New Democrat Hotness: Checks And Balances

By William Teach July 23, 2018 – 5:39 pm

Because a phone and pen from 2009-2016 is now old and busted

From the screed

Democrats have a new slogan for the midterms: “For the People.”

I hate it. It’s one of those slogans that tries to mean everything and therefore means nothing. Sort of like the previous slogan, “A Better Deal” — another meaningless cliché that apparently proved inadequate to the task.

I’ve got a better one: “Support Checks and Balances. Elect Democrats”

After all, you can turn on any news channel and witness the charade. Republicans in Congress are bending over backward and upside down and sideways to figure out how to excuse away the inexcusable — siding with a foreign enemy when all intelligence experts are screaming that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and plans to again in the 2018 election.

This is from the same party which supported Obama doing everything via the ever expanding powers of the Executive Office. Who signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran Deal in a manner that precluded the Senate from having to vote on them. Who rammed through things like the Waters Of The US, Clean Power Plan, forcing schools to accommodate the gender confused mental cases, and so much more. Suddenly, Democrats do not like POTUS to have power, even when it is within their Constitutional duties, rather than mission creep. And they sure do not like Trump getting rid of the garbage Obama manufactured.

American democracy is a separation-of-powers system, in which Congress and the presidency are independent branches, but Congress has many more powers. The problem with separation of powers in practice is that it only works with divided government. The framers thought that by spreading power across independent branches of government, they would make it hard for parties to form, and institutional allegiances would triumph and balance each other. They were wrong.

Where was Vox and the Democrats when Obama was president and the GOP controlled Congress?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are trees sitting in a flooded world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on all the things that will kill you.

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Capitalism Will Totally Solve ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2018 – 7:56 am

The Wall Street Journal has given Fred Krupp, president of the uber-far left Environmental Defense Fund, a platform to show that he has no idea what capitalism is

Capitalism Will Solve the Climate Problem
Skeptics try to deny the evidence of global warming, but businesses already are betting on clean energy.

Together, science and capitalism built the modern world. But across the political spectrum, both are under attack. If we are to solve our greatest challenges, including climate change, we have to deploy the power of these twin engines of civilization.

The best available research confirms the existence of human-driven climate change, including the rapid pace of global warming. Leading scientists’ predictions of temperature rise have been largely accurate. In the three decades since NASA climate scientist James Hansen first warned Congress that global warming had begun, the U.S. and other nations have poured billions of tons of carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, and the planet has continued to warm.

There’s no scientific method proof that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, and that fact that most Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral show that they themselves don’t really believe their own talking points. Further, Skeptics do not deny warming: we are debating causation.

Anyhow, let’s skip the polemic, and get to the end where Krupp explains capitalism

This brings us back to capitalism. Climate change is a byproduct of the prosperity created by the market economy, but the market similarly can be an engine to generate cost-effective solutions. Clean-energy technologies such as wind and solar power already have developed immensely in the past two decades. Public policy that puts a price on carbon emissions would speed the adoption of clean energy by exposing the market to the costs this pollution puts on society. This will accelerate adoption of and private investment in clean-energy technologies.

Though climate change presents American industries a daunting challenge, market-based policies can unleash innovation from investors, inventors and entrepreneurs, who will work to build a more prosperous and safer future. Working with accurate scientific facts and the right incentives, the market will find winning solutions.

So let’s follow the data and get this done.

If the government is instituting a tax in order to force the private sector to make changes, that’s not capitalism. If they’re dictating behavior, that’s not capitalism. They aren’t market based policies if the government is passing them.

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What Do Democrats Want If They Take Back Congress? Ask Senator Gillibrand

By William Teach July 23, 2018 – 7:17 am

If the Democrats manage to take back Congress this November, some of the more unhinged will certainly push impeachment, because they’re still upset that Donald Trump played the election game properly and won. But, what about the real issues?

(Daily Caller) Democrats should immediately move to abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they regain majorities in Congress, Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said on Sunday.

“So when we flip the House and flip the Senate, I think the first thing we should do is deal with the children who have been separated from their families at the border. I think we should get rid of ICE,” Gillibrand said at the New York City festival OZY Fest, where she shared a stage with left-wing actress Chelsea Handler.

“We should separate out two missions, the anti-terrorism mission, the national security mission, and then on the other side make sure you’re do, making sure you’re looking at immigration as a humanitarian issue,” Gillibrand added.

In other words, she and the Democrats want to utterly defang the main federal agency responsible for detaining and deporting illegal aliens, and turn them into some sort of social justice warrior agency which provides aid and comfort to people who are invading our country. Expect Democrats to come after Customs and Border Patrol, as well.

The senator also said that Democrats should also move on “all” of the gun control issues within the first month of taking back Congress.

“I think we should pass the gun reform issues within the first month — all of them. Universal background checks, anti-trafficking, making sure people can’t buy bump stocks, large magazine clips, all that work,” she said.

In other words, they’re coming after your guns, because virtually nothing in their talking points highlights anything that truly goes after the criminals who use guns. Just those who are law abiding citizens.

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Trump Stands Up For America, Tells Iran To Never Threaten Us

By William Teach July 23, 2018 – 7:04 am

Obama would have bowed to Iran and given them more money

Trump’s tweet to Iran cannot bully the west away from making peace

Wow. Social media really is transforming the art of diplomacy. Donald Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has called the rulers of Iran a “mafia more than a government”. They are a bunch of “hypocritical holy men” who have devised “all kinds of crooked schemes to become some of the wealthiest men on Earth while their people suffer”. When Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani pleads for the mother of all peace instead of the “mother of all wars,” Trump retorts that if he ever says that again, he will see “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before … Be cautious!” Children are told that words can never hurt you, but there must be limits.

Oh, wait, sorry, that’s the hardcore, unhinged Leftist view of the tweet from Simon Jenkins at the UK Guardian, which seems to be the opinion of many on the left, who are taking the side of Iran.

What they missed is that Iran was threatening the US, and has been threatening the US.

(CNN) President Donald Trump issued a furious, all-caps challenge to the Iranian regime late Sunday night, warning that any threats to the US would be met with unspecified dire consequences.

The tirade — apparently in response to earlier remarks by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who warned the US that war with Tehran would be the “mother of all wars” — signaled an immediate escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran.

In his comments, Rouhani warned Trump not to “play with the lion’s tail, because you will regret it eternally.” He also held out the possibility of a peaceful relationship with the US, in remarks reported by Iranian state media.

Funny thing is, Iran seems to get Trump better than the deranged #resistance

On Monday, a senior officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Commander General Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar, described Trump’s remarks as “psychological warfare,” the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.

It worked with North Korea. Regardless, Iran has been threatening the US for quite some time. The latest regards sanctions on Iran’s oil, and that they could close the Straights of Hormuz. Why do Leftists want to take the side of Iran?

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‘Climate Change’ Is Disrupting The Seasons Or Something

By William Teach July 22, 2018 – 3:59 pm

Obviously, the climate of the Earth had been utterly stable up till mankind invented the fossil fueled automobile

Climate change may be starting to disrupt planet’s seasons
Humans are pushing seasonal temperatures out of balance, research shows.

Poring through four decades of satellite data, climate scientists have concluded for the first time that humans are pushing seasonal temperatures out of balance – shifting what one researcher called the very “march of the seasons themselves.”

Ever-mindful of calculable uncertainty and climate deniers, the authors give “odds of roughly 5 in 1 million” of these changes occurring naturally, without human influence.

Climate scientists are continually sifting through evidence looking for what they call “fingerprints.” Over the years, they’ve teased out the human signal from Earthly noise in annual and decade-spanning temperature records, marine chemistryand rapid Arctic change.

What they discovered is an uneven pace of seasonal change in the atmosphere above the Northern and Southern Hemispheres’ temperate zones. While warming is global, summers in the troposphere are heating faster than winters, in a way physics would dictate if greenhouse gases were the culprit. The satellite data and computer models for seasonal temperature change used by the study agree with each other even more closely than they do when gauging average annual temperature.

These people. Funny how they ignore an 18+ year pause in rising global temperatures, and leave out the cooling of the late 40’s into the mid 1970’s. They ignore that there were multiple warm periods during the Holocene. What caused the Roman Warm Period? They’ll tell us “oh, that was natural back then, but, not now”, and then they’ll jump in their fossil fueled vehicle to engage in some consumerism before heading back to their fossil fuels heated/cooled homes.

This whole thing looks like astrology.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on self defense working even in California.

It’s French women week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 22, 2018 – 9:36 am

Patriotic Pinup Greg Hildebrandt

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the rabbits are eating my neighbors veggies, and the lizards are sunning on my back deck. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. The Other McCain covers what happened when a gender confused moved in with a family
  2. The People’s Cube features the 2018 version of Ms. Pacman
  3. The Right Scoop explains why everyone is mocking Commie Ocasio-Cortez today
  4. This ain’t Hell... has your Sunday feel good stories
  5. Vox Popoli explains that reprisal is not hypocrisy
  6. Independent Sentinel discusses the release of the DOJ FISA documents
  7. Climate Change Dispatch notes snowflakes losing it over a coffee mug
  8. 357 Magnum notes that it’s A-OK when Obama interferes
  9. America’s Watchtower covers Fauxahontus’ excuse for the low unemployment rate
  10. Bunkerville notes where the Russian investigation really leads
  11. Chicks On The Right discusses yet another unhinged assault by Leftists
  12. Creeping Sharia explains Arctic Jihad
  13. DaTechGuy’s Blog highlights the Washington Post being racist against Mexicans
  14. Geller Report covers Leftists pimping t-shirts of Trump lynching
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection notes Leftists literally throwing feces

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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“Immigrants” Are Being Forced Into Exile Like Ancient Jews Or Something

By William Teach July 22, 2018 – 8:30 am

Liberal #1: “how can we continue to protest the detainment of illegal aliens?” Liberal #2: “let’s turn that amplifier up to 11.” Credentialed Media: “don’t worry, we’ll equate illegal aliens with lawful immigrants to hook you up”

‘People are being forced into exile:’ Durham group protests immigration policies

Members of the Jewish community were in Durham on Saturday night, taking a stand against immigration policies they call unjust.

In the Jewish community, Tisha B’Av is the day on the calendar to mourn for the destruction of Jewish temples and the persecution of Jews throughout history.

Saturday night, Carolina Jews for Justice observed Tisha B’Av by holding a march and ceremony at the Durham courthouse to protest immigration policies that are separating families at the border.

Those observing Tisha B’Av said there are many similarities between what the Jewish community faced centuries ago and what immigrants are experiencing today.

“It’s not a far link to really know that in this moment, in this place that we as a Jewish community in North Carolina live today, there is a community of people that is being destroyed. Families are being torn apart and people are being forced into expulsion and exile,” said Dove Kent with Carolina Jews for Justice.

Tisha B’av primarily commemorates the destruction of the holy temples in Jerusalem. Secondly, it commemorates tragedies that have befallen Jews over time, such as “most notably the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 and from England in 1290.” Yes, these nutbags are really equating the detention and temporary separation of illegal aliens (often to check to see if the adults really are the parents, and not smugglers or child slavers), and deportation of people who have broken our laws, with Jew hatred. Which these Democrat Jews forget is rampant within the Democrat party.

Where were they when Obama was in office and kids were in cages?

Oh, and then there’s this one (via Twitchy)

They claim they’re refugees and asylum seekers and they’re being given food and shelter, making the safer than the places they claim are too dangerous for them. But, hey, if they don’t like these state of affairs. they can head north to Canada. Or back through Mexico. Or back to their originating nation. Or somewhere else. We didn’t ask them to come here unlawfully. Leave.

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News Outlet Which Leads In TDS Decides To Tell Us What TDS Is

By William Teach July 21, 2018 – 3:00 pm

I was going to tell you about the #ZeroHour demonstration which went on today with all the kiddies, but, it apparently failed so badly

that no one seems to be covering it. Not MSNBC, not CNN, not even the hyper-Warmist UK Guardian. So, let’s go to Chris Cillizza at CNN

What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ — and do you have it?

“Some people HATE the fact that I got along well with President Putin of Russia,” he tweeted. “They would rather go to war than see this. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome!”

Worried you might have Trump Derangement Syndrome? Wondering where it came from? I’m here to help!

Let’s start with what Trump Derangement Syndrome means.

Urban Dictionary offers up this handy definition: “Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason.”

Anyhow, Chris goes through a bunch of stuff, even how this all started as Bush Derangement Syndrome, and ends with

We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who think any differently than us. We watch cable news that affirms what we already think. We read ideological “news” sites that tell us how good our side is and how bad the other one is. And on and on and on.

Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who disagree with us into the “deranged” category? To say that those who don’t share our views are mentally deficient in some way?

What does it say about a President — and about a country — when the standard response to those with whom you disagree is that they must be crazy? Nothing good, for sure.

Here’s the thing: not every Liberal has TDS. But, the amount of insanity emanating from the Democrats, and liberals around the world, is gigantic. And it’s not from the fringes. The thing about palling around? That’s mostly a Leftist thing. Conservatives weren’t threatening to leave the US if Obama was elected. We weren’t hanging Obama in effigy. Sure, we made fun of him. We weren’t apoplectic over every single thing he did. We didn’t loathe the man for who he was, but for his policies.

And, let’s not forget that the Left’s standard response to people with differing views is to call them Nazis, KKKers, racists, etc. And that this, along with TDS, involves the Credentialed media and elected Democrats.

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