Chuck Schumer: GOP Should Give Up On Wall Or Government Will Stay Closed Or Something

By William Teach December 23, 2018 – 8:04 am

Considering the opinion of Conservatives on government, how is this a threat?

CHUCK SCHUMER SAYS REPUBLICANS MUST ‘ABANDON’ WALL IN ORDER TO REOPEN GOVERNMENT

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans need to “abandon” border wall funding if they want the government to reopen, just less than 24 hours into the partial shutdown.

Schumer, who has strongly opposed funding President Donald Trump’s border wall, saidthis on the Senate floor Saturday afternoon as the federal government is officially in a partial shutdown after Senate Republicans failed to receive enough votes to pass a short-term spending bill Friday that included funding for a border wall.

The New York senator also said Democrats are “open to discussing any proposal as long as they do not include anything for the wall,” showing Democrats are not willing to compromise on border wall funding.

It wasn’t all that long ago that Democrats, including Schumer, voted for legislation that would build a wall. In fact, that legislation is still in force, and requires government funding for the wall.

As far as an extended shutdown, do we really care? I’m sure a bunch of unhinged #NeverTrumpers are suddenly upset over the prospect of the government being “closed” (most of it isn’t), and I’ve read a few of them freaking out. But, if unnecessary jobs are being put off during the shutdown, then we need to do away with the taxpayers funding jobs that are unnecessary. And, really, as far as it goes, most things necessary continue as normal. Trump isn’t putting up all sorts of “Barrycades” like Obama did, blocking monuments and such in D.C. and around the country, trying to inflict pain (which the media refused to call him out on).

While I do not see the need for a full wall along entire border, just in certain areas and other measures would work wonders in reducing illegal immigration, it is refreshing to see a Republican fight for what we want. We’ve been calling for Republicans to fight back. Like Trump or loathe him, he’s doing what we have wanted for a long time.

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Gun Owners In Quebec Are Less Than Enthused About Registering Their Guns

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 3:52 pm

While gun registration may seem no big deal on the surface, like so many other gun grabber proposals it really is about making it easier to grab those guns later, to restrict people from having firearms for protection and hunting and sport

Less than 20 per cent of long guns registered in Quebec ahead of Jan. 29 deadline

Quebec’s attempt to establish a firearms registry is facing resistance, and with a January deadline looming, less than 20 per cent of the long guns believed to be in the province have been declared.

Pro-gun activist Guy Morin is calling on the public to “wait until the last minute” to comply with the law. The spokesman for Tous contre un registre quebecois des armes a feu (All Against a Quebec Gun Registry) said in an interview Friday his hope is either the registry will be abolished or so few people will register that it “cannot be enforced.”

The government has put the number of long guns — mostly shotguns and rifles — in Quebec at roughly 1.6 million. But since the registry opened last January, only 284,125 guns had been declared, Public Security Department spokeswoman Louise Quintin said.

Morin, whose group last month cancelled a plan to hold a rally at a memorial site for the 14 women killed at Ecole Polytechnique, said Quebec’s law is an affront. “We are Canadian gun owners, and this is insulting to us,” he said. “Why do we have to register here when everywhere else in the country, you don’t have to?”

And said registry allows government to grow and repress

Following pressure from gun-control groups, Quebec passed a law creating its own registry in 2016. The government has given gun owners until Jan. 29, 2019 to register their firearms or face penalties of up to $5,000.

Quebec initially said its registry would cost $17 million and another $5 million annually to maintain. Quintin said in an email that the budget for setting up the registry is now set at $20 million.

Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault told reporters this week the government is hoping it does not have to resort to fines. “Yes, there are fines that can be applied for people who don’t fulfil their obligations,” she said. “But you know, before the repression part, I prefer to focus on the prevention part,” she added, encouraging people to register their guns over the Christmas holidays.

Oh, wait, it gets better

Heidi Rathjen, co-ordinator of PolySeSouvient, a gun-control group formed after the 1989 Polytechnique massacre, lobbied for the creation of the Quebec registry. She rejects arguments it is a waste of money, pointing to provincial police statistics showing 80 per cent of firearms seized during crimes over the past 20 years were long guns.

Rathjen said a registry is essential because guns cannot be controlled if the government doesn’t know how many there are and where they are.

Controlled. The same people are usually soft on criminals at the same time.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post wondering why the feministas hate the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

Double shot below the fold, a smaller photo, so, check out Pacific Pundit, with a post on AOC wanting to spend border money on “green” jobs

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Who’s Up For A Holly, Jolly Totally ‘Climate Change’ Doomed Christmas Or Something?

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 10:30 am

These are some miserable, miserable people, who mostly refuse to make their own lives carbon neutral

A holly, jolly Christmas – while the planet burns

Christmas is a complicated time of year. There’s the Yuletide carol and gay apparel, the peace on earth and goodwill toward man. There are wonderful acts of charity and more acts of shopping. There’s food, music, and for some, religion. And then there’s the end-of-year, off-the-treadmill downtime for reflection. And the fact that the planet is going to hell in a handbag.

Humans are good at not letting reality get in the way of a good time, and Christmas provides a great opportunity to hone those skills. I recall one Christmas Eve, sitting in my Sunday best at my grandmother’s dining-room table, trying to stay afloat in the grownup conversation and pass the gravy boat without spilling, while ignoring the inebriated family member grazing on the carpet at our feet.

A complicated time of year indeed, but with age and children of my own, I’m less concerned about drunk relations under the table than what’s going on outside the window. News on the planetary front is nothing short of dire. Between climate change, the most severe spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs and global pollution on an unprecedented scale, Earth has little cause for celebration. The belfries of the land will have to work very hard this season to be heard above the alarm bells of environmental science. (snip)

It’s tempting to put a little asterisk next to the “Seasons Greetings” on this year’s Christmas cards and footnote a snappy quote from one of the world’s leading scientists. Such as: “The next few years are probably the most important in our history” (Debra Roberts, co-chair of working group behind the IPCC report). Or, “We know that we’re moving in the wrong direction” (Johan Rockstrom, incoming director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who foresees a three- to four-degree temperature rise, based on current plans). Or, “We are sleepwalking towards a cliff” (Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at the World Wildlife Fund, whose most recent Living Planet Report records a 60-per-cent decrease in animal populations since 1970).

It must take a lot of work to be as miserable as a Warmist, and they always want to drag everyone else with them into their dark world. Just smile at them, wish them Happy Holidays (mentioning Christmas will drive them off the deep end, and you don’t want to be around for that, because they’ll follow you), and be on your way.

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White Christmas’ Will Soon Be A Thing Of The Past Or Something

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 7:17 am

If only you’d let the government impost a carbon tax on you along with giving up lots of your freedom, we could solve this

Your white Christmas is on the way out

Global warming is winning the war on Christmas.

Scientists studying temperatures have been recording markedly hotter winters over the past 50 years. For millions of people, the holiday will be hotter than those their grandparents experienced. In the coming decades, many children alive today in the northern hemisphere may come to remember a white Christmas as mostly a memory.

Picking a single day, even Dec. 25, as a barometer for climate change can be misleading since there is so much daily and annual variation. Average seasonal trends do paint a picture, one of pervasive melting. “It’s very fair to say Decembers are warming in some places, and that is translating to a warming Christmas,” says Sean Sublette, a meteorologist with the science nonprofit Climate Matters.

By analyzing data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Sublette says the average December temperatures in 82% of US cities it studied have risen that more by at least 0.5°F since 1970. A full quarter have warmed by at least 3°F. By comparison, only 12% of the 244 cities saw average temperatures drop. And just one (in Idaho) recorded as much as a 3°F decline. The most warming—more than 5°F —occurred in places like Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Maine; Duluth, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota and Burlington, Vermont (average where temperatures have soared 7°F). What has been recorded in Iowa has been typical for the midwest:

What’s missing from this is any evidence that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. You know what happens now, though, right? Snowy Christmas’ will start increasing.

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Scorching Hot Take: None Of Us Actually Deserve U.S. Citizenship, So Why Deny Others?

By William Teach December 22, 2018 – 7:00 am

This might be just a wee bit too hot for a Saturday morning, as the NY Times’ Michelle Alexander thinks she’s on to something

None of Us Deserve Citizenship

(couple paragraphs about a woman who illegally climbed over wall then immediately gave birth)

Answering these questions may be easy legally, but they’re more difficult morally. After all, none of us born here did anything to deserve our citizenship. On what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

Jose Antonio Vargas’s powerful book “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” wrestles with the moral, emotional and psychological dimensions of America’s perennial question: Who deserves citizenship? With remarkable sensitivity to the extraordinarily wide range of people whose lives are affected by our nation’s immigration policies, he writes from the perspective of someone who was brought to this country illegally at the age of 12 to live with his grandparents, leaving his mother in the Philippines. Ever since his grandfather confessed to him, at age 16, that “you are not supposed to be here,” he has battled deep feelings of unworthiness and has striven to earn the right to belong. Yet no matter how much he achieved or contributed — indeed, even after winning a Pulitzer Prize for journalism — he still had the nagging feeling that he didn’t deserve to be here. Only after being arrested near the border and held in a cell with a group of terrified undocumented boys who had been separated from their families did he have an awakening: It was suddenly obvious to him that the boys huddled near him deserved safety, security and a place they could call home — a place where they could not only survive but also thrive. If they deserved such a thing, he did too. “Home is not something I should have to earn,” he wrote. It’s something we all have a right to.

Really? So we can all just deserve to start living in some sort of McMansion at the beach (or wherever floats your boat)? For illegals, their home is somewhere else. What this does do is make it so America has to kowtow to illegals rather than them attempting to assimilate.

Many people will sympathize with Mr. Vargas’s story but recoil at his bold conclusion, as it seems to imply support for open borders — a position that no Republican or Democratic member of Congress supports or even takes seriously. This reaction seems misplaced. The deeper question raised isn’t whether our borders should be open or closed (generally a false dichotomy) but rather how we ought to manage immigration in a manner that honors the dignity, humanity and legitimate interests of all concerned.

What she means is accommodating illegals, rather than the interests of U.S. citizens.

Reaching for a radically more humane immigration system is not pie-in-the-sky, utopian dreaming. But it does require a certain measure of humility on the part of those of us who have benefited from birthright citizenship. Rather than viewing immigrants as seeking something that we, Americans, have a moral right to withhold from them, we ought to begin by acknowledging that none of us who were born here did anything to deserve our citizenship, and yet all of us — no matter where we were born — deserve compassion and basic human rights.

That is not the end, she keeps going. When will she give up her own unearned citizenship?

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White Male Democrat Super Enthused To Make Companies Pay For Birth Control

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 4:00 pm

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein apparently thinks that those poor women can’t afford their own birth control

Is it even necessary to note how much is wrong with this? If you’re a Republican, you understand that not forcing companies to pay for contraception doesn’t limit access. It’s right there at every drug store. You can find condom vending machines all over the place in bars and nightclubs. Heck, at schools! And, if companies shouldn’t be making birth control decisions, then why should they pay for it?

If you’re a hardcore Stateist, well, you get the above. Anyhow, since he doesn’t offer a link, here you go

Attorney General Josh Stein today filed a complaint to seek an injunction to prevent new Trump administration rules that will drastically change access to contraceptive coverage. Specifically, these rules will allow any employer or health insurer with religious objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement.

“I believe that women, not their employers, should make their own birth control decisions,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “These new rules to limit women’s access to contraception are unlawful, and I will fight to stop them.”

Almost 2 million women in North Carolina have benefited from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement. More than 70 percent of North Carolina women aged 18-49 use contraception, including nearly 80 percent who are at risk of unintended pregnancy. In 2010, public costs for unintended pregnancies in North Carolina were $858.3 million.

The Attorney General’s complaint states that these new rules are illegal, as they violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Today’s action against the new rules comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s interim final rules early this year.

The thing is, the HHS rule on contraception was created out of the blue. There is nothing really in the Obamacare bill that authorized this rule specifically. Contraception doesn’t appear in Ocare. Anyhow, Democrats are so paternalistic towards women that they do not think women can afford $9 a month for birth control pills.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded due to Other People consuming meat over holidays, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on Toblerone chocolate conforming to Islamic law.

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Latest ‘Climate Change’ Doom: War Against Rats In NYC

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 11:17 am

It couldn’t have anything to do with garbage sitting around and stuff, right? Oh, wait, right, we should blame all the New York City resident traveling around in their fossil fueled vehicles living and working in their buildings with outsized carbon footprints

‘We are at war’: New York’s rat crisis made worse by climate change

The discarded slices of pizza that litter New York’s streets have long fuelled its sizeable population of rats, but now the city’s growing swarm has a new reason to enjoy their home – warming temperatures.

City officials have reported an increasing number of calls from residents complaining about rats, and have warned that milder winters are helping them feed and mate longer into the year. And as winters warm up, more frequent outdoor activity by humans is adding to the litter rats thrive upon.

Rat-related complaints have been on the rise over the past four years, with 19,152 calls made to the city last year, an increase of about 10% on 2016. There are no reliable figures on the number of rats in New York – estimates range from 250,000 to tens of millions – but the surge in rat activity has been replicated in other cities. Houston, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia have experienced large increases in calls to pest control.

Veteran anti-rat strategists have, in part, blamed climate change. “It’s a complex issue but we are seeing rat population increases around the world now,” said Bobby Corrigan, a sought-after rat-catching consultant who once spent a week living in a rat-infested barn in Indiana as part of his PhD research.

So, they can’t actually show that the numbers have increased, just that there are more calls. Might it have something to do with more people in these cities making more messes? Regardless, the thing here is that they cannot prove that the very slight warming has been mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Still, everyone in these big Leftist cities who Believes in ‘Climate Change’ should immediately go carbon neutral. Just to be sure.

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Loony Lefty Churches Sing Rewritten Christmas Songs About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 21, 2018 – 6:55 am

I wonder how many of the Progressive parishioners drove their fossil fueled vehicle to the church?

Progressive churches are singing rewritten Christmas carols to fight climate change

Some progressive churches in Australia are teaming up to fight climate change this Christmas season — and are singing rewritten Christmas carols to get the job done.

Check out the Pitt Street Uniting Church Singers croon new versions of “Joy to the World,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “Silent Night,” and others..

The rewritten version of “Joy to the World” they sing in the clip goes like so:

Cool down the world / the time has come / for targets tight and fair 
Let petrol, oil, and coal / prepare to go 
Let’s fund renewables 
Let’s fund renewables 
Let’s fund, let’s fund renewablesThe Pitt Street Uniting Church’s website describes the congregation as a “progressive faith community of justice-seeking friends in the heart of Sydney.”

“We still sing traditional carols and celebrate Christmas!” says thevideo description of church singers belting out the new carols. “We also believe that God wants us to care for the earth. 97% of climatologists believe that climate change is real, and that it is in part caused by human activity.”

The Lord also says you should practice what you preach

Another video featured “people of faith” singing the carols in Brisbane “to remind ourselves, the public and elected leaders of our responsibility to look after our common home, planet Earth. The Very Rev. Dr. Peter Catt, Dean of Brisbane’s St. John’s Cathedral said that in this climate emergency we must stand up for urgent action against coal and support renewable energy projects especially in Queensland.”

The Very Rev. should hearken back to 2012 when the party in control rammed through all sorts of ‘climate change’ measures then lost so badly during the Queensland elections that they did not have enough seats to be a formally recognized political party.

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