If All You See…

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

…is a horrible refrigerator spewing carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Political Hat, with a post on cultural Marxism.

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Bummer: Trump May Use ‘Climate Change’ Funds For Wall

By William Teach February 22, 2019 – 10:30 am

If true, this would be hilariously ironic, since all the Warmists are running around yammering about ‘climate change’ being a national emergency, not protecting the U.S. southern border

Trump may use climate change funds to build his wall

As you may have heard, Trump did not get Mexico to pay for a border wall and declared a state of national emergency. Now he wants to use our tax dollars to build his wall. $3.6 billion is to come out of a military construction account that was supposed to fund a variety of projects, including helping installations (like military bases) deal with rising sea levels.

The military wants to raise naval docks so rising seawater doesn’t damage electrical systems, build sea walls and improve wildfire protection, like the pesky treehuggers they are.

Do I need to point out the irony here? The government claims climate change doesn’t exist while building infrastructure to deal with it.

“Acknowledging climate change as a problem, particularly with infrastructure, is widely accepted,” said John Conger, a former Department of Defense deputy comptroller.

Indeed, the military doesn’t seem to take climate denial seriously.

Of course, what we have here is the notion that the climate has gotten warmer, and that the seas have risen. Not a lot, certainly much less than expected during a Holocene warm period, but, have risen. But, that’s not proof of anthropogenic causation. Just because something is happening doesn’t necessarily explain why it is happening. The most likely explanation is the same one for billions of years: nature. Add some effects like land use and the urban heat island effect into the mix, along with the release of greenhouse gases, plus bad science which manufactures bad data to prop up the Cult of Climastrology, and you have a “crisis”.

Regardless, it is hilarious that they find a way to link ‘climate change’ with building the wall.

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AOC Explains Her Farting Cows Thing Or Something

By William Teach February 22, 2019 – 6:51 am

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the gift that keeps on giving. I still have trot out my personal conspiracy theory that she’s a GOP plant designed to make Democrats look like the uber-far left Modern Socialists (meaning they aren’t just wanting all the economic policies of Socialism, but the massive, giant, controlling powers over our personal lives, which is actually 100% against the Socialist political model) they really are. To make them look nuts. To look bad. Because no federally elected Rep could be this bad, right? Sure, there are nuts like Maxine Waters, but, that’s just derangement. This is just stupidity

On premiere of ‘Desus & Mero’ show, Ocasio-Cortez explains ‘farting cows’ reference in ‘Green New Deal’

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., defended the Green New Deal after the recent rollout of the New York Democrat’s policy proposal got a lot of attention over “farting cows.”

In an appearance Thursday night on the premiere of Showtime’s late-night “Desus & Mero”show, the comedy pair hosts of the program asked the freshman congresswoman why she thought the initial reaction focused on “cow farts.”

“In the deal, what we talk about, and it’s true, is that we need to take a look at factory farming, you know? Period. It’s wild,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “And so it’s not to say you get rid of agriculture, it’s not to say we’re gonna force everybody to go vegan or anything crazy like that. But it’s to say, ‘Listen, we gotta address factory farming. Maybe we shouldn’t be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Like, let’s keep it real.”

It’s a shame they don’t have the audio of this, because it certainly sounds as stupid as it looks, if we go be some of the available video whining about twitter trolls being “heavy” and sounding like a 9th grader.

Also, she’s admitting that the farting cows thing was meant to be in the GND resolution. It was yanked out after being laughed at, of course.

“But we have to take a look at everything,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, “and what we need to realize about climate change is about every choice that we make in our lives, you know?”

And therein lies the problem with the Cult of Climastrology and Modern Socialism: they want the Government involved in everything. I’d say “right now it’s farting cows. Next week it could be your use of natural gas in your house and the energy efficiency of your home”, but, they’re already coming after that.

Also

Also on Thursday’s show, the Democratic socialist also defended her call for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on incomes over $10 million, which she said represented a “pretty good year.”

“It really comes down to the question of, ‘Isn’t $10 million enough?’ Like, when does it stop?” she asked. “At what point is it amoral that we’re building Jeff Bezos a helipad when we have the most amount of homeless people in New York City?”

Imagine how much all the taxes paid by Amazon would have helped with decreasing homelessness in NYC. Imagine what all those jobs would have meant. Good job killing that off, AOC.

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Excitable Adam Schiff Wants Republicans To Speak Out Against Trump

By William Teach February 22, 2019 – 6:33 am

Adam Schiff is one of the main leaders of Trump Derangement Syndrome, being utterly unable to accept Trump winning the 2016 election fair and square by the rules. He’s been yammering about collusion and Orange Man Bad ever since, without that pesky evidence stuff. He now goes a step further

Schiff urges GOP colleagues to share private concerns about Trump publicly

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) urged his GOP colleagues to state their private concerns about President Trump publicly in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday.

“To my Republican colleagues: When the president attacked the independence of the Justice Department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out,” Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote. “When he attacked the press as the enemy of the people, you again were silent. When he targeted the judiciary, labeling judges and decisions he didn’t like as illegitimate, we heard not a word. And now he comes for Congress, the first branch of government, seeking to strip it of its greatest power, that of the purse.”

“Many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. You have bemoaned his lack of decency, character and integrity. You have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. But for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private.”

“That must end. The time for silent disagreement is over. You must speak out.”

Is Excitable Adam changing course because the Mueller report is coming and it will most likely not give him, and the rest of the Democrats and #NeverTrump useful idiots, the results they want? It is because Adam thinks his opinions are facts? Adam wasn’t concerned in the least when Obama was spending money never allocated, such as with DACA and DAPA, nor inventing rules like the Waters of the U.S. and Clean Power Plan.

It’s long past time for Adam to put up or shut up: show us some evidence of actual legal wrongdoing. We know Trump isn’t always the best of character. That’s pretty much every politician: they just like to hide it better. Trump resonates because he’s real, not a fake poser. All of us know we have our own character defects. But, we don’t care about that stuff, we care that he gets things done. Which he is. Adam doesn’t like that.

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British Warmists Want To Ban All New Homes From Using Natural Gas

By William Teach February 21, 2019 – 5:07 pm

Natural gas, propane, and similar fuels have been used for a long, long time in homes for heating and cooking. It’s cheap, it’s affordable, and it’s reliable. A goodly chunk of restaurants use it, as well. But, Warmists have a bee under their burr

Climate change: Ban gas grid for new homes ‘in six years

New homes should be banned from connecting to the gas grid within six years to tackle climate change, UK government advisers say.

They want new-build homes in the countryside to be warmed by heat pumps – and cooking done on induction hobs, rather than using gas boilers and hobs.

In cities, new housing estates and flats should be kept warm by networks of hot water, says the report.

The water could be heated by waste heat from industry.

An alternative approach is to use heat pumps, which draw warmth from the sea or lakes; or burn gas from waste.

The report, from the independent Committee on Climate Change, recommends these changes are made to new homes at first because it’s much more economical that way. They say it costs £4,800 to install low-carbon heating in a new home, but £26,300 in an existing house.

Or, they could use natural gas, and it would be a lot less expensive, instead of relying on these other methods, which you can bet aren’t being used in the homes of these UK gov’t advisors.

What’s more, these systems will only work if homes are insulated to the highest standards so they need little heating.

This will mean that homeowners will see the cost of new construction skyrocket, as will energy bills, putting these homes out of the price of many people.

The committee’s spokesperson Prof Julia King told us: “This generation of home-owners is cheating its children by leaving homes which are completely inadequate for an age of climate change.

“They’re too cold in winter and increasingly, as the climate continues to warm, they are going to become too hot in the summer.”

So, greenhouse gases are making it too cold? Weirdos. Nutjobs.

“The reason carbon emissions are rising again in homes is the decision by the Cameron government to slash funding for home energy efficiency,” Ed Matthew, from the climate think tank E3G, told the BBC.

Is this really the government’s job? Or is it just another way to have more control over people’s lives?

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Quicktags For Comments

By William Teach February 21, 2019 – 4:37 pm

Just a quick word, ability to do quick tags, things like blockquote, link, bold, etc, for the comments has been turned off for the moment. It is an old, old plugin, which is causing issues with the PHP server. I’ll see if there is something else, though, I am looking to start using Disqus soon. I will allow comments from those without a Disqus account.

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If All You See…

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

…are the colors of a leading carbon pollution nation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post on Jussie Smollett being charged with felonies.

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Woman Who Voluntarily Joined ISIS Really Wants To Return Home Or Something

By William Teach February 21, 2019 – 10:30 am

Aww, poor baby. She’s given more sympathetic treatment by the Associated Press than a kid who saw an adult get in his face, and was then demonized by the news media

‘ISIS bride’ who says she was born in N.J. banned from returning to U.S., regrets leaving home to join terror group

An Alabama woman who left home to join the Islamic State group in Syria is not a U.S. citizen and will not be allowed to return to the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saidon Wednesday.

In a brief statement that gave no details as to how the determination was reached, Pompeo said Hoda Muthana, who says she made a mistake in joining the group and now wants to return with her 18-month-old son, has no “legal basis” to claim American citizenship.

“Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said. “She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport nor any visa to travel to the United States.”

Muthana’s status had been considered by lawyers from the departments of State and Justice since her case arose, according to one U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official would not elaborate but said Pompeo’s statement was based on the lawyers’ conclusions.

The article actually includes a pleasant picture of her smiling brightly.

The 24-year-old, who joined the Islamic State after becoming radicalized, says she regrets aligning herself with the terrorist organization and wants to return to the United States, Shibly said on Tuesday. He said Muthana is putting herself at risk by speaking out against ISIS from a refugee camp where she has lived since fleeing the group a few weeks ago.

Muthana, who dodged sniper fire and roadside bombs to escape, is ready to pay the penalty for her actions but wants freedom and safety for the son she had with one of two IS fighters she wed, he said. Both men were killed in combat.

In a handwritten letter released by Shibly, Muthana wrote that she made “a big mistake” by rejecting her family and friends in the United States to join the Islamic State.

Yes, she did make a big mistake. Now she gets to pay the penalty for it. We wipe our hands of her.

Ashfaq Taufique, who knows Muthana’s family and is president of the Birmingham Islamic Society, said the woman could be a valuable resource for teaching young people about the dangers of online radicalization were she allowed to return to the United States.

“Her coming back could be a very positive thing for our community and our country,” Taufique said.

No, not really. Unless he’s interested in showing Muslim kids how to become radicalized.

Notice how the article treats her with, perhaps not kids’ gloves, but teenager gloves.

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NY Times Seems Upset That A Climate Skeptic Will Be Included In A Climate Change Panel

By William Teach February 21, 2019 – 7:48 am

Resident Warmist Coral Davenport highlights why the media is not trusted: this is an opinion piece masquerading as a straight news story. She also manages to highlight that ‘climate change’ believers are not happy with using science

White House Panel Will Study Whether Climate Change Is a National Security Threat. It Includes a Climate Denialist.

President Trump is preparing to establish a panel to examine whether climate change affects national security, despite existing reports from his own government showing that global warming is a growing threat.

According to a White House memo dated Feb. 14, Mr. Trump’s staff members have drafted an executive order to create a 12-member committee, which will include a White House adviser, William Happer, whose views are sharply at odds with the established scientific consensus that carbon dioxide pollution is dangerous for the planet.

The memo casts doubt on multiple scientific and defense reports concluding that climate change poses a significant threat to national security, saying they “have not undergone a rigorous independent and adversarial peer review to examine the certainties and uncertainties of climate science, as well as implications for national security.”

The effort to establish the panel appears to be the latest step by the Trump administration to question the science of climate change, as Mr. Trump rolls back Obama-era regulations on planet-warming pollution from vehicle tailpipes and power plants. It also appears to be the latest example of Mr. Trump’s propensity to ignore the findings and recommendations of his own intelligence and defense officials.

If you’re relying on “consensus”, you’re talking about politics, not science. Science is testable and replicable. It isn’t looking into crystal balls, er, computer models, and prognosticating the future. Science is skeptical. Nor is carbon dioxide a pollutant. Thinking it is is anti-science.

At least to some extent, the matter may not entirely be in Mr. Trump’s control. Congress added language to the annual defense policy bill it passed with bipartisan support in late 2017 stating that climate change “is a direct threat to the national security of the United States and is impacting stability in areas of the world both where the United States Armed Forces are operating today, and where strategic implications for future conflict exist.”

The bill, which Mr. Trump signed into law, specifically required the Pentagon to produce a report on climate change’s impact on military installations and encouraged department leaders to consider the effects of climate change when planning for current and future missions. The report was issued last month.

Is climate change a danger? Of course it is. Changes to the climate can always have good points and bad points. The question here, though, is not any dangers, but causation. And the Cult of Climastrology cannot prove scientifically that mankind is mostly/solely responsible.

Critics of the effort to create the new panel, which was first reported by The Washington Post, pointed to the inclusion of Dr. Happer, a Princeton physicist who serves on the National Security Council as Mr. Trump’s deputy assistant for emerging technologies. Dr. Happer has gained notoriety in the scientific community for his statements that carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas that scientists say is trapping heat and warming the planet — is beneficial to humanity. The memo did not name other officials to be appointed to the panel.

Yes, that stuff called “plant food” is apparently Bad or something.

Anyhow, the rest continues to look more like it was published by Mother Jones or MoveOn.org rather than a the “paper of record.”

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Pelosi Looks To Block Trump Building The Wall With Resolution Or Something

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

Does she realize that she’s playing right into Trump’s hands, since he will now paint her and all those who vote for it as Open Borders idiots? And that the resolution will not pass the Senate?

Pelosi: House moving ‘swiftly’ to block Trump’s emergency declaration

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is throwing her muscle behind a legislative effort to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, the first formal step to counter Trump and squeeze Republicans on the border wall.

Democrats will introduce legislation Friday to terminate the emergency proclamation and Pelosi is urging House colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the resolution, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO on Wednesday.

“I write to invite all Members of Congress to cosponsor Congressman Joaquin Castro’s privileged resolution to terminate this emergency declaration,” Pelosi wrote, noting that the House will “move swiftly to pass this bill.”

“The President’s decision to go outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process violates the Constitution and must be terminated,” she added.

But, is it outside the law? And has she read the Constitution, which tasks the federal government, and, more specifically, the House of Representatives, with protecting the nation from invasion? There are lots of reasons that the lawsuit filed by liberal run states will fail, one of which is that Congress delegated power to do what Trump is doing.

“We have a solemn responsibility to uphold the Constitution, and defend our system of checks and balances against the President’s assault,” Pelosi wrote.

They’re suddenly concerned, after backstopping all of Obama’s massive over-reaches. Anyhow, she won’t get many Republicans to vote for it in the House. I’d be surprised if it is more than four. But, it will pass, because the Democrat Socialists control the House, at which point the Senate has 18 days to vote on it. It would only take four Republicans there for it to pass. While there may be some critics, I’d be surprised if even one Republican votes for it. But, let’s say it passes

Trump would be certain to issue the first veto of his presidency over the measure — though it is unlikely Congress could override him. In the House, more than 50 Republicans would need to join with Democrats to secure the needed 288 votes.

So, it’s an exercise in futility. It would have been easier to just allocate the money to start with, and move on. Also, they should remember that this is Donald Trump. He’s not a squishy Republican who refuses to defend his policies. He will go on the attack.

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