If All You See…

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

…are plants that will be decimated by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on green outrage.

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Nations Which Love Fossil Fueled Vacationing Want US, Others To Pony Up Climate Cash

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

Most of these nations depend on people taking long, fossil fueled flights for vacations

Australia joins Pacific to declare climate ‘single greatest’ security threat

Australia joined other Pacific island governments in a joint statement on Wednesday that named climate change as the major security issue facing the region.

At a meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru on Wednesday, leaders signed the Boe Declaration, which recognised climate change as “the single greatest threat to the livelihoods security and wellbeing of peoples of the Pacific”.

The declaration also committed signatories to follow through on the promises made in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Australia’s new foreign minister Marise Payne signed the document. Her government recently deposed prime minister Malcolm Turnbull after he proposed moderate measures to bring down carbon emissions. Australia currently has no policy designed to meet the targets it set in the Paris deal.

The photo you see above is included in the article, which is rather climaironic, wouldn’t you say? Those promises mentioned are about climate cash (Boe Declaration link)

17. Leaders called on countries, particularly large emitters, to fully implement their Nationally Determined Contribution mitigation targets, including through the development and transfer of renewable energy, in line with committed timeframes. Leaders of Forum Island Countries called on the United States to return to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

18. Leaders urged the expeditious progress of the work of the taskforce for the Pacific Islands Climate Change Insurance Facility.

They want money so they can continue to build out infrastructure for people to fly in for vacations. And just because they want some of America’s money. We’ve been pretty damned generous to nations around the world (who also tend to denigrate America). This is just another way to try and get more.

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Normalizing Political Assault: Man Who Hit White Nationalist Fined $1

By William Teach September 6, 2018 – 8:14 am

The thing about our justice system is that it’s supposed to be impartial. All should be treated evenly and impartially. What kind of precedent does this set?

Charlottesville man fined $1 after assault on white nationalist in 2017

A man convicted of assaulting a white nationalist two days after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville last year was fined $1 on Tuesday.

Jason Kessler, a white nationalist and organizer of the Unite the Right rally, fled a press conference on Aug. 13, 2017, two days after 32-year-old counterprotester Heather Heyer was allegedly run down by another white nationalist, after he was swarmed by an angry crowd.

After Kessler fled, Jeffrey Winder of Charlottesville was charged with assault and battery, and prosecutors said he could be seen striking Kessler in a video. Winder was found guilty in Charlottesville General District Court in February, as the Daily Progress reported, and found guilty again Tuesday in Charlottesville Circuit Court after an appeal.

Though Winder could have received up to 12 months in jail and $2,500 in fines from a jury, he received a $1 fine.

No matter what you think of Kessler, who’s a racist scumbag, this decision allowed a person (who’s a known and violent member of Antifa) to get away with assault and battery with less than a slap on the wrist. A decision like this will enable more violent Democratic Party voters to assault people they disagree with and think they can get away with it with less of a fine than a parking ticket. This is excusing violence.

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Nike To Air Kaepernick Ad During Thursday’s Opener To Sell More Shoes

By William Teach September 6, 2018 – 7:55 am

Remember, they refused to allow a veterans group to air an ad asking people to stand for the national anthem, but, they seem fine with a commercial featuring a guy who wore cops as pigs socks, gave money to a group supporting a cop killer, loves Fidel Castro, and hates white people. This should end up well

(The Hill) Nike will air its ad featuring former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick during sporting events including the U.S. Open, MLB and the NFL’s opening telecast, “Thursday Night Football” this week, according to The New York Times.

The ad, called “Dream Crazy,” features Kaepernick and other sports stars such as tennis star Serena Williams and NBA star LeBron James, urging viewers to “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”

https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1037387722107830272

What has he sacrificed? He gets paid a ton by Nike. He’s a millionaire. What has LeBron sacrificed? Or Serena? How are they helping the inner city black youths, who seem to not want to be educated, who so often join gangs and commit crimes, and live in poor conditions in Democratic Party run cities. Do they and Nike care about the reality that the vast majority of murderers and those murdered in big cities are black?

Does the NFL care that a large chunk of fans will not tune in tonight, and others will tune out the minute the commercial is played? Atlanta and Philly isn’t that great of an opening game to stick around.

But, this is where Nike and the NFL want to go. I doubt that the extra revenue from patronizing the supporters of Kaepernick will offset the loss from those who don’t. There are plenty of other brands out there. Ones that might not send its jobs overseas, making products at slave wages. Even Bernie Sanders has blasted them in the past.

Time will tell if this affects their bottom line, much like Dicks Sporting Goods has seen happen.

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Illegal Alien Supporters Are Totally Concerned About Obama Putting Ankle Monitors On Illegals

By William Teach September 5, 2018 – 3:25 pm

Well, not Obama, of course, but, Trump

Trump is normalizing an inhumane system for monitoring migrants

As the government struggles to reunite hundreds of immigrant children with their parents after almost 3,000 of them were separated at the border by the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reportedly turned to GPS-equipped ankle monitors to keep track of the parents while their cases proceed in court.

Ankle monitors are sometimes touted as a substitute for immigration detention — they cost less than $6 per person per day compared to $208 per person per day for detention, and they give immigrants a degree of freedom while ensuring they show up for their court dates, which is the main purpose of immigration detention in the first place.

But ICE’s reliance on ankle monitors raises serious concerns.

Immigrants who have been placed on ankle monitors provided by the private company, BI Incorporated, report pain, discomfort and hospitalization related directly to the ankle monitor units themselves. A 2016 complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General describes the case of a Honduran woman who experienced electric shocks, bruising, hair loss, headaches and difficulty breathing after she started wearing an ankle monitor.

Another woman, a mother from El Salvador, suffered inflammation and bleeding around her ankle and numbness in her leg due to her ankle monitor. A third woman, from Mexico, was hospitalized for the sores that spread over her body after her ankle monitor was put on. These are not isolated cases. For years, both immigrantsand U.S. citizens whom the government has shackled with GPS-equipped monitors have reported negative physical side effects.

Who was president in 2016? In fact, the word Obama doesn’t appear anywhere in the article. So, they’re basically assigning problems under Obama to Trump. Had this been happening in 2010, the media would have blamed this all on Bush.

Invasion of privacy is another concern since we know almost nothing about the ways ICE handles the data from these devices, whether it’s what information is collected, how long it’s retained by the government, who has access to that information or for what purposes it’s used.

Altogether, who cares? If they do not want to wear the potentially uncomfortable ankle monitors or have their “privacy” invaded, they can leave the U.S. They can just not come here illegally to start with.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 5, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea made too calm due to global warming, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Yid With Lid, with a post on the latest in the liberal “everything is racist” claims.

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NY Times Blames Global Warming For Roger Federer’s US Open Loss

By William Teach September 5, 2018 – 10:30 am

From the “ZOMG, everything is all linked to/caused by carbon pollution” files, here’s Kendra Pierre-louis with a piece that would be more apropos at Think Progress rather than the world’s leading newspaper, but, then, the Times pretty much gave up on journalism decades ago

Roger Federer Is Tough to Beat. Global Warming Might Have Pulled an Upset.

Roger Federer, one of the world’s greatest tennis players, may have become an unwitting spokesman for the effects of climate change on Monday at the U.S. Open.

Federer, who is ranked No. 2, seemed to struggle all night in the heat and humidity at Arthur Ashe Stadium, losing in a fourth-round upset to John Millman, an Australian ranked 55th.

“It was hot,” Federer said. It “was just one of those nights where I guess I felt I couldn’t get air; there was no circulation at all.”

This was the first time Federer, who won the U.S. Open five consecutive times from 2004 to 2008, lost to a player outside the top 50 at the tournament.

Gee, hot, humid, and stifling air in NYC at this time of year? Shocking! Like, something that is always present. Summer is amazing, eh?

But, Kendra does hit on a certain point

To some, the comments by Federer, 37, may sound like sour grapes. But they also underscore a growing problem: increasing nighttime temperatures.

Under climate change, overall temperatures are rising — 2018 is on track to be the fourth-warmest year on record — but the warming is not happening evenly. Summer nights have warmed at nearly twice the rate of summer days. Average overnight low temperatures in the United States have increased 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit per century since 1895, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

None of this means global warming is being caused by Mankind’s output of carbon dioxide (conversely, it doesn’t mean it is mostly/solely natural, either. But, it’s upon the Warmists to prove their hypothesis): if we look at “not happening evenly”, yes, cities do tend to stay warmer at night than the surrounding countryside. A big factor, perhaps the major factor, are the reality of Urban Heat Island effect and land use.

Really, tennis players are used to playing in the heat. It looks like Federer just had an off game. He lost 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (3) to Millman, who’s 29 versus Federer’s 37. Global warming didn’t make him commit 10 double faults. Except in Warmist World, where carbon pollution does everything.

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Nike Stock Falls On Kaepernick “Just Do It” Deal

By William Teach September 5, 2018 – 9:23 am

Will this continue, or was just a quick market response?

Nike Falls as Critics Fume on Social Media Over Kaepernick Deal

The backlash started just hours after Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who sparked controversy for kneeling during the national anthem, tweeted that he’s starring in Nike Inc.’s iconic “Just Do It” ad campaign.

Following the announcement, the hashtags #BoycottNike and #JustBurnIt started trending on Twitter and shares started falling. Some angry consumers even posted photos and videos of themselves burning their Nike shoes and other gear to protest the company using the divisive figure in its 30th anniversary ad campaign.

Nike shares slipped as much as 3.9 percent to $79 as of 9:31 a.m. Tuesday in New York — the biggest intraday slide in five months. They had climbed 31 percent this year through Friday’s close.

It started the day at $80.77 and ended at $79.60. Will this continue? The bigger question is whether their earnings will take a big dip as people refuse to purchase their products. Some think that it’s a case of no news is bad news

(Yahoo) Protesters burned their Nike (NKE.N) shoes, investors sold shares and some consumers demanded a boycott after the footwear and apparel maker launched an advertising campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who sparked a national controversy by kneeling during the national anthem.

But the brand recognition that comes with the campaign may be just what the company wanted, and marketing experts predicted it would ultimately succeed.

The ad revived a raging debate in the United States that started in 2016 when Kaepernick, then with the San Francisco 49ers, began kneeling to protest multiple police shootings of unarmed black men.

“This is right on the money for Nike. They stand for this irreverent, rebellious attitude. In this case, it’s reinforcing the brand,” said Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO of strategy consulting firm Vivaldi.

Say what? They’re one of the biggest sneaker brands, if not the biggest, in the world, while also making shirts, pants, socks, hats, all sorts of different sports wear, golf balls, golf clubs, you name it (all of which I’ve found to be overpriced for the value, an opinion I’ve held for a long time). But, Joachimsthaler could be correct. Some boycotts work, some don’t. The liberal freakout at Chick-fil-a utterly failed. Sean Hannity’s call for a boycott of Keurig backfired (I’d forgotten about this one, and even bought one myself with birthday money. Love it). Others succeed.

Will this one? Time will tell. It might end up being a bad idea using a guy who wore socks depicting cops as pigs, rails against white people, and gives money to a group that supports Assata Shakur, who murdered a NJ state trooper before fleeing to Cuba. Among others.

But, as for the notion that Kaepernick was Very Brave, giving up it all? He may have lost all that NFL money, but, Nike has been paying him a ton. And he doesn’t really seem to be doing anything by talking. Oh, and

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1037052529429884928

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Kavanaugh Hearings: McCain’s Death Didn’t Teach Republicans Anything Or Something

By William Teach September 5, 2018 – 8:56 am

In Ruth Marcus’ World, Democrats did pretty much nothing wrong during the Kavanaugh hearing Wednesday, and the whole thing was the fault of Republicans. If you watched or listened to any of it, you’ll look like Captain Jack, especially at the McCain reference

McCain’s death didn’t teach Republicans anything. The Kavanaugh hearing proves it.

So much for the new era of comity, the appeal to better angels over partisanship, ushered in by the death of Arizona Sen. John McCain. If you had any delirious hopes of fever-breaking, they should have been thoroughly dashed by the first day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh. They should have been dashed, in particular, by the refusal of the panel’s Republican majority to allow adequate and timely access to documents from Kavanaugh’s White House service.

It was a poisonous session, as acrimonious as I have witnessed since sitting in the committee’s hearing room for the grilling of Anita Hill during the second round of the Clarence Thomas hearings. And while no dispute over documents, however impassioned, can rival the Hill-Thomas encounter, the Republican majority’s handling of this issue will be even more dangerous for the future of the Senate’s ability to conduct its constitutional duty of advice and consent.

There is always some tension, when the Senate majority is of the same party as the president, between exercising independent judgment and acting like a cheerleader for the nominee. But Senate Republicans, in particular Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (Iowa), would do well to reflect about what goes around. A majority that denies the minority’s reasonable requests today is apt to find itself on the losing end of its own reasonable requests down the road.

If you’re thinking Ruth is finding the vast majority of fault with Republicans, you’d be right. The closest she gets for Democrats is

At the same time, Senate Democrats arguing for access to Kavanaugh’s White House documents would have a more compelling case if they had not already made clear their opposition to his nomination.

Even uber-Lefty Dana Milbank, in the same Washington Post for today, writes

There has never been a disruptive spectacle like this at a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. But then there has never been a Supreme Court nomination like this.

Did Ruth even watch it, or did she get talking points from the DNC? Because it was interruption after interruption from Democrats, both those sitting on the Senate panel and private citizens screeching. The hearing was barely in session when

That’s because there was no reason for children to hear the slurs and disgusting language towards their day, plus there were security concerns. Blumenthal, Booker, Harris, and the other Dems were constantly interrupting. They wanted more time to review the documents, and were asking for holding off on the hearings

Pretty much all the Dems sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee have stated that they are “no” votes, and did so as soon as Kavanaugh was announced. Most have not even met with Judge Kavanaugh. As Ted Cruz stated, what they’re trying to do is re-litigate the 2016 election. He noted Obama’s quote of “elections matter”, and that the American citizenry chose Donald Trump as president.

Furthermore, he noted that, ala the documents, the number released for Kavanaugh is more than for the last 5 people confirmed to the Supreme Court. Let that sink in. And

“We know that every Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to vote no…Doesn’t depend on what they read in documents, doesn’t depend on what Judge Kavanaugh says at this hearing—they’ve announced ahead of time they’re voting no, and most of the Democrats in the Senate have announced that in the full Senate.”

It’s worth taking the 14 minutes to listen to Cruz. I’m usually no fan of opening statements, I say just get on with the questions and answers, but this was needed. Cruz utterly flays the Democrats.

But, the Democrats will certainly still be their same unhinged barking moonbat selves during the rest of the hearings.

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Good News: ‘Climate Change’ Point Of No Return Pushed Out To 2035

By William Teach September 4, 2018 – 4:44 pm

The Cult of Climastrology had been pushing that the point of no return was soon, even as close as 2020, to avoid Utter Doom. But, like all Climatruther prognostications, this has to be pushed out when doom is not arriving

Climate Change Could Hit the ‘Point of No Return’ in 2035 Warn Scientists

Time is running out for governments to act on climate change before it’s too late a new report from European Geosciences Union states. Without immediate and effective action we will pass a point of no return after which limiting global warming below 2°C in 2100 will be unlikely.

The research also suggests that unless radical action is implemented now, the deadline to limit warming to 1.5°C has already passed. “In our study, we show that there are strict deadlines for taking climate action,” says Henk Dijkstra, a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and one of the study authors.

“We conclude that very little time is left before the Paris targets [to limit global warming to 1.5°C or 2°C] become infeasible even given drastic emission reduction strategies.” The study set out to locate the ‘point of no return’ or deadline for climate action, this date would be the last possible year action could be taken before it’s too late to avoid climate catastrophe.

And what do they propose?

In conclusion, the team made of researchers from the Utrecht Centre for Complex Systems Studies and Oxford University, UK, say that they hope the report is another urgent push for global leaders to take serious action. “We hope that ‘having a deadline’ may stimulate the sense of urgency to act for politicians and policy makers,” concludes Dijkstra. “Very little time is left to achieve the Paris targets.”

Funny how this almost always comes down to government Doing Something, which usually comes down to taxes, fees, and controlling citizens’ behavior.

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