The Democrats Next Phase Of Impeachment Will Maybe Possibly Begin At Some Point

By William Teach November 4, 2019 – 7:17 am

According to Democrats, President Donald Trump is a Very Bad Man who did Very Bad Things, and this is totally not about partisan politics. They say he needs to be removed to Save Our Democracy. And this is so important that they don’t really have a plan on how to proceed

This week: Democrats churn toward next phase of impeachment fight

The House is turning its focus toward the next phase of its high-profile impeachment fight, after formalizing procedures for the inquiry.

The House voted 232-196 last week, largely along party lines, on a resolution that establishes rules for open hearings and the questioning of witnesses by members and staff.

The public hearings are expected to happen as soon as this month. With the House out of town this week, and the week of Nov. 18, that gives them a narrow two week-window to hold hearings, absent a change to the schedule.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Bloomberg that she didn’t know a timeframe for the overall investigation, but she expected public hearings this month.

“I would assume there would be public hearings in November,” she said.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) told ABC News that he expected public hearings “very, very soon.”

If this was So Darned Important, if it was about saving the nation, you’d think they would have a plan. They had to be pushed and prodded to even hold that vote on formalizing an impeachment inquiry, now they’re just farting around with some depositions, and will eventually get around to hearings. Which might sorta be open. They aren’t sure just how to proceed because this will expose this whole thing as a sham, a political witch hunt, one which began even before Trump was elected.

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For Some Reason, British Mom Has To Defend Spending Money At Beauty Salon For Her And Daughters

By William Teach November 3, 2019 – 3:51 pm

Welcome to the Age Of Offended

Mom defends spending over $1G a month at beauty salon with 3 daughters: ‘We are fabulous’

Look good, feel good.

One glamorous mom in the U.K. doesn’t mind spending big at the beauty salon each month to ensure that she and her three daughters can feel like their most “fabulous” selves.

Hannah Skidmore recently revealed that she spends nearly $1,300 per month on facials, blowouts, manicures and pedicures for daughters Tia, 17, Brooke, 9, and Valentina, 1, and herself. Acknowledging that some people may think the luxuries are “spoiling” her kids, the proud mom argues that every penny is well spent for the sake of self-care.

In an interview published Friday, Skidmore described the frequent spa sessions as cherished mother-daughter bonding time.

“I am teaching my daughters how to look after themselves,” the woman from Birmingham, West Midlands, England said, The Sun reports. “We all adore our trips to the salon because it’s our time to relax, gossip and have a giggle.”

Why would she have to defend herself? Why is this anyone else’s business? Why was it necessary for The Sun to publish an article about this? If some people are Offended and have a butthurt, that’s their problem. If she wants to spend the money, that’s her business. Personally, I think it’s silly spending that kind of money, but, hey, if I were to simply blow $1k a month on something frivolous, she’d probably think I was being silly. Maybe traveling to different arenas to see my NJ Devils play? Doesn’t matter, it’s her money. In the Age of Offended, everyone has to get into everyone else’s business.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 3, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on this being National Day Of Remembrance For Those Killed By Illegal Aliens.

It’s leather week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 3, 2019 – 8:55 am

Patriotic Pinup Natalia Ershova

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in the United States. The sun is shining, we all got an extra hour of sleep, and my Devils finally won a game. This pinup is by Natalia Ershova, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Earl of Taint wonders why we should play Calvin-ball with Dems
  2. America’s Watchtower discusses the whistleblower not testifying
  3. American Elephants covers Beto dropping out
  4. American Power wonders if California can save itself
  5. Blazing Cat Fur notes a lunatic saying learning about WWII will harm Millennials mental health
  6. Climate Depot highlights people mocking Andrew Cuomo on his hurricanes idiocy
  7. Creeping Sharia notes a Muslim smuggling ring at the southern border
  8. Datechguy’s Blog covers things that need to be cancelled: Open Skies and Comcast cable
  9. DC Clothesline notes a man beaten to death over a racial slur that was a false accusation
  10. Evil Blogger Lady covers Liz Warren lying about being fired and the NY Times covering it up
  11. Gates Of Vienna discusses the Left being the bastion of Jew-hatred in Germany
  12. Geller Report News highlights what the Muslim Commissioner of Virginia Human Rights Commission said about gays (imagine the media outcry if a Republican said this)
  13. Jihad Watch covers Comrade Bernie wanting to take aid from Israel and give it to Hamas
  14. Legal Insurrection discusses Buttigieg vs Warren
  15. And last, but not least, Maggie’s Farm has some information on body fat

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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Democrats “Green” Plans Target Inequality Or Something

By William Teach November 3, 2019 – 7:19 am

Remember, this is all about Science, about saving the Earth from having a fever. To attempt to stop a 1.5C increase in global temperatures. To stop the seas from rising. To stop the rain, dry, hot, and cold. To make sure kids do know what snow is. Right?

2020 Dems target inequality with green plans

2020 Democratic presidential contenders are giving new attention to the idea of “environmental injustice,” heartening green advocates who argue that polluting industries have gone unchecked.

A number of candidates have rolled out ambitious plans to tackle decades of pollution and harmful practices that have been concentrated in the nation’s poorest neighborhoods and communities of color.

“Our crisis of environmental injustice is the result of decades of discrimination and environmental racism compounding in communities that have been overlooked for too long,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote in a post unveiling her environmental justice plan in October.

“It is the result of multiple choices that put corporate profits before people, while our government looked the other way. It is unacceptable, and it must change.”

At issue are remedies for so-called frontline communities, the disproportionately poor and minority neighborhoods that have been a dumping ground for pollution and landfills or the site of factories and highways that spew harmful contamination into the air.

See, the problem here, as you can plainly see, is that the pollution mentioned in the last paragraph has little to do with anthropogenic climate change, excepting the methane released from landfills. Methane is not an actual pollutant. And then they yammer about justice and stuff. All this shows that the Cult of Climastrology has nothing to do with the actual climate, it’s all about their Progressive (nice Fascism) policy beliefs.

But, even as they talk about environmental justice on strictly environmental lines, the policies and solutions have little to do with helping the environmental and more about making these poor folks and “minorities”, often one and the same in Democratic Party run cities and states, because they like black people kept down just like they always have, be more dependent on Government and more controlled by Government.

The environmental justice plans have all been tucked into broader climate policy packages. Large green groups say that’s a good thing — many of the communities targeted by polluters are also the most likely to be affected by climate change.

They’ve also been living close to industries that spew climate change-accelerating pollution.

“It’s impossible these days to divorce environmental justice impacts from climate change because many of the same companies and industries that are causing climate change are pedaling environmental injustices,” said Charlie Jiang, a climate campaigner with Greenpeace USA, pointing to refineries and other polluting industries often located in such neighborhoods.

It’s not about science, it’s about politics. Nothing more, nothing less.

Even Nancy Pelosi is getting the idea that this stuff, along with the other policies being pushed, are dangerous for Democrats

Democratic House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slammed the field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates on Friday over their far-left policy ideas, warning that the country is not “San Francisco.”

“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi told Bloomberg News. “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”

Pelosi specifically raised the alarm over socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) proposed $93 trillion “Green New Deal,” which Ocasio-Cortez’s former Chief-of-Staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted was about implementing socialism.

It’s a good thing the Republican president is like all the others and won’t fight back, right?

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Totally Not Open Borders Advocates Ask California Governor To Stop Parolee Deportations

By William Teach November 2, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Once again, remember, the Open Borders advocates say they aren’t open borders, they just want to keep the good illegal aliens (and refugees and such), not the bad ones. What do they define as good and bad?

Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations

Immigrant rights groups called Friday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end policies they say ease the transfer of prison inmates to federal authorities despite California’s efforts to provide a sanctuary to those who are in the country illegally.

The groups asked Newsom to stop prison officials from holding parolees until they can be picked up by federal immigration officials. And they criticized him for vetoing legislation that would have barred private security companies from coming onto prison grounds to pick up immigrants for deportation. (snip)

Cambodian refugee Borey Ai told about 100 supporters rallying at the state Capitol that he was paroled in 2016 only to be immediately detained by immigration agents for another 18 months, until Cambodia refused to accept him. The California Supreme Court last year took the rare step of blocking former Gov. Jerry Brown’s attempt to pardon Ai, who killed a woman when he was 14 years old.

He’s an angel

The violence in Cambodia had traumatized his parents, and both suffered from PTSD. Ai said his father was a gambling and alcohol addict and his mother was overburdened with six kids to raise. Searching for community, Ai started running with a gang in Stockton at age 10. He was a full-fledged gang member by age 12.

Two years later, Ai was trying to impress older friends, and joined them when they asked him to rob a store with them. During the robbery, Ai said he killed the owner of the store. He turned himself in, was tried as an adult, and at age 14, he was sentenced to 25 years to life for second-degree murder with a gun enhancement. Ultimately, Ai served 20 years before he was deemed suitable for parole in 2016.

Is this the kind of person we want to keep around? Original story

Ai said he was once a cellmate with Cambodian refugee Tith Ton, who at age 16 killed a rival gang member and has served 22 years in prison. He was recommended for parole in July, though Newsom has not yet decided whether to block his release.

“I’ve seen Tith transform his life,” Ai said. “He’s being punished again” if he is deported after serving his time.

No, party of the penalty is deportation. It’s rather in the rules for legal non-citizen residents and illegal aliens. Funny how the Open Borders advocates are now protecting murderers as if they’re part of the good ones.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 2, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is terrible asphalt used to move fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on another business that won over the LBGT attackers.

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Sad: Netherlands Won’t Meet It’s Climate (scam) Target

By William Teach November 2, 2019 – 10:30 am

It’s rather funny how this keeps happening

The Netherlands will fail to hit climate change targets, agencies say

The Netherlands is failing in its efforts to meet a string of important climate change targets, according to two government reports published on Friday.

In particular, a court order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25% in 2020 when compared with 1990 will not be met, the official reports said. Last year, CO2 emissions were only down 15% and the figure is unlikely to be more than 23% in 2020, the researchers said.

In addition, the national climate agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 by 49% when compared with 1990 will not be met either, according to calculations by the environmental planning agency PBL. At most, the reduction will be between 43% and 48% assuming there are no setbacks, the PBL said.

Rarely do you read about nations actually hitting their targets, especially in terms of the Paris Climate Agreement. And these aren’t even the pledges (non-binding) made for the Paris Climate Agreement

Almost all of the 25 Parties analysed have climate policies in place that reduce emissions, but, for about two thirds of these Parties, reductions fall short of those targeted in their NDCs. For some Parties, it is uncertain whether their NDCs will lead to a reduction in emissions relative to the business-as-usual scenario.

The same happened with the Kyoto Protocol, with the vast majority of signatory nations failing to achieve their goals. No one really wants to give up their modern lifestyle, nor do they want to pay for it. Back to original article

However, the government’s macro-economic policy unit CPB does see a significant shift in the way the measures are being paid for.

The government had initially said that consumers would pick up most of the bill, but later had a rethink. Industry will now face an extra €1bn in costs, taking their share of the total bill to €2.6bn. The cost to households will be €1.8bn, the CPB said.

So, industry will either move, close shop, or bill consumers.

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Bummer: St. Greta Learns That Moving Around The Planet Is Not Easy As Climate Conference Moves To Spain

By William Teach November 2, 2019 – 7:31 am

St. Greta has been traveling all over Canada and the U.S. (no media outlet ever reports on the exact particulars of how. Strange, right?), doing her climate cultist schtick. She even got kids to blow off school in Los Angeles and yammered on with her deep knowledge and degrees in scientific endeavors about wildfires getting worse on Friday. Now?

Greta Thunberg is stuck on the wrong continent after the year’s most important UN climate-change summit got moved from Chile to Spain

The most famous youth climate activist doesn’t fly.

Because of air travel’s large carbon footprint, Greta Thunberg relies on trains and boats for transportation instead. But that’s put the Swedish 16-year-old in a bit of a bind.

Thunberg traveled from the UK to New York City on the Malizia II, a sailboat that runs on solar power (and wind, of course), in order to speak at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Her plan was to stay in the Americas until the UN COP25 climate summit in early December.

But on Friday, the event got moved to Madrid because the Chilean capital is the throes of riots and protests.

Now Thunberg is looking for a low-emissions way to travel back across the Atlantic Ocean before COP25 commences on December 2.

First Brazil pulled out of hosting COP25, then Chile, and now Spain will host it. What’s a climate cultist to do?

Poor St. Greta. First, she’ll have to figure out a carbon neutral way to travel from L.A. to the U.S. east coast. I suppose maybe Mexico or the U.S. on the Gulf Of Mexico, but, the winds of the season deem the U.S. northeast if she wants to find a sailing ship that is willing to cross the Atlantic.

Only a handful of zero-emissions vessels like the Malizia II exist, Casiraghi told The New York Times.

Because they are extremely expensive (and they aren’t really zero-emissions). She’s learning a valuable lesson that moving around internationally isn’t all that easy without fossil fuels. It’s not 1492.

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Gun Grabbers Are Surprised That Trump Is No Longer Bothering With Gun Control Measures

By William Teach November 2, 2019 – 7:16 am

This has all give the Washington Post a sad

Trump abandons proposing ideas to curb gun violence after saying he would following mass shootings

President Trump has abandoned the idea of releasing proposals to combat gun violence that his White House debated for months following mass shootings in August, according to White House officials and lawmakers, a reversal from the summer when the president insisted he would offer policies to curb firearm deaths.

Trump has been counseled by political advisers, including campaign manager Brad Parscale and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, that gun legislation could splinter his political coalition, which he needs to stick together for his reelection bid, particularly amid an impeachment battle.

The president no longer asks about the issue, and aides from the Domestic Policy Council, once working on a plan with eight to 12 tenets, have moved on to other topics, according to aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private deliberations.

First, it’s funny that the Post never seems to actually have sources who aren’t anonymous. It makes you wonder how many actually are real, and, for those who are, actually know what’s going on. Regardless, in this case, yeah, you can see Trump moving on from this

“President Trump quietly moved gun control to the side and let it be replaced by breaking news,” said Dan Eberhart, a major GOP donor who said Trump is better off not advancing proposals at this time. “I suspect that was the plan all along.”

Meh. It seems like Trump was responding to Big Happenings, kneejerk reactions, then moved on. But, maybe there’s another reason that he moved on

Trump could always reverse course and embrace changes to gun laws, particularly if there is another shooting, but the president and his top aides are intensely focused on the impeachment inquiry and moving to aggressively shore up Republican support in the face of new revelations about his dealings with Ukraine that are central to House Democrats’ efforts to remove him from office…. (snip)

House Democrats argue that they have already passed gun-control legislation and that it is up to Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate to act. (snip)

Trump grew disenchanted with red-flag laws after hearing from Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other conservatives that they could be used to take away guns from law-abiding citizens, according to White House officials.

So, we do see Trump becoming unenthused with the proposals, as he many explained the problems with them. And Democrats didn’t seem interested, because they had their own policies of gun grabbing. So, why bother with his own policies when they wouldn’t get a look in the House? And why bother when Democrats aren’t actually interested in giving Trump any sort of win?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Donald Trump’s new Nafta deal is the “easiest trade deal that we’ve ever done.”

“We’re on a path to yes, and I think every day brings us closer to agreement,” Pelosi told a roundtable with Bloomberg reporters and editors on Friday. “I’d like to have it done as soon as it’s ready. I wouldn’t rule it out next year. Hopefully we can do it sooner, but I said when it’s ready we’ll do it.”

The deal has been sitting around for a year, waiting for the House to do something. As Ed Morrissey notes

Besides, the timing of the USMCA approval matters greatly to Democrats in the election next year. When it does pass, it will be a major policy win for Trump, who can claim that he was right all along about NAFTA and the need for a more America First-centered trade agreement in North America. The time to hand Trump that win would be as early as possible before the next election, so as to mute its impact on his re-election prospects. Does anyone believe that Pelosi calculated this so as to hand Trump a victory in the middle of the Democratic primaries? Come on, man.

There won’t be a vote at all, because Democrats do not want to give Trump a win, even as our trading partners wait and wait and wait. They’re obsessed with impeachment, not doing their real job.

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