Olympics: Coin Tosses Are Now Raaaaacist

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 5:23 pm

See, what happened here is

(AP) Hamlin and Davis were among eight nominees for the flagbearer role, and athletes from each of the eight winter sports federations — bobsled and skeleton, ski and snowboarding, figure skating, curling, biathlon, hockey, speedskating and luge — represented those nominees in a balloting that took place Wednesday night.

Eventually, the final vote was deadlocked at 4-4. Hamlin won a coin toss, the predetermined method of picking a winner if all else failed in the athlete-led process. The U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed the tie, and that voters knew if the tie couldn’t be broken by them the coin toss would have to occur.

Seem pretty clear cut, does it not? Established rules. Perhaps next time they should have gone to 3 on 3 overtime followed by a shoot out? Becaaaaaaaauuuuuuuse

https://twitter.com/ShaniDavis/status/961534274586464256

Sour grapes. Whiny. Erin Hamlin is the only American of either gender (yes, there are just two) to win a medal in singles luge. The inclusion of #BlackHistoryMonth2018 shows that Shani was going for the raaaaacism aspect.

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‘Climate Change’ Isn’t Just About The Planet Or Something

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 3:30 pm

I had another Hotcoldwetdry piece I was going to comment on, in which the Warmists were calling for total redistribution of wealth, which seems to be one of the main points of the AGW push, with everyone in the 1st world being forced to live a 2nd/3rd world life, but, this is even more fun

Climate Change Isn’t Just About the Planet
It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom.

It’s not really necessary to go beyond the headline and subhead. It’s all right there. But, let’s take a look at what Snowflake Yeehi Yona, who’s too young to actually understand the world, whines about. Starts out with lots of gripes, going to Trump, Scott Pruitt, Rick Perry, Rex Tillerson, pulling out of Paris climate agreement, and so forth, before reaching

However, this summer, I couldn’t even think about wildfires breaking across the continent without thinking about trans rights. I couldn’t think about Hurricane Irma without thinking about DACA.

Climate change isn’t just about the planet. It’s about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and environmental. It’s about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious freedom. I know this interconnectedness, and fervently believed in it when I wrote my initial essay submission last year.

However, in this moment, I find myself unable to think of climate change on its own. When Trump’s policy is climate destruction, it doesn’t take place in silos. I cannot consider Hurricane Harvey without my mind racing to the undocumented families who could not leave Houston because ICE maintained checkpoints and borders. I cannot think about climate change without thinking about Charlottesville, about the long legacy of racism, xenophobia, and fascism in this country, and how the communities most affected by Trump’s environmental rollbacks will be poor communities of color. If anything has changed in my mind since last year, it is that my connection to so many struggles for social justice are even more strongly at the forefront.

She’s really just saying what we’ve known for awhile now: anthropogenic climate change is really just a part of the overall Progressive (nice Fascist) movement. It’s an excuse to implement more taxes/fees along with control by the Government over citizens, private entities, and economies. Wrongthink is not allowed. Freedom is not allowed. You’ll think and act the way government dictates. Interestingly, these same little Warmists never consider that these authoritarian leanings, as well as the taxes/fees and higher cost of living, will ever effect themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle which Everyone Else should be forced to use, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on when the NY Times called Trump treasonous.

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Bummer: Dreamers Promise To Self-Deport If Amnesty Fails

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 10:44 am

Is this supposed to be a threat?

(Breitbart) Some illegal aliens shielded from deportation by the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are planning to self-deport from the United States if an amnesty is not passed soon, according to a CNN report.

Alex and Daniela Velez, two illegal alien sisters enrolled in the DACA program, were profiled for a CNN report which revealed how some illegal aliens are planning to leave the U.S. if they do not receive amnesty.

CNN reported:

“Alex and I are both over this [DACA situation],” said Daniela, who is 24-years-old. “If DACA ends, I will leave with Alex. I will close my business, leave work and school.”

…

Should Alex, who is 19, find herself unprotected, she said she is clear on what her plan will be. “I will leave. I will leave America as soon as possible,” she said. “I want to be able to leave on my terms. I’m not going to be waiting for anyone to come for me.”

Ok, bye now. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. And take all your illegal alien family members with you.

It’s amazing that these illegals say they love America, it’s the only country they know, yet, are will to leave if they do not get their way.

Though, it’s doubtful they’ll actually leave: this is probably a threat much like all those celebrities claiming they would leave America if Trump won, and, none have.

The tradeoffs will be significant: Alex will be abandoning the $10,000 in tuition she’s paid and the two years’ worth of community college credits she’s built up in her pursuit to become a veterinary technician. She will also have to quit her job at clothing store Forever 21, where she was just promoted to a merchandising position four weeks ago.

So, there would be an open spot for a U.S. citizen at that college, and a job that could go to a U.S. citizen.

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Several Democrats Want EPA Head Pruitt To Recuse Himself From Ending The Clean Power Plan

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 7:57 am

They seem rather shocked that someone who has been against the CPP wants to kill it

(Daily Caller) Four Democratic senators are demanding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt recuse himself from repealing a former President Barack Obama-era regulation placing significant burdens on fossil fuel energy providers, The Washington Post reports.

Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Brian Schatz of Hawaii together submitted a comment to the EPA Wednesday on repealing the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The group of Democratic lawmakers claim that Pruitt’s bias toward the CPP — he sued the EPA four times over his term as attorney general of Oklahoma — prevents him from making a fair judgement.

“The evidence for Pruitt’s inalterably closed mind on CPP rulemaking is overwhelming,” the senators wrote, according to The Hill. “It falls into three categories: (1) his deep and wide financial ties to the fossil fuel industry which is ferociously opposed to the CPP; (2) his status as a previous petitioner suing the EPA to block the CPP; and (3) his numerous statements denouncing the CPP, questioning the ability to regulate carbon emissions under the [Clean Air Act] as the CPP proposes to do, and casting doubt on climate science.”

The lawmakers request follows similar comments filed by environmental groups and left-leaning states and cities in January.

Would Pruitt be attempting to kill off CPP if he supported it? Seriously, Democrats are just silly. Have they forgotten that “elections have consequences”? Perhaps they shouldn’t have jammed through a rule that harms citizens and the energy sector for a scam. A scam that most of them, like Sheldon Whitehouse, apparently do not feel applies to them, as they use lots and lots of fossil fuels in their personal and professional lives.

Furthermore, the Supreme Court had blocked implementation of the CPP back in February of 2016. It has never been in force. Twenty seven states sued over it. If these Democrat Senators really love CPP, they should get their states to implement it. We can use them as test-beds to see what happens.

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Pelosi Was Totally Enthused To Speak For Eight Hours On Dreamers

By William Teach February 8, 2018 – 7:30 am

She cares more about illegal aliens than Americans

(CNN) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for a little more than eight hours to oppose the budget deal to lift spending caps and avert a government shutdown — because the plan does not address immigration issues.

The House Historian’s office told CNN that Pelosi’s speech is the longest on record on the House floor, according to their records.

Pelosi started speaking shortly after 10 a.m. ET, and wrapped the speech a little after 6:10 p.m. ET.

“I have had the privilege of reading the testimony from Dreamers, I still have more,” she said, receiving applause in the chamber. “I thank all of you.”

Afterwards she sent this out

Do you know who truly matters? American citizens. People who are here lawfully. People who should be getting the jobs, rather than illegal aliens. People who should be getting money for college, rather than illegal aliens. People who should always come before illegal aliens.

She was apparently “filibustering” a bill she helped craft

Still, some viewed Pelosi’s gambit as window dressing for DACA. After all, Pelosi was purportedly part of the talks with other top House and Senate leaders.

“I don’t understand if you have four leaders agree to a bill why do you get to negotiate if you’re not going to vote for the bill?” asked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

Many Democrats thought it was a silly stunt

“There’s all kinds of ways, I assure you, that leadership exercises its influence — the least of which is a floor speech,” said Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), an unabashed critic of leadership on immigration issues.

He’s one of the biggest supporters of criminal aliens.

In interviews will nearly a dozen House Democrats, many who requested anonymity to speak candidly, several called the speech an attempt by Pelosi to shore up support with the progressive base angry by congressional inaction on Dreamers. By agreeing to the spending caps deal, Gutiérrez and others argued, Democrats gave up all their leverage to force Republicans into serious negotiations to shield Dreamers from deportation. (snip)

Some centrist-minded Democrats said Pelosi’s daylong protest could — by calling attention to the failure to provide relief for Dreamers — make it that much harder for vulnerable members to vote for the budget deal.

“This stunt … had nothing to do with protecting vulnerable members who have to take a difficult vote,” said one moderate lawmaker who asked not to be named. “Working out this deal and then saying she’s not going to vote for it? Come on. She was at the table.”

If only Democrats cared as much about American citizens and our military as much as illegal aliens.

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Trump Has Declared War On The Climate Or Something

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 3:25 pm

It’s a 350.org kind of day. First they’re yammering on about how great it would be if Paris sued fossil fuels companies, and they want cities to divest from fossil fuels, and then they were given a platform at The Hill. This bit of nuttiness is by May Boeve, the executive director

Trump has declared war on our climate — we won’t let him win

President Trump declared recently in his State of the Union that his administration had “ended the war on American energy and clean coal.” In fact, what Trump actually did was declare war on our climate. We won’t let him win.

Hiding behind rhetoric about our nation’s “crumbling infrastructure” isn’t a plan that makes America great. It’s a plan that makes America more polluted, worse off, and less prepared for the difficult century ahead.

Listen to mayors and governors across America and they’ll tell you that climate change is one of the greatest threats facing their communities. Whether it’s sea level rise in Miami or drought in Phoenix, the climate crisis is eating away at the foundational stability that our cities, states and country depend on.

Blah blah blah. Liberal mayors of liberal cities love the notion of taxing their citizens more, while also having the power to control their citizens more. Here’s the most amusing part of this whole bit

A truly visionary president would propose a “Green New Deal,” a massive federal investment to create a new renewable energy economy that works for all of us. A Green New Deal would improve on the original New Deal with worker training programs, grants for local communities, and a call to action for our young people to create a more just and sustainable world.

Um, didn’t someone already try that? I can’t quite remember his name. And didn’t other world leaders give this a shot? And it failed?

Together, we can provide the vision that our president lacks. Our parents’ generation raced to the moon. Our generation is racing to make sure we can survive on our planet. This isn’t something that can wait, we need it fast. Without real leadership in Washington, we must turn to one another and build the fossil free world we deserve.

When will 350.org pledge that its members will stop using fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a building aging badly due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bizzy Blog, with a post wondering if the media will cover the “Obama wants to know everything” text messages.

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Paris Considering Whether To Sue Fossil Fuels Companies Over Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 10:36 am

This has made the climahypocrites at 350.org giddy (via Watts Up With That?)

Paris explores climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

The City of Paris decided today to explore possibilities to sue the fossil fuel industry for causing climate damages, following the example of New York and other US cities.

The city council also decided to lobby other major cities such as London to ban fossil fuels from their investments through the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, of which the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo is president. The council also announced that it will release an update on the progress that has been made since it pledged to divest from fossil fuels in 2015.

“It’s fantastic news that cities like New York and Paris are stepping up to protect their citizens and hold fossil fuel corporations accountable for the harm they cause. This is a major breakthrough for divestment campaigners around the world that have been pushing cities to take a stand against the polluters wrecking our climate,” comments 350.org France Campaigner Clémence Dubois. Fossil fuel companies like Total, Shell, BP, and Exxon are the driving forces behind more and more severe flooding and summer heat waves in Paris, as well as droughts, wildfires, unpredictable seasons and rising sea levels hitting people across the globe.”

This winter, Paris has been hit once more by severe flooding, which the mayor saidwas, alongside recent summer heat waves ‘clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change’. Studies found that the flooding that submerged Paris in May 2016 was made almost twice as likely by human-made climate change. (snip)

The moves by New York and Paris, paired with mayor Hidalgo’s pledge to increase efforts to persuade other major cities to divest, raises the pressure on the London where mayor Sadiq Khan has so far disappointed campaigners to take a strong stand against the fossil fuel industry and deliver on his election pledge to divest London City Hall.

Major cities such as Sydney and Cape Town as well as numerous European capitals including Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm have already pledged to ban fossil fuels from their investments.

For all this divestment talk, what’s missing is…..can you guess? Of course you can. I write it enough. You think it enough. They aren’t calling for each Warmist to give up their own use of fossil fuels. What the fossil fuels companies should do is refuse to sell fossil fuels to the city governments if they want to play this game. Let’s see how those cities are able to operate without fossil fuels.

And they should call out the leaders of those cities as being hypocrites, telling them to give up their own use of fossil fuels, along with most, if not all, of the leadership of 350.org and all its subsidiary groups.

Watts Up With That highlights this photo credited to Julian Knez

Well before CO2, er, atmosphere carbon, broke 350ppm.

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Plight Of DACA Recipient Parents Causing Issues With Immigration Discussions

By William Teach February 7, 2018 – 7:59 am

This should be very simple: we’ve been told time and time again that the “Dreamers” who were brought to the U.S. as children shouldn’t be punished for the sins of the parents. If it’s being admitted that the parents “sinned”, ie, knowingly entering the United States in contradiction to the law, then the parents must pay the penalty. They should have to self-deport prior to any legal status is given to their children

Immigration Talks Stymied By Question Of What To Do About ‘Dreamers’ Parents

The Senate is slated to begin a floor debate early next week on some kind of an immigration bill, though what exactly will be included in that bill remains a mystery. Lawmakers meeting nearly every day to hammer out a compromise say they have yet to reach consensus on any piece of the puzzle, from how many young immigrants known as Dreamers will be granted a path to citizenship to how much funding will go to building new walls on the U.S.-Mexico border to what changes, if any, will be made to the nation’s legal immigration system. Amid this tangle of issues, several senators have told TPM, one piece has emerged as particularly difficult: the status of Dreamers’ parents.

“That’s where I think most of the disagreement comes from,” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) told reporters. “If you’re going to have the DACA kids addressed, you’re going to have to find a way to address the parents. And you cannot simply say, ‘Well, since you brought your kids in illegally, this gives you a leg up on all the millions of other people who are in line waiting to get in here who have not violated the law. That’s the issue.”

It shouldn’t be. They broke the law. It’s being admitted they broke the law. We would we reward them? Obviously, because, for Democrats and a few Republicans, this is all about legalizing all illegal aliens. Not just the “Dreamers”. They do not care if this is bad for Americans. Bad for wages. Bad for low wage workers. If it displaces Americans from jobs. If it costs American citizens more money. If Americans have had their lives destroyed from identity theft. Nothing matters more than adding over ten million new voters who’ll voted Democrat.

“We’re still working on how we deal with their family members,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told TPM as she entered an immigration negotiation meeting Monday night. “I think there’s a consensus that citizenship would not be part of that, for parents who brought them into the country against the law. But we’re working to try to figure out a way to make sure the Dreamers want to stay, because they’re not going to want their parents to be deported.”

I say “who cares what the “Dreamers” want?” People who are illegally present in our country do not get to choose nor dictate. People who get busted for petty theft do not get to choose their punishment, either. Nor are they rewarded for theft.

But several hardline Republicans in the House and Senate, many of whom also oppose President Trump’s call for a path to citizenship for Dreamers, say extending any form of legal status to parents would be intolerable.

“If you give legal status to the parents it undermines the entire rationale for the DACA program,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), who broke his typical hallway silence to hold forth to reporters on the topic. “Children ought not to pay for the crimes of their parents, but surely the parents should pay for the crimes of their parents.”

“The people in the DACA program were brought here as minors through no fault of their own, before the age of accountability,” he added. “I think you can distinguish them from their parents or other illegal immigrants who made the decision to come here themselves.”

We’ll see if Republicans hold tough on this. If they allow the parents of the Dreamers to stay in the U.S. and get some sort of legal status, they’ll get mauled in the midterms, as Republicans will stay home. Furthermore, giving the parents legal status will simply open the floodgates to giving all the other illegals legal status, with voting citizenship the ultimate end point.

Interestingly, earlier in the article, Alice Olstein writes

The nearly 800,000 young immigrants who have been enrolled in President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have never been able to sponsor any family members for legal status or citizenship. But if DACA holders are allowed to obtain green cards and eventually citizenship as part of a new immigration reform bill, they may in the future be able to do so.

And that’s exactly one of the reasons that chain migration needs to be ended.

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