Surprise: To Save The Planet From Hotcoldwetdry, You’ll Need To Sacrifice A Lot

By William Teach June 3, 2019 – 8:05 am

Every once in a while, a member of the Cult of Climastrology comes out and says what they really want to do and what their policies will do to your life. Here’s Warmist Emily Atkin in the far left The New Republic

You Will Have to Make Sacrifices to Save the Planet

When it comes to climate change, Washington Governor Jay Inslee is unlike any other Democrat running for president. He’s based his entire campaign on addressing the crisis, and his climate plan is the most detailed and aggressive of all of his competitors. Inslee is also uniquely willing to admit to hard truths about what victory in this fight will require, even when those truths are political minefields. He’s admitted that it requires eradicating the fossil fuel industry. He’s admitted that it requires eradicating Republicans. (snip)

But saving millions of lives and preserving a livable planet willalso require something that even Inslee seems too cautious to admit: personal sacrifice from all Americans. In that way, he’s just like every other Democrat in the pack.

First and foremost, that sacrifice includes paying higher taxes. In an interview with NPR on Friday, host Rachel Martin asked him if he would commit to not raising taxes to cover his $9 trillion climate plan. Inslee said no, but only because “nobody running for office can make a statement about the future like that.” He then assured Martin that most of his climate plan would be paid for by private companies. “The government does have a role,” he admitted—but only an “appropriate public investment” would be made.

“Appropriate public investment” makes it sounds like the effect on the taxpayer will be minimal. But what is appropriate to save humanity? As Inslee’s plan rightly shows, it’s the exact opposite of minimal. The entire fossil-fuel economy has to be transformed in a very short amount of time. That’s going to cost trillions, an “appropriate” chunk of which is going to have to come from taxpayers. Whether that money comes from higher federal taxes on Americans, or taxes on private companies that pass down the costs to consumers, it doesn’t really matter. We will feel it, and it will hurt.

Yet Jay, who’s currently polling around negative 32% or something, is running around the country on fossil fueled cars, trucks, buses, and planes. Weird, eh? And let’s not forget that the voters in Washington state turned down his carbon tax twice.

There is no avoiding this pain—and we’re not just going to feel it in our pocketbooks, but in our personal lives. Along with transitioning to a renewable-energy economy, any truly meaningful climate plan is also going to drastically reduce industrial meat production, expand public transportation, end our reliance on cars, and change the way cities are planned and built. The way we eat, the way we get places, and the way we live are all going to change. It will be much more than just an annoying inconvenience.

So, Government dictating how we live our lives. What’s that political system that does this?

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AOC Throws Gay Slur At Democrat John Delaney Over Him Downplaying Medicare For All

By William Teach June 3, 2019 – 7:52 am

Of course, everyone is going “who?” when it comes to John Delaney, and he’ll be lucky if he makes the debate stage (the same with a lot of known Dems)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells 2020 Democrat John Delaney to ‘please sashay away’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney for remarks Sunday at the California Democratic Convention where he said Medicare for All is “actually not good policy.”

Delaney, who was booed by the crowd for his comments, said “Medicare for all may sound good but it’s actually not good policy nor is it good politics.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman lawmaker who has championed the progressive policy, said in a post on Twitter Sunday that it is time for Delaney to “sashay away.”

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1135310167313178625

Sashay is a word often used when discussing how some gay men walk (“walk in an ostentatious yet casual manner, typically with exaggerated movements of the hips and shoulders”). Even if that’s not what she meant, can you image a Republican telling a Democrat this? It would be front page as a gay slur against that Democrat.

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Fewer Guns Means Fewer Killings Or Something

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 4:27 pm

Remember how the gun grabbers say they aren’t gun grabbers, they just want to make it harder for Bad People to get their hands on firearms? And how gun rights supporters say “BS, you’re gun grabbers”? Yeah, Jill Filipovic at CNN proves us right yet again

Fewer guns mean fewer killings, and we all know it

The latest mass shooting in the United States has claimed the lives of 12 people, 11 of whom were city employees in Virginia Beach. The shooter, a longtime engineer for the city, also died. He used semi-automatic handguns with a sound suppressor and extended magazines to carry out his attack before he was killed in an ensuing shootout with the police. Additional weapons were found at the shooter’s home, although authorities did not specify what they were.

For the victims’ families and loved ones, this is a tragedy. But this shooting isn’t just a random catastrophe, and no pro-gun politicians get to call it one unless they also recognize their role in enabling it.

While public figures will undoubtedly continue to relay their thoughts and prayers, this is the reality: shootings where a great many people are slaughtered are now normal in the United States. This will continue until we all agree to stricter gun laws and fewer guns. Until then, all those who fight against sensible gun legislation have no business simply expressing their sympathies. They offer just words, which at this point are beyond meaningless.

Hmm, so, what’s she going to do, confiscate them from law abiding citizens? She doesn’t say, but, other than banning all legal sales of firearms, that’s the only other thing you can do.

Plenty of people like guns. Guns can be fun to shoot. A lot of people hunt for sport. A relatively small number of gun owners need their guns to, say, defend livestock from predators. But most gun owners do not need their guns. Many say they need to self-protect. But stricter gun control laws would mean fewer “bad guys with guns” to protect oneself from. We would all be safer.

So, disarm law abiding citizen with a pipe dream that bad guys won’t acquire guns themselves.

The rest is just as loony. Shocker, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will SOOON! rise up and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on how they’re coming for Mel Brooks now.

It’s women in glasses week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 8:24 am

Happy Sunday! Yet another fantastic day in America. The sun is shining, birds are singing, Dodgers are kicking butt. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Moonbattery notes moonbats wanting to ban lawnmowers
  2. Pacific Pundit covers veterans walking out on AOC after she bashed foreign policy
  3. Raised On Hoecakes wonders who owns you life story
  4. Weasel Zippers covers Team Trump vs CNN on whether he called Meghan Markle “nasty”
  5. Geller Report discusses former Obama officials speaking with Iran
  6. DaTechGuy’s Blog notes the after affects of the Obama presidency
  7. DC Clothesline covers the LGBT agenda ruining women’s athletics
  8. Chicks On The Right notes AOC making a great argument against abortion
  9. Blazing Cat Fur discusses the anti-Jew hatred sweeping through the Labour Party
  10. American Elephants notes why a Dem gov vetoed national popular vote bill
  11. 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny has some offbeat stories you may have missed
  12. Climate Change Dispatch covers how many stations show warming in Antarctica (zero)
  13. Climatism discusses record snow when Warmists said it would be a thing of the past
  14. Jo Nova notes idiots saying ‘climate change’ is influencing our language
  15. And last, but not least, The Lid covers Obama lying about machine guns in Brazil

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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Unhinged Democrat Base Clamoring For Impeachment Or Something

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 7:14 am

This is where the old adage “be careful what you wish for; you might get it” comes into play. If they think this will play well outside of their safe blue districts, they have another thing coming, and that big thing will be Trump’s easy re-election

Democrats face voters clamoring for impeachment

House Democrats are hearing more calls from their constituents back home to move forward on impeaching President Trump, adding to the pressure as they return to Washington this week.

While many Democrats have long insisted that voters at town halls would rather talk about kitchen-table issues than special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, that began to change this week as the number of lawmakers endorsing impeachment climbed to at least 50.

The pressure began to extend to some swing districts, where constituents pressed Democratic members including Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.) and Donna Shalala (Fla.) to move ahead with impeachment proceedings.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a Judiciary Committee member who backs launching an impeachment inquiry, said the widespread support from her constituents at a Wednesday town hall “is a shift” from even a month ago.

House Democrats’ district town halls during the Memorial Day recess came as Mueller made his first public appearance to reiterate the findings in his report about Russian election interference and Trump’s efforts to obstruct the investigation. More than a dozen Democrats subsequently jumped on the impeachment train, citing Mueller’s assertion that “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

Of course, that’s not the way it works. If you do not have the evidence to charge, than the person is innocent.

Nearly all of the Democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry — with the exception of freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski (N.J.) — hail from safe blue districts. But the impeachment talk is starting to raise its head across the country, even if swing-district lawmakers largely aren’t ready to get on board yet.

Essentially, it is the hardcore Democrat base agitating for impeachment, primarily in those safe blue districts. But, overall, Trump’s poll numbers are going up post-Mueller, and majority of polled voters are against impeachment. This is why the Dem leaders, such as Nancy Pelosi, are against starting impeachment hearings. They know it is a quick way to losing the House and seeing Trump re-elected. Which is certainly why Trump is almost daring them.

But, what else do Democrats have? They have the Russia Russia Russia investigation a whirl. It failed. Do they actually think yapping about obstruction based on an investigation that should never have happened will work?

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Excitable Adam Schiff Is Very Concerned Over Intelligence Politicization or Something

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 3:40 pm

Hey, remember when he used to want all the information to be put out? Good times

House Intelligence chief warns spy agencies of Trump ‘politicization’

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Friday warned the FBI and U.S. spy agencies that President Donald Trump is trying to “politicize” U.S. intelligence and law enforcement.

Schiff criticized Trump for giving Attorney General William Barr “sweeping” powers to declassify or downgrade the secrecy of government reporting while conducting what the Justice Department is calling a “review” of “intelligence activities” related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign.

In letters to agency heads, Schiff said May 23 orders from Trump telling them to help with Barr’s review was “an effort by the President and the Attorney General to politicize the IC (intelligence community) and law enforcement, to deligitimize a well-founded investigation into the President, and to attack the President’s political enemies.”

Schiff sent his letters, which Reuters saw, to the directors of National Intelligence, the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency.

He asked them to keep his panel informed about Barr’s review; provide documents produced for it; and tell the committee about any moves by Barr to declassify material over agency objections.

In other words, he’s concerned like hell that the whole Russia Russia Russia thing will backfire on his Party, and he wants to find some talking points scapegoats for when the reality is exposed in the months to come, and the 1 1/2 till the general election

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a world drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post wondering if it’s the government’s job to make us happy.

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Extinction Rebellion Considers Using Drones To Shut Down Heathrow Airport

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 11:29 am

This wouldn’t put too many people’s lives at risk, right?

Extinction Rebellion considers using drones to shut London’s Heathrow Airport

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have drawn up plans to use drones to shut London’s Heathrow Airport this summer in a campaign to stop the construction of a third runway at Europe’s busiest airport, the group said.

The internal proposal, seen by Reuters, emerged against a backdrop of renewed campaigning by environmental groups who argue that expanding Heathrow would be incompatible with Britain’s targets to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a ‘pause’ in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world,” Extinction Rebellion said in a statement late on Thursday.

“This is not about targeting the public, but holding the Government to their duty to take leadership on the climate and ecological emergency,” the group said.

No, it’s pretty much targeting the public, because that’s who would be affected the most. People who can’t fly to their meetings and vacations.

Heathrow Airport said the use of drones would be a “reckless action.”

“We agree with the need to act on climate change, but that requires us to work together constructively — not commit serious criminal offenses just as hardworking people prepare to spend a well-earned holiday with their family and friends,” an airport spokesman said in a statement on Friday.

At this point, Extinction Rebellion is sounding like a terrorist group

In the internal proposal written by volunteers, activists suggested using drones to force authorities to ground flights at Heathrow Airport while other protesters held picnics. The activists said they would avoid any risk to aircraft by informing the airport of their plans in advance.

If the government does not cede to their demands after disruption on June 18, the activists proposed shutting the airport for the first two weeks in July.

Right there is something called “extortion.” It’s rather surprising the OK government has picked up ER members over this already, considering how the government jumps into action over mean tweets and Facebook posts. The government has sort of responded

Several hours after the demonstration was announced on Friday, aviation minister Baroness Vere issued a stark warning that culprits will face “the full force of the law”.

The Metropolitan Police has also said it will develop “strong plans” to counter the group, which brought parts of London to a standstill during two weeks of demonstrations in April.

What happens when a plane taking off or landing hits a drone? What then, ER?

I wonder what the genocidal carbon footprint is of all those clothes imported from around the world?

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Orange County Wants A Tax Increase To Help Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 7:33 am

Strange how this always seems to involve tax increases, instead of Believers practicing what they preach

Commissioner proposes tax increase to help Orange County meet its climate-change goals

Climate change is at a crisis point, Commissioner Mark Marcoplos says, and Orange County could mount a faster response with the extra money from a quarter-cent increase in the property tax rate.

“I’ve just been thinking about it and thinking about it, and suddenly, I thought, you know, this is serious business,” Marcoplos said. “We need to do something that requires a little bit of a sacrifice to put some serious money into battling climate change.”

The county has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26% to 28% by 2025, and also to make the switch to a 100% renewable energy-based economy by 2050. Marcoplos included a list of projects that potentially could help meet those goals in his proposal.

Marcoplos’ proposed increase of 0.25-cent per $100 of assessed property value would be on top of a planned tax rate increase the county manager has proposed to help pay for operations and debt. The commissioners could approve a final tax rate increase June 11.

County Manager Bonnie Hammersley already has recommended a 1.5-cent tax rate increase this year, and possibly more increases through 2022, totaling 9.13 cents. The commissioners could also raise the tax rate by 5.8 cents now and bank the additional money for future debt payments.

A 1.5-cent increase would make the county’s tax rate 86.54 cents per $100 in property value. The owner of a $300,000 home would pay a $2,596.20 property tax bill, roughly $45 more than the current bill.

Marcoplos’s proposed 0.25-cent tax rate increase would add $7.50 to the tax bill for that $300,000 property.

It may not seem like much, but you start adding this increase into all the other cost of living increases, and it starts adding up. Further, why burden just property owners? These same people would melt down if you said that only property owners should be given a vote. Why not spread the tax around to everyone? Especially since this is an extremely liberal county. It went overwhelmingly for Hillary, Obama twice, Kerry, and Gore, thinking back through this century. It wasn’t even close. Orange County is where Chapel Hill resides.

So, why do they need a tax increase? If 74% of the residents were Hillary voters (only 1 county had higher support, Durham, which is right next to Orange), one would think they could give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, right?

He takes the property tax rate “very seriously,” Marcoplos said, but his proposed increase is a small price to pay for practical solutions to “a planetary crisis” that experts say may cause irreversible damage in 10 to 12 years.

“We’re not just throwing money away to get some mysterious climate change benefit,” he added. “There are economic benefits, creating jobs, putting money in people’s pockets with weatherization (savings), the energy savings. Right now, alternative energy is roughly equal to grid energy in cost, and it is getting more and more cost effective.”

Sounds like more of an excuse to take more money from citizens.

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