If All You See…

By William Teach May 30, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible world killing dog, sucking up resources, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sonoran Conservative, with a post on impeachment coming.

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Another School To Reprint Yearbooks Without The OK “White Supremacist” Symbol

By William Teach May 30, 2019 – 10:30 am

This article does mention the Circle Game and the 4Chan joke, but takes it a step further in moonbattery

California middle school to reprint yearbook after photo shows students holding ‘white power’ sign

PETALUMA, Calif. — A middle school in California is now working to reprint part of its yearbook after parents noticed students flashing an offensive symbol in one of the photos.

Three students at Kenilworth Junior High are seen in the team basketball photo making an upside down “OK” sign–a sign that has become known as a symbol of white power.

Two on left and two on right are playing Circle Game

Parents and community members showed up at the Petaluma Unified School District’s board meeting Tuesday to express their concern over the image and to ask why it fell through the cracks.

“They need to understand that the symbol they’re showing has been taken over by some extreme white power people,” Sheila Morrissey, whose children go to Petaluma Unified’s Casa Grande High School, told ABC7 News. (Morrissey said her daughter’s yearbook also includes photos with students making the same symbol.)

No, it really hasn’t, except in the fevered minds of moonbat nincompoops

The use of the “OK” hand gesture can also be associated with a game played by some kids called the “Circle Game.” However, parents want students to understand it also has another meaning.

The symbol recently became associated with white power. In 2017, it started as a hoax by the website 4chan. Since then, however, some white supremacists have begun using the symbol, including New Zealand shooter Brenton Tarrant, who flashed the symbol during his court appearance.

So, when Obama, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, and so many others use the OK hand sign they are actually white supremacists? Stop, just stop. The picture clearly shows what is the Circle Game. That’s how you do it. The people who started this at 4Chan succeeded well beyond their expectations.

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Who’s Up For Some “Freedom Gas”?

By William Teach May 30, 2019 – 7:40 am

I had to look to make sure this wasn’t a parody of uber-Warmist site ARS Technica. It’s not. And should make Warmists very unhappy

US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas”

Call it a rebranding of “energy dominance.”

In a press release published on Tuesday, two Department of Energy officials used the terms “freedom gas” and “molecules of US freedom” to replace your average, everyday term “natural gas.”

The press release was fairly standard, announcing the expansion of a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at the Freeport facility on Quintana Island, Texas. It would have gone unnoticed had an E&E News reporter not noted the unique metonymy “molecules of US freedom.”

DOE Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg is quoted as saying, “With the US in another year of record-setting natural gas production, I am pleased that the Department of Energy is doing what it can to promote an efficient regulatory system that allows for molecules of US freedom to be exported to the world.”

Also in the press release, US Under Secretary of Energy Mark W. Menezes refers to natural gas as “freedom gas” in his quote: “Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy.”

It rather is, since the other big exporter of natural gas, particularly to Europe, is Russia. Though Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Japan bought the most from the U.S.

Slate notes that the term “freedom gas” seems to have originated from an event with DOE Secretary Rick Perry. Earlier this year, the secretary signed an order to double the amount of LNG exports to Europe, saying, “The United States is again delivering a form of freedom to the European continent. And rather than in the form of young American soldiers, it’s in the form of liquefied natural gas.”

A reporter at the order signing jokingly asked whether the LNG shipments should be called “freedom gas,” and Perry said, “I think you may be correct in your observation.”

Is there anything better than inexpensive, reliable, dependable, easily stored for use at any time energy to make people’s lives better?

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Let’s Repeat: No Collusion, Con Conspiracy, No Obstruction

By William Teach May 30, 2019 – 7:25 am

The Democrats and all their media partners are yammering about Robert Mueller’s speech yesterday, finding things that are not there, because they desperately want to hurt President Trump. Some are very serious about pushing impeachment, others are just yammering to make people think Trump is a Bad Man. Regardless, the whole point of the charade was Russian interference in our election and whether Trump and/or his people colluded. We all know Russia attempted to interfere. No one says whether they were successful. And

Robert Mueller buries key conclusion amid ‘omissions and innuendo’

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s exhaustive report on Russian election interference marginalizes its most important finding: There was no Trump-Moscow conspiracy.

“The Mueller report continued a pattern evident in the Mueller indictments,” said Jack Langer, spokesman for Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican. “Pack the documents with vague insinuations of collusion while downplaying the actual findings that there was no collusion.”

A Washington Times analysis of a redacted version of the Mueller report shows that, among its scores of bolded headlines in the table of contents, none refers to the special counsel’s paramount conclusion. Also, in the 200-page section devoted to Russia-Trump there is no “conclusion” section.

The first words that address Mr. Mueller’s No. 1 assignment — to determine whether there was a Trump-Russia election interference conspiracy — appear in the report’s introduction on page 2, buried as the final third of a 63-word sentence.

It reads: “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

That’s it. The words of Mueller and his team, which was heavily dominated by people who donated to Democrats. If they couldn’t find anything, that means it isn’t there.

The next reference comes on page 9, as the final sentence of a paragraph describing decisions on what was and wasn’t a crime: “Further, the evidence was not sufficient to charge that any member of the Trump Campaign conspired with representatives of the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.”

As far as obstruction goes, for all Mueller’s words, both in the report and in his speech, you either have the evidence or not. What Mueller was saying was that, because of long standing policy and law, even if they found evidence, they couldn’t charge, because that is a political thing

In our legal system, if you do not have the evidence, regardless of any policies, then the person is innocent. Period. Stop wasting time and money on this stupidity.

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Mueller Investigation Gets To The Truth

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 5:22 pm

So, um, Dems?

Actually, keep going. It’ll make sure Trump is re-elected.

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New Jersey Looks To Put More Firearms Restrictions On Law Abiding Citizens

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 3:59 pm

New Jersey is already one of the strictest states in the Union when it comes to law abiding citizens and firearms. Yet, still has lots of shootings. And, I’ll be perfectly honest, I do not mind some of these proposals, at least not if they were tweaked a bit. But, they aren’t going to stop the criminals who use guns unlawfully, and are often in possession of firearms unlawfully

Tracking ammunition sales and requiring more safety training. Here are 4 new ways N.J.’s tough gun laws could get more strict.

New Jersey could require all handgun ammunition sales to be recorded and compel many people with firearms in the state to undergo regular safety training.

Those are just a couple of new rules on guns proposed in four bills that have been introduced in the state legislature are intended to close loopholes and keep firearms out of the hands of people who aren’t supposed to have one, backers say.

“These new bills will ensure that law enforcement, state entities, and gun store owners will work together to reduce gun crimes and gun trafficking in our communities,” state Assemblyman Louis Greenwald, D-Camden, said.

So, what are we looking at?

One bill (A5453) would make it a second-degree crime to act as a straw purchaser and it would make it a third-degree crime to transport, sell or possess a firearm without a federally licensed serial number.

It’s already a federal crime to make a straw purchase. This is really about doing away with so-called ghost guns, ones built by citizens themselves. BTW, there doesn’t seem to be any sort of shenanigans going on with this legislation, it’s rather straight forward.

Another measure is a bill (A5454) that would add convictions of crimes such as carjacking or making terroristic threats to the list of crimes that ban people from buying firearms in the state.

The actual list is “aggravated assault, arson, burglary, escape, extortion, homicide, kidnapping, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault, bias intimidation in violation”, as well as the above and a few others, would get citizens banned. I don’t think anyone would argue with any, except, wait, Thought Crimes, ie, saying mean things. Also, it would make it almost impossible for anyone who was ever committed to a mental institution to get a firearm, particularly if it happened in another state. And most people who have committed drug offenses.

There’s also a bill (A5452) that would require people to renew their firearm identification card every four years and show that they have completed a gun safety training course each time they renew the license. Active or retired police officers and former members of the military, however, would be exempt from the rule.

I’m on the fence on this. Owning a firearm may be a a Right, but, it is also a responsibility, and people should handle them correctly. Of course, you know this is a way to take people’s gun rights away in a place like NJ.

Finally, the last measure (A5454) would require places that sell handgun ammunition to track their ammunition sales and report them to the State Police. They would also be required to make sure people purchasing handgun ammunition are 21 years old, which is the legal age for buying a handgun.

So, what happens if it is an under-21 who is going hunting? Will the person, usually a parent or older family member, get in trouble? The legislation suggests it. One thing I wouldn’t mind is the notion of restricting the sale of ammo to people who do not have a federal backgrounds check for the weapon in question that the ammo is for. This could potentially limit ammo for stolen/unlawfully possessed firearms. But, we all know that this is really about tracking what ammo a law abiding citizen has.

That said, what part of this would stop the use of firearms by people who would use them illegally?

Of course, the NJ Dems are perfectly fine with protecting illegal aliens. Even the criminal ones.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on the Left’s thirst of gun control.

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Say, Will ‘Climate Change’ Cause Humans To Go Extinct Or Something?

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 10:30 am

Humanity has survived millions of years of constantly changing climate. We’ve gone through hot, we’ve gone through ice ages. Humanity has spread from the wilds of Africa to the tips of the world. We live in warm, cool, cold, hot, wet, arid. We live in mountains, we live on plains, we’re on islands, we’re in the middle of continents. Obviously, now, a tiny increase in global temps is Doom

Will climate change cause humans to go extinct?

I see a lot of resources talking about near-term human extinction, or the fact that thanks to climate change my generation will see the end of humanity. How likely is an outcome like this? Is there any hope for our futures?

Anonymous, aged 18. London, UK.

This article is part of I Need To Know, a Q&A service for teenagers by The Conversation. Find out how to submit your questions at the end of this article.

The claim that humanity only has just over a decade left due to climate change is based on a misunderstanding. In 2018, a fairly difficult-to-read report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that humanity needs to cut its carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in half by 2030, to avoid global warming of 1.5°C above the levels seen before the industrial revolution.

What this actually means is roughly, “We have about 12 years before fixing climate change becomes really expensive and tough.”

Humanity can still live in a world with climate change – it’s just going to be more work, and many lives and livelihoods are likely to be threatened. But it’s complicated, because this century we are facing many problems at the same time, and we are more dependent on each other than ever.

So, obviously, the Doomsday Cult of Climastrology has done their job in scaring the mule fritters out of the youths, so, it’s no wonder they are so mentally disturbed about extinction and doom. Heck, we didn’t have this many mental issues when there was a real concern about nuclear war.

Anyhow, if you read the article, you’ll see that they kind of attempt to soft-pedal the doom from ‘climate change’ while also showing doom, but then say the doom isn’t as likely as other doom. So, a total whiplash.

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New Warmist Idea: Let Jailed Felons Vote To Fight Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 7:43 am

This has absolutely nothing to do with politics, right? Just because it dove-tails perfectly with the Leftist push to allow felons to vote has no bearing, right? Just a coincidence, right?

ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY IMPRISONED FELONS SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING

Environmentalists joined the far-left campaign to give voting rights to incarcerated felons, arguing felon voting is crucial to fighting global warming.

“Until each and every one of them have their voting rights restored, the movement for climate justice — and every progressive cause — will be severely disadvantaged,” Sabelo Narasimhan, digital campaign manager for 350.org, wrote in an email to supporters sent Monday.

The group is now part of the effort, championed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, to allow millions of incarcerated felons to vote. Currently, only Maine and Vermont allow imprisoned felons to vote.

350.org is a far-left environmental group founded by activist Bill McKibben, a staunch Sanders supporter who once called former President Barack Obama a “climate denier” for allowing an oil company to explore for Arctic oil.

“An assault on our democracy and the right to vote directly affects how we address the current climate crisis. When people can’t vote, fossil fuel billionaires win,” Narasimhan wrote in the email. (snip)

Activists argue felon voting will somehow help “compel our elected officials to take real action on the climate crisis.”

350.org isn’t some tiny group: it is, of course, pretty much the biggest Cult of Climastrology sect out there. The entire point is mean to increase the voting totals for Democrats.

Which is an interesting thing to consider: are Democrats really saying that convicted and incarcerated murderers, rapists, and child abusers, among others, hold the same political leanings as the Democratic Party?

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Kamala Harris Wants To Make Companies Guilty Till Proven Innocent On “Wage Gap”

By William Teach May 29, 2019 – 7:21 am

This is why we have a Constitution, to stop this kind of thing (via Twitchy)

That WSJ piece notes

Under Ms. Harris’s plan, every business with 100 workers or more would have to get an “Equal Pay Certification” from the federal government. To earn this gold star, they must “prove they’re not paying women less than men for equal work.”

That means demonstrating, to the satisfaction of some bureaucrat, that any wage gap “is based on merit, performance, or seniority—not gender.” The penalty for failure is a steep fine: “1% of their profits for every 1% wage gap they allow to persist.”

North of 100,000 companies in the U.S. have at least 100 workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Together they employ some 80 million people. How in the name of Post Office efficiency does Ms. Harris expect the government to expertly second guess all of their performance reviews? She says certification must be completed in three years. The process would be run by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which has a staff of about 2,000.

And the certification must be redone every two years. Good luck with that.

(Daily Caller) Harris is right that the law prohibits discriminating against men or women in pay, but it does permit a man and a woman to be paid differently for valid reasons. Harris just ignores those reasons, which explain why men on average earn more than women.

When we control for factors such as hours worked each day, education, occupation, seniority, and time out of the workforce, the pay gap shrinks to a few cents. For example, women work fewer hours than men (an average of 8.3 hours compared to 7.8 hours per day) and fewer women work full-time than men. Controlling just for hours worked reduces the pay gap to 11 percent.

Hours worked, industry, and occupation are all choices women make to maximize flexibility or find fulfillment in work. The pay gap is not a sign of rampant gender discrimination, but the impact of the aggregated choices and preferences of women.

It shouldn’t need to be said again and again and again, but, Democrat politicians and big wigs like to lie and pander to their base, and their base has no interest in learning the real facts (to put it nicely). What will they do in situations where it is all about commissions? What if the women are not earning the same as the men? That’s all about work and skill.

What if women are being paid less due to time in position? In my past days in wireless, should a newly hired female store manager have been paid the same as I was, after being in position for 5 years (not too mention the extra money earned from being with the company for a long time)?

Harris aims to solve what is really not a problem. If a woman feels she has been discriminated against, the law is already on her side to pursue legal redress. In a great economy like this one, she can obtain better-paying opportunities. Harris would create big problems for women who value flexibility and non-traditional work opportunities.

Like many on the left, Harris is intentionally exploiting the gender pay gap to promote a liberal agenda that expands government control over the employee-employer relationship. When ideas like this win, women are the ones who will lose out.

Anyone think that more Governmental control of the economy and private sector isn’t really the main reason? This is what these Modern Socialists want.

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