If All You See…

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

…is an evil cooler full of carbon pollution infused soda, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Democrats introducing a bill to abolish ICE.

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Federal Judge Throws Out California Warmist Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach June 26, 2018 – 10:50 am

I still think it would have been more fun for Exxon and the rest to refuse to sell their products in the cities and counties which filed the lawsuits, especially to the city government and elected leaders

(AP)  A U.S. judge who held a hearing about climate change that received widespread attention ruled Monday that Congress and the president were best suited to address the contribution of fossil fuels to global warming, throwing out lawsuits that sought to hold big oil companies liable for the Earth’s changing environment.

Noting that the world has also benefited significantly from oil and other fossil fuel, Judge William Alsup said questions about how to balance the “worldwide positives of the energy” against its role in global warming “demand the expertise of our environmental agencies, our diplomats, our Executive, and at least the Senate.”

“The problem deserves a solution on a more vast scale than can be supplied by a district judge or jury in a public nuisance case,” he said.

Alsup’s ruling came in lawsuits brought by San Francisco and neighboring Oakland that accused Chevron, Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and Royal Dutch Shell of long knowing that fossil fuels posed serious risks to the environment, but still promoting them as environmentally responsible.

Funny, for all the caterwauling from those cities and counties, they still refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels.

On the flip side, a trial would have been fun, because the Cult of Climastrology would have had a tough time proving their case, especially when they themselves are still using fossil fuels. Perhaps Judge Alsup was just protecting the CoC from itself.

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In Face Of Threats From Democrats, Trump Admin Officials Urged To Get Concealed Carry Permits

By William Teach June 26, 2018 – 8:07 am

Liberals are increasingly advocating for violence against people who work in the Trump administration (as well as those who work for ICE, and, heck, anyone who is a Republican). This was especially true from Rep Maxine Waters. If even CNN is saying this is a problem (though they softened what she has been saying), it’s a problem. We see things like a photo of a burning limo and that Resistance members are coming with pliers and a blowtorch” (they should remember that a lot of Republicans own firearms before trying this). These are the same people who seemingly had no condemnation of the violent Antifa, Occupy Wall Street, or BLM

The Resistance nuts have escalated to harassing government officials at their offices, at movies, at restaurants, and at their homes, so

(Washington Examiner) Facing a new wave of potentially dangerous threats, called for by a top Democratic lawmaker, legal and gun experts are calling on top Trump aides to get their concealed carry permit and back it up with a pistol.

“There are simply not enough police in D.C. or Virginia or Maryland to protect all Trump officials at their homes and when they go out to restaurants. Getting a concealed handgun permit would be helpful to protect themselves and their family,” said John R. Lott Jr., president of the influential Crime Prevention Research Center.

“High level officials in the Trump administration, especially if their faces are likely to be recognized by many in the public as a result of appearances on TV, might want to consider applying for a license to carry a concealed weapon in the District of Columbia, and/or other states they frequent, in view of the call by Rep. Maxine Waters for the public to ‘absolutely harass’ these officials in public places, and other recent events indicating the increased danger they are in,” added public interest law professor John Banzhaf.

Many others are recommending the same thing.

It’s funny how those on the left tell us they are proud to be non-violent, then make all sorts of threats of violence, and violence itself.

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Thanks, Democrats: Illegal Alien Deaths On Border Rise

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

The Democratic Party as a whole, and a few squishy Republicans, have essentially spread the word that they are just fine with open borders, and that they will defend anyone who wants to make a long trek across Central America to attempt to breach the borders of the United States, helping the illegals stay in the U.S. This is on them

Migrant deaths rise with more unaccompanied children, families

Heat-related deaths among migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border rose to 55 percent over the past nine months, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol said Monday.

The spokesman, Salvador Zamora, told Reuters that the death toll is expected to increase even more as temperatures rise throughout the summer.

Zamora said 48 migrants have died,  up from 31 over the same period in 2017.

“We are geared up to surpass last year’s heat-related deaths and the summer is just beginning,” Zamora told Reuters. “The demographics of the illegal aliens we are apprehending, the family units, the unaccompanied children, they’re a lot more vulnerable.”

Heat-related deaths are the main cause of fatalities for migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The increase in deaths also comes amid an influx of unaccompanied children and families trying to cross into the U.S. illegally.

What kinds of parents send their children off alone, perhaps in the company of a coyote, paid to bring their kids to America, knowing that they could die on the way?

Without the unwavering support of Democrats, there would be fewer illegals attempting the trek in the hot sun across areas that tend to be deserts, and the number of unaccompanied children would be much, much less. People coming illegally from other countries have been told that the Democratic Party will do all they can to make it easy for them to stay in the U.S. and be given food, shelter, welfare, healthcare, education, clothing, and money, with a potential benefit of legal status. All without having to learn the language or customs of the U.S.

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Are You Ready For ‘Climate Change’ Fish Wars?

By William Teach June 25, 2018 – 4:22 pm

These are the same people who tell us that we’re supposed to believe in Darwinism and that everything naturally evolved, and that belief in God and Intelligent Design are just stupid, but also expect everything to stay Exactly The Same on Earth

‘Fish Wars’ Loom as Climate Change Warms Waters

Accelerating climate change means increasingly that cooler waters tempt fish to more tolerable regions. The result? Decades of diplomacy in creating fishing agreements to fix quotas and protect valuable species count for little, because the fish are moving hundreds of miles to distant seas.

This is raising fears of conflict between countries over one of the world’s most valuable food resources, according to research by a consortium of 17 marine scientific institutions led by the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

Fish and other marine animals have already been moving at a rate of 45 miles a decade, and these shifts are expected to continue or even accelerate. The UBC study, published in the journal Science, looked at 892 fish stocks from around the globe to show that climate change is driving them towards the poles.

Apparently, because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle there will soon be no fish in the oceans below the polar circles. It’s not like the planet hasn’t warmed and cooled plenty of times in just the last 20,000 years. But, life is never supposed to change on Earth, you know!

But, take a guess what they want for a solution?

The study also cites international fisheries disputes including the “mackerel war” between Iceland and the European Union in 2007. It suggests that, to avoid conflicts, governments should implement solutions such as allowing the trade of fishing permits or quotas across international boundaries.

Funny how part of the solution always means more and more Big Government, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 25, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle causing the world to turn to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post San Francisco being quite literally a toilet.

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‘Climate Change’ (scam) Skeptics Are Innovation Pessimists Or Something

By William Teach June 25, 2018 – 10:30 am

Big Government Republicans and former elected Rep Bob Inglis is super excited to browbeat people into supporting a government tax in a unique and exciting way

Climate change disputers are actually innovation pessimists

Climate action is being blocked more by pessimism about innovation than skepticism about causation. Scratch a climate skeptic, and you’ll find an innovation pessimist. They don’t believe it can be done. Overwhelmed by the scale of the problem, they assume that we can’t change our trajectory. Secretly, they’re depressed about it. They need hope.

Had these pessimists been in the stadium at Rice University in September of 1963, they might have chanted “No way” when President Kennedy said of the Mariner spacecraft then on its way to Venus, “The accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40-yard lines.”

Innovation pessimists are right to point out that the drive for innovation was more immediate and more visible in 1963. The Soviet’s launch of Sputnik had raised the specter of a goose-stepping, hostile power in control of space. We were unified, and our response was completely within our control.

Climate change crawls and creeps; it doesn’t goose step. Addressing it requires a coordinated global response, and innovation pessimists are right to doubt the ability of the United Nations and the ability of the regulatory state to solve the problem.

This is so beyond stupid, that it almost doesn’t even deserve rebuttal. Especially since Bob hasn’t proven that the climate has changed mostly/solely due to mankind’s output of greenhouse gases. It’s cute how he throws in the Nazi reference to “good step.”

When he gives up his own use of fossil fuels and makes his life carbon neutral I might consider listening.

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Bummer: Leaders Of Republican Majority For Choice Are Leaving The GOP

By William Teach June 25, 2018 – 7:12 am

This is supposed to be a Big Thing, since it’s on the opinion pages of the NY Times, and prominently featured on the web homepage. Susan Bevan and Susan Cullman are the leaders of the group Republican Majority For Choice. And, yes, choice means exactly what you are thinking it means. Abortion on demand.

Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.

When the obituary for the Republican Party is written, the year 1980 will be cited as the beginning of the end. Reaganism was in full flower, but the big tent was already folding. Republican leaders endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion at the convention that summer, ending the party’s historic commitment to women’s rights and personal freedom.

“We are about to bury the rights of over 100 million American women under a heap of platitudes,” protested Mary Dent Crisp, the co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. Her colleagues assured her that the platform was nonbinding and that reproductive health services were not in danger.

But she was prescient. As pro-choice Republicans, we refuse to support a party that has rightly earned the labels anti-woman and anti-common sense. Our organization, the Republican Majority for Choice, the organization founded by Ms. Crisp in 1988, is shutting its doors. The big tent has collapsed for good.

So, it took these “Republicans” over 30 years to make their decision? Their talking points about abortion sure sound like Democratic Party ones, do they not? If they want to leave, leave. No actual Republican needs to apologize or feel bad about being against the murder of unborn children.

It gets really cute later on

Our argument was simple: True fiscal conservatives should embrace family planning because it reduces poverty, increases educational attainment and work force competitiveness, improves health and provides people the opportunity to make educated moral choices. We incorrectly assumed that our fellow fiscal conservatives would join us in applauding the reduction in the number of unintended pregnancies, which saved taxpayers billions of dollars spent on the welfare state.

This is much like the “Republican” argument for carbon taxes, when they say big government taxation and control of the economy and private entities is totally free market. In this case, they’re saying that true conservatives should embrace infanticide because it means less people in poverty and such. The two ladies seem to believe that abortion is the proper alternative to “unintended pregnancies.”

Instead, the policies and programs that led to these outcomes came under constant fire. The far right was more interested in conflating abortion and birth control for political purposes. It is fiscally disingenuous to deny birth control coverage and then bemoan unintended pregnancies and abortion.

That’s a big strawman. If people want to purchase birth control, no one is stopping them. The government shouldn’t have to use taxpayer money to pay for them. If people want to have sex with people they do not want to have children with, then they should pay for their own birth control. And government should not be advocating for casual sex for people, especially when they are very young and/or no position to have a child.

We can no longer support a Republican Party that is shutting down low-cost health care clinics offering cancer screenings, basic health services and much-needed family planning services. It has become a party that wants to punish pregnant women by limiting their economic choices, that wants to reduce access to sex education programs that prevent unintended pregnancy and disease.

Say it. Planned Parenthood. Which makes more than enough to survive without government money, and, really doesn’t offer cancer screenings, but, does offer a lot about abortion.

It has become taboo within the party to even say “pro-choice.” Most of our supporters gave up on the party as it moved to the extremes not just on abortion but also on other social and fiscal issues.

This Republican Party is no family of ours. And so we say goodbye.

OK, bye. Go hang with the party that requires members to support abortion 100%, and demands zero restrictions. Seriously, are we supposed to feel bad that people whose number 1 belief is on abortion are leaving? No.

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Potential New Policy: Illegal Aliens Will Be Reunited With Kids If They Sign Self-Deportation Order

By William Teach June 25, 2018 – 6:50 am

Is this something real? A one time thing? Or something an illegal (or the reporter) made up? Let’s hope it’s the first

(Texas Tribune) Central American men separated from their children and held in a detention facility outside Houston are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation order now, according to one migrant at the facility and two immigration attorneys who have spoken to detainees there.

A Honduran man who spoke to The Texas Tribune Saturday estimated that 20 to 25 men who have been separated from their children are being housed at the IAH Polk County Secure Adult Detention Center, a privately-operated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility for men located 75 miles outside Houston. He said the majority of those detainees had received the same offer ofreunification in exchange for voluntary deportation.

The 24-year-old detainee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and requested the Tribune use the pseudonym Carlos because he feared retaliation, told the Tribune that he abandoned his asylum case and agreed to sign voluntary deportation paperwork Friday out of “desperation” to see his 6-year-old daughter, who was separated from him after the pair illegally crossed the border in late May. The man said two federal officials suggested he’d be reunited with his daughter at the airport if he agreed to sign the order, which could lead to him being repatriated to his violence-torn home country in less than two weeks.

“I was told I would not be deported without my daughter,” said Carlos, adding that he’s now hoping to revoke the voluntary deportation order he signed and get legal help to fight his case. “I signed it out of desperation… but the truth is I can’t go back to Honduras; I need help.”

Well, then “Carlos” shouldn’t have paid a smuggler $7,000 to bring him and his daughter (if she actually is, rather than just someone he’s using to attempt to gain sympathy) to the US and help them sneak across the border before turning themselves in to the Border Patrol. I’m sorry, the U.S. cannot take care of every single person in Latin America who thinks they come from a nation as bad as, say, Chicago or Detroit. “Carlos” could have used the money to apply for asylum the legal way.

Carl Rusnok, an ICE spokesman, said Saturday evening that the agency “cannot research vague allegations,” but would do so if given specific details about the migrants who made the claims.

“It is unprofessional and unfair for a media outlet to publish such allegations without providing names, dates and locations so that these allegations can be properly researched,” Rusnok said. The Tribune declined to give Rusnok the detainees’ identifying information.

In other words, sadly, this doesn’t seem to be an official policy. Bummer

A Homeland Security and Health and Human Services fact sheet released Saturday said parents ordered removed from the U.S. can “request that his or her minor child accompany them,” but that “many parents have elected to be removed without their children.”

In other words, many parents, and many who say they are parents but really aren’t, can take their kids with them when deported. But don’t. And will attempt to use them in the future when they sneak back into the US as shields.

And, despite all the further sob stories in the thinly veiled op-ed article, everything is on the illegals. They chose to do things the wrong way, the illegal way.

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Carbon Taxes Are A Totally Non-Partisan Solution To ‘Climate Change’ (scam)

By William Teach June 24, 2018 – 4:20 pm

The editorial board of the Winston Salem Journal, which uses vast amounts of fossil fuels and energy to gather and distribute their news, thinks it has the solution, which solely blames Mankind for the slight increase in temperatures, missing the point that they first have to prove this using the Scientific Method, rather than talking points and Belief

Our view: A bipartisan approach to climate change is possible

Saturday marked the 30th anniversary of a seminal day in the history of our planet — the day NASA climate scientist James Hansen spoke to a Senate subcommittee about the dangers presented by global warming, stating that “the greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.” His testimony was “the opening salvo of the age of climate change,” according to Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley.

Three decades later, Haonsen’s forecasts seem prescient. He projected that by 2017, the globe’s average temperature would be about 1.85 degrees higher than the 1950 to 1980 NASA-calculated average. The end of 2017 revealed a 1.48-degree rise in the 30-year average, The Associated Press reported recently.

Sorry, pretty much everything James predicted has failed, and, again, there’s still no proof this warm period is mostly/solely caused by man’s output of “carbon pollution.”

Another is the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a group composed mostly of volunteers who meet with legislators to promote a carbon fee and dividend plan. This plan would tax carbon-producing industries and apply the proceeds to create millions of jobs — 2.8 million within 20 years, according to their research — and increase the GDP by about $80 billion per year. The plan could also reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent within 20 years. This could reduce and perhaps even reverse the negative affects of climate change.

Red-state Utah, with an 83 percent Republican legislative majority, came close to passing a similar carbon tax bill in March that would assess a fee on carbon emissions, returning the net proceeds to taxpayers. It only failed because of time constraints in the legislative session. It did pass a resolution “recognizing a warming climate and asserting Utah’s responsibility for action to address it while promoting a growing economy,” according to the CCL.

Other Republicans who support taxing carbon pollution include former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Henry M. Paulson Jr., a former secretary of the Treasury. They call it “a conservative climate solution based on free-market principles.”

Nothing says “conservative” and “free market principles” like imposing government taxes, fees, and restrictions on private entities and the economy, right?

Let’s not forget that even without all these Big Government solutions, there was an 18 year Pause in increasing global temperatures, for which Warmists came up with dozens and dozens of excuses. It got to a point where it was tedious keeping track of them all.

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