Urgency To Implement Lots Of Rules Is Main Theme Of ‘Climate Change’ Meeting In Poland

By William Teach December 2, 2018 – 5:27 pm

Good news! Our ‘climate change’ betters are gathering in Poland for the latest Conference On The Parties, looking to make you do the very things they themselves won’t

Climate change: Urgency the main theme as COP24 opens

The most critical meeting on climate change since the 2015 Paris agreement has opened in Katowice, Poland.

The COP24 conference started a day early due to the pressures on negotiators to make progress.

Ex-chairmen of the talks have warned the world “is at a crossroads” and “decisive action in the next two years will be crucial”. (snip)

But a recent study showed that CO2 emissions are on the rise again after stalling for four years.

In an unprecedented move, four former UN climate talks presidents issued a statement on Sunday, calling for urgent action.

“What ministers and other leaders say and do in Katowice at COP24 will help determine efforts for years to come and either bring the world closer to meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement – including protecting those most vulnerable to climate change – or push action further down the road.

“Any delay will only make it harder and more expensive to respond to climate change.”

It’s very urgent that they make you pay for their beliefs, all while taking long fossil fueled trips for a taxpayer funded meeting

COP24 focused on setting rules to combat climate change

Representatives from 195 countries have gathered in the Polish city of Katowice for the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP24.

The conference, which is being held between December 2 and 15, will focus on producing a set of rules to flesh out details of the Paris climate accord, the landmark agreement signed in 2015 by all nations, bar Nicaragua and Syria, to battle climate change.

Hold on to your wallets, folks!

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled machine causing dangerous heat snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on Germany wind turbines collapsing and the government refusing to investigate.

It’s snow week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 2, 2018 – 9:26 am

Happy Sunday! It’s another fantastic day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and we’re closing in on Christmas. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Old Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right covers a radio station banning a Christmas song
  2. Creeping Sharia notes the rise in FGM in the UK
  3. DC Clothesline discusses San Fran’s rich making homelessness worse
  4. Free North Carolina covers Dick’s Sporting Goods have serious issues
  5. Gates Of Vienna covers an ISIS member trying to poison the water supply in Sardinia
  6. Geller Report notes an 8 year old attacked daily by Muslims in Germany, covered up by teachers
  7. Jihad Watch covers Germany paying refugees to go home
  8. Legal Insurrection discusses yet another hate hoax
  9. Moonbattery notes that Islamophilia is the problem
  10. Powerline covers the FBI raiding the home of a whistleblower
  11. White House Dossier discusses the media using Bush 41’s death to smack Trump
  12. The Daley Gator has the cult of gun control and hypocrisy
  13. The Last Refuge notes that the riots in France continue
  14. The Other McCain covers the firing of anti-Jew Marc Lamont Hill
  15. And last, but not least, The Political Hat says that, yes, Western civilization is superior

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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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Bummed That She’ll Have Inexpensive Health Insurance In Congress

By William Teach December 2, 2018 – 7:24 am

But she’ll take the cheap insurance rather than protesting and refusing, all as she pushes for single payer, er, Medicare for all

(The Hill) Incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tweeted Saturday that she was frustrated to learn that her health-care costs would be chopped by more than half upon entering Congress, accusing her fellow lawmakers of enjoying cheap government health insurance while opposing similar coverage for all Americans.

In a tweet, the New York freshman lawmaker-elect wrote that her health care as a waitress was “more than TWICE” as high as what she would pay upon taking office as a congresswoman next month.

“In my on-boarding to Congress, I get to pick my insurance plan. As a waitress, I had to pay more than TWICE what I’d pay as a member of Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote Saturday afternoon.

“It’s frustrating that Congressmembers would deny other people affordability that they themselves enjoy. Time for #MedicareForAll,” she added.

Congrats on voting in someone with an economics degree who doesn’t understand economics, NY Democrats. There are way more people in Congress and the federal government overall which spreads the cost and the pool of those who use the insurance, which reduces cost. Not too mention that the government subsidizes a vast amount of the premium.

And Obamacare has driven up premiums, as well as the rarely mentioned deductibles. You know, the government controlled option.

And she still has no idea how to pay for it while still sounding like a fool

Ocasio-Cortez, who upset incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary, has repeatedly been unable to answer how she will pay for her socialistic policies. A study by the George Mason University Mercatus Center claims Medicare for All would cost $32.6 trillion in government spending over 10 years.

During an interview with Jorge Ramos last Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez said she is “puzzled” that people keep asking her how the country can afford socialized medicine.

“People often say, like, ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ And I find the question so puzzling, because, how do you pay for something that’s more affordable?” Ocasio-Cortez said.

Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that Medicare for All would be cheaper than the current health system is inaccurate. While the Mercatus Center study estimated drug prices would fall under Medicare for All, higher demand would still significantly drive up costs.

“How do you pay for cheaper rent?” she said. “You just pay for it. You’re paying more now!”

How do you pay for it? Taxes and user fees. Instead of paying a premium and deductibles, you just see your taxes go up. And you see the cost of living go up, because costs will get passed on.

Remember, tiny Vermont could not make single payer work. Medicare for all is just another name for single payer. A study showed that it would cost California twice their actual overall budget to do this type of scheme.

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Fears Of ‘Climate Change’ Have Warmists Seeking Support Groups

By William Teach December 1, 2018 – 4:09 pm

Nothing says “treat my seriously, as a rational adult (and don’t forget the carbon tax)” like having to seek support groups because a tiny increase in the global temperature, something that has happened numerous times, is making you crazy

Fears around climate change are causing some people to seek out support groups

After the birth of her daughter, Dana Snell began worrying more and more about the changing climate in which she was raising her child.

Snell says she developed “eco-anxiety”, a term she uses to describe her specific anxiety around climate change.

“If it was above 30C I would really feel my heart sink, and it wasn’t just about: ‘Oh this is going to be an uncomfortable day’. This was: ‘What’s going to happen? What does this mean? What’s going to happen for the future?'” Snell explained.

Her anxiety worsened as she felt Toronto summers grow warmer in 2016 and 2017.

“I was very concerned about my young daughter’s future,” she told The Current’s Anna Maria Tremonti.

The physical and mental health effects of climate change are examined in a report published today called The Lancet Countdown 2018 Report: Briefing for Canadian Policy Makers. It was launched in tandem with an annual international report tracking global public health and climate change, called The Lancet Countdown. (snip)

To combat her fears, Snell found help through an online support group. They meet weekly through an online meeting app and structure their discussions around an Alcoholics Anonymous-type 10 step program. They talk through the different steps and discuss how they are coping.

“I’ve kind of moved past feeling like my daughter’s safety… my daughter’s life is in danger,” added Snell.

I’ll be honest: it’s no wonder that some people are seeking mental health treatments, as they are subjected to daily prognostications of Doom from the media on ‘climate change’. They’ve become disciples of the Cult of Climastrology, and would be best served with an intervention, much like with getting people out of cults. They just can’t break out of the bubble of Doom. The above is a Canadian Broadcasting Company article about pure doom. Then we have ones like this, a NY Post article crossed in a major Australian news outlet

Nine effects of climate change that will make your life a living hell

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When asked about his perspective on a world in which humans do nothing to lower their emissions, environmentalist Bill McKibben had an ominous response.

“If not hell, then a place with a similar temperature. We have in the Earth’s geological record some sense of what happens when you run carbon levels up to the levels we’re running them now — it gets a lot hotter,” he told Business Insider last year.

But Earthlings don’t need to wait until 2100 to see the effects of climate change. Already, our degraded planet is grappling with droughts, deadly hurricanes, 20cm of sea level rise, raging forest fires and record-breaking heatwaves.

Here’s a look at how vulnerable we already are to climate change, and what we stand to lose in the coming decades.

Does this really help the mental health of people who have already been educated into Listening To Your Betters On Things They Tell You?

One day in the future those generations will look back and wonder what the hell was the matter with these people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 1, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled machine, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on making those who are responsible for the migrant caravan pay.

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The Climate Apocalypse Is Now Or Something

By William Teach December 1, 2018 – 10:30 am

The Arctic will totally melt! People will experience heat stroke for the first time ever!

And the planet’s totally on fire! From the unhinged article

WHAT PEOPLE SAY they know about climate change is a roller coaster of human ignorance—wait, everyone knows that but no one knows that? It’s striking to learn (according to Yale’s climate survey program) that 74 percent of women and 70 percent of men believe climate change will harm future generations of humans, but just 48 and 42 percent, respectively, think it’s harming them personally.

It is, of course, in lots of ways. Yet fewer than half of Americans think climate change is a right-here, right-now problem. So it’s critical that a new report on the impact of climate change is about the present as much as the future. The topline results: 157 million more people experienced a heat wave in 2016 than in 2000—12.3 million Americans. That heat and the injuries that can come from it cost the world 153 billion hours of labor—1.1 billion in the US. The geographic range of the mosquitoes that carry dengue fever, Zika, malaria, and chikungunya is spreading. So is the range of the bacterium that causes cholera. Global crop yield is going down.

See? Total doom. Except for the reality that global crop yields are actually going up. But, he, we do not want to interrupt a Warmist meltdown, eh?

Engineers won’t be these reports’ only users. Consider lawyers. The NCA is, after all, a government report acknowledging the damage caused by climate change. So it might be evidence in lawsuits against climate emitters. “We used the last assessment for that purpose and this is even stronger,” says Steve Berman, managing partner at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a firm involved in a few of those lawsuits. “It also takes away a lot of the oil industry argument that this science is still nascent, and that no one is really certain there will be all of these impacts.”

This is the National Climate Report released last Friday. Who would have thought it would be a political document which would attempt to make it easier to sue for money and to force Other People to comply with the Cult of Climastrology beliefs?

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Texas Sues San Antonio Over Sanctuary City Status

By William Teach December 1, 2018 – 7:26 am

It’ll be interesting to see how they ends up

Texas sues San Antonio police under sanctuary cities law

Texas’ attorney general sued the San Antonio police chief Friday for what he said are violations of the state’s immigration law targeting “sanctuary cities” and sought millions of dollars in sanctions.

The lawsuit Ken Paxton filed in state court was a rare enforcement action of Senate Bill 4, passed last year by the Texas Legislature and mostly upheld by a federal appeals court.

SB4 is one of the toughest state laws targeting illegal immigration. It prohibited law enforcement agencies from refusing “detainer” requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doing anything to stop an officer from asking about a suspect’s immigration status, or stopping them from cooperating with immigration authorities. (snip)

Paxton’s lawsuit accused McManus of improperly handling a human smuggling case in December 2017 in which 12 immigrants were found inside a tractor-trailer.

ICE typically prosecutes major cases of human smuggling, which occur frequently in South Texas due to the proximity of the U.S.-Mexico border. But in this case, McManus repeatedly declined the help of an ICE officer, instead having the driver charged with a state crime and releasing the migrants to Catholic Charities. (snip)

Police policy now says that officers “will not refer” migrants to ICE unless the person has a federal deportation warrant, and that the department along with other groups will assist victims and witnesses with getting visas.

Paxton’s lawsuit asks a judge to prohibit San Antonio from enforcing that policy of committing “future violations of SB4.” It also demands civil penalties of at least $25,500 a day for every day after Sept. 1, 2017, when the city policy took effect. That alone would surpass $11.5 million, and the lawsuit also demands other civil penalties.

There should be penalties for jurisdictions that refuse to enforce laws that protect US citizens from people who are unlawfully present in the country. Who are essentially providing aid and comfort to people who have already joined the criminal justice system through committing crimes. Those crimes so often involved causing problems for US citizens.

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41st President, George H.W. Bush, Dead At 94

By William Teach December 1, 2018 – 7:14 am

Policy wise, you can find good and bad things in his resume. But, he was always a classy guy, and the first president I was able to vote for

(The Hill) George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the head of one of the most prominent families in American political history, died Friday at the age of 94.

In a statement released through his son, former President George W. Bush, the family described their patriarch “as a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for.”

No cause of death was given. Instead the statement simply announced that “the entire Bush family is deeply grateful for 41’s life and love, for the compassion of those who have cared and prayed for Dad, and for the condolences of our friends and fellow citizens.”

Bush’s wife, Barbara, died in April.

The Bushes had been married for 73 years at the time of her death. Back then, her husband released a statement calling her “the most beloved woman in the world.”

Bush served for eight years as vice president to Ronald Reagan before winning the White House himself, beating Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis by a convincing margin in 1988.

Obviously, lots more to that story. He was instrumental in helping Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union, and was there when the USSR collapsed.

Trump had lots of nice words for the elder Bush

“Melania and I join with a grieving Nation to mourn the loss of former President George H.W. Bush, who passed away last night,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

“Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, ‘a thousand points of light’ illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world,” Trump continued. (snip)

“Along with his full life of service to country, we will remember President Bush for his devotion to family—especially the love of his life, Barbara. His example lives on, and will continue to stir future Americans to pursue a greater cause. Our hearts ache with his loss, and we, with the American people, send our prayers to the entire Bush family, as we honor the life and legacy of 41.”

There’s more to it. And from the Obama’s

The Obamas praised Bush, calling him “a patriot and humble servant” with “a legacy of service that may never be matched, even though he’d want all of us to try.”

“While our hearts are heavy today, they are also filled with gratitude. Not merely for the years he spent as our forty-first President, but for the more than 70 years he spent in devoted service to the country he loved – from a decorated Naval aviator who nearly gave his life in World War II, to Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces, with plenty of posts along the way. Ambassador to the United Nations. Director of Central Intelligence. U.S. Envoy to China. Vice President of the United States,” the Obamas said.

Bill Clinton also offered kind words, this from a man who were political rivals turned strong friends noting something a lot of the media may miss

He never stopped serving. I saw it up close, working with him on tsunami relief in Asia and here at home after Hurricane Katrina. His remarkable leadership and great heart were always on full display.

After Bush left the White House, he continued to serve, helping out with so many domestic and international projects.

Rest in peace, sir.

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Big Earthquake In Alaska

By William Teach November 30, 2018 – 3:07 pm

Been away from the stuff for a bit, this is shocking

https://twitter.com/LoveGoddessNY/status/1068576170113974278

Just scrolling through the photos and videos of the event, which has been measured at 7.0, which can feel stronger in someplace like Alaska with harder soil and more bedrock than California. The tsunami alert has been cancelled, but people are being told to expect aftershocks for months.

I hate to say it, but, how will they blame this on Trump?

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