Hot Take: Excitable Adam Schiff Says Senate Can’t Only Rely On House Investigation

By William Teach January 30, 2020 – 8:16 am

So, is Schiff saying that they didn’t actually have the evidence in the House? He’s saying that the House investigation was incomplete and unreliable

Adam Schiff Tells Senate: You Cannot Simply ‘Rely on What Was Investigated in the House’

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tried to convince the Senate on Wednesday that it had to subpoena more witnesses and documents because it could not “rely on what was investigated in the House.”

Schiff’s odd argument appeared to admit that the House investigation was insufficient, even as fellow House impeachment manager Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) claimed that the impeachment case had already been “proven beyond any doubt at all.”

Schiff claimed that it would be unprecedented to hold a Senate trial without witnesses. However, he denied all Republican requests for new witnesses in the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs — which was also unprecedented. (snip)

When asked why the Senate should call more witnesses and documents if the House Intelligence Committee would not release the testimony of the Intelligence Community Inspector General, Schiff dodged the query, saying that whatever deficiencies the House may or may not have brought to the Senate were not “sufficient to relieve the Senate of the obligation to have a trial.”

So, he realized later he made a big mistake and tried to correct it. It’s all a clown show. If the house wants a do-over let them come up with new articles. Let’s have a vote right now on the articles submitted.

But Schiff is making this claim despite Nadler saying the case had been “proven beyond any doubt at all.” What case? Abuse of power? Not in the Constitution. Obstruction of Congress? How is that possible when they never voted on an actual impeachment investigation? That makes any demands moot. Further, we have a 5th Amendment for protection. The Executive Branch also has executive privilege. If the Democrats in the House don’t like that, well, tough. Change the Constitution.

And they should all remember that these standards being set can and will boomerang back on them with any future Democrat administration.

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Surprise: UK Guardian Finally Refusing To Take Money From Oil And Gas Companies

By William Teach January 29, 2020 – 4:07 pm

The UK Guardian has long been one of the biggest and most consistent Cult of Climastrology news outlets for decades (in fairness, they do some good work on real environmental issues, though). The have a section devoted strictly to it, and have for a long time. They’re the only ones still focusing on the Keystone XL pipeline. But, um

Take it further? Good question. From the link in the St. Greta tweet

The Guardian will no longer accept advertising from oil and gas companies, becoming the first major global news organisation to institute an outright ban on taking money from companies that extract fossil fuels.

The move, which follows efforts to reduce the company’s carbon footprint and increase reporting on the climate emergency, was announced on Wednesday and will be implemented with immediate effect. The ban will apply to any business primarily involved in extracting fossil fuels, including many of the world’s largest polluters.

So, when will the Guardian take it further and stop using fossil fuels to gather the news, create the news, and deliver the news? They’d go out of business without fossil fuels.

https://twitter.com/headspace66/status/1222522997824606209

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 29, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible ice cream from world killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on what happened when a 16 year old French girl insulted Islam.

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And Here We Go: Warmists Link Coronavirus To ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach January 29, 2020 – 10:30 am

I’ve seen lots of this in Twitter

The colon seems to denote that all those things are being caused by anthropogenic climate change. All the cultists have been blaming the earthquakes in Puerto Rico and now between Jamaica and Cuba, which were even felt in Miami, on ‘climate change’, and now they’ve added Coronavirus. And along comes the Daily Beast

Zombie Viruses and ‘Super-Shedders’: Coronavirus Is Just the Start

Zombie Viruses. Drug-resistant fungi. “Super-shedding” animals.

Even as officials around the world are scrambling to control a new and increasingly deadly coronavirus outbreak, public health and infectious disease experts are sounding the alarm about climate change making the risk of other novel afflictions much more explosive.

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Rep Kathy Castor (D) Tells Youtube To Censor Climate Skeptics For Wrongthink

By William Teach January 29, 2020 – 8:01 am

Has she read the Constitution? The 1st Amendment? This doesn’t violate the letter of the 1st, but, it sure violates the spirit with a sitting, elected federal representative pulling this

Congresswoman calls on YouTube to stop promoting climate misinformation

Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-Florida) is calling on YouTube to stop including climate change misinformation in its recommendation algorithm and to demonetize videos that deny climate change. In a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Castor references a report by Avaaz, which claims that YouTube is sending millions of users to climate change misinformation videos every day.

Castor, chair of the US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, asks that YouTube label climate-related misinformation as “borderline content.” She notes that just last year, YouTube stopped running ads along anti-vaccine content and could take a similar approach in this case. Castor is also asking that YouTube take steps to “correct the record” for the millions of viewers exposed to climate misinformation on the platform. (snip)

According to the report Castor referenced, for the search term “global warming,” 16 percent of the top 100 related videos under the up-next feature had climate disinformation, and the climate misinformation videos Avaaz reviewed had over 21 million views collectively. Avaaz says some of the largest household brands, including Samsung, L’Oréal and Warner Bros, as well as Greenpeace International, Save the Children and the World Wildlife Fund, have ads running on climate misinformation videos. It’s unclear if those companies are aware of this, or if they’ll pull their ads as a result, as we’ve seen companies do in the past.

She calls them misinformation, others call them science (though, let’s be honest, some are really out there, just like Warmist stuff). But, it doesn’t matter, because it’s not her job to tell Youtube to censor videos like this, nor to recommend in a roundabout way that companies pull their ads. If she was a Republican calling for Warmist propaganda to be removed, I’d say the same thing: it is inappropriate. Elected officials should not be doing this. It’s one thing if it was jihadi propaganda calling for violence. This is not that. Let people watch the videos and make their own choices.

Is anyone surprised that a Democrat is attempting this type of Progressive (nice Fascism) move? The letter is way worse than portrayed in the article. The letter is signed by 14 members of the so-called Select Committee On The Climate Crisis (scam).

See, they aren’t simply calling for the removal of “disinformation”, but all “denial” videos. Any that is involved in Wrongthing, that doesn’t obey the rules of the Cult of Climastrology, should be removed per this committee. Remove any monetization.

This is censorship when the government is involved. You want to impeach someone? Impeach these folks for violating the spirit of the 1st Amendment.

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There Are Probably Enough Votes To Force Witnesses, Including Joe And Hunter Biden

By William Teach January 29, 2020 – 7:39 am

The Washington Post is giddy about calling witnesses, because the House failed to do their job, so they have the big front page headline (and the article even notes calling witnesses is worthless)

McConnell says he currently lacks the votes to block witnesses

White House lawyers pleaded with senators Tuesday to acquit President Trump based on “the Constitution and your common sense,” concluding their defense even as Senate GOP leaders struggled to block demands for new witnesses that could throw the trial into turmoil.

In a closed-door meeting following closing remarks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told colleagues he doesn’t have the votes to block witnesses, according to people familiar with his remarks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them. Just four GOP senators would have to join with Democrats to produce the majority needed to call witnesses — an outcome McConnell has sought to avoid since it could invite new controversy and draw out the divisive proceedings.

An initial vote to allow witnesses, expected Friday, doesn’t ensure witnesses would actually be called, since the Senate would have to subsequently hold separate votes on summoning each individual witness. And Trump’s ultimate acquittal still remains all but assured, since a two-thirds vote would be required to remove him in the GOP-run Senate.

Does the liberal news media ever have actual named sources nowadays? Regardless, even calling witnesses in an attempt to hurt Trump won’t matter: even if Trump attempted a quid pro quo, that’s politics. There are not enough votes. This is about politics for the 2020 election. Democrats are criminalizing normal, everyday, run of the mill politics. Weaponizing it. They should have been careful, because it can boomerang back on them in the future. And in the near term

Graham Predicts 51 GOP Sens. Will Vote for Testimony from Bidens: Hunter Turned Ukraine into ‘ATM Machine’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), while talking to reporters on the sidelines of the Senate impeachment trial, predicted that a majority of Republican senators would likely vote in favor of testimony from former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the “whistleblower.”

Graham also said Republicans would be interested in hearing from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) official who allegedly worked with Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

“I’ll make a prediction; there will be 51 Republican votes to call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, the whistleblower, and the DNC staffer at the very minimum. (snip)

You have to be willfully blind and say that Democratic misconduct doesn’t matter to you not to believe that the [U.S.] president had a good reason to ask the Ukraine to look into the Biden affair… as much as I like Joe Biden, he needs to answer questions of why he allowed his son to continue to receive millions of dollars from [allegedly corrupt Ukrainian company] Burisma when he should’ve known it was a conflict of interest.”

The only reason to call Hunter is to note that he had zero experience, zero knowledge, for the “job” at Burisma. That sets the stage to call Joe, who would be pleading the 5th quite a bit. But, being Joe, he’ll want to yammer a lot, especially after they play the video of him bragging that he extorted Ukraine with $1 billion in aid if they didn’t fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.

Let’s call that prosecutor (well, ask if they’d like to testify). Let’s call the whistleblower. Let’s call witness 18. Let’s call pro-Trump witnesses, since the House tried to call anti-Trump ones.

Democrats wanted to create an issue to stop Trump’s re-election in 2020. That’s why they want Bolton. Well, the GOP should drop the napalm on the Democrats with anti-Dem witnesses. At the end of the day, there are not 67 who will vote to kick Trump out, so, fight fire with fire, hurt the Democrat chances to win in 2020. Not just the White House, but Senate and House.

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Vermont Tries Playing Games With Carbon Taxation Since They Can’t Pass Legislation

By William Teach January 28, 2020 – 4:58 pm

Climate cultists are always playing games

Basically, the Warmists have failed to get legislation implementing a climate tax passed even in uber-leftist Vermont, so, from the link

Over the past 50 years I have seen a lot of bills introduced into the Vermont Legislature. Of all the bills over all those years, the absolute worst was just introduced in the House, with 87 co-sponsors (all Democratic and Progressive). It’s titled the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA, H.688).

The Climate Action Coalition believes that the planet faces a climate emergency due to human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. Every year for the past five years its dozens of lobbyists have labored to persuade the legislators to take bold and far-reaching steps to drive down those emissions.

The centerpiece of those efforts has been a carbon tax. The argument has three components. First, we must drive down the use of carbon-based fuels by Vermonters using heating oil, natural gas, gasoline, diesel and propane. (snip)

For five years, however, the Climate Action advocates have failed to find the votes, even in this green-friendly Legislature, to enact even the beginning stages of a carbon tax. So here comes their Plan B: The Global Warming Solutions Act. (snip)

Since there aren’t enough  votes for a carbon tax, the GWSA would replace the 2006 “goals” with much stricter “mandatory requirements”; create a 21-member climate action super-government  (the Climate Council, controlled by legislative leaders); task it with developing a sweeping plan to regulate anything and everything that might reduce CO2 emissions; implement the plan with state agency rules backed by penalties; authorize the Conservation Law Foundation to bring suits to get judges to order the rule-making agencies to move faster and further to save the planet  from the “climate emergency”; and use tax dollars to pay the plaintiff’s legal costs if it “substantially prevails” in a courtroom.

Two things are perfectly clear here. The bureaucrats can’t levy a carbon tax, but the scope of rules they may find essential to defeating climate change is unlimited. After all, this is an “emergency”!

And most importantly — read this carefully — no legislator will ever vote on wave after wave of sweeping rules that will affect the lives of every Vermonter.

It’s just an attempt to sidestep the voting citizens and take power out of their hands as they elect lawmakers. Hooray Fascists!

Add to the utter lack of accountability, and the cost of the army of regulators and enforcers needed to carry out the plan, and the invitation to CLF and others to sue the state to force quicker and more far-reaching oppression (as CLF did under a similar statute in Massachusetts), and you have a Green Police State, financed by the victims.

Read the whole thing. Warmists will attempt anything to force their Fascist policies through.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 28, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on how drag queen story hour expanded across America.

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Say, Was St. Greta Really “Striking” By Skipping School On Fridays?

By William Teach January 28, 2020 – 11:09 am

Apparently not

Obviously, we should take this all with a bit of skepticism, but, crazy if true. From the link

Despite “striking” from school on Fridays to protest government inaction on climate change, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was part of a school program that didn’t mandate in-person attendance at all.

This revelation comes in a new documentary by Rebel News, exposing the power brokers and financiers behind Thunberg’s rise.

The documentary Greta Inc. reveals that, despite Thunberg’s calls for other students to join her in striking from class, attendance at her school is not mandatory and she can do her schoolwork while at home or away.

“In August, she initiated a school strike for the climate at Mynttorget outside Parliament House. Now she sits there every Friday, but she no longer educates. The school leaves her there with a customized study program and a textbook,” writes journalist Peter Franke in Swedish, according to a translation from Rebel’s documentary.

So, not actually a strike.

The relationship between Thunberg’s rise and Swedish PR guru and CEO Ingmar Rentzhog was also brought into question.

Rentzhog has raised millions for Thunberg’s activism after claiming to have “discovered” her protesting outside of the Swedish parliament.

Thunberg’s fame ballooned shortly after Rentzhog shared images of her protest on social media.

At the height of the climate demonstration, Rentzhog used the teenage activist in promotional materials for his organization We Don’t Have Time, and promised investors that his company would be “extremely profitable.”

So, not “grassroots”? Make sure to read the rest.

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NJ Governor Murphy Makes Big Pledge To Force Citizens To Fight Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach January 28, 2020 – 7:17 am

So, when is Phil going to give up his long fossil fueled flights to his house in Italy? And his limo? And his government funded helicopter?

Murphy just unveiled N.J.’s master plan for energy and made a big pledge to fight climate change

New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to require builders consider the impact of climate change if they want their projects approved, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday as he unveiled the final version of the state’s new energy master plan.

The Democratic governor outlined the plan in a speech at Stockton University in Galloway, calling the 290-page document “ground zero” for “weaning the state off its century-old addiction to fossil fuels.”

Ever been to NJ and seen how many people are on the roads? Ever seen all the oil refineries and storage facilities in northeast Jersey? How about the airports? How’s he going to do this? NJ may not always be the destination, but, it is very much a gateway state that people pass through to go to the northeast and southeast.

The document lays out the Murphy administration’s vision for how to ensure the state reaches its lofty green energy goals: 50% clean energy by 2030, and 100% clean energy by 2050.

Have fun with your taxes, NJ residents

The plan is intended to slash the Garden State’s greenhouse gas emissions, reducing New Jersey’s contribution to climate change.

Murphy warned Monday that climate change is direct threat to New Jersey. He citied a recent Rutgers University report that said sea levels along New Jersey’s coast are expected to rise more than one foot by 2030 and two feet by 2050.

Actual data, rather than computer models, says otherwise. Sea rise is actually about where you expect it to be during a Holocene warm period, but, some of that is caused by land subsistence. You won’t be getting a foot over the next 10 years.

Murphy also painted the plan as a response to how President Donald Trump’s administration and other Republican have responded to climate change.

“We are going to make New Jersey the place that proves we can grow our economy, create jobs, and fight climate change all at the same time,” said Murphy, a frequent critic of the Republican president.

Actually, I’m all for this. Let them be the test group, and we can watch and see what happens as a warning to other states who want to give this stuff a whirl.

The only thing Murphy has going for his beliefs is that he is not against nuclear, but, good luck getting a nuclear plant built.

New Jersey got 94% of its energy from natural gas and nuclear power combined in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Garden State environmentalists are pushing for the state to phase out those two energy sources, but Murphy’s plan allows for both to continue.

Enviroweenies are trying to get him to block all new natural gas. They won’t allow nuclear. So, how? Good luck. What will really happen are lots of taxes and fees and an even higher cost of living. Housing costs will skyrocket. People will leave.

Of course, Phil won’t change his own behavior: that’s for the little people to be forced.

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