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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Can You Guess Why Congress Won’t Pass Universal Background Checks?

By William Teach April 14, 2018 – 7:39 am

This one is a doozy, which is more in the category of “Unhinged Tools”, or at least “Barking Moonbats”, rather than under the “Constitution” and “2nd Amendment” categories. Here’s Rep. John Delaney, Democrat of Maryland’s 6th district

Congressman: 97% of Americans Want One Kind of Gun Control. Here’s Why Congress Hasn’t Acted

As the nation has mourned the 14 students and three staff members killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and marched on their behalf, a remarkable national consensus formed around the need for gun safety legislation. In a recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, an astonishing 97% of those surveyed said that they support requiring background checks for all gun buyers. More broadly, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 68% support stricter gun laws.

I’ll write it again: I have no problem with requiring a background check for every gun purchase, including private ones, and including transfers. Want to give your adult son or daughter a gun? How about getting a gun for the wife? Yeah, there needs to be a background check. Just bought one last week? Background check. Have a concealed carry permit? Background check for new firearm. Things can change. Someone who had been legally allowed could have something show up in their record. Heck, I’ll go a step further, in that there should be a permit system for purchasing ammunition. Once a year you need to renew it, much like a fishing license. This would greatly reduce the number of people legally purchasing ammo to use with their illegally possessed, possibly stolen, firearm. It would have to be very tightly written legislation, to avoid the impulses of gun grabbers to deny people who shouldn’t be denied.

Despite such broad support and public mobilization, it looks like Congress and the President will do nothing to address the issue. There is no indication Republican leadership in the House of Representatives will even bring legislation that creates universal background checks forward for a vote, let alone consider other commonsense measures that are also widely supported. Across the country, people are rightly asking how this is possible. In addition to being the right thing to do, wouldn’t it make good political sense to implement policies that nearly everyone wants?

Well, really, the problem is that if you give the gun grabbers something, they will want more and more and more. And might even take advantage of legislation that most of us agree with and use it to deny law abiding citizens their 2nd Amendment Rights. It really is that simple. Give Democrats an inch, they’ll want lots and lots more inches. Pass universal background checks, and they’ll say “this is a great starting point” and demand more.

That’s not Delaney’s idea, though. Are you ready? Put the beverage down

One of the defining characteristics of American democracy in the last decade has been the loss of the House of Representatives as a responsible legislative body that reflects the will of the people. This has happened because of gerrymandering. And that’s a big part of why my colleagues and I can’t get anything done.

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NY Times Offers Mostly Reasonable Editorial Supporting Trump’s Syria Strikes

By William Teach April 14, 2018 – 7:12 am

By this time, you surely know of the airstrikes on Syria. I shan’t regurgitate them. I’ll direct you to this link for the full 411 if you want it. As for opinion, the NY Times Editorial Board mostly drops their Trump Derangement Syndrome for a few minutes, though you have to wonder how it would have gone had France and England not been involved

A Coordinated Attack On Syria

President Trump has sometimes seemed to view military action as a game and foreign policy as something set by online taunts. He seemed to think that as commander in chief he could simply follow his whims.

The funny part is, this has mostly worked.

So it was reassuring that his military response to a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens of people in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma on April 7 was coordinated with Britain and France. In his address to the nation Friday night, he said that preventing the use of chemical weapons was in the “vital national security interest of the United States.”

Earlier this week we got his usual bluster. “Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart,’” the president said on Twitter on Wednesday, in his best movie tough-guy impersonation, after a Russian diplomat warned that his nation’s forces would shoot down any missile fired at their ally Syria. On Friday night his message to the Syrian regime’s two main defenders, Russia and Iran, was more measured. “What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?” he asked. “The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep.”

That’s Trump. This is who he is. He’s not a politician. He also doesn’t set red lines and then blatantly ignore the crossing of red lines.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that while this was a “one-off” attack, like the airstrike against Syria a year ago, the targets were involved in the production and storage of chemical agents, not just an airfield. He warned of further attacks if Syria used chemical weapons again.

The attack in Douma was an outrage. Photos showed children foaming from their mouths and nostrils. The World Health Organization reported that 500 people in Douma had symptoms of exposure to chemical weapons, and many of those who died had signs of “highly toxic chemicals.”

The thing is, you know that Democrats, and some Never Trump Republicans, are foaming at the mouth in outrage that Trump would do something like this, because they are deranged. They forget that Obama did the same thing (eventually), or excuse it. The Times does not. They do point out that this strike violates the UN charter and the Constitution, sort of.

Since then, President Barack Obama and now Mr. Trump have used those same authorizations at least 37 times to justify attacks on the Islamic State and other militant groups in 14 countries, including Yemen, the Philippines, Kenya, Eritrea and Niger, according to Dan Grazier of the Project on Government Oversight. This has allowed the Republican-led Congress to avoid public debate — and any responsibility for sending American men and women into battle.

This interpretation of the law gives a free hand to the volatile and thoughtless Mr. Trump, which could prove even more dangerous if he were to decide to attack North Korea or Iran.

First, we do need a new authorization, as the post September 11th one and the Iraq operations one do not really cover this, and, in all fairness, the NY Times had a problem with Obama ordering military strikes without a new one, though, also in all fairness, the barbs were aimed at the GOP controlled congress, not Obama. Supposedly, Senator Tim Kaine is going to offer up a new one.

It’s funny, though, that they call Trump volatile and thoughtless. They still just do not get Trump. They do not get why he won the election. And there’s no reason to explain it, because Liberals will never get it.

Anyhow, for a measured response, let’s go to CNN

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/984973525873299456

Their TDS has led them to take the side of North Korea, and they forget that the NKs have been developing nuclear weapons for decades, and set some off during Obama’s terms.

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Oh, Noes, The Ocean’s Circulation Hasn’t Been This Sluggish In 1000 Years!!!!!!!!

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 2:16 pm

I’ve mostly been ignoring this idiotic bit of scaremongering, but this one takes the cake

There’s one simple point: do they have the actual scientific data to prove the assertion? Measurements from over the entirety of the last 1000 years, of which the majority was during a Holocene warm period? What about comparisons to the time during Holocene warm periods?

But, don’t totally blame Greenpeace (which uses vast amounts of fossil fuels to pull all sorts of stunts to fund-raise): the link goes to the Washington Post, where an editor either allowed hyper-Warmist Chris Mooney to write the alarmist, unscientific headline, or did it him/herself. And includes this

The two studies have their differences: The second suggests the slowdown probably began for natural reasons around the time of the Industrial Revolution in 1850, rather than being spurred by human-caused climate change, which fully kicked in later.

But like the first study, the second finds that the circulation has remained weak, or even weakened further, through the present era of warming.

So, it started naturally, but, then they just Assume that it is now all man-caused. They have no actual proof using data that can stand up to the Scientific Method. You just have to take their word for it.

Watts Up With That? also points to a 2010 NASA study that the circulation was not slowing down. Warmists might proclaim “but, that was 8 years ago!!!!!” Yes, but the ocean circulation doom study proclaims that it has been slowing down for well over 100 years. The NASA study used actual data, rather than computer models.

Anyhow, even if it is slowing, there’s no proof of anthropogenic causation.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon method of transportation which Everyone Else should be required to use instead of fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Diogenes’ Middle Finger, with a post on the FCC chair telling Democrats to go pound sand.

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Doom: The 100th Meridian May Possibly Maybe We’re Not Sure Be Moving Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 10:30 am

Everybody panic! Something might be happening

The 100th Meridian May Be Shifting Because of Climate Change

The 100th meridian, which bisects the Great Plains and separates the arid western states from the moister eastern states, may be shifting as a result of climate change, new studies say.

The imaginary line, metaphorically “drawn in the dirt” by American geologist and explorer John Wesley Powell in 1878, transects Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas in the United States, and continues up into Canada’s Manitoba.

Powell used the line to try to convince Congress to plan water and land-management districts that crossed state lines based on environmental constraints. His suggestions were met with backlash because legislators feared interstate districts would limit growth. Considering the water issues facing western states today, perhaps legislators should have taken Powell’s theories under consideration.

So he used it to advocate for increased governmental power over land, which means power over people. Huh.

In a second study published in March in the AMS journal, the researchers concluded that the line appears to be moving east, which could have big impacts on farming and other pursuits.

“Adjustment to changing environmental conditions would cause farm size and rangeland area to increase across the plains and percent of cropland under corn to decrease in the northern Plains as the century advances,” the study says.

Appears. May. Is it moving or is it not?

Regardless, it’s always amusing how people who treat Darwin and his hypothesis as a holy figure and holy script, respectively, seem shocked that nature shifts. That things do not stay the same.

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Gun Grabber Groups Mailing Voting Registration Forms To 18 Year Olds

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 7:11 am

Let me ask, did a certain thought just pop in your head, especially after the previous post? Anyway, let’s let people who eat Tide pods and escape to their safe spaces over Words decide the Second Amendment

Gun Control Groups Mailing Birthday Voting Forms to 18-Year-Olds

A coalition of gun control and progressive millennial outreach groups will be mailing teenagers a present for their 18th birthday: a voter registration form.

The coalition is targeting vulnerable pro-gun Republicans in 10 states with the Our Lives, Our Vote drive and hopes to register 50,000 18- and 19-year-olds through the initiative ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

States where teens can expect a birthday voting package include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

“America’s children took to the streets and led marches with a unified message that rang out across the country: we need a Congress that will protect us,” former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said in a statement Thursday.

Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, co-founded a lobbying group and PAC in Giffords’ name that supports candidates and policies promoting more gun control. Giffords was shot and nearly killed in 2011 at a constituent event in Arizona.

She is joined in the effort by Everytown for Gun Safety, a partnership of more than 1,000 current and former mayors in the U.S., and NextGen America, a liberal group funded by billionaire hedge fund manager Tom Steyer that is focused on turning out millennials in 2018.

Here’s the first thought that went through my mind: where’d they get all the data on all these kids who are turning 18? People want to freak out over Facebook, Google, and so forth snagging our data, most of which is simply for advertising, but, here are anti-gun groups who essentially obtained data on minors, citizens who are legally children, in order to mail them a voter registration card for their birthday. If we want to discuss invasion of privacy, this is it. Someone in the government should be asking these groups where they obtained the data.

Anyhow, when will Giffords, Steyer, and Mike Bloomberg (who runs Everytown) give up their own firearms/armed security? The very thing they want to deny to other law abiding citizens.

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LA Times: The Internet Has Become A Monster And Needs Restrictions Or Something

By William Teach April 13, 2018 – 6:56 am

Opinion writer George Skelton misses the irony in slamming the very platform that allows you to read his screeds

The internet is no longer an infant that needs freedom to innovate — it’s grown into a monster and needs to be restricted

Real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart became alarmed about the internet’s threat to personal privacy while chatting with a Google engineer at a cocktail party.

“I asked, ‘What’s this deal with all the privacy stuff? Is it anything to be worried about?'” Mactaggart recalls. “I expected him to say, ‘No, it’s not a big deal.’

“Instead he said, ‘If people only knew how much we know about them, they’d really freak out.'”

“I was taken aback,” the developer says. “That got me interested.”

Now the big internet companies are freaking out over what Mactaggart is doing. He’s threatening to jeopardize the operations of Google, Facebook and the like with a ballot initiative that regulates profiteering off their users’ private data. (snip)

It’s not just the marketing of political candidates that personal data is used for, of course. It’s also employed to market shoes, TV sets, cars, you name it. Companies glean information about your hobbies, age, children, residence, religion, gender and sexual orientation. And they use it to target ads at specific groups.

Quite frankly, I’m not sure what the big deal is. I’ve read article after article, and ads mean nothing. This happens in real life all the time. When you buy a car, companies are snagging your registration data, and call to say you need a warranty. It has to be explained to customers all the time that their vehicle warranty is just fine, ignore the calls.

The internet is no longer the infant that needed freedom to innovate and grow unregulated, if it ever was. It has grown into a monster and now needs to be restricted — like the railroads at the turn of the last century and financial institutions during the Great Depression.

And the actual recommendation?

Mactaggart’s initiative would affect companies that earn at least $50 million a year and derive half their annual revenue by peddling personal information.

Consumers would have the right to learn what info is collected. They’d need to be told whether it was disseminated and to whom. They could tell the companies to stop selling or sharing it. They couldn’t be charged more for internet service if they opted out. And they could sue if they were ignored.

OK. I guess. What, exactly, is this going to do? Here’s the real concerning part, the last line

Some regulation is needed. The Wild West days of an uncontrolled internet should be history.

The problem here is that if you give Progressives (nice Fascists) and inch, they’re going to want more and more inches immediately, working hard to get that proverbial mile. It’s a never ending cycle of more and more government involvement, interference, and control.

Oh, and it’s interesting that Liberals are suddenly Very Concerned over tech companies that tend to be very big donors to the Democratic Party collecting lots of data on citizens who use their product for advertising, yet are unconcerned that illegal aliens steal the identities of American citizens and essentially ruin their lives.

If someone wants to explain why this data collection is bad enough to require government, please.

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