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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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a stream flooded from carbon pollution created atmospheric rivers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Syrian refugees entering the U.S.

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Weather Happens, Warmists Lose Their Minds

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 10:05 am

When it was snow and cold, it was ‘climate change’. When it’s wind and rain and thunder and tornadoes, it’s also ‘climate change’. But, nothing tops this bit of TDS

There’s plenty more cray cray out there, but, this should cover it for a bit.

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Even More Jurisdictions Joining Anti-Sanctuary Movement In California

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 7:17 am

There are still lots of folks in California who haven’t been brainwashed into being pro-illegal immigration. And probably don’t need cheap labor to do the yard scaping

(SacBee) More local governments in California are resisting the state’s efforts to resist the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak.

Since the Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice sued California last month over its so-called “sanctuary state” law limiting police collaboration with immigration agents, at least a dozen local governments have voted to either join or support the lawsuit or for resolutions opposing the state’s position. Those include the Board of Supervisors in Orange County, which has more than 3 million people.

More action is coming this week, with leaders in the Orange County city of Los Alamitos scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal for a local law to exempt the community of 12,000 from the state law. On Tuesday, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is meeting to consider joining the Trump administration lawsuit.

Most of the resistance to California’s sanctuary state law is happening in Orange County, but, there are some cities from elsewhere in California. And it is expected to continue growing. There are actual Republican controlled areas of California, though a lot of them are in areas of California which do not generally have issues with illegal aliens.

I still maintain that the best thing the Trump administration could do would be to say that ICE will not go after illegal aliens in a few California cities, such as Los Angelos, San Francisco and the surrounding cities, and, most importantly, the capital city of Sacramento. Let Dems deal with all the problems that come from illegal immigration in the capital.

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Surprise: NJ Wants To Go After NRA And Gun Friendly States

By William Teach April 16, 2018 – 6:59 am

Once again, Democrats show their true colors. Instead of going after people who use firearms unlawfully along with implementing laws that make it even harder for criminals to not be able to purchase firearms, and putting big, big penalties on criminals who possess them and use them, NJ Dems are considering assaulting the 1st Amendment Rights of the NRA and the U.S. citizens who are members

(NJ.com) Democratic lawmakers want to take the state’s tight gun control laws and expand them outside of New Jersey’s borders.

There’s new legislation that would ban state-sponsored travel to any states that don’t require their residents to obtain a permits before they purchase a firearm.

The goal is to send a message to the National Rifle Association, said State Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, the bill’s sponsor.

“Fighting the NRA on the basis logic and rational thinking has not worked,” Weinberg, D-Bergen, said. “So I think the thing that might work is fighting them with their pocketbook.”

Let me ask: how has all that gun control worked in New Jersey? It is considered to be one of the most restrictive states in the nation, yet, gun crime still occurs. A lot. Because most of the laws are aimed at law abiding citizens, not criminals. And meant to turn law abiding citizens into criminals.

And meant to go after the Free Speech rights of U.S. citizens.

If enacted, state-sponsored travel for public workers and elected officials would be banned in 37 states, according to state licensing data from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

It’s unclear if the legislation would require New Jersey’s governor to abide by the rule if it becomes law, Weinberg said. But she said she hopes Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, would “honor it” if it clears the Democrat-controlled state Legislature and he signs it into law.

Yeah, that ought to do it. “Oh, noes, a few people from NJ might not come to our state. What shall we do?????1???”

Murphy has promised to sign the bills, including one to reduce magazine capacity, another to ban armor-piercing bullets, another to make it tougher to obtain a permit to carry a handgun, another to expand background checks on private gun sales, and two to keep firearms out of the hands of people deemed a threat to themselves and others in the state.

NJ is already at a maximum of 15 rounds for magazines. I guess they want to play the 10 rounds game. But, more importantly, they want to make it harder for law abiding citizens to protect themselves. Really, none of this is aimed at criminals. Even the last one, about being threats to themselves and others, is more about getting creative about seizing firearms than taking them from criminals.

Meanwhile, Murphy slipped a provision to tax guns in his budget. He promised to do this as a gubernatorial candidate. There aren’t any real details, but he expects to raise $1.4 million per year. A straight purchase tax would equate to about $777 dollars per firearm. Again, this is something that goes after the law abiding, not the criminals.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a field of flowers soon to be destroyed by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on who’s in and who’s out in Europe.

It’s ladies in nature week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 15, 2018 – 9:08 am

Patriotic Pinup Walt Otto

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America. A bit of snow and rain going on, some ducks quacking in the backyard, and the fish in the new tank are getting along (I had to get a new tank for one Blue Gourami, who was too aggressive to all the other fish in another tank, but seems fine with red Mollies).

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

  1. Ice Age Now covers blizzard warnings for six states
  2. JoNova notes that the March for (politically correct) Science failed
  3. Not A Lot of People Know That discusses the coming grim, global, green dictatorship
  4. NoTricksZone covers regulatory madness on the color of bread and fries in the EU
  5. 357 Magnum notes the pearl clutching gun haters pearl clutching
  6. A View From The Beach highlights the Gore Effect in Minnesota
  7. Bizzy Blog covers the madness of Rachel Maddow
  8. Leo Hohmann wonders if Christians have lost the right to speak out on radical Islam
  9. Chicks On The Right notes one Laura Ingraham advertiser coming back with tail between its legs
  10. DaTechGuy’s Blog has thoughts on Syria and Trump
  11. Revised History discusses two sets of rules
  12. Free North Carolina notes a nutty judicial decision on illegals and green cards
  13. Gay Patriot notes people with Chick-fil-a Derangement Syndrome
  14. Hot Air Pundit discusses Nikki Haley being tough at the U.N.
  15. And last, but not least, House Of Eratosthenes notes the hard and soft power

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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Gay Rights Lawyer Sets Self On Fire To Protest Fossil Fuels

By William Teach April 15, 2018 – 7:46 am

This is a direct result of the unhinged conspiracies of doom emanating from the Cult of Climastrology. Twenty five plus years of spreading apocalyptic doom. Clamoring about the Earth burning itself to a crisp. Of all the supposed coming next mass extinction. And so forth. The responsibility rests on all the Warmists crying about fossil fuels, yet using vast amounts themselves to head to all their ‘climate change’ conference

Prominent Lawyer in Fight for Gay Rights Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Prospect Park

A lawyer nationally known for being a champion of gay rights died after setting himself on fire in Prospect Park in Brooklyn early Saturday morning and leaving a note exhorting people to lead less selfish lives as a way to protect the planet, the police said.

The remains of the lawyer, David S. Buckel, 60, were found near Prospect Park West in a field near baseball diamonds and the main loop used by joggers and bikers.

Mr. Buckel left a note in a shopping cart not far from his body and also emailed it to several news media outlets, including The New York Times. (snip)

Friends said that after he left the organization, Mr. Buckel became involved in environmental causes, which he alluded to in his note as the reason he decided to end his life by self-immolation with fossil fuels.

“Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather,” he wrote in the email sent to The Times. “Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result — my early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.”

Gore, Obama, Mann, Schniedermann, the UN IPCC, all the news outlets proclaiming doom of this and that and the other (it’s pretty darned easy to find the doomy climate change stories. The first on on Google News is Hug Your Trees Goodbye, Thanks To Climate Change)

(NY Daily News) A second, longer note — left with the first inside an envelope marked “For the police” — said Buckel doused himself in “fossil fuel” before starting the fatal fire as a metaphor for the destruction of the planet.

“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves,” he wrote. “A lifetime of service may best be preserved by giving a life . . . Honorable purpose in life invites honorable purchase in death.

“I hope it is an honorable death that might serve others.”

It should serve to show us that a Cult has infected Leftists around the world, along with the news media who constantly and consistently treats us to serving after serving of Doom. And, remember, they’re teaching our kids this garbage. It’s no wonder kids are such mental messes these days, and doing things like eating Tide pods.

The note has more things leftist, including yammering about “privilege”, of which Susan Wright at Red State writes

That’s every social justice primer ever written, compressed into 3 neat paragraphs.

I’m not making light of the man’s death, but if your liberalism drives you to this level of attention seeking, then it’s not just liberalism, any more. It’s a destructive form of narcissism and a disconnect from reality.

Liberalism is destructive, and the Cult of Climastrology sector is one of the worst, if not the worst. If the vast majority of what you hear and read is that everything will be bad, horrible, terrible, gruesome, terrifying, cataclysmic (insert your adjective here), and you listen and take it to heart, you’re not going to have a rosy viewpoint, are you? And this is all based on junk science with the idea to give the government more and more control over the lives of citizens and private entities, reducing their liberty and freedom.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 14, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible world killing cat, sucking up resources and causing the planet to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on California’s free speech killing Internet bill.

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Bad News: ‘Climate Change’ Is Making It So We’ll Eat Lobster All The Time

By William Teach April 14, 2018 – 11:32 am

In Warmist World, this is a Bad Thing

SOON WE’LL BE EATING LOBSTER DINNERS ALL THE TIME

We already know some of the most documented effects of climate change: The world is getting warmer, natural disasters are becoming deadlier and happening more frequently, and the arctic as we know it may become a thing of the past. But increasing global temperatures are also leading to other, stranger developments, like the fact that we all may be eating a lot more lobster dinners in the near future.

According to a fascinating report Bloomberg dropped today — which measures how climate change is already affecting the way we eat — lobstermen off the coast of Maine are catching more crustaceans than ever. The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99.9 percent of the world’s oceans, according to a 2015 study by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, causing lobsters to procreate like crazy. (Though eventually, ocean temperatures may increase so much that lobster populations actually end up having less sex.) These warmer global temperatures are causing other strange changes to the food supply: cod populations are declining, more squid are roaming the seas, Britain is suddenly warm enough to produce fine wine, and coffee growers in Indonesia, India, and Peru are moving into the mountains.

So, things change, and we’ll be able to have lobster all the time? Where’s the downside?

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