Liz Warren Releases Crazy Idea To Abolish Student Loan Debt

By William Teach April 23, 2019 – 6:49 am

Hey, why stop here? We could do away with similar debt for home loans, car loans, medical bills, credit card debt, and business loans, among others, right? Why not? If we’re going to use treasury money, ie, Other People’s money to take care of people who legally signed up to assume a legal debt, we can help others

Elizabeth Warren unveils ‘broad cancellation plan’ for student debt

The $1.5 trillion student debt crisis has an increasing number of former officials and prominent businesspeople calling for a solution to the crisis.

And 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren joined that chorus on Monday when she unveiled a “broad cancellation plan” for student debt.

“Higher education opened a million doors for me,” Warren wrote in a Medium post. “It’s how the daughter of a janitor in a small town in Oklahoma got to become a teacher, a law school professor, a U.S. Senator, and eventually, a candidate for President of the United States. Today, it’s virtually impossible for a young person to find that kind of opportunity.”

Well, if they’d stop obtaining degrees in worthless disciplines, often ending in “Studies”, they would be hireable. Also, it’s not exactly easy for kids to claim minority status to get cushy positions like Liz did.

The Massachusetts senator’s plan involves forgiving up to $50,000 in student debt for 42 million Americans before reforming the higher education system “that created the crisis in the first place.”

Remember, this is a higher education system that is run primarily by Democratic Party voters. The schools are staffed by Democrats, run by Dems, the teachers are Dems, and the students are Democrats (until Dem policies screw them and they become Conservatives). Obamacare, ie, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act put the federal government in charge of most student loans. The cost of books at these Democratic institutions are utterly ridiculous, and the leftist teachers who write books know they can force kids to pay stupid amounts for the books.

And the kids never seem to have a problem finding money to head to spring break or weekend drinking

While it comes with a one-time cost to the federal government of $640 billion, Warren argued that the plan would simultaneously boost the economy and close the wealth gap. (snip)

Currently there are $1.5 trillion worth of student loans out there, roughly 11.5% of which are more than 90 days delinquent or in default. The average student loan borrower holds about $28,650 in debt, according to Student Loan Hero.

Collection agencies are increasingly turning towards wage garnishments—obtaining a court order to make employers set aside portions of debtor’s paycheck — to get their money back.

Warren aims to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for every person who has a household income of below $100,000.

For those who earn between $100,000 and $250,00, she promises a “substantial debt cancellation,” and that $50,000 amount “phases out by $1 for every $3 in income above $100,000.” In other words, a person who has an income of $130,000 would get $40,000 of debt cancelled, while a person earning $160,000 would get $30,000 off.

Now, we could discuss the insanity of “cancelling” the average $28,650 in debt for those making $100,000 a year, but let’s consider what this is really about: patronizing young kids and the Democrats at the colleges. You get Someone Else to pay for the debt (unsurprisingly, Liz is going to have The Rich pay for it through a tax) and you keep the kids voting Democrat, as well as voting for Liz. You make those who run colleges happy because they get all their money, including the 11.5% which are 90 days late (that’s repossession time with a care), immediately.

And what happens next? What about those who are going to graduate with debt soon? Do they get a break? Of course, Liz wants to make college free. Democrats are very cavalier with spending Other People’s money.

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We Could Cut Meat Emissions By 14% If We All Ate Offal Or Something

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 3:38 pm

I’ll believe this can make a difference when all Warmists are doing it

From the link

Choosing more meat by-products, such as liver, sweetbreads and tripe, could help to reduce livestock emissions by as much as 14%, according to a new analysis.

The results come from a study looking at how various interventions could cut emissions from Germany’s meat industry. However, it is likely that the findings hold relevance for other countries, a study author tells Carbon Brief.

The single most effective way to reduce meat emissions would be to eat less of it, the analysis adds. It finds that halving meat consumption could reduce Germany’s meat emissions by 32%, when compared to levels observed in 2016. (snip)

The new study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, looks at how meat emissions could be reduced by a wide range of interventions, including changes to diet, the elimination of food waste and the introduction of more efficient animal rearing.

First, no, and second, mind your own business. Bunch of nags, always trying to tell Other People how to live their lives, and pushing for government to regulate them.

https://twitter.com/SydneyCarton1/status/1120134510048350209

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon rail like meant to replace air travel, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post wondering why the Mueller report fails to mention Fusion GPS.

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Adam “Ample Evidence” Schiff Not So Sure About Impeachment

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 10:42 am

Excitable Adam Schiff (D-Ca) has been one of the leading unhinged in making the claim that there is tons and tons of evidence. He’s just refused to show it after well over two years of caterwauling. He even made the claim again

Schiff: ‘Ample evidence of collusion in plain sight’

Responding to attacks by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Rep. Adam Schiff on Sunday insisted his criticism of the Trump administration was not wrong, saying there was “ample evidence of collusion in plain sight.”

“I use that word very carefully,” the California Democrat said on ABC’s “This Week,” “because I also distinguish time and time again between collusion, that is acts of corruption that may or may not be criminal, and proof of a criminal conspiracy. And that is a distinction that Bob Mueller made within the first few pages of his report. In fact, every act that I’ve pointed to as evidence of collusion has now been borne out by the report.“ (snip)

Schiff insisted that his reading of the situation was not wrong.

“The obstruction of justice in particular in this case is far worse than anything that Richard Nixon did,” Schiff told Raddatz, adding: “I would say in every way this is more significant than Watergate.

“And the fact that a candidate for president and now president of the United States would not only not stand up and resist Russian interference in our election but would welcome it goes well beyond anything Nixon did.“

But

(Salon) Schiff also appeared on “Fox News Sunday” to say that he wasn’t sure if he would support impeaching Trump, according to Fox News. Although he did not rule out supporting impeachment hearings, Schiff admitted that it is a “very difficult decision” and that he would need “the next couple of weeks” to make his choice.

Seriously, if the evidence is ample and in plain sight, then why not give impeachment a try? Why is Schiff backing off? He had been telling us that this is The Worst, yet, he doesn’t seem inclined to show us any evidence, even as he claims that what Trump did was far worse than Nixon.

Go on, Adam, sign on to impeachment. Give it a shot. You won’t like the outcome, which is why he’s waffling. He throws red meat (I hope it’s carbon neutral) to the unhinged Democrat base and talks a lot, but it is all sound and no fury.

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Say, What Does Life Look Like After “Solving” Hotcoldwetdry?

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 7:36 am

There’s been a concerted effort as of late by the Cult of Climastrology to attempt to paint the world after implementing tons and tons of Warmist policies as being a utopia. Here’s another

Life after solving climate change: Not mud huts and gruel but clean air and warm homes

What will life be like after we’ve solved climate change? Better than today or worse? Mud huts and gruel, or flying cars and the Jetsons?

Comfy homes, good food, whip-smart appliances and robots hopping around on farms all seem pretty likely, experts queried by USA TODAY said. All in all, our living standard will be the same, only a lot greener and more efficient.

That view is in stark contrast to a common complaint by critics who object to making global warming-based changes to the economy, suggesting such changes would destroy America’s standard of living and force everyone to “live in yurts and eat tofu,” as one commenter put it.

“Every single proposed solution will simultaneously improve life and decrease carbon emissions,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of climate science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who has provided testimony and scientific expertise on climate change to the White House, the governor of California and U.S. congressional offices.

And everything will be rainbows and unicorns!

Houses won’t look all that different, though homes will almost certainly have solar power included if it’s appropriate for the area. This will be especially important in hot and sunny parts of the country, to decrease the pressure on power production for cooling during the day. California already has a law requiring that all new homes built after 2020 include solar panels.

Homes will still have heat and cooling, electric lights, lots of electronics and big windows. But the systems and appliances will be much more efficient and much smarter.

And will be much more expensive and controlling

The systems used to heat buildings will likely look different than the ones we know today. One example already being used in some U.S. buildings involves pre-heating or chilling water when power is cheap, and then using it during the day when power is more expensive.

And if you run out? Bummer, dude.

After getting out of bed, the next step might be to check the dishwasher to get out a cup for coffee. The dishwasher, along with most appliances, will likely be tied to a smart system in your house that knows the power cost at different times of the day. If the local power company gets significant power from wind turbines, the cheapest power may be at night. If it’s from solar, it might be cheapest during the day.

“Your dishwasher may very well communicate with the electric power grid and say ‘OK, Mr. Smith has decided that he only wants to run his dishwasher only when the price of power is less than 12 cents per kilowatt-hour, so your dishwasher may decide to run at 2:00 in the morning,” says Apt.

Oh, sure, you can over-ride the setting. If you remember. If the system allows you to. But, it would take a lot of consideration, because power would be so damned expensive.

Coal, oil and many natural gas-fired power plants will have long ago closed. Instead, the nation will likely be powered by a mix of nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric and some natural gas.

No, they won’t. Because the hardcores will not allow nuclear, and even protest and attempt to block hydro-electric. They are also against the use of natural gas in the home.

But, you know, everything will be hunky dory! We’ll be forced into big cities with central planning (no, no, this is totally different from the Soviets and Chinese, you guys!) We’ll have fun electric cars, but, won’t really be able to go anywhere. Everyone will be able to walk everywhere! We’ll have those awesome electric bullet trains because AOC will have taken away airplanes (at least for the proletariat). We’ll all be telecommuting because our jobs will have been replaced by robots

We’ll eat more seasonably than we do now because we’ll be paying more for energy and farmers will be thinking harder about water and energy usage.

“We’ve gotten into this mode that we expect to see blueberries and oranges every week of the year. As energy costs go higher and water becomes even in more short supply in the future, not every type of food will be available at every moment,” said Robert Myers, a professor of agriculture at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and an expert on climate change and sustainable agriculture.

Not that kiwis won’t be available from New Zealand, or tomatoes in December, but they’ll be more expensive.

All the youngsters out there who have been indoctrinated into the Cult of Climastrology should think hard about pie in the sky stuff, and should wonder why the Cult is pushing it so hard in this utopia manner. If they’re good with much higher prices, their advocado toast skyrocketing and only being available at certain times, and not being able to go somewhere to get that selfie, go for it. If someone is selling you something that seems too good to be true, it probably is.

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Sri Lankan Bombings Blamed On Local Islamic Extremist Group

By William Teach April 22, 2019 – 7:09 am

Interestingly, many, many news outlets are suddenly OK with mentioning that the group is Islamic, when they used to go out of their way to avoid mentioning that

Sri Lanka on edge after local Islamic militant group blamed for Easter Sunday attacks: report

Sri Lanka took drastic steps Monday to crack down on new potential terror threats by blocking social media and arresting more than a dozen after a series of suicide bombings allegedly carried out by a domestic radical Islamic group ripped through its capital on Easter Sunday.

The country’s health minister said the attacks, which killed at least 290 and injured more than 500, were carried out by seven suicide bombers from a local militant group named National Thowheed Jamath. Experts cited by The New York Times said the group promotes an Islamic terrorist ideology. Police said 13 suspects in connection with the bombings have been arrested.

“These attacks appear to be quite different and look as if they came right out of the ISIS, Al Qaeda, global militant jihadist playbook, as these are attacks fomenting religious hatred by attacking multiple churches on a high religious holiday,” Anne Speckhard, the director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, told the Times.

All of the bombers were Sri Lankan citizens, but authorities suspect foreign links, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said at a news conference.

Six nearly simultaneous blasts took place in the morning at the shrine and the Cinnamon Grand, Shangri-La and Kingsbury hotels in Colombo, as well as at two churches outside Colombo. Two more blasts occurred a few hours later outside Colombo — one at a guesthouse, the other near an overpass.

What is known at the moment is that 290 people were murdered and over 500 wounded in the Easter Sunday attack, which saw coordinated, simultaneous, detonations at three churches and three hotels by seven suicide bombers. Twenty four people have been arrested in connection with the attack, and there were apparent warnings back on April 11th about attacks from the Islamist group. The NY Times also notes

The State Department said that terrorist groups “continue plotting possible attacks in Sri Lanka” and raised its travel advisory to warn visitors about potential threats.

It said terrorists could attack “with little or no warning,” and listed several potential targets, including tourist spots, transportation centers, markets, malls, government offices, hotels and places of worship.

The travel advisory level was raised to “exercise increased caution,” the second lowest of four levels. It had previously been at the lowest level, “exercise normal precautions.”

In a separate article, the Times also suddenly discovers that “religious minorities”, ie, Christians and Buddhists, are increasing under attack from Islamist extremists, including those in governmental positions.

Suicide bombers often leave other bombs behind so when people rush out they face a second bomb

It’s horrific.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are white rabbits which will totally be affected by you eating burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post saying that the Dems should really try and impeach Trump. Please, please, please.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 9:01 am

Walt Otto Patriotic Pinup

Happy Easter Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my old pleco (like 3 years) seems to be hanging on. It looks like it’s fading out, then starts swimming around a few days later. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. Watts Up With That? wonders if climate change is a cult (yes it is)
  2. Welcome To The Rightly Guided notes that Trump just dared to defend himself
  3. Weasel Zippers covers a pint sized AOC impersonator
  4. The Last Tradition notes that Dems just won’t quit a lost battle against Trump
  5. The First Street Journal covers Romney clutching his pearls
  6. The Daley Gator notes that libraries are now raaaaacist
  7. Powerline writes about speech being violence and vice versa
  8. Pacific Pundit covers Trump preparing to declassify FISA documents
  9. Moonbattery notes a Democrat candidate denouncing America
  10. Legal Insurrection discusses the SJWs coming after Kate Smith and “God Bless America”
  11. Just One Minute is trudging through the Mueller Report
  12. Jihad Watch covers the Easter jihadi attack in Sri Lanka
  13. Geller Report notes CNN saying the Mueller report looks bad for Obama
  14. Diogenes’ Middle Finger discusses Adam Schiff becoming a whiny crybaby
  15. And last, but not least, Datechguy’s Blog covers invincible ignorance from the NY Times regarding Notre Dame

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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Easter Is The Perfect Time To Reflect On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach April 21, 2019 – 7:42 am

That’s not really the point of Easter….

The meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ’s victory over death. His resurrection symbolizes the eternal life that is granted to all who believe in Him. The meaning of Easter also symbolizes the complete verification of all that Jesus preached and taught during His three-year ministry. If He had not risen from the dead, if He had merely died and not been resurrected, He would have been considered just another teacher or Rabbi. However, His resurrection changed all that and gave final and irrefutable proof that He was really the Son of God and that He had conquered death once and for all.

….but, then, the Cult of Climastrology likes to hijack pretty much most days of meaning, along with most issues. I mean, if we want to get political, we could say that we should reflect on the utter immorality and heartlessness of murdering the unborn through abortion. Anyhow, here’s Warmist Rod Oram

An Easter to reflect on our fragile home

Easter is the perfect time for us to consider how well we’re looking after our life support system. Many of us have a few days off in places urban, rural, seaside or wild to savour nature, the source of everything we need for our survival; and for those of us of the great faiths of the world, all founded in the northern hemisphere, this is our spiritual spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.

We think nature is boundlessly abundant. Yet, it is astonishingly scarce. The biosphere, home to all living things from our largest plants and animals to our tiniest microbes, is just a gossamer thin layer of air, water, soil and sea enveloping the planet.

The atmosphere is barely 100km deep, with virtually all the air we breathe in the bottom 10 km. If all the atmosphere was collected in one place at sea level pressure, it would be a bubble just 2,000km in diameter, less than the drive down our north and south islands. Yet into this bubble we humans pumped last year 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compounding our climate catastrophe.

Perhaps Warmists should consider living back in nature. Give up their modern homes, live in huts and caves, no more vehicle travel, no more anything past 2000 B.C. Unfortunately, they conflate a little bit extra of carbon dioxide with the actual environment.

Yet this biosphere, our one and only, supports teeming life forms, including 7.7 billion people. But we humans have tripled in number in the past 70 years, wreaking havoc on our very life support system.

The obvious inference here is that there needs to be a population reduction. How do we do that? And how does population reduction work in the meaning of Easter and the teachings of Jesus? Well, wiping out a couple billion people doesn’t.

Now, Oram does continue on in discussing the actual environment and taking care of it, which, I think would be part of the teachings of Jesus and God, but once you’ve put it under the wing of the idiocy of anthropogenic climate change, you’ve made it all nutty political.

So, this long weekend, should you take a brief break from communing with nature to read about nature, please my I recommend an excellent companion piece to Environment Aotearoa 2019 – Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudao Si’, On Care for our Common Home.

How many Warmists actually commune with nature? Some. Most live in urban areas and think a manicured park is communing with nature.

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Warmists Super Enthused To Host Celeb Emma Thompson At Extinction Rebellion “Protests”

By William Teach April 20, 2019 – 4:08 pm

CNN and Lauren Said-Moorhouse are squeeing along with other Warmists

Emma Thompson boards the pink climate change boat in London

British actress Emma Thompson has climbed aboard a pink boat that has occupied one of central London’s main traffic intersections for the last five days as climate change activists continue to protest in the UK capital on Friday.

Since Monday, the British-based Extinction Rebellion (XR) group has orchestrated non-violent mass protests, crippling some of city’s major traffic routes — including at Marble Arch, Parliament Square, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge — to highlight “disastrous inaction” on climate change.

The grassroots movement has three aims: to get governments to declare a “climate emergency;” to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025; and to have citizens’ assemblies lead the government on climate and ecological justice.

On Friday, Oscar-winner Thompson — known for “Sense and Sensibility,” “Saving Mr. Banks” and “Love Actually” — joined protesters in the brilliant Good Friday sunshine at Oxford Circus. She told reporters she had been inspired to join after watching the movement over the last week, Britain’s Press Association reported.

“This is the most pressing and urgent problem of our time, in the history of the human race,” she said, adding that young people have been failed by her generation and politicians.

“I have seen the evidence for myself and I really care about my children and grandchildren enough to want to be here today to stand with the next generation,” Thompson added.

OK. Others were super thrilled, too. But, um

Emma Thompson joins climate change protest – after hopping on 5,400-mile flight

Dame Emma Thompson arrived in London to join the Extinction Rebellion protests, even though she had to 5,400-mile flight to be there.

The 60-year-old Hollywood star flew in from Los Angeles and has stated she is willing to be arrested as part of the protest in central London.

A representative of Dame Emma said she needed to take the 5,400-mile flight home to London after working in LA.

She joined the protests on the day organisers announced plans to target Heathrow Airport at the start of the Easter bank holiday weekend, which has been condemned by London mayor Sadiq Khan.

Huh. Imagine that. Climahypocrisy. But, she couldn’t stick around to get arrested, because she had other Celeb things to do, and you can bet she drove away in a fossil fueled vehicle.

Meanwhile

(UK Telegraph) Police have begun carrying and leading activists away from the protest in Oxford Circus in an apparent escalation of force.

Specialist officers entered the ring of police around the pink boat that has formed the focal point of the Extinction Rebellion protest since Monday

Many officers wore hi-vis jackets with “protester removal team” written on them while others wire harnesses and carried boxes of equipment and protective visors.

The crackdown has started, partly because “some officers were seen dancing and skateboarding in the streets” with the protesters. Even crazy London Mayor Sadiq Khan has had enough, and wants a crackdown, pluse

After a briefing from Met Commissioner Cressida Dick, the Home Secretary said: “I totally condemn any protesters who are stepping outside the boundaries of the law”.

“They have no right to cause misery for the millions of people who are trying to lead their daily lives. Unlawful behaviour will not be tolerated.

Annoying the ever loving hell out of people, causing them problems, great ways to get people behind your movement, eh?

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