Bummer: Except For Some Elected Democrats And Pet Pundits, No One Cares About Russia Russia Russia

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 2:34 pm

Heck, even ‘climate change’ does better. Not by much, but, if this is what Democrats have worked on for two years now, #Fail

From the article

There’s just one problem with the Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and the media’s constant collusion chatter: few Americans care, because – drumroll – they have real lives in the real economy to worry about.

As the latest survey from Gallup shows: when asked what the most important problem facing the nation is, Russia did not even warrant a 1% – and worse still, it is declining in importance from there.

It ranks so low that it gets an *. So, yeah, keep pushing this, Democrats.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day from atmosphere rivers from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post discussing Russia being a threat.

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Good News: Meat And Dairy Companies Are Worse Than Fossil Fuel Companies

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 9:28 am

Not that members of the Cult of Climastrology will give up any of the three, but, it gives them good talking points. Perhaps we can get some Warmist cities and counties to sue

Against Exxon and Shell but Still Eat Meat? Study Shows Meat and Dairy Companies Cause More Harm Than Fossil Fuels

In 2017, GRAIN, an international non-profit that conducts independent research and works to support small farmers, used methodology created by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to estimate the emissions produced by livestock. This was the first time that these emissions had ever been measured, and the study revealed some not-so-pretty statistics. Take, for instance, the fact that JBS, Cargill, and Tyson, three top meat companies, emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of France, plus nearly as much as oil giants like Exxon, Shell, and BP.

A year after that groundbreaking study, GRAIN has once again set out to bring to light the true impact of big meat and dairy on our planet. This time, the organization teamed up with another non-profit, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). Together, GRAIN and IATP conducted an analysis of the world’s 35 top-producing meat and dairy corporations. Here’s what they found:

  • The top five meat and dairy companies have now officially surpassed Exxon, Shell, and BP in annual greenhouse gas emissions.
  • With only four of the 35 giving complete and credible emissions estimates, the majority of the top meat and dairy producers either underreport or do not report their emissions.
  • In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, we must cut down on global emissions by 38 billion tons. But if meat and dairy continue to grow as experts predict, the livestock industry could produce 80 percent of the allowable greenhouse gas emissions quota in just 32 years.

These eye-opening statistics show just how bad things really are and point to an urgent need for a solution. As GRAIN researcher Devlin Kuyek put it, “There’s no other choice. Meat and dairy production in the countries where the top 35 companies dominate must be significantly reduced.”

Well, that’s a bummer. Come on, Warmists, stop eating meat, give up dairy, and stop using fossil fueled vehicles. They won’t.

Really, though, this has been known for a long time, going back to the early days when it was called man-caused global warming. We knew that agriculture, along with landfills, was much worse in terms of greenhouse gas release than pretty much anything else mankind was involved in. But, see, methane wasn’t as sexy as “carbon pollution,” because of all the jokes about farts. And, early stage Warmists didn’t want to appear to be total cranks by recommending that government reduce the availability of food.

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Teen Vogue Is Totally Impressed With The Teens Marching For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 8:19 am

Surprisingly, no one, including Teen Vogue’s Melissa Walker, are bothering to ask pesky questions like “how are you going to travel to these marches” and “what are you doing to make your own life carbon neutral?”

Teens Are Leading 3 Days of Climate Change Activism in D.C. With Zero Hour

The science of climate change, and the evidence of its devastating impact not just in the U.S., but around the world, could not be more clear.

While past generations have fought to make change in this area, none has felt the urgency of the current youth. On Saturday, July 21, Zero Hour — a group founded by high school students — will lead the largest climate mobilization effort by youth of color in Washington, D.C.

“There is no more time,” says Kibiriti Majuto, 20, a climate refugee from the Congo who is a core Zero Hours member and author of their platform. “We do this now or we’re done.”

Got that? We’re done if they don’t…..take fossil fueled trips to complain about fossil fuels. How did Ms. Majuto get to the U.S.? A sailing ship? I love how we let people in, rescue them, and they repay the nation by demanding we do things. Further, are youth of not-color allowed?

Founding member Nadia Nazar, 16, echoes his sentiment: “We only have a little time left until there is no hope to solve this problem,” she told Teen Vogue.

Zanagee Artis, Zero Hour’s logistics head, acknowledges that certain communities have been working on this problem for generations: “We definitely recognize that frontline communities and indigenous peoples have been fighting climate change and fossil fuel projects for a long time.”

“But we know that isn’t enough,” 18-year-old Zanagee told Teen Vogue. “For decades the mainstream climate movement has appealed to people who are already invested in environmental justice.” One of Zero Hour’s goals is to broaden the base of support for climate justice so that people understand the social consequences of the issue as well.

Essentially, this really isn’t about ‘climate change’, it’s just an excuse to push far left Progressive (nice fascist) policies.

Friday, July 20 is the day of the Youth Climate Art Festival, headed by Nadia, where people can experience art and music combined with climate actions. That will include giant Parachutes for the Planet displays from across the world, on-site poster making, art exhibits, musical performances, and Zero Hour organizers engaging with the public on climate justice. The festival will take place in Dupont Circle from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Performers at the festival include Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a hip-hop artist & plaintiff in landmark youth climate lawsuit; Arielle Martinez Cohen, a 16-year-old singer/songwriter; and the Young Women’s Drumming Empowerment Program, an enrichment and empowerment group for urban teen girls.

All those fossil fuels, all that use of carbon pollution creating electricity, all the garbage that will be left behind.

“We created the People’s Platform to give people ways that they can personally take action that will make a positive impact,” Zanagee shared. “Zero Hour isn’t just a march — it is a movement we hope will spread at the grassroots level through community organizing between youth and their neighbors, teachers, mentors, and everyone else in their lives.”

I wonder what the carbon footprint will be of all the selfies taken by these kids who seem to hate capitalism and a modern lifestyle?

So, when will the Zero Hour kids take a pledge to use no fossil fuels?

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Who’s Up For A New Democratic Party Slogan?

By William Teach July 19, 2018 – 7:46 am

Democrats are taking a page out of hyper-Socialist (who wears capitalist created clothes, travels in capitalist created vehicles, and uses capitalist created devices to get her message out) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s playbook: attempt to sound awesome, yet have have nothing behind vapid talking points

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S NEW MOTTO SAME AS A USED CAR DEALERSHIP, PERSONAL INJURY LAW FIRM

House Democrats revealed their new slogan for the upcoming 2018 elections, but whoever was behind it probably forgot to check that it’s identical to the one used by a used car dealership in Texas and a personal injury law firm in Florida.

The motto, “For the People,” debuted at a private meeting with members Wednesday, according to Politico.

Yet Democrats probably won’t like to know that their new message for American voters is the same used by some of the sleaziest businesses in the country, namely used car dealers and ambulance chasers.

Forthepeople.com is currently registered by Morgan & Morgan, a “leading personal injury law firm dedicated to protecting the people, not the powerful” ran out of Orlando.

Elder Mitsubishi, owned by Scott Elder in Austin, declared itself the “car dealer ‘For the People’” in 2011. Check out its TV ad below.

As the Daily Caller points out, this is the 4th slogan that Democrats have run up the flagpole. Vacuous, meaningless, and allows them to avoid discussing their real agenda

Seriously, for the people? Which people, the illegal aliens? Sure seems like it.

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People Upset About Russian Meddling Cool With Giving Unlawful Foreigners The Vote

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 1:36 pm

Here’s a good point

Pretty weird, eh?

(ABC7) Monday the Department of Elections Issued Voter Registration Forms for non-citizens who are eligible to vote for members of the San Francisco Board of Education in the November 6th 2018 election. The measure passed in 2016 with a close vote of 54 percent to 46 percent following two failed previous attempts.

San Francisco is the first city in the state to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.

“As a parent myself and a former member of the SF Board of Education it is critical that the voices of all parents are at the table particularly those that have historically been denied a voice in the process,” said Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer who represents District 1.

“We want to give immigrants the right to vote,” said Supervisor Norman Yee who represents District 7.

The operative phrase is the last: they do not care about parents and such, that’s just an excuse to give illegal aliens the ability to vote. Perhaps San Francisco should worry about cleaning up all the feces, urine, people doing drugs openly in the streets, and needles everywhere.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea quickly rising to meet the desertified land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on your utopian idiocy of the day.

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‘Climate Change’ Will Kill Your Internet In 15 Years Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 10:33 am

Maybe. Possibly. We think. But, this can all be solved with a tax (the bold is theirs)

Study: Climate change could kill your internet in 15 years

Want to get a whole bunch of people to really, really care about climate change and rising sea levels? Tell them their internet is at risk.

In a new study, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Oregon found that thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable are at risk of drowning under the rising seas. This isn’t something that will happen in the distant future, but could be a reality in just 15 years, the study suggests. Better backup your Tumblr.

The peer-reviewed study combined data from the Internet Atlas, the map that keeps track of the physical internet, and projections of sea level incursion from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It found that more than 4,000 miles of the conduit that carries the internet to much of the United States could be exposed to seawater by 2033. While the buried fiber optic cables are designed to be water-resistant, they are not waterproof, and that means potential trouble for coastal residents who like the internet (a.k.a. everyone but Luddites, infants, and my grandma).

And, it’s totally locked in!

(NY Post) The data showed that vast sections of the physical internet will be underwater in 15 years.

“The 15-year predictions are really kind of locked in,” said Carol Barford, a climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

None of the articles I’ve read through actually say how much the seas will rise, but, the NY Post one does mention

“So much of the infrastructure that’s been deployed is right next to the coast, so it doesn’t take much more than a few inches or a foot of sea level rise for it to be underwater,” study co-author Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, told National Geographic.

And that NG article

Cities like New York, Miami, and Seattle are likely to see up to 12 inches of extra water by 2030—well inside the time range of a mortgage on a house, or the planning horizon for big public infrastructure projects. A foot of extra water wending through some of those cities, the researchers say, would put about 20 percent of the nation’s key internet infrastructure underwater.

Good grief. The sea rise for the 20th Century was 7-8 inches, which is exactly average for the Holocene, and should be much greater for a warm period. To think that we’ll suddenly see 12 inches of sea rise in the next 12 years is beyond alarmism. This is people standing on the corner with a sign saying to repent.

Of course, there are lots of weasel words like might, may, possibly, could, suggest.

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Warmist Is Totally Bummed To Be Raising A Child In A ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Doomed World

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 7:48 am

The other day we learned that a Warmist was bummed because he was too dumb to turn on the AC and his child apparently had trouble sleeping, because it would be a huge difference between 85F and 85.6F. Then we have this in the NY Times opinion pages by Warmist Roy Scranton

Raising My Child in a Doomed World
Some would say the mistake was having our daughter in the first place.

I cried two times when my daughter was born. First for joy, when after 27 hours of labor the little feral being we’d made came yowling into the world, and the second for sorrow, holding the earth’s newest human and looking out the window with her at the rows of cars in the hospital parking lot, the strip mall across the street, the box stores and drive-throughs and drainage ditches and asphalt and waste fields that had once been oak groves. A world of extinction and catastrophe, a world in which harmony with nature had long been foreclosed. My partner and I had, in our selfishness, doomed our daughter to life on a dystopian planet, and I could see no way to shield her from the future.

I guess he’d prefer the time when 600 women died in childbirth per 100,000 births a century ago. Or when it was double that in the 1600’s and 1700’s. Versus 15 per 100,000 now. Or when “Even in the middle of the 1800s, a quarter of all babies born in many European countries died before their first birthday.” Welcome to the modern world, Roy!

Anyone who pays much attention to climate change knows the outlook is grim. It’s not unreasonable to say that the challenge we face today is the greatest the human species has ever confronted (yes, it is unreasonable. And crazy). And anyone who pays much attention to politics can assume we’re almost certainly going to botch it. To stop emitting waste carbon completely within the next five or 10 years, we would need to radically reorient almost all human economic and social production, a task that’s scarcely imaginable, much less feasible. It would demand centralized control of key economic sectors, enormous state investment in carbon capture and sequestration and global coordination on a scale never before seen, at the very time when the political and economic structures that held the capitalist world order together under American leadership after World War II are breaking apart. The very idea of unified national political action toward a single goal seems farcical, and unified action on a global scale mere whimsy.

How dare people have different beliefs!!!!1!!!! How dare they not buy into the Cult of Climastrology!!!!

Barring a miracle, the next 20 years are going to see increasingly chaotic systemic transformation in global climate patterns, unpredictable biological adaptation and a wild spectrum of human political and economic responses, including scapegoating and war. After that, things will get worse. The middle and later decades of the 21st century — my daughter’s adult life — promise a global catastrophe whose full implications any reasonable person must turn away from in horror.

Some people might say the mistake was having a child in the first place. As Maggie Astor reported, more and more people are deciding not to have children because of climate change. This concern, conscious or unconscious, is no doubt contributing to the United States’ record-low birthrate. Some people can’t bear the idea of having a child whose life is going to be worse than their own. Others, struggling with the ethics of living in a carbon-fueled consumer society, consider having children selfish and environmentally destructive.

See above graphic. And it doesn’t get less screwball as it continues on and on, ending with

I can’t protect my daughter from the future and I can’t even promise her a better life. All I can do is teach her: teach her how to care, how to be kind and how to live within the limits of nature’s grace. I can teach her to be tough but resilient, adaptable and prudent, because she’s going to have to struggle for what she needs. But I also need to teach her to fight for what’s right, because none of us is in this alone. I need to teach her that all things die, even her and me and her mother and the world we know, but that coming to terms with this difficult truth is the beginning of wisdom.

There are going to be some seriously neurotic and mentally damaged kids being raised.

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NY AG, Governor File Suit Over “Unconstitutional” Tax Cuts

By William Teach July 18, 2018 – 7:31 am

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, who replaced disgraced and unhinged NY AG Eric Schneiderman, thinks she on to something, but could be opening a huge can of worms that she might not like, nor will those in NJ, CT, and Md, which are part of the suit (via Twitchy)

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1019220295851229190

From the press release as linked in tweet

Today, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced a lawsuit to protect New York and its taxpayers from Washington’s drastic curtailment of the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction. The lawsuit argues that the new SALT cap was enacted to target New York and similarly situated states, that it interferes with states’ rights to make their own fiscal decisions, and that it will disproportionately harm taxpayers in these states. Click here to read the lawsuit.

The 2017 federal tax law, which resulted from a hyper-partisan and rushed process, drastically reduced the deduction by capping it at $10,000. An analysis by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance shows that the cap will increase New Yorkers’ federal taxes by $14.3 billion in 2018 alone, and an additional $121 billion between 2019 and 2025. As set forth in the complaint, the law flies in the face of centuries of precedent, which establishes constitutional limits on the federal government’s ability to use its tax power to interfere with the sovereign authority of the states.

For the entire history of the United States, every federal income tax law protected the sovereign interests of the states by providing a deduction for all or a significant portion of state and local taxes. This uninterrupted history demonstrates that the unprecedented cap on the SALT deduction is unconstitutional, as the lawsuit notes.

First off, things change. Welcome to life, Democrats! Second, this mostly affects high tax earners. Are Democrats suddenly in favor of “the rich” after years of scapegoating them? Third, the Constitution provides (unfortunately) the federal Congress the means to enact tax policy, and doesn’t say it has to have a SALT deduction capped. Fourth, suddenly Democrats are interested in States’ Rights. Fifth, I thought Democrats were invested in people “paying their fair share”? No?

As Daniel Darling tweets: For those scoring at home: NY is mad that the federal government doesn’t have a tax break to cover their high state taxes. And Phillip Klein: “This is a completely idiotic lawsuit. Idea that limiting a federal tax deduction in a way that applies equally to all states is a violation of state sovereignty is absurd.”

Which brings to mind the final point about taxes: Does she mean like how NY targets tobacco users with extra (punitive) taxes not applied to other products? How about on the products lawful gun owners purchase? Or that the state gives tax breaks to some businesses and not others? That some people pay a higher tax rate than others because they earn a lot of money, which seems like unequal protection under the law? Did she consider the can of worms that this could open? This might be a great can of worms to open, to make taxes equal across the board.

At the end of the day, this frivolous, foolish, wasteful suit will be thrown out quickly.

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