Someone Please Explain Why People Have To Blow Off Stop Signs

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 8:25 pm

Dana caught a tweet from me a few months back asking people to please stop running stop signs. And there was this at NJ.com

Drivers no longer know what ‘stop’ means

I was under the impression that when vehicles approached stop signs and red traffic lights, they were supposed to stop.

I have seen more and more vehicles go through intersections with red traffic signals. Many cars never come to a full stop when approaching a stop sign. These drivers put others at risk, and can cause accidents.

What’s their excuse? Are they in a hurry to get somewhere? As long as they can get away with running stop signs and driving through red traffic lights, bad drivers will continue to disobey traffic laws.

The running red lights, mostly as they are just about to go red, has been going on for a while. Over the last few months, I’ve noticed a serious increase in the amount of people blowing stop signs. Maybe I just never noticed. It seems to be happening everywhere lately, And these aren’t slow and goes. No. People get near the stop sign, and just go. They do not get down to a mile or two an hour. And they are flying up to stop signs, and slamming on the brakes when they realize a vehicle is coming. It is worrisome, and damned dangerous. They really often do not have time to look both ways properly to see if a vehicle, a jogger, a kid on a bike, etc, is coming.

I just don’t get it. If they do not care about other people, you’d think they would care about themselves and their property which costs tens of thousands of dollars.  It’s such a simple thing that only costs a few extra seconds. I’ve been hit by a dumbass blowing a red light (they were going right on red, and weren’t paying attention to the my turn signal, but, still never stopped). I don’t feel like getting hit because some other dumbass couldn’t wait a few seconds.

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Good News: Chocolate/Vanilla Ice Cream Causes Massive Case Of Offendinitis

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 3:15 pm

Have you ever had Blue Bell ice cream? Delicious. It’s my preferred brand now. It’s real, tastes great, and you get a lot for your money. I like the Neapolitan the most, but, there’s another I’ve purchased when my WalMart is out. This type. Which apparently is raaaaacist and linked to the Civil War, and has caused Offendinitis

Mixed-Race Family Asks Blue Bell To Change ‘The Great Divide’ Flavor Name

In an open letter on Love What Matters, Traci Schmidley, a mother of six children and a foster mom to more, is asking Blue Bell Ice Cream to change the name of their chocolate and vanilla flavor, which is currently named “The Great Divide.”

According to Schmidley, the family was sitting down to celebrate the end of a long week with some ice cream when her 10-year-old son saw the name on the carton and decided to make a joke calling it “The Civil War flavor.”

“The line down the middle of the carton reminded him of the Mason Dixon line, and the name reminded him of a time in history when our nation appeared to be irrevocably divided. He looked at our table and saw a mixture of both black and white people, not divided on one side or another like in the ice cream but gathered around the table together.”

Schmidley says her son wasn’t complaining that the name of the ice cream was racist, but rather that it wasn’t “the best name for something as wonderfully unifying as Blue Bell ice cream.” The children came up with a name that they think better represents the flavor, calling it “Better Together.” They wrote a letter to the company that Schmidley shared on her Facebook page.

OK, perhaps he wasn’t complaining that it was racist (I doubt that), but, it sure is a case of Mega-Offendinitis. Seriously, this is ice cream. There’s always been this light-hearted debate about chocolate or vanilla being the best. The Great Divide! This is the kind of insanity that permates today’s society, where someone takes Offense because they’ve utterly misread something in their own minds. But, remember, it’s not about race

Last week we had an ice cream party and we had the flavor the Great Divide. It’s a good flavor for parties because we can add a lot of unique toppings to it. But, we began to talk about the name and we think some people might misunderstand the name and think the name the Great Divide is about people and the division that exists in our world because of different skin colors.

That’s from the Facebook post to Blue Bell, embedded in the above link. On the bright side, it wasn’t Demanding and unhinged like what you see from most SJWs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from Other People’s carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on one of the lunatics attacking the Homeland Security secretary.

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Surprise: Excitable Bill McKibben Says ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Not An Environmental Issue

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 10:30 am

Ever so slowly, the high mucky mucks in the Cult of Climastrology are revealing what this who thing is about

Catastrophic Climate Change Is Not an ‘Environmental’ Issue: Bill McKibben

It’s the most crucial security question that humans have ever faced: catastrophic climate change. Bill McKibben says it’s too late to halt global warming, but we still have a chance to curb it in ways that ultimately avoid “civilizational destruction.”

What follows at The Nation is a podcast which describes what McKibben seems to be saying in his The Nation article

Climate Change Is Our Most Critical National-Security Challenge

Progressive American politicians must embrace the necessity of dramatic action on climate change as a touchstone. So far, Senator Bernie Sanders has done it the most persuasively, campaigning on addressing climate change, health care, racial justice, and economic inequality as his unvaried quartet of issues, invoked in every speech and backed up with serious legislation that shows a willingness to move with real speed. Other party leaders will back him on one bill or another, and scientists and engineers are now running for office. Seriousness on climate change needs to be a qualification, not an afterthought, for anyone who wants to run for president. Because it’s not an environmental issue; it’s the most crucial security question that humans have ever faced.

And what Bill recommends to solve this is, I know you’ll be surprised, more and more Big Government control and more taxes and fees.

So if and when the United States emerges from the Trump era, and if and when progressive politicians really embrace climate change as a core issue in tandem with race, gender, immigration, and inequality, we will have a chance for something new: an activist government whose task, alongside those of China and Europe, will be to help lead in a very different direction the planet that we’ve done the most to pollute. If there’s any reason for a superpower, it’s got everything to do with… power.

So, ‘climate change’ is pretty much a stand-in for every other far left notion, which always seem to increase the size and power of centralized government. Which is what is being proposed through this very, very long and roundabout The Nation article by Alyssa Battistoni, which seems to be pushing authoritarian, even dictatorial, government in order to solve the “climate crisis.”

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UN Report On Poverty Blasting Trump Has One Big Problem

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 8:07 am

Much like so many reports of kids fenced in at illegal alien detention centers….oh, look, here’s a new one, saying they were handcuffed and beaten….that seem to have occurred during the time of the previous White House occupant, Trump gets blamed for things that he didn’t do. He wasn’t POTUS at the time. Here’s another

(Fox News) A recent United Nations report blasting President Trump and America in general for harboring “contempt” and “hatred for the poor” is based on highly inaccurate data that can’t easily be used to compare the U.S. to other nations.

The U.N. report’s main contentions read like an attack on the Trump administration by the Democratic Party: America has 40 million poor people, including 18.5 million who live in extreme poverty; U.S. policies regarding the poor are “cruel and inhuman;” the Trump tax cuts aren’t working and will worsen inequality; and the U.S. needs to spend less on defense of our nation and more on social programs.

But, wait a minute: the U.N. report’s main contentions are based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s official poverty measure data for 2016 – the last full year of President Obama’s second term. So it would be absurd to say that private citizen Donald Trump had any responsibility for the many shortcomings of the Obama administration or any other administration in power before he became president.

The U.N. might as well blame Trump for causing the Great Depression – before he was born.

An even bigger problem with the report, especially given that the organization attacking American policy is the U.N., is that the Census Bureau data for 2016 isn’t accurate and can’t be used to compare U.S. anti-poverty programs with programs in other developed nations.

Wouldn’t this be what was referred to as an “inherited problem” from the day Obama took office in 2009 to at least his re-election in 2012? The media at the time the report was released at the beginning of June were hot to trot to Blame Trump, with headlines like

The Washington Post had an honest (mostly) article on the report, noting that the safety net programs were failing before Trump was elected. Regardless, so many others were blasting Trump policies for data from the Obama era.

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Trump Signs EO To (Mostly) End Illegal Alien Separation, Democrats Shift Goal Posts

By William Teach June 21, 2018 – 7:52 am

Democrats say it’s about the kids. It’s not about the kids

(Daily Caller) Members of the media and Democrats are unsatisfied with President Trump’s executive order temporarily ending family separations at the border and are now urging him to end his zero tolerance policy on prosecuting people who cross the border illegally.

President Trump announced Wednesday that he would allow families to be detained together while they wait to be prosecuted for illegal border crossings. Immigration law currently requires children to be sheltered separately as their parents await trial.

However, despite spending weeks complaining about the separation of families and even comparing the detention centers to concentration camps, the media and the Democrats are still railing against the president.

Because the Trump administration prosecutes illegal border crossers at a 100 percent rate, leftists are now complaining that families will be detained at all — even if they’re detained together. The implicit assertion is that people who cross the border illegally shouldn’t be detained, even though those people often fail to show up for their court hearings.

Well, of course they are. Because this is about open borders. They didn’t care about when it was happening under Obama (nor do they seem to care that Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is doing the same)

MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt questioned what would “happen next,” noting, “this executive order does not end the zero tolerance policy — everyone will continue to be prosecuted which puts a serious strain on resources.”

Democratic Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin complained on CNN that “it does not reverse his zero tolerance policy and so we’re still going to have some really critical issues to deal with relating to … families with young children.”

And so many others

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1009531410082824194

And, if you’ve lost pro-amnesty Marco Rubio

According to some data Gabriel Malor has found, 39% of illegals did not appear in court for fiscal year 2016.

And here’s Trump trolling Dems

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If Carbon Taxes Were So Awesome, You’d Think Supporters Would Be For Transparency

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 3:49 pm

Here’s a fun one from the land of maple syrup and Tim Horton’s, from the Toronto Sun editorial board, not exactly paragons of ‘climate change’ skepticism

EDITORIAL: The carbon tax cover up continues

It’s not rocket science. At least it shouldn’t be. Although the way the Liberals are acting you’d think it’s a superhuman feat to disclose how much carbon taxes are going to ding the average Canadian family.

On Thursday evening, the Conservatives used the legislative tools at their disposal to keep MPs around late into the night to vote on a motion that would see the Liberals release a needlessly secret report that gives up the carbon tax goods.

Back in 2015 bureaucrats at the federal finance department calculated how much a federal carbon tax levy was going to cost.

Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre recently filed an access to information request to receive the document. But when he got it, the pertinent information was blacked out. The data was redacted.

Poilievre is now challenging this, with the Office of the Information Commissioner investigating whether the Liberals in fact broke access to information laws by failing to disclose the data.

You’d think if they’re such proponents of the carbon tax, then they’d be all gung ho to talk about it and all of its details. The truth though is that carbon tax fans never want to discuss the costs. Because they know how high they are and they know this will turn the people off of them.

This is scandalous. The people have a right to know.

But, the Warmists do not want you to know the results of their carbon taxes/fees. They do not want you to know where the money is going. They do not want you to know about the artificial rise in the cost of living. They do not want you to know about how this hurts the economy. They really, really like their slush funds and empowered government control.

There are a number of estimates out there from private and academic sources. The lowest of them suggests families will pay around $600 per year on average. It could be more.

They do not want Canadians to know.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are glaciers that are going to soon melt and raise the seas hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on UK police making the ISIS one-finger salute.

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TV Weathercasters Unite To Push ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Or Something

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 10:58 am

I wonder how much electricity is used to broadcast the weather?

TV Meteorologists Unite For Climate Change On The Summer Solstice

Surprisingly, there are a small percentage of TV meteorologists that express skepticism on climate change. The American Meteorological Society (AMS), George Mason University, and others have studied the reasons why, and I will say more about that later. This is particularly worrisome because TV meteorologists are the only scientists the average public citizen will see on a daily basis. Many people, myself included, recognize that TV colleagues, though only about 8% of the meteorology field according to the AMS, are great sources for climate change news and education. And by the way, the majority of the public thinks that every meteorologist is on TV anyhow (smile). Every meteorologist that I know, irrespective of the sector of the field they work, has gotten this question, “So what channel are you on?”

On the June 21, 2018 Summer Solstice, over 100 meteorologists will wear an item of clothing like the tie below. The effort is called #MetsUnite. Keep reading for what the pattern on the tie indicates.

Why is this effort needed? Isn’t it a “no brainer” that anyone that studies weather would understand that climate change is a challenge? As a former president of the American Meteorological Society and in many discussions with broadcast meteorologists on all sides of the ledger, I have gained some valuable insight on why there is variance in the perspectives of broadcast meteorology community.

And why are they doing it when it’s hot outside? Which happens in the Northern Hemisphere at this time of year?

Specifically for this initiative it was my idea! I saw Ed Hawkins Warming Stripes pattern and the simplicity resonated with me. It is our job as meteorologists and station scientists to explain weather and climate in simple, memorable terms. This pattern could not be more simple… red for warmer than normal, blue for cooler than normal from 1850 to 2017. Plus the pattern looked like it could be a nifty tie… in a weather geek sort of way. So I quickly organized this initiative and Climate Central jumped in to offer support. They are a great organization as you know and we are all working together towards the same goal, climate change awareness. We discussed various aspects of the initiative. This Wednesday they will send out a supplementary email with info/ graphics for “Meteorologists United on Climate Change” which will be this Thursday June 21st, the summer solstice. #MetsUnite

This is what they’re referring to

It’s a manufactured representation meant to scare people into allowing themselves to be taxed out the ying yang, see their cost of living skyrocket, and have the government restrict their freedom. It is beyond disingenuous, as the comparison is for what they consider “average”, but misses that most years prior to that average, taken from 1960-1990, will be slightly cooler. The Little Ice Age ended in 1850, and there were several periods where the temperatures spiked throughout the Modern Warm Period, and a few pauses. But, always, the trend has been slightly up. But, an increase of 1.5F since 1850 is minor. No big deal. But, they have to keep push push pushing to keep their cult going.

And it’s still not proof that this is mostly/solely caused by Mankind’s output of CO2.

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Feinstein, Democrats Offer Child Separation Fix That Has Unintended(?) Consequences

By William Teach June 20, 2018 – 7:56 am

Obviously, the Democrats are using the separation of illegal alien kids as a wedge issue going into the 2018 mid-terms. They sure didn’t care when the same was being done quietly under Obama, such as when the media took a tour of a facility back in 2014

The media doesn’t want you to see things like that. But, now, Dems and their pet media are Concerned. Because it also helps deflect from the potential denuclearizing of North Korea and the Inspector General report on FBI misconduct. And now we get

Report: Diane Feinstein’s Immigration Bill Would Prevent Almost Every Federal Arrest

Every single Senate Democrat has backed a bill by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) that would effectively prevent authorities from arresting illegal aliens within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

In the words of moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Feinstein’s “Keep Families Together Act” would “essentially prevent arrest within 100 miles of the border, even if the person has committed a serious crime or is suspected of terrorist activities.”

For that reason, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has called Feinstein’s bill the “Child Trafficking Encouragement Act,” since it would create incentives for illegal aliens to cross the border with children to evade arrest by authorities.

If you’ve lost super-squish Collins, you’ve lost all Republicans.

A new analysis by Gabriel Malor of The Federalist points out an additional problem: thanks, he says, to sloppy drafting, the bill would effectively prevent federal law enforcement from arresting anyone in most of the U.S.

Every Senate Democrat has now signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between migrant children at the border and U.S. citizen children already within the United States. The bill further does not distinguish between federal officers handling the border crisis and federal law enforcement pursuing the ordinary course of their duties.

With the GOP in control of the Senate, there’s no way this passes, and will most likely never make it out of committee (Mitch McConnell would actually be wise in bringing it to the floor quickly, putting Democrats on record as supporting this abomination).

But, really, Democrats do not want it passed. Sure, there’s a possibility that this was just a poorly crafted piece of legislation put together in a hurry. Most likely, they know exactly what’s in it, and will grandstand on it. They know the finer nuances of the legislation will not be explained in the media, and that most people will only see that it stops the separation.

Schumer doesn’t want the duly elected legislative branch to debate and pass law. Weird, eh?

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