Latest Thing To Be Offended Over: Being Told You Look Younger Than You Are

By William Teach March 1, 2019 – 6:19 pm

Seriously, I’m having trouble keeping track of all the things we should be Offended over

From the link

She showed up with someone I didn’t recognize. They looked effortlessly chic and fresh in crisp summer whites and gleaming Ray-Bans. He told me that he was on the “sixth anniversary of his 29th birthday.” I was irritated at being made to do math and felt underwhelmed and insecure with my chipped nails and ripped jeans. He turned to my friend and said it ― the statement I’d start hearing as soon as I leveled up to 30. “Don’t worry about getting old, honey! You look 10 years younger than your age.”

Now, having recently blown out the candles on my 39th birthday cake and made my wish (to climb Machu Picchu), I’m used to hearing that tired old tagline: “Happy Birthday! You … look so much younger than your age.”

First of all, it’s inaccurate. I look exactly how my mother and grandmother both looked when they were 39. I have the wrinkles, laugh lines and graying hair that come with age, plus the phantom pains that crop up if I forget to stretch after exercising. I would much rather hit up the farmers market than the club these days. I feel every single year of my 39 on the planet, and it feels good. It feels comfortable.

Is it OK to tell her to calm down, or is that Sexist? And, yes, this keeps going

We disclose our ages and the ages of our friends like apologies then immediately slap on the absurd statement that we (or they) look so much “younger.” This is ageism at its most insidious ― cloaked as a compliment.

Or, we could take it as the compliment it is meant to be, rather than getting Butthurt. Seriously, 14 paragraphs over this. This is how we and up with liberals like AOC.

Anyhow, to wipe this away, how about some Rush (my favorite band of all time) from their first album which turned 45 today, my favorite song off the album

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Humor Is The Best Way To Get To A Climate Couch Potato Or Something

By William Teach March 1, 2019 – 3:20 pm

Seriously, good luck getting this to happen

The best way to get to a climate couch potato? Humor.

Last weekend on Instagram Live, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — champion of the Green New Deal — revived another term in the climate change lexicon. Meet “climate delayer,” a catchy way to talk about people who claim to believe in the science behind climate change, but aren’t really doing a whole lot about it.

Sooooooooooo pretty much 97% of them? Because none of them really do anything in their own lives.

Climate change is a gas with comedian Josh Healey. “Most of our conversations around climate change on the left are the gloom and doom, the apocalypse, the end of the world, and that shit is real and it’s fucking scary,” says Josh Healey, an Oakland, California-based comedian and member of the 2018 Grist 50. “But if all we feel is the doom and the fear, that doesn’t motivate people. It doesn’t make me want to get out of bed in the morning, let alone create a movement.”

The more bad news we see and hear, the less we feel we can do about it, according to a study at the University of Massachusetts — shit, that’s bad news! The Tyndall Centre advises that the same concept applies to terrifying images of climate-fueled disasters, aka “climate porn.” (It’s as hot as it sounds.)

Healey’s got his own solution: Bring humor to a humorless topic, and connect climate change to the causes that people in his North Oakland neighborhood already care a lot about.

This will happen, right? Because Warmists are known for their humor, right?

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If All You See…

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

…is a world turned hazy from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on Amazon banning a book on Mohammad.

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Washington Post Declares This The Worst Black History Month Ever Or Something

By William Teach March 1, 2019 – 10:28 am

Washington Post opinion writer Christine Emba is rather upset by the way this year’s Black History Month went, and guess who’s to blame?

The worst-ever Black History Month has come to a close. I hope.

The worst-ever Black History Month has finally come to a close. I think. I hope.

Our annual February observance is meant to celebrate the history and achievements of African Americans. But in 2019, America decided to use it for exactly the opposite.

There was blackface. (So. Much. Blackface!) An Alabama newspaper editorial called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan. High-fashion designers dabbled in minstrelry . And, lest we forget, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was arrested for filing a false police report for a hate crime, purportedly in a clumsy attempt to increase his salary. (Spoiler alert: His salary is now nonexistent.)

So, mostly things caused by Democrats. Oh, wait, right, this isn’t the important part (and left A LOT out of the above, especially with Jussie Smollett)

But maybe, just maybe, there’s something salvageable here. If we pay close attention, some of the month’s most egregious events can remind us of the history that we should have learned.

Let’s work backward from this week, beginning with Michael Cohen’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee. The testimony of President Trump’s former lawyer was outrageous enough on its own, but one of the most eyebrow-raising scenes in the seven-hour saga centered on Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.).

For the purposes of defending Trump against Cohen’s allegations of racism, Meadows brought in Lynne Patton — a black Trump appointee — to stand silently behind him while he spoke, assuming, apparently, that by virtue of having hired a black person, Trump could not be racist. When he was informed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) that using a black woman as a prop was racist itself, Meadows melted down. He called Tlaib a racist for daring to say such a thing and pointed to his relatives of color and even his friendship with Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings (who, yes, is black) as evidence that he was not racist.By the end of his rant, Meadows was nearly tearing up in defense of his not-racist honor.

See, the thing is, Trump, Republicans, oh, and just because you have a Black friend actually means you are a raaaaacist

But out of this farce comes a teachable moment, one that we can use for at least the rest of 2019. No, as Tlaib accurately pointed out, having a black friend — or even black nieces or nephews — does not absolve you of racism. Attempting to use people of color as a shield is, in fact, offensive. And relatedly, breaking down because you’re hurt by the insinuation that you might possibly have done something racially offensive suggests that you care more about your feelings than about actual racism.

See, your black friend is actually a shield, so, you’re doubly raaaaacist.

You just can’t win with people who see everything in terms of race.

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Senate Democrats Introduce Green New Disaster Deal Alternative

By William Teach March 1, 2019 – 7:05 am

They’re trying to avoid voting on the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Ed Markley resolution

SENATE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE TONED-DOWN ALTERNATIVE TO THE GREEN NEW DEAL

Senate Democrats introduced a toned-down alternative to the Green New Deal as members stress over having to vote on the controversial resolution.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Delaware Sen. Tom Carper introduced a two-page alternative to the Green New Deal resolution Thursday that Republicans are calling a ploy to avoid voting on a “socialist” bill.

“I don’t blame Senate Democrats for trying to duck this big green bomb,” Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso said in a statement. “You can’t escape the fact that nearly every Democrat senator running for president supports it.”

“The Senate will soon be voting on the Green New Deal, and Democrats will have the chance to vote for the radical policies they say they support,” Barrasso said.

Instead of demanding sweeping societal change, the Democrats’ new resolution simply asserts climate change is real, primarily caused by human activity and that Congress “should take immediate action” on it. (it really is that simple.)

Democrats have been floating the idea of voting “present” when the GND comes up for a vote, except for a few like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, who is a “no vote.” Will all the Senate Democrats running for president and have already thrown their support behind the GND also vote “present”?

Schumer and Carper sent a letter to Republican colleagues Thursday asking them to co-sponsor the resolution. Schumer also took to the Senate floor Wednesday to challenge Republicans to come up with an alternative to the Green New Deal.

Yeah, here’s a better plan: Congress should require all members who support this scam to give up their own use of fossil fuels and live in tiny homes, handwash clothes, no use of ice, etc. BTW, where’s Chuck’s plan?

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Democrat On The Job For Almost Two Months Is “Making A List” Of Moderate Democrats

By William Teach March 1, 2019 – 6:49 am

Democrats have long been fans of Democracy, as long as people vote the Proper Way. AOC wants to take it back to a new level, because she’s Offended. Like with everything else. Perhaps we should call it Millennial Socialism

Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘list’ for moderate Dems who vote with Republicans: report

After more than two dozen moderate Democrats broke from their party’s progressive wing and sided with Republicans on a legislative amendment Wednesday, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly sounded the alarm in a closed-door meeting Thursday and said those Democrats were “putting themselves on a list.”

The legislation that prompted the infighting was a bill that would expand federal background checks for gun purchases, the Washington Post reported. But a key provision requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be notified if illegal immigrants attempt to purchase guns saw 26 moderate Democrats side with Republicans.

According to the Post, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded her wayward center-leaning colleagues, telling them: “We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision.”

But Ocasio-Cortez reportedly took it a step further. She said she would help progressive activists unseat those moderates in their districts in the 2020 elections, the report said. Her spokesman Corbin Trent told the paper that she made the “list” comment during the meeting.

“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to ICE.

A list, huh? Switching to that Washington Post article

They insist they are not going to be dissuaded from voting with their districts, and many are warning that majority control is at stake.

“It’s this class of members that got elected that are the reason we have the majority,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), a co-chairman of the moderate Blue Dog Coalition. “Many of them come from these [moderate] districts, and their promise to their constituents was that they were going to put people over politics.”

It’s one of the big problems with politics these days: federally elected officials are mostly doing the business of the national party, rather than what matters to their state/district first. If you’re from a moderately Democratic area, not just by voting but by belief, should you be standing with the San Francisco hardcore Leftists on everything? Should they follow everything Pelosi says, especially when she’s in one of the safest districts in the nation? Should they be following a person who is being the worst of Millennial stereotypes in AOC? There’s two choice for her: she’ll either become the leader of the Democrats, or she will flame out. If she keeps this up, you may see Democrats undercutting her for the 2020 election.

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Open Borders Advocates Are Unhappy Over ICE Being Alerted When An Illegal Applies For A Firearm

By William Teach February 28, 2019 – 3:24 pm

It’s illegal for a non-resident to possess a firearm, except under a very small set of circumstances, usually having to do with hunting or security, and both came with a heavy dose of restrictions. Makes sense, right? Well, you already surely know that Democrats attempted to sneak in a provision to their check backgrounds and end up requiring a registry of law abiding citizens bill, which wouldn’t stop most criminals from getting a gun, that would keep ICE from being alerted when an illegal alien applied for a firearms license

Activist Group: Don’t Expand Gun Control ‘at the Expense of Our Immigrant Communities’

House Democrats passed universal background checks to leftist fanfare Wednesday, but one activist group worries the gun control could make life more difficult for illegals.

On February 18, 2019, Breitbart News reported that the Democrats rejected a Republican push to add an alert for ICE to the gun control bill. The Republican wanted to alert ICE if an illegal alien was discovered via a background check for a firearm.

On February 27, 2019, the Republicans secured a “motion to recommit,” thereby adding the ICE alert to the Democrats’ gun control bill.

In response the Community Justice Action Fund hedged its support for the Democrats’ gun control bill, noting that more gun laws should not be passed at the expense of illegals:

https://twitter.com/_cjactionfund/status/1100880765984878592

Alerting ICE when an unlawfully present person tries to purchase a firearm is keeping communities safe. Realistically, how many illegals attempt to get a background check to get a firearm? I’d hazard to say it is very, very, very low. But, we see how the Open Borders lobby will attempt to protect illegals at all turns.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 28, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a lake that will soon flood the surrounding countryside from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on an Islamist activist wanting to use schools to convert kids to Islam.

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Americans Prefer Building A Wall Over The Green New Disaster Deal

By William Teach February 28, 2019 – 11:01 am

I still maintain that there are much better ideas to solving illegal immigration than the focus on the wall, but, it’s still better than the Modern Socialist GND

Poll: Majority of Americans Favor a Border Wall over a Green New Deal

A majority of Americans would rather have a wall sealing America’s southern border than the Green New Deal, according to a poll released on Wednesday.

Fifty-one percent of Americans say that they would rather have a border wall on America’s southern border, compared to 31 percent who say that they want a Green New Deal, according to a poll released by Remington Research Group.

Republicans said that they would prefer a border wall by a 68-point margin, while Independents said that they would prefer a border wall by a two-to-one margin.

Overall, a majority of Americans, or 51 percent, said they oppose a Green New Deal, 51 percent of Democrats support the radical environmental program, while Republicans and Independents overwhelmingly oppose Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) idea outright.

The more they learn about the GND the more they will come out against it, especially Independents and your ordinary Democrats.

Now, just clear something up, based on an email I received, let’s define Modern Socialism. We refer to Democrats as Progressives (which is referred to as Nice Fascism. The nice doesn’t mean they’re nice, it means they are doing things For Your Own Good, never expecting the bad parts to hurt their own lives), Marxist, Communists, straight Fascists, and Socialists. But, what is Socialism? In Political Theory 101, it is part of the Democracy model, with Liberalism (often called Classic Liberalism) in the center and Conservatism (again, often called Classic. American Conservatives are really classic liberals) to the right. There are three defining cores: Economic, Political, and Moral.

True Socialism is focused on the Economic, where the government is heavily involved in running the economy, up to and including owning the means of production. That is the defining characteristic. In the Political, this is where the term Direct Democracy comes from: there are few restrictions on voting, and we vote on everything. In the Moral, the government stays out of our private lives in almost everything. It pretty much leaves us alone.

And that’s where we get the Modern Socialist name: yes, they want the Economic policies as the model states, but, they want the control of citizens’ lives even more than you would get in Classic Conservatism. Really more into the Authoritarian model (which includes Fascism). They want the Government to dictate everything about our personal lives (and still never think this would negatively effect their own lives).

As for the Political, they are fine with voting on everything, as long as they win. Because they won’t accept when they lose. We see this with Trump winning. We see this with all the lawsuits.

Continuing to call it Progressivism doesn’t help, because the average person goes “huh? Not sure what that is.” You say Socialism, or Modern Socialism, and they get it. And their GND is a giant step towards enacting their policies.

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Bummer: Democrats Are Grappling With How They Vote On The Green New Deal (And Not Vote At All)

By William Teach February 28, 2019 – 9:19 am

We’ve already seen one report on this, now along comes The Hill to make it more clear

Dems wrestle over how to vote on ‘Green New Deal’

Senate Democratic leaders are grappling over how to vote on a controversial climate change proposal that is being championed by progressives and mocked by conservatives.

The plan, offered by firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) will be voted on on the Senate floor later this year in a GOP-led effort to divide Democrats and get them to go on the record about the “Green New Deal.”

But Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) has floated a plan with his caucus to vote present on the ambitious legislation. It remains to be seen if Senate Democrats will embrace Schumer’s strategy.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday panned the Green New Deal as “the far-left’s Santa Claus wish list dressed up to look like serious policy.”

The nonbinding legislation calls for the federal government to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, eliminate pollution as much as technologically feasible and provide training and high-quality education so that “all people of the United States” can participate in the Green New Deal mobilization. McConnell says the Senate will vote on the Green New Deal before the August congressional recess.

A Democratic senator familiar with internal deliberations said that Schumer reached out to his more liberal colleagues who are running for president to make sure they’re on board with the present vote strategy.

So, the strategy is to go weasel and vote present (BTW, Mitch needs to hold the vote sooner than sometime before August recess)? How brave! Here’s a howler, though

Democrats lost control of the House in 2010 after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) launched a frenzied and ultimately successful effort to pass a comprehensive climate change bill in 2009.

Senate Democrats, however, never took up cap-and-trade after then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said it faced too much Republican opposition. Democrats subsequently kept control of the Senate in Obama’s first midterm election.

If true, this would mean that it is a bad idea for Democrats to pass Hotcoldwetdry legislation. Of course, we all know they lost the House over Obamacare, and almost lost the Senate that election over the same.

(Washington Examiner) The Green New Deal, a 16-page resolution calling on Congress to tackle climate change by eliminating fossil fuels, has gained nearly two dozen sponsors since freshman star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced it on Feb. 7.

But the proposal makes many House Democrats uneasy and Democratic leaders have acknowledged it may never get a vote.

“I can’t say we are going to take that and pass it,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who once called the resolution a “Green New Dream,” told a Howard University audience Wednesday.

The plan is so extreme that most Democrats do not want to have to go on the record in supporting it with an actual vote.

(Daily Caller) Marc Morano, the executive director of Climate Depot, says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s extreme views on climate change actually help him make the case against man-made global warming.

“She’s doing the work of climate skeptics for us. Having her out there every day making these wacky claims, questioning whether we should have kids — I can’t think of anything better to discredit the man-made global warming fear movement than AOC,” said Morano.

Seriously, is AOC a GOP plant designed to expose the Dems as the extremists they really are? No one can be this bad, right? Anyhow, interesting video at the DC link.

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