I got the permanent suspension from Twitter, and, of course, they do not explain why, even after asking them a second time. I’m assuming it is simply due to being a conservative.
My new account is @WTeach2, or just click here. Follow me and I’ll follow back. Have to rebuild.
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By non-citizens, Ron Hayduk of Jacobin means illegal aliens, and really exposes what the Democrat agenda is all about
Why Non-Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote
Imagine: what if today, instead of being consigned to the shadows, the more than 22 million noncitizen immigrants in the US were heading to the polls? Sound preposterous?
Voting by non-citizens is actually as old America itself. From the founding of the American Republic, voting rights were determined not by citizenship but by other criteria, such as race, gender, and property holdings. When women, post-emancipation African Americans, and poor white men were denied voting rights, it was due to elite antipathy — not because they lacked citizenship. Non-citizens in those years picked electoral winners and losers, and even held political office. What brought this period of “alien suffrage†to a close was simple nativism.
The case for noncitizen voting remains compelling: all residents are part of the political community in which they live and should therefore have a say in the local, state, and federal laws to which they’re subject. Without the means of choosing representation, non-citizen immigrants are a non-voting caste — disenfranchised pariahs in their adopted country. Noncitizen voting is a logical step to correct this injustice, and to make the ideals of American democracy more of a reality.
Today, about one in fourteen people in the US are noncitizen immigrants (lawful permanent residents, unauthorized immigrants, or legal residents on temporary visas). They live in virtually every state, city, suburb, and town. They’re teachers and students, physicians and nurses, musicians and construction workers. They pay taxes, raise their families, send their kids to schools, and make countless social and cultural contributions every day.
It’s a long, long, long screed which attempts to make the case, but, really, it falls flat and misses an important point: want to vote? Go through the process to become a citizen. You’re welcome to read the whole thing, which ends with
Just as the Civil Rights Movement fought to extend the franchise to African Americans, expanding the franchise to new Americans would empower the excluded and help forge winning voting blocs. It would make American democracy more inclusive and vibrant. And it would tilt political power away from elites.
So ignore the nativists. Let noncitizen residents vote.
So, we’re supposed to let people who are here on short term visas the right to vote, including in federal elections? People who crossed our borders illegally/overstayed their visas? Why? It’s simple: to get them to vote Democrat. Democrats couldn’t really give a damn about these people except in terms of voting blocs, much like they really do not care about blacks except when they need their votes. That’s it. Nothing else.
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Congratulations, Democrats! You did what pretty much happens in a good chunk of mid-terms
(Fox News) Democrats reclaimed control of the House of Representatives Tuesday night after eight long years out of power, dealing a major setback to President Trump’s legislative agenda — but Republicans were able to expand their narrow Senate majority and, with it, preserve the ability to confirm crucial judicial nominees.
The split decision on Capitol Hill follows one of the most intense and chaotic midterm campaign seasons in recent memory, in which President Trump barnstormed the country for GOP candidates and powerful Democrats, including predecessor Barack Obama, did the same for the other side.
For his part, Trump was able to help prevent a total Democratic takeover in Congress, and he avoided a repeat of President Obama’s first midterm elections in 2010, when his party lost 6 seats in the Senate and 63 in the House.
Retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., said in a statement that “history had repeated itself” Tuesday night, noting that since 1862, the president’s party has lost an average of 32 House seats during the midterms. After Tuesday’s elections, Democrats appeared poised to gain approximately two dozen seats in the House, while Republicans looked to net at least two Senate seats.
At the moment, Democrats have 219 seats and the GOP has 193, with a few still pending. 218 is needed for House control.
In the Senate, it’s sitting at 51-45 GOP, with the Republicans picking up at least two extra seats. Claire McCaskill and Heidi Heitkamp were two of the Democrats who lost, as did Joe Donnelly (D) in Indiana. A few others may occur, or not. Some races are too close at this time, like between McSally (R) and Sinema (D) in Arizona (how Arizonans vote for a woman, Sinema, who hates Arizonans, is unbelievable). And it is super close between Democrat Jon Tester and Republican Rosendale in Montana.
And you have Romney winning the GOP held seat in Utah. Magic underwear for everyone!!!
What now?
Pelosi and top Democrats have vowed to open a series of investigations into the White House upon reclaiming the House, including probes into Trump’s unreleased personal tax returns, alleged collusion with Russia, and potential ethics violations by administration officials.
Prominent firebrands including Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler are slated to be elevated to lead the House Financial Services Committee, Intelligence Committee, and Judiciary Committee, respectively. With control of those and other key committees, Democrats will have the legal authority to issue subpoenas to compel Republicans and others to provide documents or appear at hearings — and to seek contempt proceedings if they don’t comply.
“We will be able to get answers the Republicans were unwilling to pursue,” Schiff told CNN in October. “Records that the Republicans wouldn’t ask for.” (Pelosi has said that trying to obtain Trump’s tax returns would be “one of the first things we’d do.”)
Schiff added that he would place a “very high priority” on determining whether the Trump Organization had laundered money through Russia.
It’s going to be investigation-palooza, which will just fire Trump up even more. Watch him take a page out of Obama’s playbook and stonewall and ignore the investigations. Even the uber-leftist NY Times Editorial Board thinks Democrats should be really careful, and start with pushing policies. Ones that are not uber-leftist. That they should avoid impeachment (good luck with this, they will hold all sorts of crazy hearings). And that they should not go crazy with subpoenas. Good with this, too.
Here in NC
NC Voter ID Amendment looks like it's going to easily pass. You can bet a lawsuit will be filed by Thursday by those who want illegal voting https://t.co/H878fXfgiV
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) November 7, 2018
As of this morning, with 99% reporting, it is sitting at 56% approve. You also have Marcy’s Law, which is about victim’s rights, which will pass with 62%. NC Democrats were 100% against it, and offered up some weak excuses, which mostly boiled down to “hate anything GOP pushes.” All six of the amendments offered by the GOP majority look to pass.
In Washington state the carbon tax initiative looks like it will fail
If Democrats ever want to fight climate change at the national level, they’ll need help from state-level progressives first. Blue states will need to function as “laboratories of democracy,†trying out creative new climate policies and finding their faults before their debut on the national stage.
On Tuesday, Democrats didn’t get that help.
Though progressives cruised to victory in Washington State—Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, easily won reelection—by late Tuesday night, voters appeared almost certain to reject Initiative 1631, a ballot question that would have established the nation’s first carbon tax. With 64 percent of the vote counted, 56 percent of voters opposed the measure—enough of a rout that The Seattle Times declared it defeated. The Associated Press has yet to call the race.
Even liberals weren’t buying this scam. But, hey, fortunately we have California!
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters have approved a measure requiring all eggs sold in the state to come from cage-free hens by 2022.
— Juliet Williams (@JWilliamsJourno) November 7, 2018
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The authors of this study, and the various articles about it, try and paint a picture where Mankind is also very much a cause, but, nope, move on Warmists
Models show natural swings in the Earth’s climate contribute to Arctic sea ice loss
Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 year is not due to humans alone. (in other words, not due to humans except for a tiny bit)
New research by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist and collaborators show that Arctic sea ice loss is enhanced by natural climate fluctuations such as El Niños and La Niñas. With manmade greenhouse gases on top of the natural climate variability, the decrease in sea ice is even more severe than climate models originally estimated.
Using a series of climate models, the team used a “fingerprint” method to estimate the impact of natural climate variability. Natural swings in the Earth’s climate contribute to about 40 percent to 50 percent of the observed multi-decadal decline in Arctic sea ice.
“Internal variability can enhance or mute changes in climate due to greenhouse gas emissions. In this case, internal variability has tended to enhance Arctic sea ice loss,” said Stephen Po-Chedley, an LLNL climate scientist and a co-author on a paper appearing in the Nov. 5 edition of Nature Geoscience.
As it turns out, observations of sea ice loss were larger than models predicted. Sea ice loss since 1979 has increased due to natural variability; observations show more Arctic sea ice loss than the climate models average
In other words, the reality is, once you remove the biases from the computer models, that the sea ice loss since 1979 (interesting that they aren’t looking at data from all through the Modern Warm Period, which includes warming spikes and pauses/cooling) (double, 1979 is the start of a warming spike through the mid-1990’s) is 50-60% caused by Mankind, you end up with the notion that it’s probably somewhere above 80% natural, if not more.
It is funny that they find that sea ice loss is more than the models average, eh? Models are not reality.
Further, how do we know that this isn’t entirely normal? We cannot know the true extent of sea ice change during the previous warm periods from direct observation, which would set the standard and averages to understand what is happening today.
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…is a sea that will soon rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on yet another reason Trump was elected.
Good grief, second day in a row for tagging the photo. Replaced with something else.
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I’ll be honest, when I see stuff like this I really do consider whether it’s really a false flag. It’s not like Leftists haven’t been responsible for creating all sorts of fake “hate” crimes. And then use the fake but real excuse when caught
‘It’s okay to be white’ fliers at N.J. college called ‘abhorrent and cowardly act’
Fliers linked to the white supremacist movement that declare “it’s okay to be white” were posted on the William Paterson University campus last week, drawing a sharp rebuke from the school’s president.
The posters, which recently appeared at college campuses around the country, have been traced to white supremacist groups and posts on internet forum 4chan, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
William Paterson University President Richard J. Helldobler said campus officials removed the fliers after they were discovered Thursday.
“Based on recent media reports, our preliminary understanding is that these fliers are part of a campaign to feed social unrest and promote white supremacy,” Helldobler said in a statement.
“This is an abhorrent and cowardly act and does not reflect our values of diversity and inclusion. These moments do not define us, but it is how we respond that demonstrates our character and moral mindset. In that spirit, let us take time to treat each other with kindness during this turbulent time,” Helldobler said.
Got that? They’re all about diversity and stuff, as long as it doesn’t include white people. The same people were utterly fine (or afraid to say something) when the Black Lives Matter issue was bubbling up, which included derision of white people, calling for them to be hurt and killed, telling them they weren’t allowed to speak, and so much more. And, quite frankly, the more that SJWs freak out, the more you will see stuff like this. The more you will see a growing divide between blacks and whites. Just like we saw during the Obama years. If you divide people along racial lines, people will fight back. You will get more who are white separatists or white nationalists (they aren’t the same). And more who are white supremacists. These are the ones who truly hate blacks, much like so many of the BLM folks hate whites.
It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the fliers or if they were connected to the same messages reported at other schools within the past several days.
Huh.
The “it’s okay to be white” message is linked to an online trolling effort to provoke responses that would supposedly hurt the credibility of the media and others, according to a report from the ADL.
“The idea was to create a flier that had an (ostensibly) inoffensive phrase on it that would nevertheless be treated as racist by people who viewed it, particularly liberals or members of the media,” the ADL said in a November 2017 report. “Their subsequent ‘overreactions’ would in turn ostensibly make those people lose credibility in the eyes of others and seem like hypocrites.”
It’s working.
“It’s okay to be white” posters also appeared at campuses in states, including Vermont, Colorado, Delaware and North Carolina, InsideHigherEd reported Monday.
They appeared at NC State and Duke University last week, causing meltdowns and people to run for their safe spaces with non-GMO, fair trade cocoa and coloring books.
Of course it is OK to be white. It’s the motives behind the posters that are at question. Much like with the BLM folks. Of course, they tell us their actual motives.
These people complaining are also against 1st Amendment Free Speech rights. Go figure. And I’m confident I’ll be called a white supremacist for daring to drop this post.
At William Paterson, officials said students with safety concerns should call university police. It was not clear if the incident was being treated as a criminal matter. Schools generally have policies around posting fliers on campus.
Sticks and stones will break my bones but WORDS ARE THE ZOMG WORST!
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You might be saying “Teach, if anthropogenic climate change is such a minor, tiny, immaterial issue, why blog so much about it?” Well, I remember asking Ed Morrissey, back when he was known as Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters, why focus so much on 9/11 Truth. He responded with something like “because you have to beat the nuts back or they gain traction.” Same with ‘climate change.’ The nuts won’t give up, despite being such low hanging fruit
TRUMP GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH REPORTERS ON GLOBAL WARMING
President Donald Trump pushed back on reporters who confronted him with a government report on global warming, saying he knew of “scientists that very much dispute it.â€
“Well, I think we’ve contributed, we certainly contribute, I mean, there’s certain pollutants that go up and there’s certain things that happen,†Trump said in an interview with Axios reporters that aired on HBO Sunday night.
Axios reporters thought bringing a copy of the most recent National Climate Assessment (NCA) would make it harder for Trump to question its findings. It didn’t work.
Axios’s Jonathan Swan said scientists “say the overwhelming cause for the last 50 years†is human activity, to which Trump responded, “I don’t necessarily agree.†(snip)
Trump seemed to take a “lukewarmer†stance on global warming during the interview. “Lukewarmers†agree that humans contribute to warming, but that contribution is probably much less than the NCA and many other scientists say it is.
“Is there climate change? Yeah. Will it go back like this, I mean will it change back? Probably,†Trump said. “Man and women, we do have an impact, but I don’t believe the impact is merely what some say and other scientists that dispute those findings very strongly.â€
Man-caused global warming/climate change was barely a blip on the radar for most elections this century, and has gotten less so as time goes on. Even Democrats only bring it up as an afterthought, for the most part. Usually while pimping more taxation. Speaking of taxation
Washington State Could Become The First To Charge A Carbon Fee
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The initiative has garnered broad support in the more urban, liberal parts of the state. A large coalition of environmental groups, businesses, tribes and social justice organizations say it is the “necessary first step” in fighting climate that will set an example for other states across the nation.
Initiative 1631 places a fee on carbon emissions of $15 dollars per ton that would increase each year by $2 per ton until the state meets its greenhouse gas reduction goals. The fee will generate $2.3 billion during the first five years, which could be used for a broad range of environmental and climate-related projects
So, big city leftists are enthused about it. Wait till they find out it will actually hit them in their own wallets.
Dave Creveling’s family has raised cows in the Methow Valley on the eastern side of the Cascade mountains since just after the civil war.
“Nobody makes any money running cows. It’s just a way of life and that’s the way it’s always been,” Creveling says. His family may be land rich, but Creveling says everyone in the business is cash poor. And that’s where the climate change ballot initiative gets him.
Fossil fuel companies are free to pass the costs of the carbon fee on to customers. According to an independent estimate, the carbon fee would increase gasoline prices by up to 14 cents per gallon per year. Heating, electricity and natural gas prices would also rise.
I actually want them to pass the initiative, so the rest of the country can see just what Cult of Climastrology policies bring about.
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Everyone has their own two cents on what will maybe possibly happen
(Fox News) It’s finally here.
After hundreds of campaign rallies, billions of dollars in donations, a nonstop blitz of TV advertising and polling that’s been in full swing since summer, Election Day has arrived – and with it, voters’ midterm verdict on whether Republicans should hold or lose their grip on power in Washington.
Democrats have been working toward this day since the moment President Trump was sworn in. They’ve waited two long years for the shot to win enough seats in Congress to cripple the 45th president’s agenda.
In the end, the elections will go one of three ways: Republicans hold both chambers, Democrats take the majority in both, or the parties split the House and Senate. Either of the latter two scenarios would be problematic for Trump, immediately putting a damper on his agenda.
By the numbers, 35 Senate seats, 36 gubernatorial seats and 435 House seats are up for grabs on Tuesday. And the biggest names in both parties say the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Well, really, we hear this every single election. Every two years we’re now hearing that this is the most important election of our lives.
Democrats need a net pickup of 23 seats to take control of the House, where they promise endless investigations which Trump will blast while also telling them to go pound sand. Prediction: Democrats pick up 20 seats and complain a lot about voter fraud, Republicans/Trump stealing the election, and Russian interference.
In the Senate, Democrats only need two seats for majority. Prediction: GOP picks up 4 seats.
For those 36 governorships, we’ll see what the people of those states think of a roaring economy that keeps getting better. And that’s where a lot of voters are going: the economy. They saw the malaise during the Obama years, and how it started pumping the minute Trump came in. Who gets out the vote the most? And how many Democrats #WalkAway? Democrats have been working hard to see who can go the furthest left. If Democrats do not get the Blue wave, they are going to be very blue, and there will be major, major meltdowns.
Thoughts?
Remember this oldy but goody about Obamacare?
“Of course, I want people to have health care,†Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.â€
Same thing happens with Hotcoldwetdry stuff. People are more than happy when it is Someone Else paying the price. Not so much when it’s themselves
Macron refuses to back down on French fuel tax as protests loom
French President Emmanuel Macron said he would not back down from a hike in fuel tax, despite plans for nationwide protests this month and his personal popularity reaching a new low.
Drivers are planning blockades and go-slows across France on Nov. 17 to protest against higher fuel prices, which have increased by up to a third in the past year, making Macron’s claim to help hard-working people harder to defend.
In a bid to fight climate change, his government has voted increases in a carbon tax and decided in particular to ramp up the price of diesel, the most commonly used car fuel in France.
But the increases, decided in late 2017 at a time crude oil prices were hovering under $50 per barrel, have become more painful for consumers after oil surged to over $85 last month. The issue has helped drive Macron’s popularity to as low as 21 percent in a poll published last week.
The president, who has launched a seven-day tour of northeastern France, said he has no plan to back down.
“I prefer taxing fuel to taxing labor. People complaining about rising fuel prices are the same ones who complain about pollution and how their children suffer,†he told regional newspapers in the area, in an interview published on Monday.
I’m guessing Macron will be taking a bicycle or walking or something to the UN IPCC in Poland this year, right? It does go to show that even the very leftist French people have their limits on what they’re willing to pay for their own beliefs.
Read: French Citizens Aren’t Particularly Happy To Be The Ones To Pay For ‘Climate Change’ Initiatives »
…are tropical trees which will soon be growing in Canada, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post wondering why Democrats say voter fraud doesn’t exist.
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