If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is the notion of needed hornets disappearing from the planet because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on massive land temperature data discrepancies.

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Not Helping: Charles Blow Declares That This Is War

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 10:30 am

Earlier, I noted that E.J. Dionne at the Washington Post was doing his part to increase violence from Democratic Party voters. Now we have Charles Blow doing the same at the NY Times. Remember, this is coming from two of the nation’s leading newspapers

Liberals, This Is War

Yes, Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. Rue the day. Rend your garments.

Then, step back, view the entirety of the battle in which you are engaged, and understand that Kavanaugh is just one part of a much larger plan by conservatives to fundamentally change the American political structure so that it enshrines and protects white male power even after America’s changing demographics and mores move away from that power.

This, for them, is not simply a game about political passion and political principles. This is a game of power, pure and simple, and it’s about whether the people who have long held that power will be able to retain it.

For them, Trump is just a useful idiot, a temporary anomaly.

They are thinking generationally, not in terms of the next election cycle but in terms of the next epoch.

Liberals can get so high-minded that they lose sight of the ground war. Yes, next month it is important to prove to the rest of Americans, and indeed the world, that Trump and the Republicans who promote and protect him are at odds with American values and with the American majority.

Chuckles goes on like this for a while, really positioning this as a race thing (he should remember that blacks are less than 13% of the population), softly giving reasons to fight. He allude to voting, but, people take this as permission for violence. He ends with

Folks, Kavanaugh is only one soldier, albeit an important one, in a larger battle. Stop thinking you’re in a skirmish, when you’re at war.

To put it bluntly, Democrat big wigs should be careful pushing this line, and the rank-and-file sheep should be careful thinking they can do this, because it’s Republicans with most of the guns, and we will defend ourselves from your violence. We do not want it to come to this, but, the more violent you become, the more chance that a really bad incident will occur.

And news outlets should be thinking very carefully about pushing this type of line which soft-pedals political violence.

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Crisis Delayed: New Hotcoldwetdry Report Says Chance Of Doom As Early As 2040

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 8:22 am

This rather contradicts all the current Warmist fear-mongering about ‘climate change’ being here now and causing every single Bad Weather event, like this

Plenty more where that came from. Anyhow

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040

A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding the damage requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has “no documented historic precedent.”

The report, issued on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists convened by the United Nations to guide world leaders, describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040 — a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population.

The report “is quite a shock, and quite concerning,” said Bill Hare, an author of previous I.P.C.C. reports and a physicist with Climate Analytics, a nonprofit organization. “We were not aware of this just a few years ago.” The report was the first to be commissioned by world leaders under the Paris agreement, the 2015 pact by nations to fight global warming.

The authors found that if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, the atmosphere will warm up by as much as 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above preindustrial levels by 2040, inundating coastlines and intensifying droughts and poverty. Previous work had focused on estimating the damage if average temperatures were to rise by a larger number, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), because that was the threshold scientists previously considered for the most severe effects of climate change.

The new report, however, shows that many of those effects will come much sooner, at the 2.7-degree mark.

So, doom, doom, and doom. And this NY Times article is one of the lesser doom-saying ones out there. Others are completely unhinged. But, anyhow, how can we fix this?

Avoiding the most serious damage requires transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who estimate that the damage would come at a cost of $54 trillion. But while they conclude that it is technically possible to achieve the rapid changes required to avoid 2.7 degrees of warming, they concede that it may be politically unlikely.

For instance, the report says that heavy taxes or prices on carbon dioxide emissions — perhaps as high as $27,000 per ton by 2100 — would be required. But such a move would be almost politically impossible in the United States, the world’s largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China. Lawmakers around the world, including in China, the European Union and California, have enacted carbon pricing programs.

Huh. So, a radical change to a different type of economy (strange that they don’t want to say it’s about doing away with capitalism in favor of a government controlled economy, eh?) And all sorts of taxes and fees. As positioned by “91 scientists from 40 countries” who took long fossil fueled trips, along with thousands of politicians and bureaucrats to South Korea.

But, from the climascientist community, this is total doom. Unlike the standard low level members and non-sciencey big shots (think Al Gore) of the Cult of Climastrology, the higher end scientists (who should know better) had been sticking with the “doom in 2050 or 2100” meme. But no

Absent aggressive action, many effects once expected only several decades in the future will arrive by 2040, and at the lower temperature, the report shows. “It’s telling us we need to reverse emissions trends and turn the world economy on a dime,” said Myles Allen, an Oxford University climate scientist and an author of the report.

Well, really, every year prior to the UN IPCC Conference On The Parties meetings they come out with some sort of “we’re all doomed!!!!” paper.

The report concludes that the world is already more than halfway to the 2.7-degree mark. Human activities have caused warming of about 1.8 degrees since about the 1850s, the beginning of large-scale industrial coal burning, the report found.

What? No. Where did that extra .3F come from? It’s really between 1.4F and 1.5F. Now they’re just making things up. And it is mostly natural. And the Warmists cannot prove it’s mostly/solely man-caused using science.

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Washington Post: Liberals Need To Stay Angry After Kavanaugh Confirmation

By William Teach October 8, 2018 – 7:52 am

Democrat voters are already angry. This seems to be their standard position. But, their anger has been turning violent since around the time of the Seattle WTO riot, especially as Democratic Party politicians rarely ever call them out on it. This piece by E.J. Dionne doesn’t help

We need to stay angry about Kavanaugh

The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is in tatters. Conservative forces in the country, led by the Republican Party, have completed a judicial coup, decades in the making.

Republicans rushed through Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation to avoid the possible consequences of an election. They aborted a full investigation because they feared what it might find. They made themselves complicit in a presidential attack on Christine Blasey Ford, a brave woman who asked only that her case against Kavanaugh be taken seriously.

After all these outrages, there will be calls for a renewal of civility, as if the problem is that people said nasty things about one other. But the answer to this power grab cannot be passive acceptance in the name of being polite. The causes and consequences of what just happened must be acknowledged frankly.

The conservative struggle for the court began in the 1960s, but it hit its stride in the Bush v. Gore decision after the 2000 election. Five conservative justices violated the principles they claimed to uphold on states’ rights and the use of equal-protection doctrine to stop a recount of votes in Florida requested by Al Gore, the Democratic nominee. They thus made George W. Bush president.

Oh deal Lord, he actually went back to the 2000 election. It just goes to show that Democrats just can’t MoveOn.

The undemocratic nature of representation in the Senate is unlikely to be remedied anytime soon, so progressives and Democrats need to organize far more effectively in the low-population red states. Critics of the judicial right need to remind voters that conservative judges regularly serve the interests of the wealthy and the powerful, not those of the heartland.

And there’s the whine about the stupid flyover country states actually having a voice in the Senate (which was the entire point of the Senate, especially when Senators were appointed by the state legislative branches)

If Democrats take control of the House, they should hold hearings on the administration’s manipulation of the FBI investigation. These could also shed light on the extent to which Kavanaugh misled the Senate.

And there should now be no squeamishness about the urgency of enlarging the Supreme Court if Democrats have the power to do so after the 2020 elections. The current majority on the court was created through illegitimate means. Changing that majority would not constitute politicizing the court because conservatives have already done this without apology.

Everything is illegitimate in Democrat eyes when they do not get their way, that’s the norm. But it is dangerous and beyond irresponsible to publish this in one of the nationals leading newspapers, giving Democrat voters reasons to believe that they’ve been cheated and should take reprisal.

“Court-packing” makes people uncomfortable for good reason. Were it thrust upon the country suddenly by fiat, many Americans would be uneasy, as were even many Democrats in the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-enlargement plan. That’s why we need a considered two-year debate over changing the number of justices — it was done seven times during the 19th century — as the only plausible response to the conservative court-packing project that reached fruition on Saturday.

Its foes need to stay angry. But even more, they need to vote, organize and think boldly. Democracy itself is at stake.

Got that? A debate over how to give Democrats more votes on the court, because they lost. As Barack Obama said “elections have consequences.” For Democrats, elections mean they should get their way 100% of the time.

The last line, though, is a doozy. That’s Dionne attempting to deflect from the notion of angry people doing angry violent things. He wants to position this as voting, after essentially providing the reasoning for people to get angry and make change in a violent and/or abusive way. It takes little to light the bonfire of liberal rage, as we’ve seen. When bad things start happening more and more, you’ll see that Democrat big wigs not only did little to tamp this tendency down, they emboldened it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous plastic water bottle causing cold waves, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on taking a drink for Justice Kavanaugh.

It’s volleyball shorts week! A lot harder than you’d think. A goodly chunk of the photos out there are from the back, and I like to feature faces. Also, a lot are of high school girls, and I’m not posting them.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 7, 2018 – 9:56 am

Patriotic Pinup Walt Otto Puppies

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The birds are singing, the squirrels as squirreling, the Dodgers are up 2-0 and the NHL is back! This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Zero Hedge notes that crazy porn lawyer who Democrats embraced really didn’t help Democrats
  2. Wizbang says that Democratic Party=mob
  3. Weasel Zippers covers unhinged social justice warriors going crazy during halftime
  4. The Right Scoop features VP Pence trolling anti-Kavanaugh nutters
  5. The Lid notes one thing that all Americans believe right now
  6. The First Street Journal wonders if you’re tired of winning yet
  7. The Crawdad Hole notes that when penises are outlawed, only outlaws will have penises
  8. Raised On Hoecakes covers a true Mickey Mouse lawsuit
  9. Pacific Pundit explains what we learned from the Democrat clown show
  10. neo-neocon notes that “survivors” are the new protected class on campus
  11. MOTUS A.D. says Kabuki theater is out, welcome to the theater of the absurd
  12. Moonbattery is utterly Surprised!!!! over falkse #MeToo allegations at a Pa. school
  13. Legal Insurrection notes that Trump won over some #NeverTrumpers on Kavanaugh
  14. Jihad Watch covers ISIS threatening knife attacks at concerts
  15. And last, but not least, Chicks On The Right notes beer causing liberal meltdowns
  16. And one to grow on: Flopping Aces discusses Harry Reid nuclear option blowback

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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Sore Losers Attack Supreme Court Legitimacy After Kavanaugh Confirmed

By William Teach October 7, 2018 – 8:43 am

This is the typical type of Democrat over-reach, with them going full Barking Moonbat Level 10, which they used to be able to get away prior to the Age Of Trump. The age in which elected Republicans found a spine

(Daily Caller) The Senate on Saturday officially voted to confirm Kavanaugh by a vote of 50-48. Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was derailed over the past month by a series of sexual misconduct allegations that Democrats used to demand President Donald Trump withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination.

Democrats used the controversy surrounding the allegations to undermine the Supreme Court’s legitimacy.

“Confirming Brett Kavanaugh in the face of credible allegations of sexual assault that were not thoroughly investigated, and his belligerent, partisan performance in last Thursday’s hearing undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court,” said California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Says Senator who sat on an allegation of criminal misconduct (that has zero evidence) for a month and a half. One potential charge could be obstruction of justice for her.

“The damage done today will be enduring — to the United States Supreme Court [and] to our country,” Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal wrote on Twitter.

Brian Fallon, executive director of Democratic dark money group Demand Justice, pushed a similar message.

Kavanaugh “will be an illegitimate justice, and his confirmation will mark a point of no return for the Supreme Court’s reputation as the one, apolitical branch of government,” Fallon told Reuters.

As the DC points out, this was part of the strategy, going back into August, where Democrats attempted to create a situation to proclaim that Kavanaugh would be illegitimate. The NY Times is saying that this is a triumph for Republicans, but a blow to the court’s image. Well, out here in “flyover country”, it’s fine, because we understand that this was all just a manufactured outrage by hardcore lefties. But, this will be their narrative for years. As will this by the Washington Post editorial board

We need careful, restrained justices on the Supreme Court

THE SENATE voted Saturday to confirm Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, after one of the most contentious nomination battles in history and by the slimmest margin for a justice in the modern era. Now, difficult as this seems, it will be up to the new justice to seek to reassure a country riven over his selection that he has the temperament and judgment to do the job; as important, it will be up to the court as a whole to demonstrate that it is not just another partisan institution. And it will be up to those who opposed his confirmation, including this page, to evaluate Mr. Kavanaugh fairly in his new position.

Many Americans believe, with reason, that the GOP-majority Senate muscled the Kavanaugh nomination through in its drive to install a reliable fifth conservative vote. Now, an increasingly dysfunctional Congress and a wayward presidency threaten to place more demands on this new court to address major social problems and perhaps even defuse threats to the nation’s constitutional order. Meantime, a cemented conservative majority will face temptations to wreak major changes in the law. As they confront these challenges, the justices must act as the careful, restrained jurists they claim to be, not the partisans in robes many fear.

In other words, Kavanaugh and the other Constitutional Conservatives on the court need to vote with the leftists for leftist things. The ones who often use foreign law, international law, and their own beliefs rather than following what the Constitution says and what the Framers intended. You already have Nancy Pelosi stating that she will look for documents to impeach Kavanaugh, as are many other elected Democrats. That’s kind what the WPEB meant for real about “evaluating Mr. Kavanaugh fairly in his new position.”

Expect this caterwauling to continue on and on. Now, though, comes the mid-terms. Did the Democrats, along with their pet media and the unhinged entertainment industry, fire up Republicans to go vote and beat the Dems? We’ll know in a month. This fight might have backfired bigly.

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Congratulations Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

By William Teach October 6, 2018 – 4:29 pm

And for all the Democrats

Just move on, folks. It’s over. You tried. The GOP isn’t going to just roll over like in the past, not with Donald Trump as President.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 6, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible no good sea raising plastic bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on the “intersectional Fuhrer”

As always, please recycle.

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Melania’s Hat Evokes Colonialism Comparison Or Something

By William Teach October 6, 2018 – 10:30 am

This is why we can’t have nice things: unhinged moonbats seeing shades of something nefarious in a simple hat

Melania Trump’s latest white hat evokes colonialist comparison

When first lady Melania Trump first stepped out in front of the press Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, she was wearing an outfit suitable for the setting. She was at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, ready to pet and bottle-feed baby elephants, who were prancing and playing with their caretakers on a large mound of red clay-like dirt, which is why the first lady’s khaki jodhpur pants tucked into tall, brown leather riding boots, and crisp, white tailored shirt seemed appropriate, if a bit of a gamble.

While most people likely wouldn’t want to pair thick, red-orange mud and splashing milk-drunk baby pachyderms with a white top, sartorially, Melania Trump is not most people.

But when she moved on to her next activity, a guided safari a half-hour later at the adjacent Nairobi National Park, the first lady had added an accessory to her get up: a pristine white pith helmet. It was very “Out of Africa,” an homage perhaps to the fabled 1985 Meryl Streep and Robert Redford film, in which Streep stars as Karen Blixen, an independent woman who takes over a farm in rural Kenya in the 1920s.

However, with the hat, Trump’s outfit might have tipped the scales, moving from a practical accessory dangerously close to costume territory evocative of colonialists.

The hat was widely used by European militaries in their colonies throughout Africa and in India, according to Gentleman’s Gazette, and became a popular sun hat for civilian Europeans visiting or living in colonies in the 1930s. US President Theodore Roosevelt wore his pith helmet while on the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition after his presidency in 1909.

These people

Matt Carotenuto, a historian and coordinator of African Studies at St. Lawrence University, compared the hat choice to “(showing) up on an Alabama cotton farm in a confederate uniform,” saying that Trump on Friday “(completed) the stereotype trifecta—elephants, orphans and even the pith helmet.”

She looks gorgeous and dignified.

While pith helmets are still available for purchase online and in hat shops, they have come to symbolize white colonialist rule over the years, and, according to The Guardian, “a symbol of status — and oppression.” It’s unclear if Trump was aware of the meaning, and her office has not responded to CNN’s request for comment on the hat.

Good thing CNN is taking a neutral, journalistic approach to this story, which is simply an unhinged attacked against Melania. The nutters also attacked her boots and pretty much all her clothes.

But the kids sure loved her. And, really, that’s all that matters. Oh, and this was all about bringing aid to Africa, working through US Aid and the UN.

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