Bummer: Patriotism Can’t Solve Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 4:22 pm

Do you know what can solve it? An nice big tax, causing your cost of living to skyrocket. You’ll take one for the team, right? Because the people who are pushing this damned sure won’t

Yuval Noah Harari warns Trump that patriotism cannot solve global threats
Sapiens author has criticised the US president’s rejection of international cooperation, as well as admonishing Brexiters’ ‘fantasy’ of independence

Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari has warned Donald Trump that global cooperation is crucial if humanity is to face its “existential crisis”, after the US president publicly rejected the approach at the UN this week.

The Israeli academic, whose books about the past and future of humanity, Sapiens and Homo Deus, have sold in their millions, said Trump’s speech embracing “the doctrine of patriotism” was very disturbing.

Speaking on Thursday, Harari said that humankind faced an existential crisis due to three overlapping problems: nuclear war, climate change and technological disruption.

“All these problems are global problems in essence, and it should be clear to everybody – especially to politicians – that there is no national solution to nuclear war, climate change or technological disruption,” Harari said. “You can’t build a wall against nuclear winter or against global warming and you can’t regulate artificial intelligence or biotechnology on a national basis. Because nobody would like to be behind, nobody would like to limit their own research and development if other countries are not adopting similar regulations. Global cooperation is the first and necessary step to successfully facing our challenges as a species.”

Harari also took a dim view of Brexit, which he described as “basically a distraction. I don’t think inherently it’s a bad idea … but the timing is terrible… If the EU breaks up into 28 different countries, it’s going to be much more difficult to negotiate climate agreements, to have a common front against the hi-tech giants. Every minute the UK and EU institutes are spending on Brexit is a minute they don’t spend on climate change. And they spend a lot of minutes on it.

“Also it’s all just a fantasy about being independent. But there are no longer any independent countries in the world. It doesn’t matter what’s written on some document.”

See, on one hand, the Cult of Climastrology pushes for globalism, no borders, etc. On the other, they complain about road miles from shipping food, clothes, and other products from around the world. Don’t ask for consistency.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a glass of orange juice which will be super expensive due to climate change in the future, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post noting 4 day long gas lines in oil rich Socialist Venezuela.

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Blocking Poor Immigrants Could Be Costly Or Something

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 10:59 am

One has to wonder why Democrats are so hot to trot to allow legal immigrants who are poor and will need massive public assistance into the U.S., causing them to make these types of illogical arguments

Why Blocking Poor Immigrants Could Be Very Costly

Worse health outcomes, especially among pregnant women. A jump in emergency room usage. More communicable diseases. Higher poverty and housing instability, including among U.S. citizen children. Lower productivity. Reduced educational attainment. And “downstream and upstream impacts on state and local economies, large and small businesses, and individuals.”

What are all these terrible things? They’re all potential consequences of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule—according to DHS itself.

The rule seeks to bar noncitizens from obtaining green cards if the government determines that they’re likely to become “public charges”—individuals likely to use public benefits, such as food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, some parts of Medicare, and Section 8 and other housing subsidies. Its long-term effect, should it be implemented in its current form, would be to strengthen barriers to entry for low-income people who are immigrating through family.

Got that? Barring people who would essentially be drains on society would cause all the stuff in the first paragraph. Why, in their loony feelings based opinion

DHS says that this will save billions for local governments and “promote immigrant self-sufficiency and protect finite resources by ensuring that they are not likely to become burdens on American taxpayers.” But critics of the rule fear that the Trump administration’s latest effort to strangle immigration could have another, more immediate effect: spooking existing immigrant populations enough to encourage millions to withdraw from public benefits programs. And that could have all sorts of expensive repercussions—especially for cities with large immigrant populations.

Except, the rule would not apply to those already lawfully present in the country. It does beg the question “why are we allowing people in who cannot survive without being a public charge in the first place?” For those who go through the usual process to become a citizen part of the requirements is that they must be able to support themselves. No SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, Section 8 housing, etc. Most of those who are on all the public benefits are those who are brought in as refugees and such.

Oh, and by spooking, they mean spooking illegal aliens, as well. Why do we want to bring in people who will be drains? To answer the question of why, well, Democrats want people who are beholden to the government who will be Democrat voters.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Is Making The Earth Wobble

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 9:20 am

If only you had forgone your use of a fossil fueled vehicle, had given up meat, started taking 2 minute showers, moved into an off-the-grid shack, and, really, just killed yourself because Warmists complain about too many people on Earth

Climate Change Causing the Earth to Wobble? NASA Says, Yes!

Climate change is impacting how Earth spins on its axis, NASA says.

Over the past century, Earth’s axis – the imaginary line that passes through the North and South Poles – has drifted about 4 inches, and a decrease in Greenland’s ice mass is the main contributor to the wobble, the space agency has announced.

As temperatures increased throughout the 20th century because of humans, Greenland’s ice mass decreased.

“A total of about 7,500 gigatons — the weight of more than 20 million Empire State Buildings — of Greenland’s ice melted into the ocean during this time period,” NASA said in a press release. “This makes Greenland one of the top contributors of mass being transferred to the oceans, causing sea level to rise and, consequently, a drift in Earth’s spin axis.”

The agency notes that while melting has occurred at other locations, including Antarctica, Greenland’s location has had a greater influence on Earth’s wobble.

“There is a geometrical effect that if you have a mass that is 45 degrees from the North Pole — which Greenland is — or from the South Pole (like Patagonian glaciers), it will have a bigger impact on shifting Earth’s spin axis than a mass that is right near the Pole,” said coauthor Eric Ivins.

See? Your fault. They forgot to supply evidence that this is all the fault of humanity (that’s the way they position it above), they just assume it. Can they explain what the wobble was during the Little Ice Age? How about the Medieval Warm Period? And the previous warm and cool periods during the Holocene? Certainly with science one needs a control group for this, do they not?

Nah. That’s not the MO of the Cult of Climastrology. And we can’t fix this without taxes/fees and you giving up your liberty.

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EJ Dionne Is Giving Up The Game: The Kavanaugh Smears Are Just Politics For The Long Term

By William Teach September 27, 2018 – 9:06 am

Democrats tell us the real game again and again. The New York Times editorial board, featuring racist Sarah Jeong, wants to hit pause on the process, a blatant attempt to push for holding off till after the election. It mentions “evidence” in the subhead, then provides none in the screed. For them, preferably after the new Congress is seated with Democrats controlling the Senate. The Washington Post EB wants the FBI to investigate to run out the clock, despite knowing that the FBI doesn’t investigate local crimes. Also at the WP, E.J. Dionne

The Kavanaugh vote is bigger than politics

Who says politicians think only about the next election? In the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the outcome each party respectively wants may hurt them in November’s elections.

But the stakes are so high that neither side can afford to focus on politics alone.

They got higher still on Wednesday when a new accuser, Julie Swetnick, said Kavanaugh was abusive to girls in high school and alleged he was present at a party where she was gang-raped. Kavanaugh vigorously denied the new charges, calling them “ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone.” But all ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said President Trump should either withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination or reopen his FBI background investigation.

More holes in that accusation than swiss cheese cheese cloth. Skipping to the end after all of the talk about turning this into politics for the mid-terms

Both parties have made electoral politics secondary because they know that history will weigh heavily in the coming days. In “Republican Ascendancy,” his classic book about the 1920s and early 1930s, the historian John D. Hicks noted that President Warren Harding got to make four Supreme Court appointments in his two and a half years in office. He named conservative former President William Howard Taft, as Chief Justice, while Harding’s other three appointments “fell also to men of ability, albeit in each case to an extreme conservative.”

Two of the four were still on the court when conservative justices created a judicial crisis in the 1930s by rejecting one New Deal program after another; the other two were replaced by conservatives named by President Herbert Hoover and were also broadly part of the anti-New Deal block. FDR’s court-packing fight ensued.

Conservatives now see a comparable opportunity to affect jurisprudence for decades, even as liberals are aghast at the damage an activist right-wing Court could do.

But with so many questions raised about Kavanaugh’s veracity, we can’t even get to ideology now. The best course would be to delay hearings and votes and take the time to reexamine Kavanaugh’s fitness for the court.

This is about denying Trump a pick for the Supreme Court, and doing it in the sleaziest of manners. This is what is meant by “bigger than Kavanaugh.” Daniel Hanninger calls this the Kavanaugh Standard

Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court is a watershed event that will define America’s politics for years. If the Kavanaugh nomination fails because of the accusations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and others, America’s system of politics, indeed its everyday social relations, will be conducted in the future on the Kavanaugh Standard. It will deepen the country’s divisions for a generation.

The Kavanaugh Standard will hold that any decision requiring a deliberative consideration of contested positions can and should be decided on just one thing: belief. Belief is sufficient. Nothing else matters. (snip)

Then something new happened. Half of the Senate Judiciary Committee created this standard: “I believe Christine.”

It is an inescapable irony that the Kavanaugh Standard—“I believe”—is being established inside the context of a nomination to the highest U.S. court. This new standard for court nominees (and surely others in and outside politics) would be that judgment can be rendered in the absence of substantive argument or any legal standard relating to corroboration, cross-examination or presumption of innocence.

Democrats are setting political precedents that will come back to bite them where the sun don’t shine, much like it has with things like invoking the nuclear option when Harry Reid was in charge of the Democrat controlled Senate.

This will go nowhere, but, is it wise for Jeff to do this? Democrats should just remember their games when Democrats are accused with zero proof, zero evidence, and zero corroboration the “I Believe” meme and the other things they did.

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Six Time Deported Illegal Alien Arrested For Beating Homeless In Los Angeles

By William Teach September 26, 2018 – 3:00 pm

Good thing Los Angeles isn’t a sanctuary city, and that the state of California isn’t a sanctuary state

Suspect In LA Homeless Beatings Deported Six Times

Police say Ramon Escobar, 47, the man arrested in connection with recent attacks on homeless people in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, has now been linked to a total of seven assaults in two cities.

Three of the victims — two in Los Angeles and one in Santa Monica — have died. Police say they recovered a wooden baseball bat and a pair of bolt cutters from Escobar’s car that are believed to have been used in the attacks.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Tuesday night that Escobar had been deported six times between 1997 and 2011. ICE said in a statement that the Salvadoran national was freed from federal custody in January 2017 after an immigration court decision.

Escobar was ordered removed from the U.S. by a federal immigration judge in February 1988.

ICE said that a detainer was filed against Escobar following his arrest Monday in Los Angeles for murder.

Good job, immigration court! Who was president then?

The attacks on three homeless men in downtown Los Angeles occurred on Sept. 16. Two of the men died with the other still in the hospital in critical condition.

The other attacks included a Sept. 8 assault of a person sleeping on the beach in Santa Monica, with the victim released from the hospital; a Sept. 10 attack on a man also sleeping on the beach in Santa Monica, with that man still in a coma; and the Sept. 20 fatal beating of 39-year-old Steven Cruze Jr. of San Gabriel, under the Santa Monica Pier.

He’s also wanted for questioning in the disappearance of his aunt and uncle in the Houston, Texas area.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 26, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded because Other People took fossil fueled flights, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Joshuapundit, with a forum post on whether Kavanaugh will be confirmed.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Is Making Pigs Skinnier And Pork More Costly

By William Teach September 26, 2018 – 10:49 am

This is all your fault for failing to approve of carbon taxes/fees and of giving up your modern lifestyle

Climate change is making pigs skinnier, which could mean more expensive pork
A new report claims higher temperatures mean hogs produce less protein, which could result in pricier pork

Pork is the most widely consumed animal protein in the world. Representing more than 36 per cent of global meat-eating, a hit to production could have devastating effects. As a new Scientific American report suggests, a warming planet may result in skinnier pigs that produce less meat. The potential outcome: a future where pork is scarce and strips of bacon will cost you dearly.

The National Pork Board in the U.S. has been monitoring the effect of high temperatures on pigs since 2013, according to Scientific American, due to the possible consequences for a US$20 billion industry.

Swine are particularly vulnerable to hot weather: they wallow in cool mud or water because their sweat glands don’t effectively regulate body temperature. Studies have shown that when the animals are exposed to temperatures in excess of 25 degrees Celsius, they produce less protein, with the added drawback of decreased fertility.

Um, 25C equates to 77 Fahrenheit. North Carolina is one of the premiere pork producing areas in the world. Pigs are subjected to above 25C for a good chunk of the year. Yet, we still are massive pork producers.

Places mentioned in the Scientific American article also tend to have temperatures about 25C during the year. And, here’s the thing: none of this proves anthropogenic causation.

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UN Secretary General: We’re In (Yet Another) Pivitol Moment On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 26, 2018 – 8:11 am

As Anthony Watts notes

How many times have the goalposts been moved where that pivotal moment has been reached, and we are just a couple of years away from the irreversible or runaway scenario. I’ve lost count.

Here’s what Anthony is referring to

UN chief: ‘Pivotal moment’ for fighting global warming

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the world has reached “a pivotal moment” in global warming and risks runaway climate change if leaders don’t act in the next two years.

He is telling world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly that they aren’t doing enough to combat what he calls “a direct existential threat” that is moving faster than people are working to combat it.

He notes that thick, permanent sea ice north of Greenland began to break up this year for the first time.

He’s calling for making sure the international Paris climate change agreement is implemented. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he’s withdrawing his country from the pact.

Guterres is planning a climate summit next year.

So, let’s see, the person in charge of the body which just witnessed hundreds, if not thousands, of long fossil fueled trips from all around the world, and you can bet most didn’t fly commercial, is planning a summit which will see the same next year?

There’s always some sort of “doom is coming!!!!!” prognostication from the membership of the Cult of Climastrology. They’ve now added that we’re sorta there but we still have time to act. And we’ll hear the same schtick next year, and the year after, and the year after that, all the way up to the Earth entering its next cooling period. We’ve been hearing these “tipping point” scares for 25+ years, and they are simply hot air.

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New Yorker Gives Away Game In Asking Why Republicans Haven’t Abandoned Brett Kavanaugh

By William Teach September 26, 2018 – 7:52 am

I’m looking forward to the Friday vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in the Senate Judiciary Committee, then the overall vote, for which the GOP confidence is growing. Dianne Feinstein isn’t even sure Dr. Ford will show up for the hearing on Thursday, especially as Ford’s team is issuing more demands, this time as to limiting the media covering the hearing. And then there’s this (via Twitchy)

From the link

That it has come to this—that a Supreme Court confirmation will hinge on whether a young man in the nineteen-eighties drunkenly degraded women or comported himself as a figure of Catholic chastity—represents a breakdown of the most successful effort of the Trump Administration, the confirmation of conservative judges. The program was simple: Trump chose judges screened by the conservative Federalist Society, the Republican Senate confirmed them, and Fox News supported them. The entire process could take place—as Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation did—within the conservative ecosystem. Democrats could oppose nominees, and the mainstream media could gripe about them, but none of it would matter. “Fake news” is, among other things, a declaration of a boundary that defines which information will and will not matter to Republicans. As late as Monday morning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was insisting that, despite the accusations against Kavanaugh, the Senate majority would “plow right through.”

But, as Kavanaugh’s nomination has reached its critical moment, McConnell has not been in control of events. Ford’s allegations, first published in full in the Washington Post, compelled Senator Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, to reopen the hearings. Then the second set of accusations, from Ramirez, helped insure that MacCallum’s interview of the Kavanaughs was a real journalistic endeavor, not soft-focus rehabilitation, and forced Kavanaugh, on the record, to commit to a defense that requires a suspension of disbelief. The credibility of the accusations has compelled the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, all men, to take the extraordinary step of handing over their authority to interrogate Ford to a female prosecutor, whom they so far have not named. This time, Republicans couldn’t seal off the process from pressure.

One obvious question is why the Republicans don’t simply abandon Kavanaugh. There are plenty of other conservative jurists, after all, and McConnell advised Trump against picking him in the first place. The answer may not be complicated. With the midterm elections drawing close, the President under investigation, and the Senate majority dependent on the narrowest of margins, “plow right through” is not a declaration of strength. It is an effort to manage political weakness.

A couple replies

https://twitter.com/MistyACallahan/status/1044770632104316928

https://twitter.com/francoisengelb6/status/1044756083984797696

The beginning of the article makes it clear that much of this really is about Trump Derangement Syndrome, but, if it was Jeb, Cruz, Marco, any Republican in office this would have occurred. And the New Yorker really gives the game away with the headline and article: this whole thing was designed to get Republicans to abandon Kavanaugh. To surrender to the Democratic Party smears, smears that have no actual evidence, no corroboration from witnesses, and no actual facts.

And the New Yorker itself blew out the narrative with their obvious hit job featuring Ms. Ramirez, and it was so bad that even other media outlets took it apart, probably realizing that it Was Not Helping.

Democrats, who claim they are the party of compassion, have attempted to destroy a good man and his family, all for their hardcore politics which would work better in Nazi Germany. Hey, if all sorts of Leftists are cool with trotting out Kavanuagh is Hitler talk, I’ll go with who Progressives really are.

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