USA Today: Republicans Pounce On Green New Deal

By William Teach February 17, 2019 – 6:06 pm

See, the problem, according to Ledyard King in an article that is in the Politics section, not Opinion, is not that the Green New Deal is a massive bit of Progressivism which requires an enormous increase in the size and scope of government. Nor that it requires ridiculous, unsustainable, economy killing amounts of spending and taxation. Nor that it takes giant amounts of liberty, freedom, and choice away from citizens. Nope. Its’ that the GOP doesn’t think this is a good idea

Green New Deal: Republicans talk up climate change plan – but not because they like it

Republicans are talking a lot about the Green New Deal after its rollout on Capitol Hill earlier this month by liberal Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It’s not because the GOP supports the transformation of the electric grid away from fossil fuels to renewable energy called for in the progressive Democratic plan to combat climate change. Or because Republicans agree with the approach the plan lays out for boosting Americans’ economic security and giving people access to affordable health care.

Just the opposite.

GOP officials think the road map offered by Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and longtime environmental advocate Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., will help them hammer their criticisms of Democratic economic policies they contend would move the country toward socialism.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., convinced the plan is a loser for Democrats, announced Tuesday he’s planning to bring up the measure for a Senate vote “to give everybody an opportunity to go on record to see how they feel about the Green New Deal.”

That would mean putting several Democratic senators who are running for president, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, in the position of angering progressive voters if they don’t back the plan or turning off those independents who view it as too liberal.

ZOMG, they might have to actually vote for this plan! How horrible!

But opening up a discussion on the Green New Deal carries risks for Republicans as well, said former Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican who co-founded the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus.

“When Republicans controlled Congress, this was not getting attention,” Curbelo, who does not support the Green New Deal, told USA TODAY. “That’s going to change and everyone soon will have to go on the record, not just expressing what they’re against but what they’re for.”

Forcing Warmists to go on record is not a bad thing for Republicans. Warmists, including Curbelo, do not want to have a discussion or debate, they want to give a lecture. They want to dictate. Forcing Warmists to defend the GND resolution is not something they want to do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 17, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an inland sea created by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is MOTUS A.D., with a post on a special type of moron.

It’s “posting extra photos sitting around in the IAYS folder” week.

BTW, I just have to wonder if AOC is actually a GOP plant, designed to make the Democrats look as insane as they really are. Seriously, no one can be that stupid, that deluded in real life and get elected, right? Right?

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 17, 2019 – 9:01 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America. The Sun is up, things are happening, people are moving, and the squirrels are trying to steal birdseed. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. Instapundit has some information on the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax
  2. The American Conservative is also discussing the Jussie Smollett afair
  3. The Right Scoop covers how bad the new border bill is
  4. The People’s Cube is denouncing Comrade Gavin Newsome
  5. The Other McCain dives into the Aurora shooting
  6. The Daley Gator covers cops doing their jobs and snowflakes getting triggered
  7. The Crawdad Hole discusses Kamala winning the Media Primary
  8. Powerline wonders how dumb AOC actually is
  9. Pacific Pundit strolls back in time to remember all of Obama’s national emergencies
  10. neo-neocon discusses the rebirth of socialism
  11. Legal Insurrection covers the collapsing collusion narrative
  12. Jihad Watch notes what happens when you help the “refugees” in Germany
  13. Geller Reports covers Instagram submitting to Sharia law
  14. Datechguy’s Blog discusses the NY Times and flyover country
  15. And last, but not least, Chicks On The Right covers what’s happening since NYC raised the minimum wage

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. 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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Don’t Call Them “Open Borders” Useful Idiots To Protest Plan That Safeguards U.S. Border Or Something

By William Teach February 17, 2019 – 7:44 am

Building a wall is still not my favorite method for reducing illegal immigration significantly, but it can play its part. And the useful idiots on the left, who don’t want to be told they are for open borders, are protected by a wall at the southern border, just like many of them are protected by walls at their gated communities, like how they are protected by locking their doors

Protests planned across US on Presidents Day in response to Trump’s national emergency for border wall

Protesters have planned demonstrations across the U.S. for Presidents Day in response to President Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency for border wall funding.

USA Today reports a wave of protests have been planned from New York to California and Texas to oppose the president’s national emergency declaration.

A number of demonstrations are being planned by the liberal advocacy group, MoveOn.org, and others have been listed on rallylist.com.

“Donald Trump has declared a #FakeNationalEmergency—an illegal power grab from an unhinged man to push his racist, dangerous policies,” MoveOn.org states on its site for protests taking place on Presidents Day.

“We are mobilizing nonviolent rapid-response events to stand up against Trump’s #FakeNationalEmergency to defend our democracy and immigrant, Muslim, black, and brown communities from Trump’s dangerous national emergency power grab,” the group continues.

That’s some nice word salad. Is Moveon admitting that there are Muslim terrorists illegally crossing the border, as reports have stated many times? How about black people? Not a lot of them through Mexico and Latin America. Where are they coming from to illegally cross the border?

As for nonviolent, that usually doesn’t last long with leftist protests. Especially when they are unfocused and plan on yapping about all sorts of things. The one for Raleigh reads Patriotic People Care about our common good and respond to national emergencies! So we will gather and march, and discuss our real emergencies. We may not have a permit. I have written to ask for 1. #TrumpRussia #Treason is an emergency! Also very urgent: climate change, gun violence, poverty, bigotry and attacks on human rights!

I see the same for other marches. Anyhow, these are the kinds of things they will be protesting in favor of

The open borders crowd which wants to protest is backing those things.

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New Mexico Sheriffs Take Page From Others Across Country, Declare Sanctuaries From 2nd Amendment Assaults

By William Teach February 16, 2019 – 4:51 pm

A movement that started in Illinois against Big Government controls on law abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment Rights has spread to other states, including Washington, and now, New Mexico

New Mexico sheriffs fight gun bills with ‘sanctuary county’ resolutions

A handful of rural counties in New Mexico are passing resolutions saying they will not require their sheriffs to enforce a sweeping slate of gun-control proposals that have gone before state lawmakers.

The “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” resolutions are being presented by sheriffs to commissioners in dozens of counties, according to the head of the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association.

So far, commissioners in at least four counties situated in some of the most remote pockets of New Mexico have passed the resolutions in the past week, Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace said. He expects more county commissions to be presented with similar resolutions at their upcoming meetings, he said.

The resolutions represent the sheriffs’ latest attempt at pushing back against legislation supported by Gov. Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who took office in January, after the lawmen expressed opposition to the bills for weeks in legislative committee hearings, arguing they are unconstitutional.

“The key thing to remember is this is all a burden on responsible gun owners,” Mace said. “We’re here to protect people’s individual rights.”

And therein lies the problem: virtually everything Democrats are passing and looking to pass has little to no effect on the criminals. They just harm the law abiding. They do not really make it harder for people looking to use a firearm for a crime to get one. All the burdens go on law abiding gun owners and future law abiding gun owners. At the same time, Democrats are coddling criminals and attempting to reduce their sentences and such. Soft on crime.

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The Green New Fascism Deal Makes Warmists Hopeful Or Something

By William Teach February 16, 2019 – 1:07 pm

Disciples of the Green New Deal are still trying to attempt to rationalize it

Why the Green New Deal makes me hopeful about climate change

As a climate scientist, I have studied the impacts of human emissions of carbon dioxide on the climate system for nearly 20 years. Over this time, my research, as well as research by my colleagues, has made me increasingly worried about the impacts of climate change on human society.

But last week’s release of a Green New Deal resolution is the first time I’ve felt a sliver of that worry fall away, because it feels like solutions are finally on the horizon.

At this point, just about everyone recognizes that the climate is changing. Even Donald Trump says, “I think something’s happening.”

Heck, I believe something is happening, as I’ve written tons of times. I just don’t think it is mostly/solely man-caused, nor even about 25%.

Though it’s not as well recognized, the scientific community is certain that human activities are the cause, primarily the emission of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels.

If they’re so certain why are they not giving up their own use of fossil fuels? And what of all those scientists who do not believe this? Meh, different debate

If we don’t take action, unchecked greenhouse-gas emissions would lead to global-average warming over this century of 5 degrees Fahrenheit to 9 degrees Fahrenheit. This may not sound like much until you realize that the warming since the last ice age — a warming that completely reconfigured the planet and caused 300 feet of sea level rise — was about 9 degrees Fahrenheit. With continued fossil fuel use, we might see warming over the current century sufficient to literally remake the Earth’s environment and our place within it.

This is what caught my eye, the utter stupidity, and fake science from computer models, of proclaiming we’ll see 5 to 9 degrees F of warming in just over 80 years, when we’ve only see 1.5 since 1850, which is almost double the time. This is where the Pause comes in: if it was all caused by CO2, then why was there not only a long pause recently, but multiple ones during the Modern Warm Period? Warmists will have all sorts of excuses, including nature masking the warming. If nature can do that, then why can’t nature be the primary driver?

And what caused the warming at the end of the ice age, when CO2 was at a “safe” level below 350ppm?

That’s why I think the Green New Deal is so important. It moves the debate past “is the climate warming?” (it is) and “is that bad?” (it is) and focuses on what we should do. Surveys show that the public wants action on climate, as well as supports the principles of the Green New Deal. (snip)

The debate over the Green New Deal will lead to a debate we need to have — how to address the dangers of climate change. And for the first time in a long time, it’s a debate I’m hopeful about.

I’d be happy to debate all the Big Centralized Government controls this would put on all our lives, along with the taxes, fees, cost of living increases, and so forth, that writer Andrew Dessler avoids (just like most of the GND supporters avoid writing about) discussing in his piece. I wonder why they avoid that stuff?

Perhaps we can also have a debate as to why scientists like Andrew have to fear monger, as well?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 16, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil burger from an evil cow, which should be totally banned for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on some people hating capitalism so much that job losses are considered awesome.

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Say, What Would A National Emergency On Hotcoldwetdry Look Like Or Something

By William Teach February 16, 2019 – 7:22 am

Grist uber-Warmist Zoya Teirstein is super interested in this. Consider, Congress authorized construction of border barrier from the Gulf to the Pacific well over a decade ago. They just haven’t fully funded it. All Trump is doing is building a section. Regardless, this piece exposes what Warmists would actually do, something they would all cheer, right up till the policy reaches up and smacks them in the face of the Cold Mackerel Of Truth

What would a national emergency over climate change look like?

Well, it finally happened: President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for his barrier between Mexico and the United States. We are under virtually no threat from illegal immigration through the southern border. Phew! But don’t put up your feet just yet, the U.S. actually is facing a pretty terrifying threat, not from immigrants, but from climate change.

Now that Trump has set a precedent, some are raising the point that a different president could use the same maneuver to declare a national emergency over rising temperatures. After all, rising sea levels, worsening hurricanes, wildfires, invasive species, and droughts threaten millions of Americans. Talk about a national security crisis.

Shortly after Trump made his declaration, Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar took to Twitter to call on the next president to declare climate change a national emergency upon taking office. If the idea catches on, 2020 Democrats might have to decide not only whether they support the Green New Deal, but also whether they would be willing to take that commitment to the next level.

Many other Warmists ran with the meme of declaring a national emergency over weather events.

Dan Farber, professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, examined the idea of a climate change national emergency in a blog post. It turns out there area few things a future president might be able to do to mitigate climate change through such a move. Here are the areas Farber thinks are worth exploring (these options are as of yet untested, could look different in practice, AND, as Farber told us in an earlier story, just ’cause it’s possible in theory doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea):

  • Oil drilling could be put on pause. “Oil leases are required to have clauses allowing them to be suspended during national emergencies,” Farber writes. If climate change is causing the emergency, doesn’t it make sense to pump the brakes on the stuff causing it? Hmmm?
  • The Secretary of Transportation, who is in charge of transportation coordination during national emergencies, could restrict use of gas-powered vehicles.
  • The renewable energy industry could get an influx of financial support, because a provision allows “the President to extend loan guarantees to critical industries during national emergencies,” Farber writes.
  • There’s even an act that could be invoked to give the president power to “impose sanctions on individuals and countries.” In a national climate change emergency scenario, the act could be used to sanction oil-producing countries.

In a national emergency, the president gets nearly 150 special powers. The options listed above are just a few of the ways those powers could be used in the name of climate change mitigation.

So, how will Warmists, who never want to give up their own use of fossil fuels, since they have to get to work, take the kids to soccer, run errands, and so forth, respond when gas prices skyrocket, but, it almost doesn’t matter since The Government declares they cannot take the vehicle they pay monthly on anywhere?

It doesn’t seem like much, but, when citizens are restricted in their movements, and their cost of living skyrockets from gas prices spiking, it’s a big deal.

Already, Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer has announced he will be introducing a “congressional emergency declaration on the climate crisis” in Congress. Get ready, GOP! Even if the Supreme Court ends up striking down the border wall, Trump just opened Pandora’s Box.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, weather.

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Trump Declares National Emergency, Everyone Freaks Out

By William Teach February 16, 2019 – 7:05 am

This could have all be avoided by providing the necessary funding to build the section of border barrier requested, especially when there is tons of money allocated to all sorts of Democrat things, including overseas abortions. The best thing would have been to refuse to sign the bill, but that wasn’t politically feasible. Having GOP negotiators who aren’t utters squishes would have helped, as well

Trump declares national emergency at border

President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to bypass Congress and spend roughly $8 billion on barriers along the southern border, a big step toward building his long-promised wall that also comes with significant political and legal risk.

Trump’s move, announced in a rambling, improvised address from the Rose Garden shortly after signing the declaration, will launch a fierce constitutional battle in the courts with lawmakers and outside groups who say the president overstepped his authority.

“I am going to be signing a national emergency,” Trump said after a long introduction that touched on trade, China, Syria and the caravans of immigrants that Trump made a political issue of ahead of last fall’s midterm elections.

“It’s a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people,” the president said in seeking to justify the need for an emergency declaration.

Trump predicted the move will be challenged in federal court, but said he would eventually prevail.

“I could do the wall over a long period of time. I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said, a concession his critics seized upon to argue an emergency does not exist on the southern border.

It’s that last part that Democrats are focusing on, thinking that it means he did it for the hell of it, but, as it goes to the courts, it’ll mean that had Democrats authorized the funding this would have been unncessary, especially since Democrats knew Trump would do this for months.

First lawsuit filed against Trump emergency declaration

Liberal advocacy group Public Citizen on Friday filed the first lawsuit seeking to block President Trump’s national emergency declaration to allocate government funds for his proposed border wall.

The consumer rights think tank is suing on behalf of the Frontera Audubon Society and three landowners in South Texas who were told their land would be used to construct the barrier.

The lawsuit is expected to be the first of many challenging the declaration, which appropriated $8.1 billion for the wall.

“The complaint urges the court to find that Trump exceeded his constitutional authority and authority under the National Emergencies Act, and to hold that the declaration violates the doctrine of separation of powers that is so central to our Constitution,” Public Citizen said in a press release.

This is going to get interesting.

One thing this does do is get people talking about what’s actually going on down at the border, along with all the problems associated with illegal immigration. And the news media cannot hide those issues from the citizens anymore.

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Latest Climascare: Rise In Kidney Disease Your Fault For Driving A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

By William Teach February 15, 2019 – 3:20 pm

This still provides zero proof of anthropogenic causation

The disturbing hypothesis for the sudden uptick in chronic kidney disease
Our kidneys might be vulnerable to the more frequent extreme heat brought on by global warming.

In its early stages, chronic kidney disease can lurk silently in the body, causing no symptoms at all. Eventually, as these vital organs fail, the hands and feet start to puff up, and sufferers feel nauseated, achy, and itchy. When the disease reaches its last stage, the kidneys fail and you can die.

Around 2000, health officials noticed that chronic kidney disease was on the rise in Central America. An epidemic seemed to be raging among farmworkers who toiled in sugarcane fields on the Pacific Coast in El Salvador and Costa Rica — one of the hottest areas in the region. To date, more than 20,000 people have died in the epidemic, and thousands of others have had to go on kidney dialysis to survive.

Researchers are now coming together around a hypothesis about what’s driving a little-appreciated epidemic, known as “Mesoamerican nephropathy.”

The main suspect: global warming. It has become a leading hypothesis to explain not justMesoamerican nephropathy but a similar uptick in chronic kidney disease in India and Southeast Asia. The victims could be called “climate canaries.”

Roberto Lucchini, an environmental and public health professor at Mount Sinai, who’s been studying the phenomenon, calls this the first epidemic that’s directly attributable to climate change. “It was not recognized before the rise in temperatures,” he said, “and the epidemic of these cases is currently observed in the countries that are more affected by [global warming] in the last decades,” from Central America to India and Southeast Asia.

So, it’s doom going up in temperature over almost 170 years by 1.5 Fahrenheit.

The basic idea: When people are exposed to long stretches of extreme heat, they sweat more. If they don’t rehydrate, or don’t have access to clean drinking water, the kidneys, which are supposed to filter waste and regulate fluid in the body, get stressed. Over time, that stress can lead to kidney stones and chronic damage.

OK, so if you’re stupid enough not to hydrate when it’s 90F outside, it’s your fault. If you don’t hydrate when it’s 91.5F, it’s because of ‘climate change’.

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