of the notorious Hanssen case illustrates the risk of dysfunction in national security wiretapping, one of counterintelligence agents’ most powerful tools in fighting terrorism and espionage. Now, that defect has surfaced again. The F.B.I.’s flawed applications to monitor a former Trump adviser in the Russia investigation, Carter Page, has prompted a new cycle of scandal revealed in a damning report from the Justice Department’s inspector general.

The problems may be part of a broader pattern in other applications that never receive the same intense scrutiny, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former F.B.I. agents and Justice Department officials who have worked with national security wiretaps. The system is vulnerable, they said, to lower-level agents suppressing or overlooking evidence that weakens their case when they seek permission to conduct surveillance.

Hmm, lower level agents

President Trump and his supporters have long embraced a theory that Mr. Page was a victim of a high-level political conspiracy. The inspector general report did not confirm that narrative, instead finding different — yet still serious — problems. (snip)

On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee, led by Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, will mark up a bill that is expected to become a vehicle for Congress to weigh in on broader surveillance issues. He has been negotiating with Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who leads the Intelligence Committee, and with Republicans on his own panel. (snip)

But the bill, according to people familiar with negotiations over the draft, would make other adjustments that dovetail with the inspector general report — like expanding when FISA judges should appoint outsiders to critique the government’s arguments. Lawmakers could also legally require the F.B.I. to be candid with the FISA court and to correct errors.

Um, it’s already rather against the law to lie to any court, including the FISA court. If anything, the bill should make sure that government employees who lie to the court are actually punished. Who has been punished for lying to the FISA court over Carter Page or any of the other Trump associates, as well as Mr. Trump himself?

Notice what this is really all about: blaming low level agents and a flawed process, which is why they mentioned Robert Hanssen, rather than high ranking government employees who took advantage of the system and lied, hid information, and made up information. There’s zero chance that it was low level agents involved in obtaining warrants to spy on a presidential candidate and people working for and associated with his campaign. Sure, there are issues with the court and the process, as the Times lays out ad nauseum in a long article, but, a junior agent isn’t going to be getting a warrant to surveille a presidential candidate.

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Bummer: You Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Deny The Climate Crisis (scam) Anymore

By William Teach February 23, 2020 – 4:07 pm

Remember, you aren’t supposed to refer to those who believe in anthropogenic climate change as authoritarians and Fascists

Denying climate change can no longer be a choice

First and foremost, denial is about comfort. Doing as little as you have to so as not to face the consequences of change. Avoiding Conflict. Staying the course makes life easier. Continuing to burn fossil fuels because change is complicated. Neglecting to acknowledge nearly every choice you make inflicts damage on someone/something, because you can’t feel good about it.

You know, that’s very interesting, considering most Warmists do as little as possible to uphold their own beliefs. They mostly refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels. Don’t go vegan/vegetarian. Don’t turn the heat way down and the AC way up. Etc.

Climate change, our newest Great Depression, is so bad that it offers us a once-in-an-epoch opportunity. A united and spectacularly creative and productive climate revolution offers the chance to lay down divisions and stand in our unique, richly diverse, interwoven, old, and new wisdom. Together we can become the family of humanity.

The journey is as clear as the one Lewis and Clark embarked on. We have our coal. We have tools, strong bodies, indomitable will, brave hearts, and one another. We remember how to work together. We have billions of stories and rousing songs.

Rousing songs! That should solve this scam.

Denial is a choice. I give up.

Change is a choice. I’ll never give up!

You get to choose.

The letter to the editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle doesn’t quite match the headline, and one has to wonder who wrote said headline. Regardless, this is the opinion of Warmists, that people are not allowed to have Wrongthink, that they aren’t allowed to have their own beliefs and thoughts. They must conform with Approved Warmist doctrine.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the UK govt refusing to release official research on the rape gangs.

It’s muscle car week. My first car was like above, a 1979 Trans Am, blue, though mine was automatic, not a stick.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 23, 2020 – 9:09 am

Happy Sunday! Another awesome day in America. The birds are singing, we got to see some snow, and the Walking Dead is back tonight (oh, and if you haven’t seen Hunters on Amazon, watch it, it is great). This pinup is by Nathalic Ratner, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Cannonfire explains how to take down Comrade Bernie politically
  2. Powerline notes that down ballot Dems are distancing themselves from Comrade Bernie
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That features the UK government admitting that electric cars are a hazard on the road
  4. JoNova notes that a wandering jet stream is not caused by ‘climate change’
  5. Weasel Zippers covers unhinged #NeverTrumper Bill Kristol having buyers remorse over Comrade Sanders
  6. The Right Scoop features Catholic kids protesting against their Catholic school for being too Catholic
  7. The People’s Cube discusses Presidential Papers – TP style
  8. The Other McCain notes the #NeverTrumper circus and their “principles”
  9. The Last Tradition discusses the possibility of the Coronavirus leaking from a lab
  10. The Last Refuge features the Chinese govt admitting the Coronavirus didn’t come from a market
  11. The First Street Journal covers when #BelieveAllWomen collides with gender confused “rights”
  12. The Daley Gator wonders why so many Democrat run cities are violent hellholes
  13. The American Conservative discusses the death of the dinner party
  14. Pacific Pundit notes that there are still no American flags at Democrat debates
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery covers Gavin Newsome offering prescriptions for free housing

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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Russia/Putin Backed Comrade Sanders Wins Nevada, Making Him Clear Frontrunner

By William Teach February 23, 2020 – 7:55 am

That’s how this works, right? Reports state (well, really, imply) that Russia is interfering in the Democrat nomination process to help Bernie Sanders, so, that means Russia and Putin helped him win, right? And that’s he’s a Russia/Putin asset, right?

Sanders’ win in Nevada reinforces his front-runner status, draws more attacks from rivals

Celebrating what appeared to be a convincing Nevada caucuses victory thanks to Vladimir Putin, an exuberant Bernie Sanders crowed to a large crowd Saturday night after moving on to the Super Tuesday state of Texas.

“Don’t tell anybody, especially Vladamir, I don’t want to get them nervous,” Sanders said. “We’re going to win the Democratic primary in Texas with Russia’s help.”

Sanders’ win in Nevada was called quickly by the major TV networks and the Associated Press, as well as Russia – and as the results continued trickling in from caucus precincts across the state Saturday, it became clear the populist U.S. senator from Vermont who’s backed by Russia was racking up a sizable win.

Sanders explained how he pulled off the Silver State victory.

“In Nevada we have just put together a multigenerational, multiracial coalition with Russia’s help which is going to not only win in Nevada, it’s going to sweep this country,” he said.

That’s how this works, right, based on the Democrat and Credentialed Media hysteria from 2016 on over Trump, right? *

His victory – following a win in last week’s New Hampshire primary and a draw with former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg in the Iowa caucuses — instantly drew incoming fire from his top rivals for the Democratic nomination. And it made already nervous moderate and establishment Democrats even more jittery over the prospect of Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, becoming their party’s standard-bearer in November against President Trump (snip).

“Sen. Sanders believes in an inflexible, ideological revolution that leaves out most Democrats, not to mention most Americans,” he argued.

Biden also tried to attack Comrade Bernie, after placing a respectable 2nd place, as did Nanny State Bloomberg. Warren’s campaign tried to make Excuses, while Hairbrush Amy attempted to keep positive. Tom Steyer said something, but, no one really cared. Doesn’t matter, because Comrade Bernie is cruising.

*all the Russia and Putin things were added by me, for illustration. Because that’s how this works, right?

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Doom Today: ‘Climate Change’ Is Coming For Your Garden

By William Teach February 22, 2020 – 3:52 pm

Hey, a doomsday cult always has to come up with new things that are doomed, right?

The climate crisis is coming for your lovely English garden

Daffodils flowering before Christmas. Roses still in bloom in January. Grapes flourishing in the home counties. Across the UK, the changing climate is upending gardening calendars. But while milder temperatures mean we can now grow species that would previously be unable to endure the cold, longer growing seasons and extreme weather events are also having negative effects on the British garden.

“Generally, winters are getting milder and wetter, and the summers are getting hotter and drier,” says Mark Gush, head of environmental horticulture at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). This prolongs the growing season, as plants bud and flower earlier and last for longer. A 2017 report by the RHS, citing Met Office data, suggests the growing season in Central England is about a month longer on average since the period between 1961 and 1990. (The growing season refers to the extended period of time in which average daily temperatures are sustained at five degrees or higher; there is a lot of variation across the UK, with Scotland having a much shorter growing season than the south of England.)

None of this contradicts all the naturally caused warm periods during the Holocene, nor prove that the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by the actions of mankind. Meh, it’s still your fault

But Gush warns that, ultimately, climate change will mean that we need to gravitate towards hardy species, which are capable of enduring weather extremes. “Because climate extremes are also part of the mix in terms of changing climate, there may be a number of years where there are above average temperatures and milder conditions so the plants will be able to flourish, and then there will be snap extreme cold spells, and that’ll really knock them back.”

See, you ate a burger last week, so, you cause hot and cold!

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 22, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful low carbon skates, which would be great for Everyone Else to replace fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Brass Pills, with a post on vintage ads that wouldn’t be allowed today.

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In New Poll, Democrats Pick Hotcoldwetdry As Their Number One Issue

By William Teach February 22, 2020 – 10:30 am

If you’re thinking “huh, I guess the whole socialism, government control, government healthcare thing is not that important”, think again: the Cult of Climastrology dogma actually would require all the Big Government, authoritarian stuff that Democrats are pushing

Voters Really Care About Climate Change
For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll.

It’s not a fluke, an error, or an outlier. In poll after poll, the results are clear: Climate change is one of the most important issues in the 2020 presidential election.

A new survey, released today and provided exclusively to The Atlantic, only drives the point home: Climate is the clear number-two issue—second only to health care—for Democrats who live in one of the upcoming primary or caucus states. Among all voters, the warming planet is now one of the most salient issues in American politics. The poll was conducted by Climate Nexus, a nonpartisan nonprofit group, in partnership with researchers at Yale and George Mason University, and included nearly 2,000 registered voters.

Climate change now sits alongside only four other mainstays—health care, the economy and jobs, immigration policy, and Social Security—in its ability to command the electorate’s attention. And for self-described liberal Democrats, climate change is now nationally the most important issue, beating out 28 others, Anthony Leiserowitz, a senior research scientist at Yale, told me.

“This is the first time in American political history where climate change is not just a top-tier issue—it is the top-tier issue,” ​said ​Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate-Change Communication, which helped conduct the new poll​.

Yet while Democrats have grown more alarmed by climate change, self-identified Republicans remain largely unmoved. In the poll, Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to say climate change is one of their top two issues, and they support more aggressive policies. This reflects a deepening divide among Americans: Climate change, Leiserowitz said, “has become more polarized now than any other issue, including abortion.”

In the poll, there are all sorts of questions about enforcing 100% renewable, taxing fossil fuels companies, much stronger CAFE standards, and so forth, but, the one question they forgot to ask is how much the individual Democrat voters are willing to pay themselves. Let’s not forget this one

Though Americans are increasingly worried about climate change, fewer than 4 in 10 say they believe that tackling the problem will require them to make “major sacrifices.” And most are unwilling to pay for it out of their own pockets.

For example, while nearly half of adults say they would be willing to pay a $2 monthly tax on their electricity bills to help combat climate change, just over a quarter say they are willing to pay $10 extra each month. And while two-thirds support stricter fuel-efficiency standards for the nation’s cars and trucks, increases in the gas tax remain deeply unpopular.

Instead, clear majorities say they would prefer that climate initiatives be funded by increasing the taxes on wealthy households and on companies that burn fossil fuels.

See, they want Other People to pay for their beliefs, not themselves. Oh, and they should be asked how much liberty and freedom they are willing to give up for their beliefs. That would be a fun poll.

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