Say, When Will This Warmist Shut Up About ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 7:40 am

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Joelle Moses has found a great way to lose friends

I recently woke up at my family’s cabin, hung-over, and got into a car with some friends to embark on our journey home. Somehow, I got talking about climate change.

Although I didn’t expect a complete consensus from my friends, I hoped that they would at least acknowledge what I had said. Instead, I was met with not-so-subtle hints to shut my trap, and complaints that it was ‘too early in the morning to have this type of conversation’.

I wish I could say that this was an isolated incident. I wish I could say that usually, when I bring up this issue, people are keen to learn and talk about it. However, that is not the case.

Although I can understand that my friends may not want to engage in this conversation first thing in the morning, it seems like there is never a time and place that people want to talk about climate change.

Believe me, I don’t always want to talk about it either (yes you do). Acknowledging the realness and the urgency of this issue is terrifying. Understanding the fact that us Westerners are primarily responsible for it is equally unpleasant.

Of course, most people find ‘climate change’ to be a very low ranking issue, and really do not want to be lectured. Despite all the time I spend writing posts about the issue, and commenting at other sites, it isn’t something that comes up very often in Real Life. Because most people really do not care. It’s just a small group of unhinged Progressives who are using the issue to push for taxes, fees, and more and more Governmental control of people, private entities, and economies.

I mean it when I say that I wish that I didn’t have to talk about climate change so much. So then, why do I?

I talk about it because I am genuinely petrified of the future that awaits my generation. I talk about it because I sense that most people around me have not internalised how serious and how immediate this issue really is.

In other words, she’s going to nag the hell out of people, including when she’s taking fossil fueled trips (“got into a car”) with her friends.

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Obligatory Nunes Memo Post

By William Teach February 3, 2018 – 7:26 am

On the surface, the memo doesn’t seem all that bad. But, when you search across the progressive outlets, including the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBC, and so forth, (and blatant lies from MSNBC and blatant lies from CNN) and see the attempts to minimize the impact, you realize that it is worse than you think. Byron York explains it

The House Intelligence Committee has released its controversial memo outlining alleged abuses of secret surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department in the Trump-Russia investigation. Here are some key points:

* The Steele dossier formed an essential part of the initial and all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page.

* Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.

* The four FISA surveillance applications were signed by, in various combinations, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein.

* The FBI authorized payments to Steele for work on the dossier. The FBI terminated its agreement with Steele in late October when it learned, by reading an article in Mother Jones, that Steele was talking to the media.

* The political origins of the Steele dossier were known to senior DOJ and FBI officials, but excluded from the FISA applications.

* DOJ official Bruce Ohr met with Steele beginning in the summer of 2016 and relayed to DOJ information about Steele’s bias. Steele told Ohr that he, Steele, was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president.

Essentially, the FBI and DOJ relied upon an un-sourced political hitjob document, then used a news media article about the memo to back the document. Michael Isikoff, who wrote that article, was shocked to learn that it was used to get that surveillance warrant.

However, a lot of this is inside baseball, major league level, which allows for Leftist to spin the weaponization of the DOJ/FBI for political purposes.

(Politico) Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said on Friday that the House intelligence memo on alleged FBI malfeasance showed “clear and convincing evidence of treason” by law enforcement officials, despite lingering concerns in the intelligence community over its credibility. (snip)

“The full-throated adoption of this illegal misconduct and abuse of FISA by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein is not just criminal but constitutes treason,” Gosar wrote in a statement.

Gosar said he would urge Attorney General Jeff Sessions to seek “criminal prosecution against these traitors to our nation.” Treason under the Constitution is punishable by death.

Perhaps that’s too much, but, it was clearly a 4th Amendment violation, and is just one example of the political weaponization of what should be two neutral agencies, and just adds to the list of what Obama/Holder/Lynch did to turn the DOJ and FBI into political organizations acting on the behalf of the Democratic Party.

(Weekly Standard) Friday’s FISA memo may not be the last.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes says that the panel plans on releasing more memos in the future. His remarks came hours after the committee released a GOP-drafted document alleging politically-motivated surveillance abuses against the Trump team, amid objections from the FBI and Department of Justice.

“This completes just the FISA abuse portion of our investigation,” Nunes told Fox News’ Bret Baier, using an acronym for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “We are in the middle of what I call ‘Phase Two’ of our investigation, which involves other departments, specifically the State Department and some of the involvement that they had in this.”

He does explain later that it would be done via normal methods, rather than in the unusual (but lawful) method of the FISA warrant memo. In fact, there should be lots of releases. We should get to see the Democrats one, when they’ve removed the sources and methods that it contained. We should see as much of the underlying documents that go to the Nunes memo. We should see a ton of documents on what government was doing. We are supposed to have transparency in government. There was too much secrecy during the Obama years. News outlets used to be all for transparency.

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‘Climate Change’ (scam) Is Causing Some Women To Not Have Children

By William Teach February 2, 2018 – 5:04 pm

It’s total doom, you know

Climate change is impacting some women’s decisions to have children

Climate change is creating yet another debate — this time largely among women who are wondering what it means for their reproductive future.

They are not saying they fear their ovaries are affected by climate change; instead, they are saying they are so worried about climate change, it has made them wonder if bringing a child into the world right now is a bad idea.

The state of worry has created groups such as Conceivable Future. The group is made up of men and women. Though largely made of women, everyone comes to discuss the next generation and climate change. Members of the organization aren’t optimistic for what is ahead, so they are unsure about bringing a child into an uncertain future.

If only all Warmists would decide to not have children. This would create a situation where no longer would nutty ‘climate change’ believing parents, who are also typically Progressive wanker nutjobs, have kids to brainwash into believe Cult of Climastrology fantasies.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The People’s Cube, with a post on Fidel’s son redistributing his life force.

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“Climate Change’ Has Ruined Groundhog Day Or Something

By William Teach February 2, 2018 – 10:30 am

It’s always something with these people. It’s like an addiction which causes them to link everything to their little cult

How Climate Change Has Ruined Groundhog Day

Every Feb. 2, a man in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, dons a top hat, bow tie, and gloves, and hoists a groundhog up over an adoring crowd. The groundhog, the famous Punxsutawney Phil, then observes his shadow and—the story goes—has a short chat in “Groundhogese” with another top-hatted man, who translates a prognostication for the audience: If Phil saw his shadow, winter will persist for six weeks (as it did last year); if he did not, spring will come early. The affair is rather silly, and it’s meant to be.

Using animal behavior as a bellwether of seasonal change is nonetheless sensible. Long before calendars dictated the first day of spring, humans used observations of the natural world as a reliable seasonal clock. A robin’s song or a budding flower is a great indicator of whether spring has sprung, and paying attention to these cues is vital for hunters, gatherers, and farmers. The timing of hibernating animals, including groundhogs, emerging from winter slumber is one important indicator that the weather has turned, and there’s reason to believe that today’s Groundhog Day traditions have roots in this idea.

Of course it’s absurd to believe that a captive groundhog like Phil would know much about forecasting weather, let alone communicating those predictions to humans. (There are wild groundhogs that hibernate at this time, but the Groundhog Day phenomenon involves a captive animal.) But even Phil’s wild brothers should be forgiven if they’re predictions of late have been off: Climate change is throwing Mother Nature’s biological timepiece out of whack, bringing earlier springs on average.

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Illegal Alien Supporters Turn On Dick Durbin During Speech

By William Teach February 2, 2018 – 6:58 am

Live by supporting illegal aliens, die by supporting illegal aliens

(Fox News) Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin on Thursday faced the fury of 100 Harvard University students who were angry that Democrats caved in to Republicans’ demands to reopen the government last month without a deal on DACA.

The Illinois Democrat was set to speak on immigration to multiple Harvard affiliates at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. But the evening was disrupted as hundreds of students protested despite his previous support for giving amnesty to so-called “Dreamers.”

Demonstrators bearing signs “We Are Not Your Bargaining Chip” were shouting “Say it loud, say it clear — immigrants are welcome here!” and “If we don’t get it? Shut it down!” outside the venue while accompanied by a live band, the Harvard Crimson reported.

There’s no mention of how many of the snowflakes were actually illegal alien Dreamers, but, what they all wanted was a clean DACA bill

Durbin also co-sponsored a bill called the Dream Act that would have made the Obama-era DACA program permanent, though it would have included certain Republican demands such as ending the visa lottery and chain migration.

But the protesters on Thursday told the Crimson that the eliminations were unacceptable and Democrats should focus on guaranteeing rights to DACA recipients without any changes to the immigration policies.

If Democrats want to go down this road, they’ll get nothing. Republicans, who control the House and have a bare majority in the Senate, will not vote for a “clean” DACA bill, and, if they managed to do so, Trump would most likely not sign it. Putting one into law would be a guarantee of a midterm wipeout for the GOP, more losses in 2020, and Trump losing in a landslide in 2020, as Republican voters would refuse to vote GOP.

“When we needed them to hold the line down for us, they weren’t doing that,” Hyo-won “Esther” Jeon – a DACA recipient – told the paper, noting that Democrats must use government shutdowns as leverage to pass progressive legislation. “Every time they kick the can down the road, all they’re doing is making people more vulnerable to deportation.”

“I know that if the Dream Act passes and it’s not a clean Dream Act, I would feel nothing but guilt that this is what it took for me to become a U.S. citizen,” student Laura S. Veira said at the event.

How cute: people who are unlawfully present in the U.S. attempting to dictate the terms of our politics. Dictating the terms of how they can be legalized. One would think that Dreamers would be humble and saying “please” and “thank you”, not demanding and overbearing. If Laura would feel guilty, well, she can leave. It’s amazing that she’s telling the Democrats to keep shutting the government down so she can get cheap, easy citizenship. The Harvard Crimson ends with this line from Laura

“I don’t remember a time where I constantly didn’t wish for papers,” Veira said.

There’s an answer for that: apply for citizenship the lawful way. Do it like other people do. And don’t presume that you can tell the U.S. how it’s going to do things.

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Democrats Awesome New Idea: Repeal Tax Cuts

By William Teach February 2, 2018 – 6:42 am

What a great platform going into the 2018 midterms: “vote for us! We’ll raise your taxes!”

(The Hill) Democrats are vowing to undo parts of the GOP’s tax-code overhaul if they win back control of the House in November, hoping President Trump’s first major domestic achievement will be a liability for the Republicans in the midterm elections.

The effort is reminiscent of the Republicans’ long-drawn campaign to hammer away at the Affordable Care Act and turn President Obama’s signature health-care expansion into a down-ballot albatross for the Democrats — an effort that helped the Republicans retake the House with sweeping election victories in 2010.

“We should repeal it and I think we should offer an alternative tax plan, which is we’re going to provide the tax relief to the middle class and the working class,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).

Democratic leaders are encouraging their troops to stage district-based tax-reform “teach-ins” designed to convince voters “what this tax scam means to families,” in the words of the direct appeal from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

So, the party of loving every type of tax increase, one which instituted lots of little tax increases through Obamacare, which would love a carbon tax, which institutes taxes on “sugary drinks”, wants to take away a tax that gives more money to middle and lower class citizens, and has seen company after company give employees more money in the form of stock, 401K ventures, bonuses, and/or actual raises? That’s a winning formula!

Republicans are ready to hammer Democrats for vowing to repeal much of the tax law, arguing their opponents would be foolish to run on a message of raising taxes.

“I would welcome Democrats running for election based on, ‘Let us slow down the American economy, raise taxes and make sure people’s paychecks are stagnant for another decade,’ ” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told reporters earlier this week.

“That would be a terrible campaign theme for them to run on, but I welcome them to do it,” he said.

They should go for it. Perhaps they can run some commercials talking about how $1,000 is just crumbs, as Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly stated. The article continues that the Democrats and their interest groups think this is all a winning combination, which seems to be more of a “soak the rich” scheme, as usual.

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ICE Directs Agents To Go After Illegal Aliens At Court Houses

By William Teach February 1, 2018 – 3:23 pm

ICE has made the policy official

(Newsweek) Immigration agents are being told it is official U.S. government policy to capture and detain undocumented immigrants in federal, state and local courthouses.

The new guidelines were reportedly formalized Wednesday. The policy, however, runs counter to concerns raised by civil rights groups; California’s Supreme Court chief justice, Tani Cantil-Sakauye; and so-called sanctuary cities, where local authorities do not, as a rule, turn over illegal immigrants to federal officials.

“Courthouse arrests are often necessitated by the unwillingness of jurisdictions to cooperate with ICE in the transfer of custody of aliens from their prisons and jails,” wrote U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan in the directive, dated January 10, arguing for its necessity.

Homan points out that illegals tend to be a bit easier to arrest, since they will have been screened for weapons.

The new directive tells agents to specifically go after those with criminal pasts, including gang members and those with criminal convictions as well as those who have been ordered to leave the U.S. and people who have re-entered illegally after being deported.

It also tells agents not to arrest family members or friends accompanying the undocumented person they’re targeting, or other undocumented immigrants who are appearing as a witness in a case. Making arrests in family or small claims courts is also out of bounds, the directive said.

This won’t satisfy the people who support illegal aliens, who clearly also support the criminals, as they caterwaul about detaining them in a manner that makes it safe for law enforcement.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrendous, evil plastic bag causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on free speech and the silencing of dissent.

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Good News: We Can Battle The Climate Change Scam Without Washington!

By William Teach February 1, 2018 – 10:33 am

Excitable Bill McKibben is very excited over the prospect. Can you guess what’s missing in his recommendations?

We can battle climate change without Washington DC. Here’s how

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Winning those elections is crucial in other ways – it will help the effort to play defense on issues including the environment – but since global warming is an immediate battle with enormous consequences, we dare not wait for Washington to return to sanity.

And happily, we don’t have to.

The strategy that’s been evolving for US climate action – and for action in many other parts of the planet – bypasses the central governments as much as possible. That’s because the oil industry is strongest in national capitols – that’s where its money is most toxically powerful. But if frontal attack is therefore hard, its flanks are wide open.

And here we go

It has three main components.

The first – joining in work pioneered by groups like the Sierra Club – is to persuade towns, cities, counties, and states to pledge to make the transition to 100% renewable energy. This is now easy and affordable enough that it doesn’t scare politicians – cities from San Diego to Atlanta have joined in, and they will help maintain the momentum towards clean energy that the Trump administration is trying so hard to blunt.

Job two is to block new fossil fuel infrastructure. In some places, that will be by law: Portland, Oregon, recently passed a bill banning new pipes and such, over the strenuous objections of the industry. In other places it will take bodies – tens of thousands have already pledged to journey to the upper midwest if and when TransCanada decides to build out the Keystone XL pipeline that Trump has permitted.

And third is to cut off the money that fuels this industry – by divestment, which has now begun to take a real and telling toll ($6tn worth of endowments and portfolios have joined the fight, and studies show it is cutting the capital companies need to keep exploring for oil we don’t), and by the kinds of lawsuits that New York, San Francisco and a host of other cities have already filed.

Interestingly, there’s no mention of Cult of Climastrology members giving up their own use of fossil fuels. It may get tedious reading that same thing. It’s tedious writing it. Yet, it is a very important idea. Warmists want Everyone Else to be forced to comply with something they themselves refuse to do. On Wednesday, 350.org, McKibben’s organization, held a Climate State Of The Union rally, with their push for a Fossil Free US. How many Warmists took fossil fueled trips from all over the U.S. to attend?

Look at Portland: they may not be allowing new pipes and such, but, they aren’t banning fossil fuels. The city itself continues to use fossil fuels. Look at McKibben: he takes fossil fueled flights all over the world. Why should we listen to these people? Would you listen to your doctor who smells like cigarettes if he/she was telling you to quit? If your doctor was telling you to lose weight when it was clear they themselves were vastly overweight?

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