If All You See…

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

…is a river soon to dry and and flood from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Chicago seeking a backdoor gun ban.

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Super Warmist California Has 8 Of 10 Most Polluted Air Cities

By William Teach April 18, 2018 – 10:25 am

California has some of the most restrictive laws on fossil fueled vehicles in the country, and the world. They have tons and tons of ‘climate change’ laws, rules, and regulations. Yet….

(USA Today) Forget the Golden State. California should be called the Smoggy State.

Eight of the USA’s 10 most polluted cities, in terms of ozone pollution, are in California, according to the American Lung Association‘s annual “State of the Air” report, released Wednesday.

The Los Angeles/Long Beach area took the dubious distinction of being the nation’s most ozone-polluted city as it has for nearly the entire 19-year history of the report. (snip)

Bakersfield, Calif., was in second place for ozone pollution. Other California cities on the list include Fresno, Sacramento and San Diego. The only non-California metro areas in the top 10 list were Phoenix and New York City.

Of the 10 most polluted cities, seven cities did worse in this year’s report, including Los Angeles and the New York City metro area.

Well, that’s weird. Of course we’re going to get

“Near record-setting heat from our changing climate has resulted in dangerous levels of ozone in many cities across the country, making ozone an urgent health threat for millions of Americans,” Lung Association president and CEO Harold P. Wimmer said.

Smog forms on warm, sunny days and is made worse from the chemicals that come out of vehicle tailpipes and from power plant and industrial smokestacks. Warmer temperatures make ozone more likely to form.

I think it’s time to ban all fossil fueled vehicles, power plants, chemical plants, etc, everything that contributes to the output of NOx and VOC (volatile organic compounds) in California.

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Kiddies Plan Walkouts Friday, Wake County Group Wants To Ban All Semi-Automatic Weapons

By William Teach April 18, 2018 – 7:45 am

It’s great when they they tell us their actual agenda by accident

(Raleigh News and Observer) Students across the nation plan to keep up the pressure for tougher gun laws with school walkouts and rallies Friday, including an event that’s expected to bring hundreds of people to downtown Raleigh.

Students are planning to walk out of class at 10 a.m. Friday in more than 2,000 events nationally, including several in North Carolina, as part of the National School Walkout. But once the school day ends, organizers of the Why Wake Walks event plan to mobilize students from different Wake County high schools to come to Raleigh to show state lawmakers they’re serious about pushing for gun reform.

“We want to put pressure on legislators to show that we’re serious,” said Lily Levin, 17, a junior at Cary Academy and one of the organizers of Why Wake Walks. “Once we get old enough to vote, we’re going to vote people out who support the NRA (National Rifle Association) and oppose gun reform.”

First, you have to wonder how many will return to class, and why this is even being allowed. The schools have a responsibility to these children, and if any are hurt or commit crimes, the schools are on the hook. Second, no, you won’t vote. We keep hearing about the young people vote, and how this and that and the other will get them to put down the video games and selfie sticks and get out there, but, they don’t.

Here’s where it gets interesting, way, way down in the article

U.S. Rep. David Price is scheduled to speak at the event, where people will talk about Why Wake Walk’s platform, which includes comprehensive background checks for all gun purchases and banning “bump stocks,” attachments that can make semi-automatic weapons fire faster. The platform also says the group wants “semi-automatic weapons illegal to civilians,” but Levin said they’re talking about weapons like AR-15 rifles and not handguns..

“We’re not here to repeal the Second Amendment,” Levin said. “We just want to reform the gun laws in place. The research shows that the U.S. has more gun deaths than other first world countries, and it’s directly correlated to these gun laws.”

See, David Price, a Democrat (and I’m unfortunately in his district), realizes that the WWW platform is problematic (I’ve saved the whole thing to the documents folder). Under the bump stocks section

Bump stocks turn semi-automatic rifles into “near-automatic rifles.”
How they work: “A bump stock is a piece of plastic or metal molded to the lower end of a rifle. The device allows a shooter to fire dozens of rounds in seconds by harnessing the gun’s natural recoil. A rifle with this type of mechanism is optimal with a high-capacity magazine that can hold between 60 and 100 rounds and a hand grip that allows a shooter to push the rifle away from the body to bounce, or bump, the weapon into the trigger finger.” For more information, click here

Semi-automatic weapons are STILL legal, and so are automatic weapons made before 1986. Additionally, with the use of bump stocks, semi-automatics can become even more lethal.

Sure makes it appear as if they have a problem with all semi-automatics, but, no, automatics have been mostly illegal since the 1930’s. (but, yes, I do support banning bump stocks). Here’s the kicker

Semi-automatic weapons illegal to civilians 
These weapons have again and again been used in mass shootings, from Sandy Hook to San Bernadino to Marjory Stoneman Douglas. They are not reasonable weapons for CIVILIAN defense. For more information, click here 

Price may be saying that it’s only the scary looking weapons they want to ban, but the screed says different. They’ve had plenty of time to change this, and haven’t. They went to great lengths to research much of the rest of the platform, are we to think that they just forgot this part?

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More California Jurisdictions Join Resistance To Sanctuary Law

By William Teach April 18, 2018 – 7:23 am

The more towns and counties that join in fighting the state sanctuary law, the more illegal aliens will stream to the sanctuary towns and counties, overloading their public services, increasing the crime rate, and causing general mayhem.

(CNBC) San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s legal challenge of California’s so-called sanctuary policies aimed at protecting undocumented immigrants.

In a 3-1 vote, supervisors for San Diego — home to more than 3.3 million residents — voted to direct the county counsel to file a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California’s sanctuary law.

Board Chair Kristin Gaspar, who was one of the three supervisors voting to file the amicus brief, said the board received hundreds emails in support of the move. Gaspar tweeted Tuesday: “Enough is enough! Governor Jerry Brown needs to follow the laws of our Constitution.”

San Diego County’s action follows neighboring Orange County voting last month to issue a restraining order against the state to halt enforcement of the law. Orange County is California’s third-most populous county while San Diego County ranks second after Los Angeles.

And many are thinking that these votes also mean that law enforcement will blow off the state law requiring all to blow off Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

(OC Register) The Los Alamitos City Council approved an ordinance that in essence says the city doesn’t plan to follow California’s key sanctuary law, a vote that figures to add fuel to a regional anti-sanctuary movement started in the city last month.

Following some five hours of public testimony – and a very loud and contentious rally outside – the council voted 4-1 late Monday for final approval of the ordinance it originally passed on March 19.

The ordinance says Los Alamitos police will not follow SB-54, also known as the California Values Act, which limits how police in the state can work with federal immigration officials working to detain undocumented immigrants. Though state law allows police to turn over immigrants accused of violent crimes and many drug crimes, people frustrated by so-called sanctuary laws want police to turn all undocumented immigrants over to federal officials when they are released from jail on local crimes.

And following the Los Alamitos vote, the ACLU sent out a hilariously failure tweet

And California has an obligation to follow federal law, since the Constitution gave Los Federales primacy on immigration.

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Paul Krugman Packs A Lot Of Moonbattery Into One ‘Climate Change’ Screed

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 5:40 pm

Paul Krugman should stick with writing about…..well, I’m not sure, because he seems to be wrong on most things. Maybe a blog on cute animals?

From the link

True, there are issues of intermittency remaining — the wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine — although batteries and other energy storage technologies are also making rapid progress.

Yes, so much that we’re all freaking out about our smartphones not lasting as long less than a year after purchasing it.

The fossil fuel sector may represent a technological dead end, but it still has a lot of money and power. Lately it has been putting almost all of that money and power behind Republicans. For example, in the 2016 election cycle the coal mining industry gave 97 percent (!) of its contributions to G.O.P. candidates.

Well, yeah. We donate to people who say they’re going to destroy your industry? What does the media give to Democrats? 90%? How about teacher’s unions? Planned Parenthood? The latter two have to be 100% Dem. Anyhow, here’s the ultimate howler

Unfortunately, this really is a case of “in the long run we are all dead.” Every year that we delay the clean-energy transition will sicken or kill thousands while increasing the risk of climate catastrophe.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous scary assault rifle used by people who deny Mankind is causing the earth to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post wondering when Andrew McCabe is going to jail.

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Gun Grabbers Tell Us Not To Freak Out About Requirements To Lock Up Guns

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 10:50 am

See, now, this is exactly the kind of thing which makes 2nd Amendment supporters refuse to even consider passing any laws on firearms, which could even help restrict criminals from getting firearms, because we know that what gun grabbers really want is to kill off private ownership of firearms for law abiding citizens using the death by a 1,000 papercuts method. I’ve mentioned this 10 days ago, and here we have them telling us what they really want to do

The Next Big Gun Controversy Is Forcing People to Lock Them Up
Naturally, gun owners are freaking out.

Well, yeah, naturally, because this affects law abiding gun owners 99% of the time, not criminals

Two weeks before Christmas in 2012, a 22-year-old masked man armed with a stolen assault-style rifle went on a shooting rampage in a crowded shopping mall in Happy Valley, Oregon, just outside Portland, thrusting holiday shoppers into a maelstrom. By the time the bullets stopped flying, three people, including the gunman, had been fatally shot, and a 15-year-old girl was wounded.

Now family members of the deceased victims are pushing for a ballot measure that would make Oregon one of the few states in the nation to mandate that gun owners lock up their firearms. They contend that such a law could have thwarted the afternoon massacre at the Clackamas Town Center mall.

The measure that Clackamas survivors are now pushing would enact a so-called safe-storage law, under which gun owners would have to lock up firearms not under their direct control. The measure would also require anyone whose guns are lost or stolen to report the incident to law enforcement within 24 hours.

Violations of either provision could result in fines—reaching up to $2,000 if a child picked up the firearm—and expose gun owners to civil liability if their purloined weapons are used to injure someone within five years.

Actually, the law is rather vague on locking up firearms not under direct control: it almost looks as if all firearms have to be locked up with some sort of trigger lock at all times, including when carrying. And, notice, fines on those who have had their property stolen. We do not penalize people who have had other property stolen, such as motor vehicles, that are used to hurt other people. This is all about trying to scare citizens into not exercising their Constitutional rights.

“There’s no appetite by some of the legislative leadership to bring gun bills forward unless the gun-violence prevention advocates make it so difficult for them they can’t ignore it,” said Kemp, himself a gun owner who, along with Yuille, helped found the group Gun Owners for Responsible Ownership.

“They’ve had 20 or 30 years to fix this stuff, and they’ve chosen not to do a damned thing.”

First, the name of the group sounds just like something the Left would come up with as a distraction from their real agenda. Second, every time we try to pass harsher penalties on actual criminals, Liberals freak out and threaten to sue, they claim raaaaacism, you know the playbook.

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Florida Kids Sue Governor Rick Scott Over ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 10:36 am

Of course, this is all backed by the deep pockets of the Cult of Climastrology

Florida Kids Sue Gov. Scott Over Climate Change: You Have ‘Moral Obligation’ to Protect Us

Eight young Floridians, ages 10 to 19, sued their state and its climate-policy-averse governor on Monday for failing to protect residents from the impacts of a warming climate.

They say they already see signs of climate change around them—from powerful hurricanes to extreme heat waves to tidal flooding that now regularly washes into coastal roads and parks as sea level rises—and they want the state to do something about it.

The lawsuit filed Monday is the latest in a wave of legal cases filed by children against states and the federal government that accuse government of depriving them of the fundamental right to a stable climate.

The Florida plaintiffs accuse the state of violating their constitutional rights by “perpetuating an energy system that is based on fossil fuels.”

I didn’t see them complaining when there was a long period of hurricanes not striking Florida. Heat waves? It’s Florida. When my family went to Florida (Bay Biscaine) for Christmas every other year where the grandparents lived, we never took jackets, which seems necessary as of late. Tidal flooding? It’s a low lying state. They’ve always had this problem.

A stable climate? When has the climate ever been stable? There is no fundamental right to it, nor is there any violation of constitutional rights for using fossil fuels. Of which a lot will be used to shuttle the kids around to their court dates, speaking engagements, appearances on Left wing TV shows, along with all the fossil fuels used by the lawyers and advocates and members of Cult of Climastrology group backing them, Our Children’s Trust.

“The plaintiffs are asking the state of Florida to adhere to its legal and moral obligation to protect current and future generations from the intensifying impacts of climate change,” the group said in a statement.

Their lawsuit asks that state officials “prepare and implement an enforceable comprehensive” plan to phase out fossil fuel use and “draw down excess atmospheric CO2 through forest and soil protection so as to stabilize the climate system.”

When all those involved in the lawsuit, including the kids, give up all their own use of fossil fuels, I might believe that this is anything more than a shakedown, one which would force lots and lots of government on citizens. Oh, and on these little human shields, who do not realize that they are asking government to rule over them.

BTW, I wonder if some of the older kids have their own fossil fueled vehicles.

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Citizenship Question Will Spook Census-takers Or Something

By William Teach April 17, 2018 – 8:04 am

There has been very little on the Trump administration reinstating the citizenship question on the Census, something that was asked for around 100 years. So, the Washington Post and writer Maria Sacchetti decided to bring the scary stuff back

Amid crackdown, advocates for immigrants say citizenship question will spook census-takers

When the 2020 Census lands in Langley Park and asks residents whether they are U.S. citizens, the response is likely to be no — if residents respond at all.

“I wouldn’t answer it,” said a 42-year-old undocumented construction worker from Guatemala.

“Nobody is going to do this. Nobody,” said a jewelry saleswoman from El Salvador.

In this Maryland enclave less than 10 miles from the White House, 58 percent of residents are not U.S. citizens, the highest percentage of any city, town or unincorporated community in the United States. The number of noncitizen adults is even higher: Nearly 80 percent of the men and two-thirds of the women in Langley Park cannot vote for president, qualify for federal financial aid or apply for a U.S. government job.

Many are undocumented and afraid of federal immigration agents, community leaders say. Now, they are also afraid of the census.

What’s so scary? As far as we know, the question is simply going to ask citizenship status. It isn’t going to ask resident status. There are lots of people living in the U.S. who are not citizens. You have those here on visas, such as work and school ones. There are those who are legal permanent residents. You have refugees who were brought in who are not citizens. You have people going through the citizenship process the correct way, earning citizenship. And, then you have the illegal aliens. But, the question won’t be asking the difference.

But, this is all about the illegal aliens, and pandering to people who have broken our laws.

The decision to include the question has generated alarm in ethnic media and in states where many noncitizens live. Even though it is illegal for the Census Bureau to share information with other federal agencies, immigrants’ advocates say some fear the question — coming as President Trump has vowed to aggressively enforce immigration laws — will be used to find and deport them. If those immigrants therefore refuse to fill out the census survey, it could trigger an undercount that would deprive jurisdictions — including those that voted for Trump — of a share of political power and federal funds for roads, bridges and schools.

If the question being asked makes no determination of legal status, do you know how much work it would be to match up all the names to the rolls of those who are here legally, then start looking for all the illegals? And not have the unhinged liberal media get a sniff of what’s going on? The ACLU and so many others would be filing suit in a heartbeat. I know Lefties think Trump is an idiot, just like they do with every Republican, but, it’s not going to happen.

If the media weren’t in Trump Derangement Syndrome, they’d be publishing stories that the question is no big deal, that nothing bad can come of it, and that illegals shouldn’t worry about answering it. Instead, they’re once again playing right into Trump’s hands, and their scaremongering stories could actually be causing an undercount of people in the U.S. (the language of the census in the Constitution is meant to count all people present, not just people lawfully present).

But under Trump, many say they now live in fear of federal immigration agents — “la migra” — and have no interest in reminding Uncle Sam through the census that they are not citizens.

“You feel like animals in the woods. You don’t know when they’re going to hunt for you,” said the 42-year-old construction worker from Guatemala, who gave his name only as William. He and others refused to give their full names, because they are undocumented or have temporary legal status that will expire in 2019.

First, they should be living in fear. If a reporter can find them, so can the government (this is provided they even exist, rather than being made up people from the minds of leftist reporters). They know they are breaking the law. Criminals should be scared. Second, why are reporters failing to report criminals to law enforcement? That is illegal.

Third, all of us who are against illegal immigration should be thankful for the liberal media, which is continuously scaring illegal aliens, causing them lots of heartache, sleepless nights, as well as seeing many self deport and not come in the first place.

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Hotcoldwetdry Today: It’s Only Important To Persuade The Elites To Force Action On The Proletariat

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 1:30 pm

Does this sound very much like what I’ve been writing about for well over a decade here at Pirate’s Cove?

How the science of persuasion could change the politics of climate change

Jerry Taylor believes he can change the minds of conservative climate skeptics. After all, he helped plant the doubts for many in the first place.

Taylor spent years as a professional climate denier at the Cato Institute, arguing against climate science, regulations, and treaties in op-eds, speeches, and media appearances. But his perspective slowly began to change around the turn of the century, driven by the arguments of several economists and legal scholars laying out the long-tail risks of global warming.

Now he’s president of the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington, DC, think tank he founded in 2014. He and his colleagues there are trying to build support for the passage of an aggressive federal carbon tax, through discussions with Washington insiders, with a particular focus on Republican legislators and their staff.

I wasn’t aware of the notion that Conservatives and Libertarians were super interested in wanting massive government interference in people’s lives and the economy.

Hint: real ones aren’t. And Taylor surely isn’t either, at least not anymore. Especially when you read ahead

Lesson one: Pick the right targets

Political scientists consistently find that mass opinion doesn’t drive the policy debate, so much as the other way around. Partisan divides emerge first among “elites,” including influential advocacy groups, high-profile commentators, and politicians, says Megan Mullin, an associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University.

They, in turn, set the terms of debate in the public mind, spreading the parties’ views through tested and refined sound bites in media appearances, editorials, social media, and other forums.

Basically, this is a “you peons should listen to your political masters, and we need to influence the political masters to Force the plebes to act in a certain prescribed manner” schtick.

And, yes, if you read the rest, you rather do get inklings of Alinsky’s rules for radicals. But, the most important part is about playing to the elites, getting them to comply, and, hey, what politician doesn’t like power?

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