Bummer: Reading Festival Slammed For Serving Chicken Nuggets ‘Cause Hotcoldwetdy

By William Teach August 25, 2019 – 3:21 pm

See, Warmists trotting around the world in fossil fueled private jets, such as Bon Jovi and

is OK for climate cultists, who will make Excuses. But, nuggets?

Reading festival accused of ‘hypocrisy’ for giving away free chicken

Organisers of the Reading festival have been accused of hypocrisy for giving away free McDonald’s food while demanding climate change action.

The fast food giant is sending a van to various summer festivals to give away chicken McNuggets.

It has already been to three festivals, but Reading looks set to be the most controversial so far.

Reading, which was last year crowned best festival in the Creative Green Awards, boasts of its green credentials on its website.

“Climate change requires urgent action,” it states. “We can no longer ignore the damaging effects we’re contributing to our planet!”

They’re just nuggets, right?

Extinction Rebellion has been invited to the festival and ticket-holders are asked to bring refillable bottles.

But activists from the Humane League say this is double standards, since giving away meat undermines efforts to tackle climate change, and sends the wrong message in view of advice from the United Nations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UK’s Committee on Climate Change for the world to cut meat and dairy consumption to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

So, they’ve invited compete wacko nutjob crazy-ass Extinction Rebellion wankers, and, ZOMG, chicken nuggets!

And you can bet a lot of the people whining get nuggets from McDonald’s themselves. Oh, and will take a fossil fueled vehicle to the festival.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 25, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will inundate the land sometime soon!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on Joe Walsh who?

It’s legs week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 25, 2019 – 10:27 am

Happy Sunday! A fantastic day in America. The birds are singing, the flowers are waving, and the mockingbird is back on my porch in the morning. This pinup is by Romain Hugualt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Change Dispatch covers Dr. Tim Ball defeating Excitable Michael Mann
  2. Jo Nova notes the Sea Level scare industry freaking about 1mm rise
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That goes back to the past with Greta
  4. American Elephants notes the Marxist lie of white privilege
  5. Blazing Cat Fur covers the real story behind the Amazon fires
  6. Brass Pills notes what happens when a college creates an AI to identify hate speech
  7. Bustednuckles discusses how you know you’re getting old
  8. Chicks On The Right covers PETA’s latest creepy ad surrounding milk
  9. Creeping Sharia notes a month of Islamists in America
  10. DaTechGuy’s Blog discusses socialism and Monopoly
  11. Free North Carolina notes new polling on race that is not good for Trump haters
  12. Geller Report News covers a wanted jihadi caught at a Mexican migrant center
  13. Jihad Watch highlights Jew hater Tlaib blaming the victim of Palestinian murder
  14. Legal Insurrection covers the NY Times citing shoddy data for their slavery is America schtick
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery covers who Adam Schiff will be facing in a primary, and it’s just so 2019.

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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Good News: Trump’s Wall Is Child’s Play Compared To Comrade Bernie’s Green New Disaster

By William Teach August 25, 2019 – 9:13 am

We’ve discussed Comrade Bernie’s insane ‘climate change’ plan. Here’s David Von Drehle’s take, which was allowed to be posted in the Washington Post

Trump’s wall is child’s play compared to Bernie Sanders’s climate plan

If you cross a Missouri cow pasture and don’t look where you’re stepping, chances are you’re going to wind up with a certain substance on your shoes. Same goes for voters trying to get from here to Election Day.

Not like we haven’t heard some lies already. Trade wars aren’t a good thing; they aren’t easy to win; there’s no big, beautiful, see-through wall with solar panels on it along our southern border; and Mexico didn’t pay for it. This election cycle, though, rampant unreality knows no party. On one side, we have the Fabulist in Chief. On the other, we have the likes of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The wall is child’s play compared with the risible fantasy that Sanders has rolled out in lieu of an actual climate change strategy. It’s hard to know where to start with this document — but here are a couple of the, uh, high points:

Sanders will replace or scrap all aircraft, the vast majority of cars and trucks, most buses, trains and ships; hundreds of power plants; and much of the electrical grid — which is what he would have to do to reach his promised “100 percent renewable energy for electricity and transportation.” And he will do this by 2030. That’s 10 years. Boston’s Big Dig took 20.

He will spend $16.3 trillion on this project, but he promises to recoup a fair chunk of that money by suing companies for doing things that aren’t illegal (i.e., fossil-fuel companies for contributing to carbon emissions).

Do I need to mention again that this would cause serious problems for the lives of citizens, who would suddenly be left with worthless property while owing quite a bit of money to financial institutions, have little means to go anywhere, and skyrocket their cost of living? Heck, how would they build anything, be it homes, businesses, etc, without fossil fuels? You don’t move a big old backhoe without fossil fuels. And all the other things I’ve mentioned previously

On he goes, across the entire economy and through all facets of daily life, waving his magic wand. Poof — no more mobile homes. Ping — nuclear waste vanishes. Fizzit — labor unions restored to former glory.

Let me be clear: I support concerted action to mitigate climate change. I’m just not sure make-believe is the best way to do it. Sanders was on the right track four years ago, when he put a carbon tax at the center of his climate plan. It’s a bold step with bipartisan support. And a president who worked extremely hard and effectively for three or four years might be able to pass it. Asked by reporters why he no longer supports the tax, Sanders replied that it doesn’t go far enough.

So Daniel is no “denier”. He wants things like a carbon tax (which would skyrocket the cost of living, but, not as bad as Comrade Bernie’s plan).

Of course, it’s part of a president’s job to paint a bold vision of America’s future. But the art of leadership includes the politics of the possible. Much can and should be done to speed innovation and encourage efficiency while greening our energy supply. Much can and should be done to improve educational opportunity and affordability. Much can and should be done to rationalize our crazy health-care economy. Let’s make room for some ideas that don’t assume the next president will have dictatorial powers and a grove of money trees.

That’s all Democrats have, and that’s who Democrats are. Again, call them what you want: progressives, socialists, communists, etc, their basic platform is Fascist. It’s based on Authoritarian principles. Kamala is running around saying she will use executive power to ban guns, among other things, just like the rest of the contenders. And so few Democrat voters stop to think that this would be really bad for their own lives.

Oh, and also in the WP

His tweets on the subject do not dissuade me from this, either.

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Extinction Rebellion: We Should All Take Psychedelics To Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 24, 2019 – 4:57 pm

Very few in the British media are publishing this, because it would show that their support of the Extinction Rebellion nutters is nuts

Why this activist is calling for the mass ingestion of psychedelics

Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion political movement, has called for the mass ingestion of psychedelics to protest the criminalization of drugs.

“I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice,” said Bradbrook during Breaking Convention, a psychedelics conference that was recently held in London.

Named after the Anthropocene extinction — the current and on-going mass extinction event caused by human activity — Extinction Rebellion uses civil disobedience to draw attention to climate change and the loss of biodiversity. (snip)

Bradbrook emphasized that Extinction Rebellion isn’t in the business of promoting psychedelic drug use, but she has previously expressed that psychedelics were a powerful motivator for her to form the social movement. In an article she wrote for the journal Emerge, Bradbrook said “people on psychedelics report a deeply felt sense of peace, oneness and unity with the planet which has been shown to have a profound and enduring effect on the way they live their lives.”

The transformative power of psychedelics could be a way to encourage people to become more active in finding solutions to the climate crisis. “The causes of the crisis are political, economic, legal, and cultural systemic issues but underneath that are issues of human trauma, powerlessness, scarcity, and separation,” said Bradbrook at the convention. “The system resides within us and the psychedelic medicines are opportunities to help us shift our consciousness.”

Oh, you thought the nuttbaggery would end there? Uh uh. Because Matt Davis, writing this piece for Big Think, wonders if this would really work

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 24, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out due to Someone Else driving a fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on the cost of the Mueller investigation.

Second photo below the fold, so, check out Victory Girls Blog, with a post saying that you should care about Miley Cyrus getting divorced.

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Hotcold Take: Climate Action Is More Important Than Reducing Poverty

By William Teach August 24, 2019 – 10:33 am

Those darned poor people are getting in the way, you know

Greening your life is all very well – but only a global climate strategy will fix this

Judging by the latest opinion polls, the public is ripe for some green austerity. Ipsos Mori says that 85% of Britons are concerned about climate change, with 52% admitting they are very concerned. These are the highest figures since the pollster started tracking opinion in 2005. Given the spate of extreme weather-related events, and the pictures of the torching of the Amazon rainforest, such concern is both logical and predictable. In this country, the climate deniers have been put to flight.

What the polls don’t show is whether the public is willing to translate this concern into action; whether similar levels of concern are present in less prosperous parts of the world; and whether it is possible to translate individual concerns into collective political action. Here, the message is a lot more mixed. The furore over the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s private jetsare a case in point. People don’t like being lectured to, particularly when those doing the lecturing fail to live by their own ethical code.

Emmanuel Macron wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be top of the agenda at the meeting of the G7 he is hosting this weekend in Biarritz, but this is an empty gesture. There is not the remotest possibility of the G7 doing anything to rein in the activities of Brazil’s rightwing president, Jair Bolsonaro. Indeed, Macron’s own experience shows how hard it is to translate a desire to curb carbon emissions into practical action. The French president said making driving more expensive was a price worth paying in the fight against global heating but faced nationwide protests from the yellow vest movement. For the gilets jaunes, the immediate threat to their livelihoods mattered more than the long-term threat posed by the climate crisis.

For most of those “concerned”, it is theoretical. In practice, they do not want their own lives messed up.

Despite receiving a bloody nose, Macron is right when he says the climate crisis is a global problem requiring a global response. But securing international agreement is not going to be easy, in the main because the biggest increases in emissions are coming from countries where governments put a higher priority on poverty reduction than they do on safeguarding the environment.

I guess we should just let them all die, right? Seriously, how dare these government care about poor people!

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Comrade Bernie Takes Long Fossil Fueled Trip To Pimp His $16 Trillion Climate Plan

By William Teach August 24, 2019 – 7:33 am

As I noted, a chunk of Comrade Bernie’s climate plan is dedicated to getting rid of fossil fuels, and doing it quickly. It would force you to give up your fossil fueled vehicle and essentially stop aviation. You could take a train or a bus, as long as they don’t use fossil fuels. But, that is only for The Little People

Sanders touts $16 trillion climate plan in fire-ravaged town

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday before touring a Northern California town ravaged by wildfire, declaring the setting a “wake-up call for our entire nation” to the dangers of a warming planet.

“Climate change is a major, major crisis for our country, and the entire world, and one of the manifestations of that crisis is what happened here,” the Vermont senator said as he walked through a burned-out mobile home park in Paradise alongside people who lost their homes in last November’s deadly blaze.

Sanders’ climate plan calls for the United States to move to renewable energy across the economy by 2050 and declare climate change a national emergency.

So, how did Comrade Bernie travel to California, and then Paradise?

In California, scientists and policymakers have named climate change as a major contributor to the state’s worsening wildfires, which have killed more than 100 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in recent years. Investigators determined faulty utility equipment owned by Pacific Gas & Electric sparked the fire that ravaged Paradise. Sanders said his plan would provide billions to help states and local governments better respond to disaster and strengthen firefighting resources.

That’s right, the fire wasn’t caused by climate change, natural or man-caused. It was due to faulty equipment. Nor was it made worse by ‘climate change’. Comrade Bernie forgot to mention that part.

An audience member at the town hall asked Sanders how he would practice what he preaches when it comes to fossil fuel consumption. Sanders pointed to solar panels he’s installed on his Vermont home but admitted that refusing to fly on planes powered by fossil fuels wasn’t realistic for his presidential campaign.

“I’m not going to walk to California,” he said. “We do the best we can … but I’m not going to sit here and tell you that we’re not going to use fossil fuels.”

Um, that’s exactly what his plan says. Did he read it? But, of course, he’s one of the bourgeoisie, the elites, who do not have to worry about their own laws applying to themselves.

“It is expensive,” Sanders said at a climate-focused town hall near Paradise. “But the cost of doing nothing is far more expensive.”

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Pelosi Tries To Tamp Down Democrats Excitement For Impeachment

By William Teach August 24, 2019 – 7:18 am

President Trump has all but dared Democrats to attempt impeachment, because he knows it is a loser issue for Democrats. He’d come out smelling like a rose, while Democrats would be hurt. Nancy Pelosi knows this, so she’s been attempting to mitigate the enthusiasm by elected Democrats to make it happen

Pelosi asks Democrats for ‘leverage’ on impeachment

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday suggested that House Democrats should refrain from pushing for President Trump’s impeachment, warning that a premature effort to oust the president could undermine her case for doing so down the road.

“The public isn’t there on impeachment. It’s your voice and constituency, but give me the leverage I need to make sure that we’re ready and it is as strong as it can be,” Pelosi told Democrats during a caucus-wide conference call on Friday afternoon, according to a source on the call.

Pelosi made the comments in response to Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), who shared how people in her district wanted to talk about impeachment.

While advocating for a cautious approach, Pelosi didn’t rule out the possibility of impeachment. The Democratic leader has faced continued pressure on the issue as the number of Democrats who have come out in support for impeachment in some form has swelled to at least 130.

“The equities we have to weigh are our responsibility to protect and defend the Constitution and to be unifying and not dividing. But if and when we act, people will know he gave us no choice. If he cannot respect the Constitution, we’ll have to deal with that. It’s about patriotism, not partisanship,” Pelosi said Friday.

Ah, but it is about partisanship, known colloquially as Trump Derangement Syndrome. And she hit the point that the public isn’t interested in playing this impeachment game. Realistically, if they don’t have evidence now, they will not be getting it in the future. They can continue on this Don Quixote journey, but, it won’t end well, and she knows it. She’s having to act like a mom to squabbling teens, tamping down expectations without hurting their feelings. Ones who aren’t listening. You almost feel sorry for Pelosi, considering all the wackos, Jew haters, and complete nutjobs who’ve been elected to the Democratic Party, but, then, you realize she and her ilk have enabled this over the years.

Especially when she does this

Great slogan: “Throw a punch for the children.”

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Good News: We Can Have Eco-Grief Without Saying ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 23, 2019 – 3:04 pm

We can also say bat-guano insane without saying “you’re just 5 beers short of a 6 pack”

Grieving for the environment, without saying ‘climate change’

Agnieszka Wolska, a therapist in Calgary, joined an “Eco-Grief Support Circle” that meets twice a month after losing faith, she says, that nature could rebalance itself. She compares the circles to being at a wake, but it’s also where she finds hope. “Together we have less individual despair. We can just have connection instead of fear or just sadness,” she says.

Academics have begun to attach neologisms to feelings like Ms. Wolska’s: “solastalgia,” coined by an Australian philosopher in 2005, describes a form of distress caused by environmental change, or “ecological grief.” Those feelings of loss surrounding a place are becoming increasingly common, as wilder weather patterns and natural disasters are, many scientists say, becoming more commonplace. (snip)

“I remember after the flood thinking, nothing is the same anymore,” she says over coffee in her farmhouse on a recent day. “All my favorite places are destroyed.”

That refrain is becoming increasingly common, as weather patterns and natural disasters are becoming more intense. Academics have even begun to attach neologisms to the feelings: “solastalgia,” coined by an Australian philosopher in 2005, describes a form of distress caused by environmental change, or “ecological grief.”

Call it what you want, it’s still crazy. The climate is always changing, weather will always happen. Did you know that they found elephant bones on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea? That’s because it was mostly dried up during the last glacial period. It couldn’t sustain itself without the Atlantic Ocean, which was too low from being locked in ice. The Sahara was once not a desert (and is trending back that way now).

“There are many people who might deny climate change, for example, but still have really fundamentally strong relationships to their land and to nature, and that’s something we need to tap into,” says Katie Hayes, who is working on her doctorate at the University of Toronto on the psychological and social consequences of climate change, using the 2013 Alberta floods as a case study. “People can have anxiety about what’s happening to them and maybe not see that climate change is a problem that is exacerbating that ecological degradation.”

I believe the climate has and is changing. The fact that it is mostly from natural causation isn’t making me nuts.

Amy Spark trained as an environmental scientist and co-founded the Calgary-based Refugia Retreats in 2016. They run workshops focused on the intersection between ecological change and mental health. Sometimes those meetings take the form of informational sessions at universities or community centers, where she and her colleague provide an overview of the growing body of research on ecological grief. Sometimes they are spiritual retreats that help participants process their feelings about the loss of cherished spaces – a destroyed landscape or even a single tree.

The anxiety they see is often not about the changes in the present but fears about what is coming or doubts that individual action – say, eschewing plastics – will make a difference. Much distress comes from disorientation – a sense that rhythms of the seasons aren’t reliable, that birds are chirping at unfamiliar times of year, or that wildfire smoke is coming earlier.

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