Excitable John Kasich Wants Free Market Solutions For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach March 11, 2019 – 4:18 pm

Remember, we’re supposed to take this guy seriously. As a big time member of #NeverTrump with massive amounts of #TrumpDerangementSyndrome, other Never Trumpers will listen to this nutter

Kasich: Forget the Green New Deal. We need climate solutions from free-market moderates.

There’s a lot of talk these days about the Green New Deal, a progressive Democratic response to the challenge of climate change. While it is intended to improve our environment, many Republicans and even some Democrats fear that it would stifle economic growth and kill jobs, set off a massive redistribution of wealth, and dangerously centralize federal government power.

But for all those problems, the Green New Deal is serving an important purpose by provoking a more vigorous level of public debate. We’ve finally reached a tipping point. Scientists, business leaders, 13 federal government agencies — including the  Defense Department — and most of our allies around the world are convinced that climate change is happening and that strong, concerted actions are needed to minimize its effects.

Not all our political leaders have come on board with that consensus, but denial is no longer enough. The time has come for people who understand the need to be good stewards of our economy as well as our environment to put forward a responsible program.

I am convinced that conservatives and moderates, including many Democrats, can agree on a commonsense set of policies. They would be based on responsible economic principles of free-market capitalism and personal choice, not coercion. They would actually reduce regulation and lighten the heavy hand of government, while stimulating job growth and the economy, encouraging innovation, benefiting working-class Americans and — most important — protecting and improving the environment we share with the world.

And his ideas?

That’s just one example of a national climate change response that could win support from elected leaders with a broad range of political convictions. They can start with a carbon tax or a cap and trade program, which is a market-based trading system to incentivize carbon reduction. These approaches have already shown they can work.

Neither program is free market, as they are established by the government. There is no choice when implemented.

We also need to continue research supporting Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, the automotive fuel-efficiency requirements that have significantly reduced greenhouse gas pollution in recent years. We should not eliminate or weaken these mandates. CAFE requirements need to stay.

They aren’t going anywhere, Trump just rolled back the massive change made under Obama. And they aren’t free market, either.

And by “invest,” I mean spend a lot of money, not a measly few pennies, on the research and innovation that can make a giant difference in the lives of our people. Strategic investments are needed in technologies that will drive advances in energy derived from renewables — solar and wind — as well as natural gas, a resource we have in abundance. And don’t dismiss nuclear energy, using small-scale modular technologies now being developed.

Not free market.

The United States has no business withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, which the president has threatened. If that international accord is as flawed as the White House insists, we should work to fix it. The American people, our industries, our economic and strategic interests — all need to be at the table. The United States must lead with the accord, not abandon it. There’s too much at stake.

Not free market, and most certainly coercive and takes away personal choice.

The Green New Deal might not be the answer. But it’s asking the right question. It’s time for free-market moderates on both sides of the aisle to come up with answers of their own.

What’s the question, how to empower government and take more money and freedom from citizens?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 11, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is snow created by the carbon pollution from America, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post on whether Democrats have gone too far.

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Democrats Need To Get Serious On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach March 11, 2019 – 10:30 am

An interesting piece by Mona Charen at the Boston Herald

Democrats have to get serious about climate change

Do you ever wonder why people run for office? I mean, unless you’re a total cynic, you must assume that at least part of the motivation is wanting to do good. Sure, those who run for office want fame and prestige, but they also have strongly held views and want to affect public policy, right? So why in the world would they engage in sabotage of the ideas they hope to advance?

That’s undeniably what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey have done with their juvenile Green New Deal.

Consider: The caricature of environmentalists is that they are just using climate change as a stalking horse for their true agenda, which is to socialize the entire economy. And lo and behold, what does the Green New Deal resolution call for? Net zero carbon emissions in 10 years, universal health care, guaranteed jobs for all, paid family leave, paid vacations, refurbishing every single building in the country to meet environmental standards, eliminating nuclear power and on and on. In fact, most of the resolution doesn’t even address climate change. Here’s a flavor:

The Green New Deal seeks “To promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as ‘frontline and vulnerable communities’).”

Okaaaaay. So what Ocasio-Cortez and Markey have achieved, along with all of the Democrats who’ve endorsed this childish wish list, is to make themselves look like dummies and to reinforce the impression that they are totally unserious about combating climate change.

They are unserious about solving the problem they say exists. And the GND shows it. It encapsulates what this whole thing is about, claiming there’s a problem and using it to solve every other Leftist issue. It creates bigger and bigger government, more control over our lives, more control of the economy. Everything. More taxes and fees. Limiting how people move around the country. Trying to force people into big cities.

Ms. Charen goes on to point out that one method for “solving” anthropogenic climate change, mainly in terms of carbon dioxide output, is nuclear power, which the GND is 100% against.

The greatest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions were achieved by France in the 1970s and ’80s when the country made a big switch to nuclear energy. They reduced their carbon emissions by 2 percent per year while still providing their people with affordable energy.

Heck, Hans Blix, who was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997, and was the head of U.N. inspectors in Iraq from 2000 to 2003, argues that nuclear energy is the way forward. It is cheap, reliable, and pretty safe. There have been very few incidents in all the decades it has been used. There have been three accidents in all this time. And few died. Skeptics might not agree on anthropogenic climate change, but, we could agree on the use of nuclear power to replace coal and oil.

They won’t agree to it, though. They’d rather hold to their guns and want to put up tons of wind turbines which only work when the wind blows and solar panels which do not work without the sun, which provide little energy for the cost and size of their footprint.

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Connecticut Looks To Be Latest State To Attempt A Firearms Safe Storage Law

By William Teach March 11, 2019 – 7:46 am

The New York state assembly, which never met a gun control for law abiding citizens idea they didn’t like, just passed their own

(Livingston County News) Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes, R-Caledonia, says legislation passed by the state Legislature that requires gun owners to keep firearms in a locked cabinet or equipped with a trigger-locking device, especially in households with children younger than 16 years old, is “overly restrictive.”

The state Assembly and Senate passed the law (S2450/A2686) on March 4, five weeks after lawmakers approved a package of other gun-control measures.

The latest measure, sponsored by Sen. Liz Krueger, D-Manhattan, and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Westchester, makes it a misdemeanor offense to fail to securely store a rifle, shotgun or other firearm or render it incapable of being fired when a child is in a home.

Assembly and Senate Republicans who voted against the measure said it’s an infringement on Second Amendment rights to bear arms and could leave a gun owner defenseless against intruders.

As usual, this negatively effects law abiding gun owners, not criminals who use them. Funny how almost every gun law Democrats push hurts the law abiding, eh?

Hearing on Connecticut gun bills expected to draw large crowd

Advocates for gun rights and gun control are expected to pack a Connecticut legislative hearing on several firearms bills, including measures that would tighten safe storage laws and require people openly carrying guns to produce their permits if police ask.

The legislation to be debated Monday at a Judiciary Committee hearing in Hartford has spurred a flood of written testimony that has been submitted to the panel, both for and against the bills.

The safe storage proposal was drafted in response to the death of 15-year-old Ethan Song, who accidentally shot himself in the head with a handgun owned by his friend’s father in their hometown of Guilford in January 2018.

The friend’s father had kept his three guns secured with gun locks in a plastic container in his bedroom closet, but the keys to the locks and ammunition also were in the container, police said.

Prosecutors said they could not charge the friend’s father under the state’s existing safe gun storage law, because it requires only loaded guns to be safely stored and there was no evidence the guns were stored loaded.

Gun control advocates including Ethan’s mother, Kristin Song, said the new bill, called “Ethan’s Law,” would save lives by requiring all guns – loaded or unloaded – to be safely stored. Violating the law would be a felony carrying a prison sentence of one to five years.

Essentially, this would make having a firearm for home defense worthless, unless you plan on carrying it on you while at home. But, would you have it on you while sleeping? It appears as if putting it on the nightstand would violate safe storage.

How will they enforce this, though? Will they send law enforcement to check up on this? Ask kids to narc on their parents or their friends’ parents? And why do Democrats always want to make it harder for law abiding citizens while going easy on actual criminals?

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White House Budget Proposal Includes $8.6 Billion For Border Barrier

By William Teach March 11, 2019 – 7:26 am

Setting up another showdown as Democrats refuse to secure the southern border from invasion

Trump to request $8.6B in wall funding in ‘tough’ budget request, setting up congressional showdown

President Trump will soon formally seek a total of $8.6 billion in new border wall funding from Congress as part of the White House’s upcoming budget proposal for the next fiscal year, three sources close to the budget process tell Fox News, although the aggressive request faces all-but-certain rejection in Congress amid a growing crisis at the southern border.

The budget is also expected to seek money to establish the Space Force as a new branch of the military, and to sharply curb spending on domestic safety-net programs. The outline includes a total of $2.7 trillion in nondefense spending cuts and the administration says its proposals would put the federal government on track to balance the budget by 2034.

“In the last two years, President Trump and this Administration have prioritized reining in reckless Washington spending. The Budget that we have presented to Congress and the American people … embodies fiscal responsibility, and takes aim at Washington’s waste, fraud, and abuse,” said Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought said in a statement Sunday night. Our national debt nearly doubled under the previous Administration and now stands at more than $22 trillion. This Budget shows that we can return to fiscal sanity without halting our economic resurgence while continuing to invest in critical priorities.”

According to the sources, Trump will look to secure $5 billion from Congress, plus $3.6 billion from the military construction budget, for the fiscal year 2020. The request is coming on top of the $8.1 billion Trump already has access to, which includes money he’s trying to shift from military accounts after declaring a national emergency.

Will the GOP stand strong on the border barrier this time, or get squishy? And what will Democrats attempt to do with the budget for their pet beliefs? How much will they add? Will Democrats realize that their intransigence on the border will give Trump tons of material to bludgeon them with?

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Extinction Rebellion Throws Fake Blood In Streets Of London For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach March 10, 2019 – 5:20 pm

The nuttier they get the more people will tune out from the Cult of Climastrology, realizing these people are nuts

(UK Independent) An estimated 400 demonstrators from the groups Extinction Rebellion and Christian Climate Action staged the protest, simulating a “sea of blood”.

They said pouring the liquid, which they dubbed “the Blood of our Children”, symbolised the “gravity” of the ecology and climate emergency.

The groups said they were prepared to risk arrest as part of a mass civil disobedience movement to force those in power to act. (snip)

Another activist, Jayne Forbes, said: “There are no words to describe the horrors we risk if we do not make governments act immediately. Every parent, every adult, everyone has a responsibility and duty to take action. That now means breaking the law.”

It apparently means wearing lots of clothes with major fuel miles, as well as smartphones.

On the bright side, the nutters tweeted that “it’s (made of) water, cornflour, vegan food colouring & treacle. and they cleaned it all up afterwards.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 10, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat induced snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on other garbage things AOC said at SXSW.

It’s a last gasp of winter week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 10, 2019 – 9:45 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in America. The birds are singing, the trees are thinking about blooming, and Spring is almost here. This pinup is by Bill Layne, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection covers CNN being sued for $250 million over the Covington kids smear
  2. 357 Magnum dives into the current goings on in Venezuela
  3. American Elephants covers the real Russian collusion
  4. Blazing Cat Fur explains “Jihad unions”
  5. Blogs For Victory discusses the real world vs TV reality
  6. Chicks On The Right notes Trump responding to Ann Coulter
  7. Creeping Sharia notes which books Amazon banned and didn’t ban
  8. Geller Report discusses Hamas in Congress
  9. Jihad Watch notes that American Jews should wake up before it’s too late
  10. Maggie’s Farm discusses fitness beginners
  11. Moonbattery notes that even self driving cars are now raaaaacist
  12. MOTUS A.D. covers the time bandits
  13. neo-neocon discusses Obama paving the way for anti-white rhetoric
  14. Powerline notes the US women’s soccer team suing for equal pay
  15. And last, but not least, Say Anything says that more than Republicans should fear socialism

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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AOC Is Super Excited About People Being Automated Out Of Work

By William Teach March 10, 2019 – 8:39 am

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was super excited initially to try and replace all air travel with trains, then pulled that from the FAQ along with a few other things, such as the line “economic security to all those who are unable or unwilling to work”, nor include them in the draft resolution (which none of the Democrats seem to want to vote on), took a long fossil fueled flight (who paid for it? It’s not government business. And, yes, this question should be asked with all 535 members of Congress) to Austin, Tx, and

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez believes we should be excited about automated jobs

Left-wing US politicians have landed at SXSW 2019. A day after sharing her proposal to break up companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) expanded on her plans at the event. And she wasn’t the only one from her party here today. On Saturday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) featured in a session where she notably didn’t talk about Big Tech, but instead focused on the Green New Deal and automation, among other topics including pay inequality and racism.

When asked her thoughts on machines replacing humans in the workplace, Ocasio-Cortez said people should be excited about automated jobs, but they can’t because of bigger, systematic problems. “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” she said. “We should not feel nervous about the toll booth collector not having to collect tolls anymore. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where, if you don’t have a job, you are left to die.” Ocasio-Cortez pointed to Bill Gates’ proposed solution of taxing robots 90 percent, which she said really means taxing corporations at that rate.

She added that the government needs to get to a point where it restructures its systems to distribute wealth created by automation, which could come with plenty of benefits. “If we approach solutions to our system and start entertaining ideas like that, then we should be excited about automation,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “What it could potentially mean is more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing and investigating in the sciences, more time focused on invention, more time going to space, more time enjoying the world that we live in. Because not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage.”

Right, right, let’s ignore all of human history and just change, that should be easy! Essentially, this is a continuation of the pulled line about work. Why would they want this? It would mean even more people are beholden to the government, as the Nanny State would be providing everything for people to live. It’s why Democrats have, for the most part, hated workfare, where people on welfare who can work need to work. Having a job is, for the most part, satisfying. Even if you don’t like the job. You are the one earning the money. But people who are beholden to the government are controlled by the government, and will vote for whomever will keep the gravy train going.

Telling people they should be happy that automation will wipe out their jobs is probably not a winning election platform.

She said that the government needs to welcome forward-thinking ideas: “It should be our mission right now to make sure that all people have health care. Our mission should be that all jobs are paid a dignified living wage. Our mission should be to save our freakin’ planet.”

Says the person who just took a long fossil fueled flight.

https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1104550435011084295

Hey, remember the Warmist talking point that we’re not supposed to listen to people who aren’t actual climate scientists?

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‘Climate Change’ Will Cause Job Hiring Issues In Future Or Something

By William Teach March 9, 2019 – 3:47 pm

What’s the or something in this one? It’s a doozy, as writer Eric Sherman goes full Cult of Climastrology

If Weather Affects Hiring Now, Wait For Climate Change To Get Worse

It’s never a good idea to take a single data point and extract from it. The latest federal jobs report is an example. Only 20,000 new jobs this month, the smallest number since September 2017, when hurricanes battered the country and a number of its territories, like Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Most people won’t be working when winds could lift them up and throw them, their car, and lord knows what else through the air. When floods pick building up from their foundations and carry them away and entire areas are devastated.

February job gains were particularly poor when compared to January’s 311,000. One reason that economists have offered is the difference in weather. January was relatively mild, allowing an unexpected expansion, even as so many were furloughed from the federal government during the shutdown. February, for those who forget too soon, was quite cold for much of the country.

The economy slows as a result and there’s less need of additional workers. Leisure and hospitality was unchanged after adding 154,000 positions total between December and January. In construction last month, jobs fell by 31,000.

Even if February’s numbers don’t make a trend, there is a factor that keeps showing up. Weather. The month broke records for cold and heat and rain and snow. The hurricanes in 2017 were so bad, decimated areas still haven’t seen a full recovery and probably won’t for years.

That’s right, he’s actually blaming ‘climate change’ for all the cold and snow in February for the weak jobs report. It really is a cult.

The phenomenon has already begun to drive up homelessness and will likely cause the biggest gentrification wave since large tribes swept across continents.

No matter the question, the CoC always links it to their narrow dogma.

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