If All You See…

By William Teach August 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are islands created by sea rise covering lower lands, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Selective Outrage Syndrome.

Who has recommendations for what country to do next week?

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The Conservative, Millennial Approach To Solving ‘Climate Change’ Looks A Lot Like The Warmist Approach

By William Teach August 3, 2018 – 10:45 am

I’ve covered this kind of thing again and again and again: so-called Republicans/Conservatives advocating for Doing Something about anthropogenic climate change in a manner than is the same as the Warmists but uses different language. Here we have Jacob Abel, a youngster attending Seton Hall in NJ but sorta from the Charlotte, NC area, publishing an opinion piece in the Charlotte Observer (a very leftist newspaper)

A conservative, millennial approach to climate change

One year ago, the U.S. announced its intention to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, taking the champion of the free-market out of the global communities solution to addressing climate change.

The Trump Administration has taken an eraser to the words “climate change” from federal agency strategic plans, including the one guiding the Federal Emergency Management Agency over the next four years.

As a Republican it pains me to say that the current administration is going in the wrong direction, even when we as a party and a nation hold all the right cards to leading the fight against climate change.

Right there, you should be getting the idea that this is all about government solutions. And, let’s not forget that the majority of 1st world nations who signed on to Paris aren’t even close to upholding their pledges, and if we the government are supposed to Do Something, that’s the opposite of free market.

Some of these issues were on the table at the UN over the winter, when I had an opportunity to travel there with a delegation from Seton Hall University for annual United Nations Association Members day. One point that struck me was the resounding youth support for big government and multi-trillion dollar solutions to climate change. This is where the youth in the conservative movement can play a real impact on the climate solutions debate. Our generations clearly support policies that combat climate change, but we can also ensure advancements in technology don’t leave millions of people behind. Organizations such as RepublicEN, which advocates for free-market based solutions to climate change have the right idea: put a price on carbon, ensure the revenues remain neutral (i.e. don’t grow the government but instead are used to offset a tax cut or provide a dividend to citizens) and watch innovation soar. Utilizing both the technologies of the past and innovations of the future is the best way forward.

If you’re going through the United Nations, and you’re advocating for a price on “carbon”, an unscientific, utterly political term for carbon dioxide, then you are not advocating for free market solutions. You are advocating for government controlled solutions, as it is government putting a price on “carbon.” The government that is mandating this. The government that is deciding who pays, and whether people get money back. The government that is artificially raising the cost of living.

However, solutions for climate change can be brought about through free market solutions and through the innovations of concerned individuals.

Except, this is rare, because there really is little demand for it. If there was money in it, companies would be doing this left and right, instead of mostly only doing it because of government tax breaks and even outright subsidies and loans, ones which are often never paid back.

As far as Abel goes, is he actually a Republican? His Facebook doesn’t give many clues, other than he liked the GOP and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), and a few other right leaners. He also follows a lot of left leaners. But, he’s also taken a long fossil fueled trip to Israel, and takes fossil fueled trips to NJ from NC. Regardless, I do not want to make this about him, but about the silly notion that carbon fees/taxes, cap and trade, or any of the myriad programs are anything but anti-free market. And the group republicEN pushes for government solutions, rather than making changes in their own lives. Go figure.

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UK Guardian Seems Pretty Upset Over Conservatives Making Fun Of Straw Bans

By William Teach August 3, 2018 – 7:15 am

Luke O’Neill seems pretty darned upset over this state of affairs, and even links this to the culture wars

How plastic straws became the latest victim in the US culture wars

Typically a young woman posting a photo of herself posing with a gun to social media wouldn’t be all that surprising in 2018 America. A show of political defiance, photos like these have become commonplace in the ongoing debate about gun control in the country. But in one such photo posted to Twitter this past weekend, it’s the accessory that went with the gun that stood out. Not a box of ammunition or a shooting target, but a drinking straw. Welcome to the latest front in America’s never ending culture war, where possession of a tool of mass refreshment is now a form of protest.

In the photo, posted by Alana Mastrangelo, a writer and political activist known for provocative Twitter stunts, she spelled out her intent.

https://twitter.com/ARmastrangelo/status/1023291321199542272

I think that’s a pretty on-point message. It’s we the people, not Government Dictates All. A few more tweets are highlighted, before we get to

“Conservatives Are Now Drinking From Plastic Straws to Own the Libs” noted New York Magazine’s The Cut this morning.

Like any such attempt to performatively spite liberals, turning the possession of straws into a subversive political action here is part goofy joke, part sincere expression of conviction, and part attempt to inflame the passions of the fishing-trip-avatar-dads who make up their audience, but most importantly a finger in the eye of the left.

The straw pride movement comes amid a flurry of fear-mongering from the news media on the right. This time it’s not Hillary and Obama coming to steal your guns, but the liberal boogeyman who doesn’t want you to enjoy an ice cold beverage.

Straw pride, baby, straw pride! O’Neill might be taking this a little to seriously.

Although, in fairness to the right, straw bans are in fact quickly taking shape around the country, including in multiple cities in California and Seattle among others, as well as at companies like Starbucks and Disney.

“It’s all a bunch of moral preening,” Mike Slater a commentator on Fox & Friends explained on Saturday, in a line of thinking typical among the right on the issue. “This idea that we are holier than thou … It’s not going to make any difference in the environment, but it does a wonderful job of making people feel better about themselves.”

Even Vox and others show that this is mostly moral preening which won’t make a real difference. O’Neill asks a good question before going moonbat

Regardless, any honest person might conclude that Perhaps we shouldn’t be producing so much waste? is a reasonable question to ask, but to be clear none of the critics of the straw ban actually care about the real environmental outcomes, they care that so-called liberal elites are telling them they can’t do something. In this case that would be true, as many, like Chelsea Clinton, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Tom Brady, among others, have joined the protest against single use straws.

Perhaps O’Neill should check the carbon footprints of conservatives vs liberals: ours tend to be lower. How much waste comes from Chelsea and Tom traveling all over in fossil fueled vehicles? And, maybe attend marches by both sides, and see which one cleans up and which one leaves a mess. Regardless, it might have been better had these governments run spreading awareness campaigns, asking people to use fewer straws, recycle when they do, and asking eateries and such to give out straws on request, rather than just a blanket ban.

Nothing angers the American right so much as trying to make their lives somewhat better. So the response here, wielding straws like some sort of contraband, is just the latest attempt to spite the liberals, or “own the libs” as its called in Twitter parlance.

Not sure how banning straws makes my life better. But, you know, Moonbat World.

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New York’s Latest Idea: Three Months Paid Bereavement Leave

By William Teach August 3, 2018 – 6:51 am

This is what happens when you legislate with emotion and pandering, not common sense, experience, or knowledge of how business works

From the link

Lawmakers want every worker in New York to get three months paid bereavement leave to mourn the loss of a loved one.

But many business owners say it could be crippling. Will Gov. Andrew Cuomo sign it into law?

The bill is sponsored by Sen. Richard Funke, of upstate Batavia, whose son died.

“I’ve experienced the pain of losing a child. The grief can be unpredictable and overwhelming,” he said in a statement. “No employee should have to fear losing their job in order to take the time they need to mourn.”

Sen. David Carlucci, of Clarkstown, is cosponsoring the bill, which quietly passed at the end of the legislative session and is awaiting action by the governor.

“We need to make it as easy as possible, be humane and understand the real cost involved in losing a loved one,” said Carlucci.

The bill covers the death of a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, in-law, grandparent or grandchild.

The law, if passed, phases in what workers can collect between 50 to 67 percent of the average weekly wage — $680 a week.

While I think most of us can sympathize and empathize, this would force a company to pay an employee to not work for this period of time, and cause lots of other problems

But Greg Greenwood, owner of Bleeker Street Pizza, said it could cripple mom and pop stores.

“Our business and any other small business it would be catastrophic. Twelve weeks paid leave. We need all the staff that we have,” he said.

He said the biggest problem would be training new people, then letting them go when the old employee comes back.

Another option would be to simply leave the position open till the person returns. But, that would mean a small business would be running shorthanded for three months, as so many typically run a razor’s edge margin of employees. Back in the day when I worked in wireless, if someone was out on vacation for a week it meant that the others either worked more hours to cover, but we’d still be have problems taking care of customers during the busy times. There was a point we could do temp workers simply to take payments, but, it’s way to involved for that now.

I guess we’ll see whether Cuomo signs this bill, one which panders to a certain set of voters and is based on emotion.

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NY Times Is Suddenly Cool With Hiring Racists

By William Teach August 2, 2018 – 2:57 pm

As long as they’re the correct type of racists. In case you missed this one earlier

She was hired to sit on the Editorial Board. And how does the NY Times respond?

Make sure to save this one for the time when the Times, or other leading Leftist outlets, starts smearing a Republican, Conservative, alt-righter, or any right leaning person.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy, carbon pollution world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on Maxine Waters getting hit with an FEC complaint.

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‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly We Guess Increase Heatwave Deaths By 2,000 Percent Or Something

By William Teach August 2, 2018 – 10:30 am

I ran across this article at CNS News, but was going to pass it by because the survey is from earlier in July. But, let’s look at it first

Despite Al Gore’s Persistence, Global Climate Change Is Not People’s Most Pressing Concern

In a recent interview with the Vatican News service, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore again claimed “the climate crisis is now the biggest existential challenge humanity has ever faced.”

Gore boasted, “I have been fortunate to be able to pour every ounce of energy I have into efforts to contribute to the solution to his crisis.” Ironically, Mr. Gore personally uses vast amounts of energy, often traveling in private jets, SUVs and limousines, and lives in mansions, one of which uses 21 times more electricity than the average American home.

We often hear claims that man-made climate change is our greatest threat. But according to a recent Gallup poll, very few people in the United States actually believe it is. Indeed, even the United Nations own polling reveals that respondents across the world rate climate change last among issues they would like the UN and governments to focus on. No matter how long the list, climate change is nearly always last.

Other polls bear this out time and time again. Why? Perhaps it’s due to unhinged pronouncements like this, which would fit in better with those crazy papers like the Weekly World News you used to find at the supermarket checkout line. Not in what’s supposed to be a respectable mainstream news site

Climate change could increase heat wave deaths 2,000 percent by 2080: study

Deaths from heat waves could increase by up to 2,000 percent in certain parts of the world by 2080 as a result of climate change, according to a new study released on Tuesday by PLOS Medicine.

“Future heatwaves in particular will be more frequent, more intense and will last much longer,”  Yuming Guo, the study’s lead, said in a statement to Reuters. “If we cannot find a way to mitigate the climate change (reduce the heatwave days) and help people adapt to heatwaves, there will be a big increase of heatwave-related deaths in the future.”

Guo’s study looked into 20 countries on four continents, finding that the increase in mortality was likely to be highest near the equator.

The team said the country hardest hit by rising temperatures would be Colombia, which reportedly could suffer 2,000 percent more premature deaths due to extreme heat from 2031 to 2080 compared with 1971 to 2010.

Their computer models (which have failed again and again and again) tell them it’s going to get hotter and they’ve decided mankind is at fault, and then they scaremonger about future deaths. Yet, the same people want to restrict the use of air conditioners, along with reliable fossil fueled energy. But refuse to give up their own big carbon footprints.

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Excitable Ed Markey (D) Pledges To Hold Up State Dept Nominee Till Trump Stops 3D Gun Plans

By William Teach August 2, 2018 – 8:05 am

Ed apparently hates the 1st Amendment, and that, as an elected member of the Legislative Branch, he can actually propose legislation. Or, maybe he realizes that the actual text of the 1st Amendment reads “Congress shall pass no law…or abridging the freedom of speech”

(Daily Caller) Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts announced his intention Wednesday to stall the confirmation of R. Clarke Cooper to the Department of State until President Donald Trump agrees to prevent an unrelated company from publishing instructions for 3D-printed guns.

Senate Democrats have expressed outrage for the past few weeks over a settled lawsuit allowing Americans access to detailed firearm blueprints, which will enable a roadmap to designs that can be recreated with a 3D printer at home. (snip)

During a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing Wednesday, Markey told Cooper, who is nominated for assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, that he would be opposing Cooper’s confirmation until the Trump administration reverses its decision on the blueprints.

“I appreciate that you are not the person who made this policy, but you are asking us to confirm you to a position where you will be defending the indefensible,” Markey said to Cooper. “Until the president agrees to reverse this policy and prohibit the online publication of these dangerous blueprints, a decision that is entirely within his authority, I intend to place a hold on your nomination.”

What Markey wants Trump to do is what’s known as prior restraint. Also, censorship. He’s not trying to block the guns themselves: he’s attempting to block the publication of the plans. As noted in previous posts, the guns themselves are mostly illegal to start with, thanks to a 1988 law, the Undetectable Firearms Act.

Rather than constantly yammering about the doom from these plans and wanting to restrict free speech, they would be better off saying that these guns are stupid, expensive, and more dangerous to the user than the person being targeted. Of course, this would also be highlighting that citizens are better off purchasing a firearm manufactured to exactly specifications, one that has been tested and made to work properly, and Democrats do not want that, either.

Anyhow, the more the Democrats talk and fear and doom-monger about these guns in the manner they’ve been, the more some people will say “I gotta get me one!”

Oh, and if Trump did restrict them? The Democrats would then say Trump is a dictator and hates free speech (among other slurs).

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Good News: Democratic Socialists Set Up Shop On Campuses Nationwide

By William Teach August 2, 2018 – 7:47 am

What do these Democratic Socialists really want? Meagan Day explains at Vox

I’m a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of DSA, and here’s the truth: In the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism. And we want to do that by pursuing a reform agenda today in an effort to revive a politics focused on class hierarchy and inequality in the United States. The eventual goal is to transform the world to promote everyone’s needs rather than to produce massive profits for a small handful of citizens.

Meagan goes on to note things like not wanting Medicare for all, but full single payer, because the former simply covers insurance, and they want a nationalization of the entire health system. True, textbook Socialism as part of the Democracy model also features virtually no restrictions on voting, which seems to be covered by these kooks (along with other nutty things)

but, what of the 3rd core, the Moral Core, where the government stays the hell out of our lives? I’m thinking they aren’t for that part. Anyhow, in regard to profit and capitalism and stuff

https://twitter.com/reg1776/status/1024814385372508160

From Zero Hedge

The Young Democratic Socialists of America organization now claims to have more than 250 chapters on campuses across the country, a dramatic increase from just 15 chapters in 2016.

YDSA is the student-focused branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) which is “a political and activist organization” that seeks to “empower working people” and has several ongoing campaigns, including Medicare for All, Strong Unions, and Electoral Power.

The YDSA mission is to “build the power of students, campus communities, and youth to fight for equality, justice, and democratic socialism,” according to its constitution, which was last updated in August 2017.+

In June 2017, YDSA launched a “Fall Campus Drive” with the goal of registering 100 new chapters by the fall semester, noting that it had already expanded from just 15 chapters to 50 chapters in 27 states over the preceding year.

“When we originally launched the YDSA fall campus drive, we set the bold target of 100 campuses across the country,” the recognized chapter list states. “Currently, we’ve received over 250 campuses register for the fall drive! This explosion in interest shows that this semester will be the biggest ever for YDSA. We will be able to build a mass movement for democratic socialism and justice at campuses across the country.”

The list is hilarious. Locally, there’s Duke University, which costs almost $50,000 per year (just for tuition and fees). Same with Stanford. Yale is over $53K. American University is $43K. Northwestern is $53K. We could keep going on and seeing these kids attending expensive colleges, learning all about how they can make oodles of money in their own lives, but, you get the point.

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Swedish Woman Protecting Illegal Alien From Deportation Might Want To Rethink That Position

By William Teach August 1, 2018 – 4:11 pm

Remember this?

https://twitter.com/jazz_sleeper/status/1022777625675280384

She was oh so celebrated. She was totally brave

https://twitter.com/BaselAlhasan4/status/1022451571265863680

Um, yeah, about that

Afghan migrant whose deportation was thwarted by ‘hero’ Swedish student was actually sentenced for assault

The Swedish student who was branded a “hero” and captured worldwide attention after she stopped the deportation of an Afghan migrant by refusing to sit down on a plane instead prevented the extradition of a man sentenced for assault and whose asylum application was rejected.

Elin Ersson, a student at Gothenburg University, was subjected to fawning media coverage over her stunt earlier this month when she refused to take her seat on the plane until the 52-year-old Afghan deportee was released. She was successful and authorities weren’t able to deport the man.

However, Swedish Police confirmed to Fox News that the man whose deportation Ersson prevented had received a prison sentence in Sweden for assault. The police spokesman declined to go into more details about the crime the migrant has committed. His asylum application was also rejected.

We already know he’s from Afghanistan, and most likely brought his 3rd world beliefs to Sweden, and most likely assaulted at least one woman.

An annoyed passenger tried to grab the phone from Ersson, saying she’s upsetting others. To which the student replied: “It’s not my fault that he’s getting deported. I’m trying to stop this.”

“I’m trying to change my country’s rules. I don’t like them. It’s not right to send people to hell,” she added.

She was attempting to protect a criminal. Oh, and he was deported shortly thereafter. They should have made Ersson house the man in her own home.

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