If All You See…

By William Teach January 16, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from Other People living a modern life, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on 4 senators who must recuse themselves from Impeachment Theater.

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Hot Take: Pelosi Impeachment Manager Wants Mitch McConnell To Recuse Himself

By William Teach January 16, 2020 – 11:07 am

Well, good luck with this one. I didn’t want to do another Impeachment Theater post, since some of the material will seem like the previous one

Pelosi impeachment manager is calling for McConnell’s recusal from Trump Senate trial

A Florida congresswoman who on Wednesday became an impeachment manager in President Donald Trump’s upcoming Senate trial wants to remove the lead juror: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Rep Val Demings’ position, shared publicly by a just a few other Democrats, could undercut House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to frame impeachment as an exercise of constitutional duty. Republicans have argued for months that Democrats are on a partisan mission to remove Trump from office.

Yet in selecting Demings on Wednesday as one of the seven impeachment managers, Pelosi is giving a national spotlight to a Democrat who has often gone against House leaders on impeachment issues — she first called for Trump’s removal from office a year before party leadership and is now agitating for McConnell’s recusal.

She called for his recusal all the way on December 13th, and still wants him to recuse when asked about it Wednesday.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said Republicans will closely scrutinize the impeachment managers, including Demings.

“The impeachment managers’ words are going to be looked at very closely and especially their impartiality, the fact that many of them were calling for impeachment long before the phone call with [Ukranian] President [Volodomyr] Zelensky,” Scalise told McClatchy. “So the fact that it was a political vendetta for so many of them rather than a search for justice, I think, will be scrutinized.”

Republicans are in charge, now Democrats are not going to like the results.

“They’re using it for distraction,” said Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Miami, a freshman member of the House Judiciary Committee in a tough reelection fight this year, of Republican complaints about Demings and others who have called for McConnell to step aside.

“They’re trying to hide all the evidence we found, documentary evidence. They’re not allowing at this point for witnesses to come forward,” she said.

Like the House Democrats blocking the Republicans from calling witnesses, including the so-called whistleblower? When Democrats yammer about distractions, they’re worried.

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AOC Whines At Rand Paul Over Being Called Out Over Her World Ends In 12 Years Hysteria

By William Teach January 16, 2020 – 7:53 am

What, she didn’t clap back? Has the media finally given up on that meme?

‘Out of context’: AOC backtracks on claim climate change will end world in 12 years

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Sen. Rand Paul after he claimed she said the world would end in 12 years if nothing is done about climate change.

“Hey Senator! Would you like me to also take your comments out of context and pose them as your earnest position, as you have chosen to do with me?” the New York Democrat wrote Wednesday. “I assume the answer is yes, especially given that the GOP climate agenda is about as fictional as Spaceballs anyway.”

But, um, see, she did kinda say it

Wasn’t this why she released her Green New Deal with Senator Ed Markey? Yet, has failed to demand a vote on it in the House, and freaked when Mitch McConnell put it up for a vote in the Senate (forgetting that Markey submitted it to the Senate).

So far, Rand hasn’t bothered replying, but, then, what’s that old saying about “never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

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Excitable Democrats Send Articles Of Overturning 2016 Election To Senate

By William Teach January 16, 2020 – 7:36 am

This is all so serious that Nancy Pelosi had commemorative pens and stuff

Nancy Pelosi Uses More than a Dozen Commemorative Pens to Sign ‘Sad’ Articles of Impeachment

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared herself “sad” as she used more than a dozen commemorative pens to sign the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening.

The occasion was “so sad, so tragic for our country,” Pelosi told reporters, noting the “difficult time in our country’s history.” She then approached a table that had been prepared with the documents, and two dishes full of pens for her to use — about half a dozen pens in each.

Pelosi then sat and signed the articles, one for “abuse of power” and one for “obstruction of Congress.” She applied each pen, paused every few seconds, switched pens, and then continued.

The two dishes were swapped out and replaced with two new ones after the first article of impeachment had been signed — presumably, different pens for different articles.

Despite pronouncing herself “sad,” Pelosi smiled throughout the signing.

Well, really, we know this is all just a freakout from the Democrats, the next step in trying to overturn the results of the 2016 election which Hillary Clinton lost. They’ve been calling for impeachment ever since.

Here’s what Republicans should do: call their own witnesses, and not let Democrats call any of their own. Hey, it was fine for Democrats, right? They should call the whistleblower, since, according to the U.S. Constitution, all people are allowed to confront their accusers in a court of law. They should call Joe Biden and ask him about the video of him saying he told Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma or else the aid would be withheld. Heck, call Obama and ask if he was aware of Joe doing this. Call Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler.

They can dismiss the “obstruction of Congress” charge in about 3 seconds. If there was obstruction, it was of the House, not the Senate. And a defendant doesn’t have to cooperate. It’s up to the accusers to prove their case. And when it is purely political, there’s no need to cooperate in a sham. Why not call Matea Gold about her article “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun”, published on inauguration day. And Rep. Al Green, who said that the basis of impeachment started when he was running for office.”

Democrats are going to rue the day that they sent really dumb articles of impeachment over to the Mitch McConnell run Senate.

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Bummer: Americans Have Mixed Feelings About Traveling In The Age Of ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach January 15, 2020 – 3:50 pm

This shows that many Americans have been brainwashed into believing in the climate cult in theory, but not so much in practice

Americans have mixed feelings about travel and climate change

Many people love to travel.

Many people also have concerns about climate change.

So how do they reconcile their love for adventure with the fact that using an airplane, with all its emissions, is the most practical way of getting to their destination?

According to a new report, it’s a conundrum to be sure.

In a new travelhorizons survey of U.S. adults conducted by MMGY Global (WT note: the survey is behind an expensive paywall), many Americans acknowledge their travel may negatively impact the environment. And, nearly 4 in 10 of these travelers (37 percent) believe that tourism overcrowding is now a serious issue.

The issue was clearly top of mind for many. To help reduce their ecological impact, travelers are willing to change their behaviors when they travel. For example, 3 in 10 (32 percent) are willing to pay 10 percent higher rates or fares to airlines who demonstrate environmental responsibility.

In addition, more than half of travelers (54 percent) are willing to use less single-use plastics; 41 percent will consciously choose to visit destinations in the off-season to reduce overcrowding; 27 percent will intentionally book trips with environmentally friendly hotels and tour companies, and about 1 in 4 (27 percent) will either rent bicycles or walk more instead of taking automobile transportation.

See, the thing is, they are saying they are willing to do all this. They aren’t actually saying they will do this, nor have they done it before, because Hotcoldwetdry belief breaks down when it moves from theory to practice

Yet, and here’s where the conundrum part comes in, only 12 percent of those who believe travel negatively impacts the environment have regretted taking a trip afterward because of the adverse effects it may have had on the planet.

See, they won’t be giving up their own travel to stop the climate crisis/emergency. That would be inconvenient.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 15, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a melting world that will soon cause the seas to rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on the Establishment GOP not coming back.

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House Democrats Block Resolution Supporting Iranian Protesters

By William Teach January 15, 2020 – 10:46 am

This is how deranged the Democrats are in the Era Of Trump (via Twitchy)

But

Yup

(Washington Times) House Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote on a resolution introduced by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, that expressed support of anti-government protesters in Iran and condemned Iran’s role in the downing of a Ukrainian civilian aircraft last week.

While details behind the blockage remain unclear, Democrats were reportedly drafting their own version of the resolution to compete with Mr. McCarthy’s resolution.

Who wants to bet we never see that competing resolution from the Democrats? That it ends up being more about Trump than Iran?

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Jeff Bezos: If You Deny ‘Climate Change’ You’re Not Being Reasonable

By William Teach January 15, 2020 – 7:43 am

Almost no one denies that the climate has changed. It’s the norm on planet Earth, and, within the Holocene era, there are warm and cool periods. The argument (yeah, it’s long past being a debate) is on causation: is this warm period, unlike all the others, mostly/solely caused by the actions of Mankind, or is it mostly/solely caused by nature? Is it somewhere in the 40-60% range caused by man or nature? Is it caused by a guy who’s company uses enormous amounts of fossil fuels and electricity to operate all over the world?

Jeff Bezos: Anyone who denies reality of climate change is ‘not being reasonable’

Denying climate change is dangerous and unreasonable in the year 2020, according to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Speaking at Amazon’s Smbhav summit for small and medium-sized enterprises in New Delhi, India, Bezos described climate change as a big problem and warned that Earth is “a finite planet.”

“You can go back 10 years or 20 years and there were people who just did not acknowledge that climate change is real,” he said. “Anybody today who is not acknowledging that climate change is real — that we humans are affecting this planet in a very significant and dangerous way — those people are not being reasonable.”

“This is a big problem and it’s going to take collective action all over the world if we are going to make progress on that problem,” he added.

Funny how the talking points from Warmists always boil down to “we”, rather than “I”. This is where they refuse to take realistic, substantive actions in their own lives.

Amazon unveiled its “climate pledge” last year, which aims to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement 10 years early, and commits the retailer to operate on 100% renewable electricity by 2030. Other climate initiatives the tech giant has committed to include being plastic-free in India by June and acquiring 100,000 electric delivery vehicles.

How will they run all their buildings on solar and wind, much less all the servers for their website? The amount of traffic on their site is unbelievable. It is the number 5 visited site in the world, but their time on site puts them in the top 4, and even up to the top 2 depending on the day or month (December). How will they move their products to the consumer on renewable? All those Amazon trucks you see delivering their products do not run on unicorn farts. And I have yet to see one running on straight electric.

How reasonable is it that he’s continuing to expand his operations using fossil fueled vehicles?

BTW, did anyone catch that Bezos was in India for this speech? How did he get there? Bezos surely knows this is a scam, and yammering about Hotcoldwetdry is cute little virtue signaling when he won’t change a thing in his own life, and won’t actually make Amazon 100% renewable. Mark your calendars for 2030, and see what’s changed. Unless he plans to build his own nuclear power plants around the world for his operations.

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NY Times Wants Senators To Do The Right Thing On Impeachment Or Something

By William Teach January 15, 2020 – 7:22 am

Of course, the editorial board of the NY Times has already convicted Trump, so, of course they want the Senate to be serious

Take Impeachment Seriously, Senators

It would be nice to have faith that, as the Senate prepares to receive the articles of impeachment against President Trump and gears up for its role in this rare and momentous process, it will do the right thing. Confronted with a mountain of evidence that an American president abused his power by shaking down a vulnerable country for his own personal gain — and then stonewalled a congressional investigation into his behavior — senators should spare no effort in conducting a fair and thorough trial, complete with witnesses and documentary evidence.

Nice that they’ve already decided, but, then, this is a movement that started even before Donald Trump was elected. This is the same editorial board (obviously, many different people now, but the view from the paper hasn’t changed from bat guano insane leftism) which supported investigating Bill Clinton but not impeaching him, despite actual violations of the law (suborning testimony, witness tampering, perjury). Bill was of their Party. Trump is not. It’s that simple.

Alas, in 2020, the Senate is led by Mitch McConnell, who has demonstrated time and again that he is more concerned with covering for Mr. Trump than protecting the integrity of the office Mr. Trump holds, the security of the nation he leads or the Constitution he swore to defend.

Same paper was never concerned with Operation Fast and Furious, IRS targeting, avoiding the duly elected Legislative branch and going with Constitutionally dubious executive orders and rules, etc, nor were they concerned with Hillary Clinton violating numerous State Department rules, government rules, and national security law that would put you or I in jail.

With few exceptions, Mr. McConnell has enjoyed the lock-step support of his caucus. So it has been notable to hear over the past few days a hint of dissension within the ranks, as a handful of Republican senators, including Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, have indicated that they oppose a straight-up dismissal of the charges against the president.

Is this like the lock-step support in the House for Nancy Pelosi?

Mr. McConnell, meanwhile, has yet to show that he takes any part of this process seriously. He has already announced that he will work hand-in-glove with the Trump administration as it defends the president and that he will blithely violate the oath of impartiality he is required to take. On Tuesday, Mr. McConnell mocked the House Democrats’ calls for more witnesses to testify, saying they can’t claim that the case against Mr. Trump is so strong as to be impeachable, and yet “also so weak that the Senate needs to go fishing.””

Impeachment is a political process. This is what Democrats want from the start, since they can’t beat him at the ballot box. The House hearings were so super serious that due process was thrown out the window. This was all a sham, a method to cancel out the results of the 2016 election. That the House sat on the articles of impeachment for weeks and weeks after telling us that was a danger to the nation and such.

There is even time for President Trump to behave like, well, a president. Each of the last two presidents to face impeachment proceedings — Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon — complied with congressional subpoenas, if grudgingly. The question must be asked again: If Mr. Trump is so confident that he did nothing wrong, why does he refuse to let these officials testify or turn over key documents? And if Mr. McConnell is so confident that his party’s leader will be vindicated, why fight so hard to prevent the full truth from coming out?

So much for the 5th Amendment. So much for due process. This is how deranged Democrats are.

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Hotcoldwetdry Could Maybe Possibly “We’re Just Spitballin’ Here” Lead To More Injuries And Deaths

By William Teach January 14, 2020 – 3:40 pm

This is plainly your fault for driving to work in a fossil fueled vehicle with your coffee from far away, and you must atone by paying a tax and purchasing carbon offsets from Al Gore

Climate change could lead to more injuries and deaths
Drownings, car accidents, and violence that spike during unusual weather could be on the rise

Injuries like drownings, falls, and assaults could kill up to an additional 2,135 people each year in the US as climate change continues to cause unusual temperature swings. The findings by researchers from Imperial College London, Columbia, and Harvard were published today in the journal Nature Medicine. The connection between swings in temperature — unusual spells of heat or cold — and injuries still can’t be explained, but researchers say that their estimates could help spur efforts to prevent those deaths.

So, they cannot explain them, but, they’ll still fearmonger? Science!

Looking at injuries associated with climate change has been a blind spot in research, authors of the study published today say. Previous studies have looked into how climate change could drive more deaths from things like heat illness or diseases spread by mosquitoes. Between 2030 and 2050, about 250,000 people could die each year because of malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress made worse by climate change, according to the World Health Organization.

But 5 million people die from injuries across the globe each year, making up nearly one in ten of all deaths. Many of those injuries can be prevented, which is why the authors say they ought to be considered as part of efforts to better prepare for a future with potentially catastrophic climate change.

Some of the injuries they looked at are unintentional, including deaths from drownings, falls, and car accidents. The study also looked at intentionally inflicted injuries from assaults and suicide, which could point to how important it is to address mental health as people adapt to a changing planet. Another study found that suicide rates in the US and Mexico rose along with higher average monthly temperatures.

The reasons why suicides and other types of injuries jump during temperature swings isn’t very well understood. Drownings could be related to more people swimming to cool off. The researchers also note that people tend to be more agitated in hot weather, and drink more alcohol — which could contribute to vehicle deaths and assault. Other studies have linked higher temperatures with more violent crime. On the other side of the spectrum, colder weather can lead to more falls — but this study found that warmer temperatures may actually reduce the risk of seniors falling and injuring themselves.

So, things happen during hot and cold weather, and they don’t really know if it has anything in the least to do with ‘climate change’, but, hey, they’ll still link it all, and we can solve this with a tax.

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