If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are homes built over flooded areas from people raising cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Way, with your morning brief.

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Ocasio-Cortez Backs Defunding ICE

By William Teach February 8, 2019 – 10:29 am

She’s the gift that keeps giving in terms of wackadoodle, as she attended a MoveOn.org sponsored rally to protect lawbreakers

Ocasio-Cortez: ICE ‘Does Not Deserve a Dime’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joined freshmen colleagues outside the Capitol on Thursday to call for an end to funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, accusing it of “repeatedly and systematically” violating human rights and pursuing a “radical agenda.”

Speaking two days after President Trump in his State of the Union vowed to “never abolish our heroes from ICE,” Ocasio-Cortez hit back, saying the president was asking for $5 billion “to continue to militarize and weaponize a force that has zero accountability.”

She went on to recall that, at a congressional hearing in December, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen had been unable to give the exact number of immigrant children who have died while in government custody – or as Ocasio-Cortez put it, “how many children are dying in her own care, under her own watch.”

“And they have the audacity to ask for more money to fund that? I don’t think so,” she continued.

Yes, she is still repeating this lie, as are many of her fellow Demadoodles elected this year. ICE didn’t have custody, Customs and Border Patrol did. Not too mention that the kids were dragged 2,000 miles, and doctors tried hard to help them.

“Not only will we not agree to fund that, but we’re to say that an agency like ICE, which repeatedly and systematically violates human rights, does not deserve a dime. They do not deserve a dime.”

“Until they can prove that they are honoring human rights, until they can make a good-faith effort to expand and embrace immigrants – the immigrants in this nation that have always been a part, and have always been a core element of American democracy. Until they can prove good faith to an American ideal they do not deserve any resources for their radical agenda.”

There’s a human right to come to the U.S. illegally? I suggest we house them all near AOC’s casa. Here’s where it gets hilarious, a quote that most articles have left out

Ocasio-Cortez, who wept as she lamented the impact of restrictionist immigration policy, stressed the importance of adherence to law to justify her opposition to migrant-detention facilities.

“We are a nation and land of laws. Not just some people are subject to laws and others are not,” she said. “When we are a land of laws, what that means, is that every person that steps foot on this soil deserves the consideration of due process. They deserve the protections. They deserve to have access to our Bill of Rights. That’s what makes this nation special.”

Do I need to explain what our laws actually say about people who are in the country illegally? But, hey, if she wants all subject to our laws, then we give a quick hearing and deport all illegals. Issue solved.

Seriously, how soon till the more mainstream Democrats, you know, the Category 1 and 2 nuts, rather than Cat 5, try to isolate her and some of the other Cat 5’s, quiet them, destroy them? Because they are hurting the Dems. I sometimes wonder if she’s really a Republican, and is just going Cat 5 Dem to discredit them, she’s so over-the-top.

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Washington Post Asking For Rational Leadership On Hotcoldwetdry A Bad Idea After Release Of Green New Deal

By William Teach February 8, 2019 – 7:01 am

The Green New Deal is so bonkers that it’s almost not even worth talking about anymore

but, it’ll come up. The Washington Post Editorial Board picked a bad day to yammer about leadership, especially after the GND had to pulled offline because it was so bad, there were so many issues, words missing, and other things

The world needs rational American leadership on climate change

“WHAT THE hell is going on with Global Waming?” President Trump tweeted last week in the midst of a cold snap. “Please come back fast, we need you!”

If Mr. Trump had consulted scientists in the government he works for, they could have helped with his basic understanding, as well as his spelling: The warming of the Earth is unmistakable, as seen in a global temperature record that offers no reason for laughter. Experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday that 2018 was the fourth-warmest year on record, according to two separate estimates, one from each agency.

A single year’s temperature readings do not constitute a trend. But there is a trend. The five warmest years have come in the past five years. Eighteen of the 19 warmest years on record have come since the beginning of this century. That 2018 did not quite match the record-setting 2016 for warmth is in part because a warming El Niño effect in 2016 raised temperatures even higher than human influence alone would have. By contrast, 2018 saw a cooling La Niña and was still fourth-warmest. The overall direction is relentless: This decade will be warmer than the last, which was warmer than the one before it, and so on.

First, none of that is proof of anthropogenic causation. Just warming. Something that happens normally during the Holocene (and other periods). Plus, we’re talking about hundreds of a degree in change. Also, remember that when there was a long pause, which featured, at best, statistically insignificant warm, outlets like the WP were downplaying it and running pieces that it didn’t exist, but, if it existed, insert one of the 70+ excuses here.

Second, there’s no scientific proof that mankind is mostly/solely responsible for this warm period.

In the face of ever-rising evidence, the president did not even mention climate change in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. His administration still intends to remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement, the world’s best hope to get all major contributing countries moving in the same direction. While the Trump administration ripped up clean-air rules, U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions shot up 3.4 percent last year, putting the lie to the argument that market forces alone will adequately drive down the country’s carbon footprint.

They’re admitting that Government force will be required. The WPEB might be shocked to learn that their business relies upon fossil fuels to gather and distribute newspapers made from killed trees, so, they’d be on the list of those under government force.

Some Democrats, meanwhile, have announced a “ Green New Deal” whose goal seems to be radically reshaping U.S. society and vastly expanding government rather than simply addressing the climate problem, which is hard enough — and important enough. Though not nearly as harmful as Mr. Trump’s rank denialism, engaging in this sort of fantasy also hurts the cause of practically addressing the issue.

The world needs rational U.S. leadership. Unfortunately, global warming will not stop in the meantime.

Oops. I guess the WPEB is not a fan of GND. They did briefly explain what it is about, though: instituting super far left everything dressed up as a climate change and environmental bill.

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Democrats Still Trying To Get Trump’s Tax Returns, This Time In Legislation

By William Teach February 8, 2019 – 6:43 am

One has to wonder if Trump is refusing to release his tax records for the same reason it seemed Obama refused to release his long form birth certificate for a long time: he’s simply trolling his opposition, driving them nuts. A big difference is that Obama was driving right leaners who were mostly fringe wonkers. Trump is driving the leadership of the Democratic Party nuts

HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ BATTLE FOR TRUMP TAX RETURNS BEGINS

House Democrats pushed legislation during a hearing Thursday that would require presidents and presidential candidates to release tax returns in order to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

“We have been called, we have been chosen to lead at this time in our history …” Democratic Georgia Rep. John Lewis said in opening remarks at the hearing. “We will review whether a president, vice president or any candidate for these offices should be required by law to make their tax returns available to the public. In other words, we will ask the question: Does the public need to know that a person holding the highest office in our country obeys the tax laws?”

Lewis is the chair of the oversight subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, which held the hearing — its first on the subject of presidential tax returns.

The presidential tax return legislation House Democrats want is part of a 571-page election reform bill, the “For the People Act,” also known as House Resolution 1.

The Constitution of the United States has several specific requirements to be President: tax returns is not one of them. Not that Democrats care about the Constitution.

Republican Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup pointed out that the president and vice president are audited by the IRS every year.

And, as others point out, you can bet Mueller has the returns. Democrats simply want them because they’re unhinged and just can’t take that Trump beat Hillary. The bill itself has zero chance of becoming law. It will most likely make it out of the Dem controlled House, and it will die in the Senate, never making it out of committee. Unless Mitch McConnell wants to make an example of Dem priorities. Then it would die on the Senate floor.

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NY State Bill Offers More Protections For Illegal Aliens In Workplace

By William Teach February 7, 2019 – 3:21 pm

Illegal aliens shouldn’t even be in country, much less the workplace. A new bill is being introduced to safeguard their pay

New York bill targets workplace immigration discrimination

For people in the U.S. illegally, speaking up about missing wages can come at a big cost: deportation. Authorities and advocates say that since President Donald Trump’s 2016 election they’ve seen an increase in reports of dodgy bosses threatening to call federal immigration agents on workers.

In New York, where the labor department says it has investigated at least 30 cases in the last three years involving threats to a worker’s immigration status, the attorney general on Wednesday urged legislators to make clear such practices are illegal.

Attorney General Letitia James is proposing legislation to sharpen the language of an existing law, which bars employers from firing, threatening, penalizing or otherwise discriminating against workers who report or blow the whistle on wage violations.

James’ legislation would expand the law’s definition of retaliatory conduct to include threats regarding a person’s immigration status. Potential punishments would remain the same: up to three months in jail and a $20,000 fine.

Democrats will do anything they can to protect illegals, rather than putting American citizens first. This still wouldn’t stop ICE from rounding up illegals if they show up on the radar, but, there is an unexpected outcome sure to show up: more employers will refuse to hire illegals (something that should have gotten the employers a nice criminal and civil fine under federal law). If they can’t get them to work for well below normal wages, why take the chance? Just hire people who can lawfully work.

Which would mean fewer jobs, so, no way to earn money, so, less of a reason to come to America illegally/overstay visas. Less reason to stay in America. Interestingly, before Ann Coulter went bat-guano insane over building a wall, one of her recommendations was that government give illegals the ability to sue for not being paid the minimum wage, which would make employers not hire them to start with.

It is interesting that the illegals who are unlawfully present in the U.S. are suddenly concerned with Other People following the law, eh?

Rogers said fearful workers are asking labor investigators to hold off on allegations until they move to a new home because employers and coworkers could have their addresses and report them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“They are scared of ICE and they don’t want to take any action that might anger an unscrupulous employer,” Rogers said. “So they ask us, ‘please wait I am going to move next week.’ That never used to happen.”

Ah. So they know they are in the wrong. Go figure.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike offsetting the horrid energy used by smartphones, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on Dem Congressman Bobby Scott learning about the Virginia Lt. Gov’s sexual assault over a year ago.

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Ocasio-Cortez, Dems, Release Green New Deal Resolution

By William Teach February 7, 2019 – 10:46 am

The unhinged Warmist base is already upset that it doesn’t call for the government forcing Everyone Else to stop using fossil fuels in the near future. They aren’t going to like a couple other things

NPR reports

In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.

In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.

In other words, it means that the resolution, not legislation, is going to absolutely crush the middle and lower classes, especially the very people the bill is supposed to help. As the Daily Caller notes on the release

Ocasio-Cortez’s non-binding resolution calls for a variety of social justice and welfare state goals, including “a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations and retirement security” and “high-quality health care” benefits for Americans.

The resolution calls for “repairing historic oppression” among certain groups, including minorities, immigrants, women, low-income workers, indigenous people and youth collectively called “frontline and vulnerable communities.”

What it does do is find ways to give those crushed citizens more government handouts to offset being crushed, which makes them more reliant and dependent on government, much like a kid is reliant and dependent on getting an allowance from mom and dad. And you can see this is more about social justice warrioring, and pandering and patronizing, of certain groups in word salad

Back to NPR

Importantly, it’s a nonbinding resolution, meaning that even if it were to pass (more on the challenges to that below), it wouldn’t itself create any new programs. Instead, it would potentially affirm the sense of the House that these things should be done in the coming years.

See, it’s not legislation, just a resolution, so, after all this coverage of the Importance and historic and stuff, it’s like naming a post office. They aren’t even trying. But, it may be that Pelosi and the other slightly more rational and less unhinged Socialist convinced AOC and the co-sponsors to not push it as legislation, as the old school Dems plan to push other crazy, but not quite as crazy, ‘climate change’ legislation.

Back to Daily Caller

“A six page, non-binding resolution marketed as a ‘War Plan’ proves Congressman Cortez isn’t prepared and hasn’t done her homework,” Dan Kish, distinguished senior fellow at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Running the world’s greatest economy on unicorn farts and rainbow stew all run by masterminds in Washington DC is a fool’s errand,” Kish said.

When will AOC give up her own big carbon ways and go carbon neutral?

OK, let’s see AOC and other Dems take the train home (or, heck, the bus), instead of flying home.

(Breitbart) Next, Ocasio-Cortez and Markey claim that the U.S. is experiencing “a 4-decade trend of economic stagnation, deindustrialization, and antilabor policies” — a statement that defies the actual data on economic growth and the revival of manufacturing in recent years, including rising wages for blue-collar workers.

The legislation then laments “erosion of the … bargaining power of workers in the United States” — as if picket lines had something to do with the environment. It also claims that climate change has “exacerbated systemic racial … ” injustices,” among other inequalities.

Getting the idea that ‘climate change’ has almost nothing to do with a changing climate yet? As the article notes “It reads like a Republican parody of the Democratic platform.”

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National Geographic: Sea Level Rise Isn’t As Bad As We Prognosticated, But Doom Is Still Coming Or Something

By William Teach February 7, 2019 – 8:08 am

The Cult of Climastrology doomsayers and computer models have continuously overestimated sea rise. By a lot. They constantly were nowhere near what the actual measurements showed. Such as the 20th Century sea rise being exactly average for what sea rise has been over the last 7,000-8,000 years, which is 6-8 inches per century. Which means that a warm period should be well above the average, since a cool period will be way below, potentially even negative. So….

You really do not have to get beyond the headline and subhead to see the Doom, but we will anyhow

Most dire projection of sea-level rise is a little less likely, reports say
New analysis of Antarctica’s melting glaciers refines our understanding of climate change, while risks of global impacts remain significant.

It’s not exactly news that Greenland and Antarctica are shedding ice at record rates.

But in 2016, an eyebrow-raising idea ricocheted through the scientific community: It was possible, the authors said, that a warmer planet could push the towering ice cliffs at the fringes of the Antarctic ice sheet to essentially self-destruct, collapsing like a set of dominoes.

But two new pieces of research, published Wednesday in Nature, suggest a more measured retreat is likely in the coming decades. Both studies revise the estimates of just how much sea levels will rise by 2100 downward, suggesting that Antarctica could contribute somewhere between about three to 16 inches to the world’s oceans under the “worst case” scenarios.

Adding that to the other components that make up sea level rise—how the ocean expands as it warms (which will likely add about 10 inches), the melt from mountain glaciers (about six inches), and changes to the amount of water stored in lakes and rivers on land (one and a half inches), and the total is still a daunting number somewhere between just under two- to over three- foot range.

So, probably about a foot and a half, which would be what is expected during a Holocene warm period. Even though there has been no acceleration of sea rise increase, just a continuation of what we saw during the 20th Century. Also missing is an proof that what Nat Geo is discussing is mostly/solely of anthropogenic causation.

That is in no way a get-out-of-jail-free card, say the authors of both studies. It’s still an enormous amount of extra water that could slosh up onto coasts, enough to debilitate cities from Boston to Shanghai. But the most drastic impacts of sea-level rise, they say, are likely to kick in only after the turn of the century, giving communities around the world more time to adapt.

So, since their predictions for this century haven’t been panning out, they’re pushing them out past 2100. Huh.

What’s more, changes to the ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica could also trigger planet-wide shifts in temperature, ocean circulation, and many other parts of the climate system, says says Nick Golledge, a climate scientist at the Antarctic Research Center of the University of Victoria, Wellington, and the lead author of one of the studies.

“The sea-level estimates maybe aren’t as bad as we thought, but the climate predictions are worse,” says Golledge.

Worse!!!!! But, still no proof that this anything but a normal warm period.

So scientists looked to the past, to periods like the Pliocene, about 3.4 million years ago, or the Last Interglacial, about 120 thousand years ago—periods when the planet was as warm or warmer than today. They tested whether their models matched up with what we knew about how the ice sheets melted and how high sea levels rose at those times in the past.

So, what caused the warming back then? And why is it different from now? Oh, right, we’re just supposed to Believe. Have faith.

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CNN Wants You To Understand Late Term Infanticide Before You Judge It

By William Teach February 7, 2019 – 7:33 am

They forget to mention the part about it being “killing babies for a profit”, for one things (via Twitchy)

From the despicable link

President Donald Trump has called on Congress “to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children.” This came after he first accused New York lawmakers of cheering for “legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth” and then said embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam “would execute a baby after birth.”

With the recent passage of New York’s new Reproductive Health Act and Northam’s voiced support of a measure that would loosen restrictions on abortions later in pregnancy, the phrase “late-term abortion” has appeared in headlines, peppered conversations, fueled social media battles — and now made it into a State of the Union address. But what exactly does this language mean?

CNN spoke with two ob-gyns to explain: Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president of health policy at theAmerican College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a professional organization; and Dr. Jennifer Conti, a fellow with the advocacy group Physicians for Reproductive Health and co-host of The V Word podcast.

What these two doctors want you to know is that the appropriate language is “abortions later in pregnancy”, not late term abortions. And that they make up only 1.3% of abortions overall.

Likewise, when conditions progress or appear that severely compromise a woman’s health or life, abortion may be the safest, medically indicated procedure. These conditions can also reduce the possibility of fetal survival. They might include premature rupture of membranes (where the fluid surrounding the fetus is lost before labor), uterine infection, preeclampsia, placental abruption and placenta accreta. Women under these circumstances may have extensive blood loss or septic shock that can be fatal.

It’s important to note, if a woman’s health or life is at risk and the fetus is viable, delivery is pursued, not abortion.

Except, that’s really not what the NY nor Virginia bills were about, nor what Virginia Gov Northam was speaking about. Nor what many of the just introduced bills are about.

As someone who used to self-identify as anti-choice, I can attest that the biggest misunderstanding about abortion is the framework of hypotheticals vs. reality. All pregnancies carry risks, but some much more than others, and it is the job of the patient to weigh risks and benefits in all medical decisions. Not politicians. Not journalists. Not strangers on Twitter.

Misleading hypotheticals show disregard and contempt for people who have had an abortion later in pregnancy. People who have abortions deserve empathy and understanding, not judgment.

The two pro-late term abortion doctors actually keep flipping back and forth between later term and abortion overall. Yes, there might be a situation where it does save the life of the mother, but most late terms are elective. And how many really consider deeply just having an abortion overall? The pro-aborts keep shooting down waiting periods, which are typically just 4 hours. And, if they didn’t want to be pregnant, then they shouldn’t have had irresponsible, unprotected sex with someone they didn’t want to have a baby with.

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Word Salad: ““Anthropocene” Is A Dangerous Generalisation Which Ignores White Male Colonial Capitalist Guilt For Global Warming” Or Something”

By William Teach February 6, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Remember, this is all about science, not politics (via Watts Up With That?)

The language of climate change—and the Anthropocene

Hanna E. Morris, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication who researches environmental communication, explains the sudden rise of ‘Anthropocene’ as the latest buzzword in the climate dialogue.

Climate change, global warming, climate crisis—the operative term for the most pressing global issue seems to change by the year.

It’s how we discuss climate change that intrigues Hanna Morris, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication, who will soon present a new paper that assesses climate news frames at the annual International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference this July in Madrid, Spain. She tackles the rise of the term “Anthropocene” in climate news, which can be summarized as a relatively new word that is meant to mark the beginning of a new epoch defined by human-caused environmental change.

In the paper, Morris argues that the word not only misinterprets the actual share of blame—the oversimplified notion that humans are all equally responsible for climate change—but ties up the problem in a neat, media-friendly bow.

“By eliminating differences,” she writes in the paper, “histories of colonial violence, and the disproportionate burden of environmental harm felt by Indigenous people is neutralized and therefore evaded. The idea of the Anthropocene therefore validates ‘planetary scale’ projects designed by white male capitalists working from an unaddressed imperial logic.”

Colonialism and capitalism, she argues, drove climate change, and are now deciding how to frame who is responsible for it, who is most affected, how it will be solved, and how we should collectively feel about it. (snip)

“So, by saying that we all are to blame and that we all are equally experiencing climate change in a new epoch is a dangerous generalization that wipes away historical context. I worry that European and North American powers are once again perpetuating imperial violence and harm through the idea of the Anthropocene. And I explore this problem across the United States news media in my most recent paper.”

Bernie Sanders was complaining the other day about college costing too much and leaving kids with lots of debt. Maybe they wouldn’t have debt if they weren’t taught the idiocy above, leaving them in position to get a decent job.

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