If All You See…

By William Teach August 26, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible evil road used to move fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Hogewash, with a post noting that the easiest way to discredit the NY Times is to quote the NY Times.

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Yet Another Court Rules That Obama’s “Waters Of The U.S.” Rule Is Unlawful

By William Teach August 26, 2019 – 10:30 am

The Waters Of The Unites States is one of the worst rules to come from the Obama administration, and that’s saying quite a bit

Obama sees his legacy dying one issue at a time

(Legal Insurrection) Back in 2015, we covered the Obama administration’s far-reaching Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule and the pushback it received at the time.  States’ suits are making their way through the courts, and there is good news to report!

U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood has handed a victory to the state of Georgia and nine other states that sued the federal government (and to the rest of the nation) by declaring that the  WOTUS Rule is unlawful.

Wood stated that the rule, which was intended to provide better protection of the nation’s water, violated the Clean Water Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, and she remanded it back to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for further work.

She wrote that while the agencies have authority to interpret the phrase “waters of the United States,” that authority isn’t limitless, and therefore their decisions in doing so do not fall under what’s called Chevron deference, a matter of case law in which — for lack of a better phrase — the tie goes to the agency.

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that implementation of the rule led to a Wyoming farmer being fined $37,500 a day for constructing a stock pond on his own property.

The Trump administration had scuttled the rule back on January of this year, but, of course, was then faced with tons of lawsuits by the Big Government type groups who are happy for the Central Government to control every bit of water in the U.S.A. Regardless, remanding it back to the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers means little, because the rule was killed, but, this ruling by Judge Wood will make it harder for the unhinged Authoritarian leaning “environmental” groups to stop the full kill-off of the rule.

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Sad: Washington Post Says Comrade Bernie’s Plan Will Take Us Nowhere

By William Teach August 26, 2019 – 8:14 am

When your plan is so far to the loony side that you’ve even lost the Washington Post Editorial Board

Bernie Sanders’s climate plan will take us nowhere

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.) released a climate plan last week. In his characteristic style, he excited a class of left-wing ideologues — and elicited eye rolls from everyone else.

The proposal calls for $16.3 trillion in new spending over a decade to eliminate the use of fossil fuels in electricity production and transportation by 2030 — nearly 10 times the amount former vice president and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has proposed spending. By 2050, the country would no longer produce net greenhouse gas emissions. At least this latter goal is right. So much else in the plan is wrongheaded.

(a couple paragraphs discussing the idiotic plan, including stopping all future nuclear plants and getting rid of existing ones)

As with practically every grandiose program Mr. Sanders proposes, we are left wondering what the democratic socialist would actually do as president. Nothing resembling his climate plan could pass Congress, even with a strong Democratic majority. Mr. Sanders typically retorts that he will lead a political revolution. But he will not change the fact that the nation is ideologically pluralistic.

On climate policy, the key is to get the most bang for the nation’s buck. The task is so large that direct government spending on projects such as power plants is a recipe for unconscionable waste. Mr. Sanders’s promise to divert national wealth into proven boondoggles such as high-speed rail is another red flag.

The entire thing is a red flag.

No central planner can know exactly how and where to invest for an efficient and effective energy transition. That is why economists continue to recommend that the government take a simple, two-pronged approach: invest in scientific research and prime the market to accept new, clean technologies with a substantial and steadily rising carbon tax. People and businesses would find the most effective ways to avoid the increasingly high, tax-inflated costs of using dirty fuels. Maybe that would mean building huge new solar farms throughout the country. Maybe it would mean massive energy efficiency gains driven by home retrofits or new appliances. Maybe it would mean continuing to accept some role for nuclear power.

We do not know, precisely, what the most efficient path looks like. We are also certain that Mr. Sanders does not.

Even the climate cultists on the WPEB know that Comrade Bernie is stark raving mad with this plan, which is more like the central planning from the Soviet Union than anything else. What they are missing, though, is that the hardcores in the Cult are super enthused by the plan, because they do not stop to think, they just react. You know, like the loonies in the Sunrise Movement and the U.S. version of Extinction Rebellion.

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Narrative Busted: Psychiatrist Says Trump Isn’t Mentally Ill, But, It’s Cool To Say He Is

By William Teach August 26, 2019 – 7:50 am

Most are concentrating on this bat guano crazy pronouncement

…which Stelter breezed on by and is offering Excuses. Imagine had a Conservative said something similar about Obama. You can bet it would be a National Discussion today. But, there was something a little more low key from Excitable Allen Frances, that was a bit more important

Former Duke Psychiatrist Admits Trump Isn’t Mentally Ill, But ‘Go With It If It Will Get Him Out Of Office’

Former Duke Chair of Psychiatry Dr. Allen Frances admitted Sunday that President Donald Trump was not mentally ill, but suggested that if using that argument would get Trump removed from office, he would do it.

Frances appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter to discuss what he felt were the dangers of declaring Trump mentally unfit — namely, he said, calling Trump “crazy” was an insult to people who do have mental illnesses.

“There is absolutely no doubt that Trump is dangerous,” Frances claimed, arguing that Trump was “dangerous because he’s a bad, evil con man” rather than because he was mentally ill. He then suggested that it would be acceptable to lie about Trump’s mental state if there was a way to use that false narrative to get him out of office.

“I think it’s very clear that he’s dangerous because he’s evil, he’s not dangerous because he’s mentally ill, and the mentally ill argument, if it would get him out of the office, I would say go with it even if it’s inaccurate,” Frances continued. “Anything to get this man out of office. But it won’t work, so piling on inaccuracy, stigma, the press will get people who know nothing about psychiatric diagnosis spouting off at the mouth, it won’t add to the discussion, it will distract from the political stuff and we have to focus on how evil —”

So, lying in the media is fine. Though, consider, he starts to say it won’t work. And

Stelter interrupted but did not push back on Frances’ willingness to lie to push Trump out of office. Instead, he said that he felt there was a need to “connect the dots,” adding, “There is something wrong here when he’s attacking his Federal Reserve chair, misspelling the guy’s name and doing 50 of those things a day. I’m kind of grasping for the language to use around this, but it’s —”

So, Stelter wants to continue to push the narrative. You run with it, media. You run with it.

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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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