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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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a vehicle used to take people around horrible, water intensive golf courses, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on Sharia law debuting in Swedish court.

It’s clearing out the folder week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 24, 2018 – 9:07 am

patriotic pinup Bill Randall

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the squirrels are squirreling, and Donald Trump is living rent free in a lot of people’s heads. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. Wizbang discusses how the MSM is driving up Trump’s support
  2.  Vox Popoli notes that predators go where the prey is
  3. Vlad Tepes highlights some of those wonder “underage refugees” in Munich
  4. This ain’t Hell... has some feel good stories
  5. The Vulgar Curmudgeon notes the passing of Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul Abbot
  6. The Right Scoop covers Shaun King siccing his online mob on the wrong person
  7. The Other McCain discusses the suicide of a violent transgender
  8. The Last Refuge highlights documents showing that John McCain was no friend to Republicans
  9. The Daley Gator discusses nuclear grad Krazy
  10. The Crawdad Hole covers my border my choice (I’m stealing that graphic)
  11. Pacific Pundit notes Excitable Joe Scarborough being called a liar by the Red Cross
  12. neo-neocon notes the idea from NeverTrumper George Will
  13. Moonbattery notes how well “Socialists” do
  14. Legal Insurrection discusses a note on who gets blame on illegal immigration
  15. And last, but not least, Jihad Watch covers forced Islamization in Austria

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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Trump’s Weekly Address: Detain, Prosecute, And Remove Illegal Aliens

By William Teach June 24, 2018 – 7:52 am

This should make the supporters of illegal immigration unhappy. Say what you will about Trump’s personal faults, the guy is saying the things that we all know. Transcript via Breitbart, which also has the video

“Our country is currently facing a crisis of illegal immigration on our southern border. Democrat-supported loopholes in our federal laws have enabled roughly half-a-million illegal immigrant family members and minors from Central America to be released into the United States since 2014, at unbelievably tremendous taxpayer expense.

While illegal aliens can only be held for a period of days or weeks, it can take years to move their cases through the legal system to actually try to send them back to their home countries. It is a ridiculous process. For example, of the removal orders issued for unaccompanied alien children over a recent two-year period, 90% were done in absentia, that means they weren’t there and they never showed up for their removal hearing. What else is new?

Catch and release is great, isn’t it?

The United States could not have an open border to every illegal alien family and minor on the face of the earth. We must have rules. We must have laws. And we must enforce those laws. The driving factor in the surge of illegal families and minors is the belief that there will be no consequence for illegal entry and no likelihood of removal or reprisal.

Unfortunately, open border Democrats support the loopholes that prevent families from being detained and removed together. They just want everyone to be released into our country, no matter how dangerous they are. They can be killers. They can be thieves. They can be horrible people. The Democrats say it’s okay for them to be in our country. I don’t think so.

Congress and Congress alone can solve the problem, and the only solution that will work is being able to detain, prosecute, and promptly remove anyone who illegally crosses the border. Remember this, we need Democrat votes. Without the Democrats constantly obstructing, there’s no way you can do it. Without having Democrats voting, there is no way you can get this done. So, the Democrats are obstructing. The Democrats don’t want border security. The Democrats are okay with crime, but we’re not okay with it. We need Democrat votes. Without it, frankly, nothing can be done.”

No, Democrats do not want to do that. Nor do some of the Republican squishes. We can’t take in every person, regardless of age, who shows up at the border, and many are showing up with children, who sometimes aren’t even theirs, in an attempt to gain sympathy. Not everyone is a refugee seeking asylum. I’m sorry, some of their nations are crummy, but, we can’t be responsible for everyone who decides to bail and head for the U.S. border (wanting shelter, food, clothing, education, welfare, jobs, the U.S. to take care of the kids, all while refusing to learn the language and demanding we change for the illegals).

Everyone has a story. Some of them are true sob stories, other’s are just magnifying it or making it up. In case people forget, there are Americans who need help, too. The responsibility of the federal, state, county, and local governments is to take care of American citizens first.

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One In 10 Florida Homes Could Be Doomed From Sea Rise Or Something

By William Teach June 23, 2018 – 4:34 pm

This is your fault NBC2’s fault, for refusing to give up their use of fossil fueled vehicles to gather the news, and all the electricity used to broadcast the news

Rising seas threaten Florida, and there’s little action from Rick Scott or Tallahassee

One out of 10 Florida homes could be subject to almost daily flooding by the end of the century, according to a new report by The Union of Concerned Scientists.

The culprit is rising sea levels resulting from climate change.

The report suggests Florida stands to be affected more than any other state.

Predictions by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show up to 6.5 feet of sea level rise by 2100.

An increase of that magnitude would cost billions of dollars to the state and local governments in lost property values.

Yet, surprisingly, people keep buying homes at the beach, including climate change big wigs.

But, really, this avoids actual data. Here’s Naples, which NBC2 covers

That’s a whole lot less than 6.5 feet in the next 82 years, eh? And the rest of the Florida stations are similar. I wonder why the Credentialed Media never offers any actual readings? Key West goes back to 1913, and shows .79 feet per 100 years. Inconvenient.

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If All You See…

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

…is snow that might disappear or get worse due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on liberals being crazy, and whether voters will notice.

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