London’s Burning: Is It OK To Enjoy Warm Days Due To You Driving A Fossil Fueled Vehicle?

By William Teach March 2, 2019 – 3:04 pm

Are you allowed to enjoy coming doom because of your modern lifestyle, the eating of burgers, driving your fossil fueled vehicle, taking fossil fueled flights, refusing to live in 300 square feet homes, having an ice maker, heck, having a fridge? That’s what Annabelle Timsit wants to know at Quartz. And, yes, it really does say “London’s Burning” right over the headline. The photo at the article also has the tagline “the ultimate guilty pleasure”, and the photo is of a person laying out in the grass in the sun

Is it okay to enjoy warm weather caused by climate change?

This time last year, the United Kingdom was in the grip of a wave of freezing wind from Siberia called the “Beast from the East.” Temperatures in Greater London hovered around 0°C (30°F)—unusual for the area. Panicked Britons emptied supermarkets and stockpiled supplies for their very own armageddon.

It was difficult to reconcile that vision of London with the city I strolled through this week. On a Tuesday in late February, it was almost 20°C (68°F) and the city was sunny and warm to an unseasonable degree. Cherry blossom trees were blooming and insects were buzzing about. For a minute, I felt like I was in an advertisement for anti-allergy medication, or maybe an alternate universe. Either way, it’s not what February should feel like, and everybody knows it.

They blamed that same snow and cold on Hotcoldwetdry, as well.

This phenomenon isn’t unique to the UK. Around the world, people are experiencing milder winters as a result of changing weather patterns. According to a 2016 study, “80% of Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did four decades ago.”

This creates a moral dilemma that is unique to the 21st century. How are we supposed to feel about the nice weather outside when we know it’s tied to climate change? Or, as Robinson Meyer put it in The Atlantic, “If we think the future consequences of climate change will be very bad, are we allowed to savor them now?” (big snip)

If your instinct is to enjoy the good weather, the important thing is to remember to take steps to combat climate change. Renee Lertzman, an environmental psychologist and consultant, said that while there is “a sense of deep despair and grief around people’s experience of changes in weather,” feeling guilty about feeling happy is counter-productive.

For my own part, my interviews with scientists and philosophers convinced me that I don’t need to stop myself from enjoying this mild winter. But I will also acknowledge my feelings of discomfort, and use them as an incentive to do my part to move the needle on climate change—while basking in the warm, temporary, and undeniably strange winter sun.

These people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 2, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible plastic water bottle, which causes people to get distracted from climate change in focusing on plastic pollution*, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on Kentucky defending the 2nd Amendment.

*As always, don’t forget to recycle. Being environmentally conscious is Conservative.

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Surprise: Open Borders Attorney Helped Illegals Fake Stories To Stay

By William Teach March 2, 2019 – 10:30 am

Much like most of the asylum claims at the border, where they migrants have been told to make the spurious claims to gain entry to the U.S., many lawyers are getting busted for wrongdoing

Feds: Philadelphia attorney helped immigrants fake stories to apply for green cards

Federal authorities have charged a Philadelphia-based immigration attorney with fraud after a sting operation uncovered evidence that she falsified paperwork to make it easier for clients in the country illegally to obtain green cards.

Andrea W. Clarke, 57, faces six counts of fraud as well as charges of making false statements, according to a federal indictment filed in February. The alleged scheme turns on a counterintuitive quirk of U.S. immigration law — that it can be more advantageous to enter the U.S. on a fake passport and come clean later, than to admit to slipping in surreptitiously.

Prosecutors say Clarke helped three clients concoct stories about entering the U.S. using an alias or a fraudulent passport — even though two had crossed the U.S. border illegally and the third had crossed on a different fake passport. The attorney then helped the trio apply for waivers admitting to the invented crimes but moving forward with their respective immigration cases from inside the United States.

She’s facing a federal jail term of up to 65 years and up to $1.75 million in fines.

U.S. law has stiffer penalties for crossing illegally than for faked paperwork, so, Open Borders advocates are attempting to help by creating said fake paperwork. We’ll probably see more of this as illegal crossing are up and people showing up at legal crossings is down

(Daily Caller) The Trump administration’s asylum policy is prompting more migrants to try their luck at crossing illegally rather than seeking out legal ports of entry, Customs and Border Protection data suggest.

The proportion of foreign nationals attempting to cross the border illegally rather than reporting to legal ports of entry has risen in the past year, according to the data. Those crossing illegally made up 73 percent of all border crossings from October 2017 to January 2018 and then rose to 83 percent for the same period of time ending on Jan. 31, 2019, NBC News reported Friday.

At the same time, the percentage of foreign nationals intentionally reaching out to border enforcement establishments dropped from 27 percent to 17 percent.

The new numbers come in the wake of President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The policy enacted in December 2018 dictates that foreign nationals who seek asylum at the southern border cannot enter the U.S. and must remain in Mexico while their case makes it through the immigration courts — a process that could take months to years.

As well they should. All asylum claims should occur at U.S. facilities outside the U.S. This will weed out the real ones from the fake ones. But, then you have the Open Borders idiots attempting to help them come and stay illegally.

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Los Angeles Never Hit 70 Degrees In February, ‘Climate Change’ To Blame Or Something

By William Teach March 2, 2019 – 7:15 am

This is all your fault for refusing to do away with moo cows and giving up your modern lifestyle

It’s actually more than just never hitting 70 degrees once, as we read the screed

Home restaurant’s sprawling outdoor patio in Los Feliz, set under a canopy of large trees, was designed to take advantage of California’s temperate climate and typically sunny skies.

But this February has been so cold that the restaurant scrambled to set up extra heaters outside the Craftsman-style house to keep diners and workers warm during the record-setting cold winter.

“We had three heaters going for a while and this month it just hasn’t been enough,” said Sam Yoo, a manager at the restaurant. “I’m trying to have the waiters and hostesses wear warmer clothing, but I have one heater set up right by the host stand so they don’t catch colds.”

For the first time since forecasters began recording data — at least 132 years — the mercury did not reach 70 degrees in downtown Los Angeles for the entire month of February. That makes it the eighth-coldest February on record, said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

The high for the month clocked in at 61 degrees, significantly lower than the average temperature of 68 for February, Kittell said.

And

Even factoring in the cold snap, California is still warmer than average, and swings between periods of severe winter rainstorms and profound drought will probably become more pronounced in the future because of climate change, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA. (snip)

Several factors — including a lack of offshore wind and, more broadly, climate change — have played into California’s weird winter weather, experts say.

As Steve Goddard sarcastically noted as I pointed this article out to him “The atmosphere is trapping too much heat, which is producing record cold. Basic physics.”

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Democrats Ready For Hearings Over Trump Saying “Fake News”

By William Teach March 2, 2019 – 7:03 am

I thought this was an early April Fools gag from Breitbart’s Justin Caruso, something he wrote in anticipation of April 1 and hit the post button by accident then went to sleep. Nope

Democrats Prepare Congressional Hearings over Trump Saying ‘Fake News’

Congressional Democrats are planning to hold hearings about President Trump’s criticisms of establishment news outlets, according to a new report.

Bloomberg News reports that the House Judiciary Committee, which is currently led by Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), will seek to investigate Trump calling the media “fake news” and “enemies of the people.”

“The committee will study whether such actions either reflect or blur the Constitution’s separation of powers,” the report states.

The president’s repeated declarations that the “fake news” media is the “enemy of the people” has indeed upset many Democrats and media figures.

Possible 2020 hopeful and media darling Beto O’Rourke used the line to attack Trump and Republicans in 2018, accusing him of inciting violence against the media.

Let’s see this at Bloomberg, which notes that there are other things being investigated because Trump has been Mean

House Democrats are opening an investigation into what they say are abuses of power by President Donald Trump through his attacks on the courts, the Justice Department, the FBI and the media, according to a House official familiar with the plans.

Topics for the inquiry will include Trump’s public humiliation of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his attacks on actions by the liberal Ninth Circuit Court and his abuse of reporters as “dishonest” and “enemies of the people,” said the person, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. (snip)

The official said there are questions about whether Trump, through some of his actions, is going too far and undermining the rule of law, a reference to established and defined limits on the arbitrary exercise of power.

Nadler is opening the investigation in part because his committee is responsible for defending the rule of law, said the official. Issues will include determining in what circumstances, if any, Congress should take steps to curb some of Trump’s actions, and how that might be accomplished.

So, some people are Butthurt, and want Congress to Do Something, which, get this, would in fact directly violate the 1st Amendment in multiple way. The President is still afforded the protections, and “Congress shall pass no law…”.

As for the separation of powers thing, I’m as in the dark as you are. It’s mentioned at the Bloomberg article at the end, but, not explained. How does Trump saying fake news and criticizing the press and others violate that? No idea.

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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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