Too Bad: Lufthansa CEO Sees No “Greta Effect” On People Taking Fossil Fueled Flights

By William Teach July 14, 2019 – 4:28 pm

Wait, you mean that people, including those yammering about climate doom from the use of fossil fuels, aren’t giving up flying? Huh

Lufthansa CEO sees no ‘Greta Effect’ on passenger numbers

German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) expects passenger numbers to rise about 4% this year, its chief executive told a newspaper, playing down talk that public support for teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg might be curbing air travel.

“At this time we don’t see restraint – in fact, the opposite,” Carsten Spohr told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper in the interview published on Sunday.

“In comparison to last year, already a record year, we’re expecting passenger growth of about 4 percent, (Lufthansa unit) Swiss International Air Lines is also showing growth. The discussion of climate change is not leading to restraint with bookings. People want to fly.”

Media reports have suggested a “Greta effect” might curb demand for air travel, referring to the 16-year-old who has gained global attention for her efforts to convince people to reduce carbon-emitting activities.

How would Warmists get to all their conferences without fossil fueled flights, as well as quick hops to other countries for vacations?

On Saturday, a group of about 80 protesters staged a “Flight Strike” at Zurich Airport near the facilities of Swiss International Air Lines, singing songs, handing out leaflets, and encouraging people to pledge not to fly in 2020.

And were all roundly ignored by sane people. They should give this a shot in Santiago, Chile, where the United Nations will hold their Conference on the Parties Hotcoldwetdry meeting in December. Protest all those coming in on fossil fueled flights (which will be the vast majority).

At the end of the day, most do not not care about Doing Something about the climate change scam in practice.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 14, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible dog sucking up valuable resources making the Earth boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is DC Clothesline, with a post on a former ICE director punking AOC.

It’s dog week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 14, 2019 – 9:02 am

Ruskin Williams Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is always shining on us, those birds are singing the song of their people, and things are just fantastic. This pinup is by Ruskin Williams, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Victory Girls Blog discusses the Power Puff squad taking over Nutroots Nation
  2. The Right Scoop covers liberals melting down over a Scarlett Johansson anti-pc comment
  3. The People’s Cube features a 2020 Dem primary primer
  4. The Lid covers the AOC comedy show
  5. The Last Tradition discusses the gutter behavior at the World Cup celebration
  6. The Last Refuge covers the armed person killed by police at ICE facility
  7. The Daley Gator notes Leftists seeing White Supremacists everywhere
  8. White House Dossier highlights the Trump Doctrine of picking up the cans previous presidents kicked down the road
  9. Raised On Hoecakes discusses whether it is illegal to fix your own car
  10. Powerline covers why wind and solar will never work
  11. Patterico’s Pontifications notes who wacky Jay Inslee would appoint as his Sec of State
  12. noe-necon says that lickers are among the enemies of civilization
  13. Moonbattery has a journey into moonbat modernity
  14. Jihad Watch wonders if France’s burkini ban matters
  15. And last, but not least, Hogewash notes the First Amendment 1, Baltimore 0

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.

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Bummer: Illegal Aliens Are Worried About Answering Door Ahead Of Raids

By William Teach July 14, 2019 – 7:32 am

If you haven’t broken the law the only concern you should have about answering the door is it being someone trying to sell you something

With ICE Raids Looming, Immigrants Worry: ‘Every Time Someone Knocks, You Get Scared’

All week, Veronica had distracted herself from a constant barrage of news about a series of coordinated immigration raids that the Trump administration planned to begin this weekend in cities across the country.

She worked late every night, preparing for a weeklong family vacation to Florida to visit Disney World and go fishing. She booked a three-bedroom apartment for herself and 13 family members. She packed her 4-year-old daughter’s Mickey Mouse backpack and “Frozen”-themed suitcase with clothes, stuffed animals and a blanket to sleep with.

But then, the woman who cleans Veronica’s home, who is undocumented, showed her cellphone videos of immigration arrests happening in Miami. The woman warned that Freddie, Veronica’s husband and partner of 15 years, who is undocumented and has a standing deportation order, could be swept up. Other family members and friends started to call, saying the same.

Wait, wait, are we supposed to feel bad for Veronica, who is a stand-in for all the illegals? That deportation order didn’t originate from ICE, nor from POTUS Donald Trump: a federal judge would have signed it, after Veronica’s husband exhausted the immigration process.

President Trump’s promises on Friday that the administration would execute a series of immigration arrests nationwide added to fears that have been growing among immigrant communities for more than a month, as the raids have been debated, scheduledand then rescheduled.

The operation will target some 2,000 undocumented immigrants who crossed the border recently, in groups of family units. That is a departure from what is typical for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who tend to focus on deporting adults who entered the country alone. But word of the operation seems to have struck fear across undocumented communities, including among people who have been living here for years.

Not mentioned in the article is that the operation is for those who have been ordered to leave the U.S., voluntarily or involuntary, by federal judges.

A 17-year-old girl, who lives in one of the shelters and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a shelter employee used coded language to warn her family to go into hiding and to return on Monday. “They said, ‘Your room is going to be very hot this weekend. Come back Monday when things cool off,’” she said.

And that would be a felony, helping someone avoid a lawful federal deportation order.

Across the country, news of the operation sparked fear, even among immigrants who were unlikely to be affected — such as those who had never had an encounter with federal authorities, and were therefore unknown to the government, according to lawyers who were making preparations on Friday.

And they should be afraid, being that they are here in violation if United States law. Why is this so damned hard to understand? All this is saying that Democrats are for Open Borders. If they refuse to deport illegals under court order, who would they deport? They even protect illegals who serious crimes on their records.

Democrats really should be asked the specific questions “which illegal aliens can we deport?” and “which illegals can we stop at the border?”

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These Extinction Rebellion People Want You To Take Them And Hotcoldwetdry Seriously Or Something

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 5:21 pm

They’re begging you, folks, begging you, and they’re being totally not nuts about it!

These Pictures Of Activists Begging You To Take Climate Change Seriously Are Intense

Since last year, activists with the climate activism group Extinction Rebellion have been grabbing headlines across Europe for their disruptive protests. Founded on the principle of using nonviolent civil disobedience, they intend to force people to pick a side: address climate change or cooperate with a system that is dragging the world toward catastrophe.

While they’ve been getting their name and message out there with their activities in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, South Africa, and elsewhere, winning over converts in small groups with their vision of change is what’s caused their numbers to swell, BuzzFeed News’ J. Lester Feder reports.

Here are some of the most eye-catching pictures from their protests, demonstrations, rallies, and actions around the world.

I’m taking it seriously. How about you? (more below the fold)

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible, evil, world killing fossil fuels that should be forbidden for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on the Billy Graham rule.

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Bummer: 2nd Republican To Challenge AOC For 2020

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 11:47 am

In reality, Republicans have, at best, a 2% shot at winning the seat in NY14. It is a purely safe seat for Democrats. But, it might cause Democrats to nominate another Democrat to primary her, especially with all the in-fighting between her, her squad, and Justice Democrats against Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats

Second Republican announces plans to challenge Ocasio-Cortez in New York

Republican John Cummings on Friday announced plans to challenge Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for her seat next year.

Cummings said in an interview with the New York Post that he was inspired to launch his own congressional bid by Ocasio-Cortez’s long shot run last year.

“But to just come from the outside and take somebody on is really difficult,” Cummings, a 59-year-old civics teacher and former police officer, told the Post.

“It was pointed out to me by my students that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pretty much made my excuse — and I’ll use their quotes — ‘a lame one,’ ” he added of the former bartender. (snip)

Cummings is the second Republican to announce a challenge to Ocasio-Cortez, joining Ruth Papazian.

Regardless of who eventually wins the GOP’s congressional nomination, Ocasio-Cortez will enter the race with a huge advantage in a district that Hillary Clinton carried over President Trump by nearly 58 points in 2016.

Remember, though, AOC polls very badly in her district. What happens if one of these Republicans starts offering ideas that the people in NY14 like and gains traction? Meh, it almost doesn’t matter, AOC will get primaried. She’s caused too many problems in the Dem party.

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Trump Gets Big Win Against Sanctuary Cities In Court

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 10:30 am

Nice to know that a court actually rules on Law rather than their personal political leanings now and then

Appeals court gives Trump a win in sanctuary city case

A federal appeals court gave President Donald Trump a rare legal win in his efforts to crack down on “sanctuary cities” Friday, upholding the Justice Department’s decision to give preferential treatment in awarding community policing grants to cities that cooperate with immigration authorities.

The 2-1 opinion overturned a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Los Angeles. The court said awarding extra points in the application process to cities that cooperate was consistent with the goals of the grant program created by Congress.

“The Department is pleased that the Court recognized the lawful authority of the Administration to provide favorable treatment when awarding discretionary law-enforcement grants to jurisdictions that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws,” the Justice Department said in an emailed statement.

“This ruling reverses a lawless decision that enabled Sanctuary City policies, putting the safety and security of all Americans in harm’s way,” the White House said later Friday in an emailed statement. “We urge citizens across America to demand that Democrat leaders cease their support for Sanctuary policies that deprive Americans of life, limb, and liberty.”

If cities do not want to cooperate with federal law enforcement, if they do not want to enforce federal law, then why give them money? Let them get it by raising taxes on their own citizens and/or asking for money from the state.

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Streaming Porn Has A Carbon Footprint Bigger Than Belgium Or Something

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 7:13 am

Obviously, the solution here is to ban all streaming porn, and everyone go back to VHS…wait, no, they are made of plastic, which comes from oil. How about DVDs? No, plastic as well. Magazines? Nope, dead trees. Well, we’re just going to have to ban porn except in person to save the Earth from getting a fever

Streaming online pornography produces as much CO2 as Belgium

The transmission and viewing of online videos generates 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, or nearly 1 per cent of global emissions. On-demand video services such as Netflix account for a third of this, with online pornographic videos generating another third.

This means the watching of pornographic videos generates as much CO2 per year as is emitted by countries such as Belgium, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

That’s the conclusion of a French think tank called The Shift Project. Earlier this year, it estimated that digital technologies produce 4 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions and that this figure could soar to 8 per cent by 2025.

The Luddites are on it

Antonio Guillem/Getty - Distracted boyfriend

Antonio Guillem/Getty – Distracted boyfriend

The move to ever higher quality videos, such as 8K resolution, will contribute to pushing up emissions further. So too could the launch of game streaming services, such as Google’s Stadia, but the report did not try to estimate their impact.

The authors call for measures to limit the emissions from online videos, such as preventing them from autoplaying and not transmitting videos in high definition when it is unnecessary. For instance, some devices can now display higher resolutions than people can perceive. The report says regulation will be necessary.

“This once again demonstrates the need for the designers of digital services to think carefully about the overall  impact of the services they provide,” Preist says. “For individuals, upgrading our devices less often, owning less devices, and not demanding mobile high quality internet connection everywhere are probably the most important actions we can take.”

To limit climate change we need to reduce energy consumption as well as switching to renewable sources, says one of the report’s authors, Maxime Efoui. “Producing new energy infrastructure generates emissions, even if the electricity produced is eventually renewable,” he says.

Who’s going to limit this? The streaming companies? Good luck with that. This is about Government making laws and rules to control things.

Though I’m personally OK with a federal government law stopping autoplay. Fricking annoying. I was amused by the use of the lady from the Distracted Boyfriend meme, though.

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Excitable California Passes Bill Requiring Trump To Release His Tax Returns To Be On Ballot

By William Teach July 13, 2019 – 6:56 am

Sure, sure, this is for all who are running for president (wink wink). It has nothing personally to do with Donald Trump (wink wink)

California Passes Measure Requiring Presidential Candidates To Release Tax Returns

The California Legislature has overwhelmingly passed a measure requiring all presidential and gubernatorial candidates to release their tax returns to get on the primary ballot, which could shake things up for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

The Presidential Tax Transparency & Accountability Act, SB 27, would require that the candidates release the previous five years of their returns. The bill passed 57-17 in the Assembly on Tuesday and 29-10 in the state Senate Thursday. It now awaits the signature of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to become law.

The measure includes an urgency clause, which would allow the legislation to take effect immediately, in time for the 2020 election, reports ABC-7 News. The measure only applies to the primary ballot because the state constitution allows political parties to nominate their own presidential candidates in the general election.

Wait, wait, we were told this was supposed to be a Big Deal. But, if it only counts for primary season, not the general election, this is meaningless, even if someone decides to run against Trump, because Trump will still be the GOP contender. It’s a little detail that most of the Useful Democratic Idiots will miss, thinking that this will block Trump from being on the 2020 ballot when it does no such thing. It’s a feel good measure.

Eighteen other states have legislation similar to California’s, but none has become law, according to a database tracked by the National Conference of State Legislatures. California, the most populous state, has more than 24 million eligible voters.

“Presidential candidates need to put their own interests aside in the name of transparency,” bill author, state Sen. Mike McGuire (D), said in a statement. “So far, our current president has done the opposite. It’s time that President Trump steps up, stops with the obstruction, and follows through with 40 years of time-honored tradition that has made this nation’s democracy stronger.”

McGuire is confident the law would withstand a legal challenge, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Here’s a question: why even challenge this in court, when it means nothing to Trump? Perhaps for future candidates who need to be on the primary ballot, but not Trump. It is very dubiously Constitutional, since, even though this would be a state level vote, the Federal Constitution lays out the qualifications to be President, and it doesn’t specify the difference between a primary or general election.

But, Democrats just can’t help themselves, and, at this point, Trump is surely refusing to show his taxes just to drive Democrats nuttier.

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