Excitable Adam Schiff Wants Republicans To Speak Out Against Trump

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

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

Schiff urges GOP colleagues to share private concerns about Trump publicly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The water could be heated by waste heat from industry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Quicktags For Comments

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

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

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If All You See…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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‘Climate Change” Could Maybe Possibly Cause More Hypothermia In Homeless Or Something

By William Teach February 20, 2019 – 4:55 pm

Another day, another thing that they’re attempting to blame on Other People for living a modern lifestyle

More Homeless People Are Dying of Hypothermia in Los Angeles Than in New York. Is Climate Change a Factor?

In Los Angeles, a city known for its sunshine and mild temperatures, more homeless people died of hypothermia last year than in New York City and San Francisco combined. As 18 trillion gallons of rain have fallen on California so far this month and some areas of Southern California have felt temperatures in the low 30s, the Los Angeles Timesreports, advocates worry that the weather this winter will cause more fatalities among Los Angeles County’s over 50,000 homeless people.

Hypothermia occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing the normal body temperature of around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit to fall below 95 degrees. This can lead to heart and respiratory system failure and eventually death. It is caused by exposure to cold temperatures and cold water, and commonly occurs when a person stays out in the cold for too long, doesn’t have appropriate clothing for the weather, or isn’t able to change out of wet clothes and move to a warm, dry location. (snip)

Research by scientists at the University of California–Los Angeles shows that climate change will lead to even more of the whiplash from dry to wet weather that California has seen this year and in recent years. A warming atmosphere and warming oceans are causing increased precipitation in winter—already the wettest time of year in the region—and could cause even less precipitation in the spring through fall (which could also lead to a rise in deaths due to hyperthermia, caused by abnormally high body temperatures, as dry heat waves increase in the summer). The researchers also predict that, over the next 40 years, California will be 300 to 400 percent more likely to experience a prolonged storm system similar to the one that caused massive flooding in 1862.

It’s so easy. Because you bought products that had to be shipped, have an ice maker, and eat burgers, it’s going to rain a whole lot and get super cold and all the ever-increasing number of homeless in Democrat run cities, hence, believers in ‘climate change’, will die. It’ll be as wet as 1862, when no one had fossil fueled vehicles and CO2 was well below the safe level of 350ppm.

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Trump Admin Looks To Stop Criminalization Of Homosexuality Worldwide

By William Teach February 20, 2019 – 1:30 pm

Here’s the thing: while many Conservatives have an issue with the gay lifestyle, and certainly with forcing gay marriage on everyone, 99.9% of us do not want them harmed nor jailed. So there’s this

Aaaaaand

Claim – Trump’s Global War on Homophobia Is ‘Racist’, ‘Paternalistic’, ‘Colonial’

President Trump’s campaign to decriminalize homosexuality across the world is motivated by racism, a colonial sense of paternalism, and an urge to pick on ‘brown-skinned’ countries like Iran.

Or so insists a comment piece by a gay activist at the LGBTQ+ journal Out.com.

“Trump’s Plan to Decriminalize Homosexuality Is an Old Racist Tactic,” says the headline.

Below, Mathew Rodriguez claims:

Rather than actually being about helping queer people around the world, the campaign looks more like another instance of the right using queer people as a pawn to amass power and enact its own agenda.

Rodriguez is especially concerned about the plight of Iran. Sure it hangs gay men from cranes now and again. But that shouldn’t distract us from the fact when people like the Trump administration’s top-ranked gay official Richard Grennell – now the US ambassador to Germany – express concerns about Iran, it’s really just a form of repressed racism and colonialism.

Grennell’s sudden interest in Iran’s anti-gay laws is strikingly similar to Trump’s rhetoric after the 2016 Pulse massacre in Orlando, Florida. After the deadly shooting, Trump used the 49 deaths as a way to galvanize support for an anti-Muslim agenda rather than find a way to support LGBTQ+ people. In pushing for immigration restrictions and a Muslim ban, Trump argued, he was the true pro-LGBTQ+ candidate. Rather than honor those who died, Trump used the tragedy as a way to stoke fear among the American people, and Grennell is taking similar actions with Iran — trying to reach an economic goal by painting the administration’s opponent as anti-gay.

Got that? Trump and his folks are taking a stand, and now we have LGBTQwhatever attacking him and even supporting Iran.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 20, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution fueled rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on a British town without Brits.

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