Good News: It’s Now Legal To Be A Witch In Canada Again

By William Teach January 13, 2018 – 2:49 pm

It’s especially helpful for warding off moose attacks

(Narcity)  Throughout its history, Canada has instituted a slew of strange lawsthat no one really understood the purpose of. One law in particular, found in Section 365 of Canada’s criminal code, made it illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft, sorcery and fortune telling:

365 Every one who fraudulently

(a) pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration,

(b) undertakes, for a consideration, to tell fortunes, or

(c) pretends from his skill in or knowledge of an occult or crafty science to discover where or in what manner anything that is supposed to have been stolen or lost may be found,

is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.

So, yeah, pretending to be a witch, Harry Potter, etc, you can be convicted of a crime. Lest you think that wouldn’t happen, the article points out that someone was charged with this in Toronto 6 months ago. Of course, the last one before that was 30-40 years ago.

The House of Commons recently passed Bill C-51, which will repeal Section 365. It’s part of a well-received initiative to repeal archaic laws from the criminal code. Wayne Stetski Kootenay, an NDP MP, had this to say to parliament regarding the outdated law:

Anyhow, the law really was in place to ward off (see what I did there?) fraudulent people. Regardless, make sure to bring your magic wand next time you visit Canada.

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If All You See…

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

…is a world that’s more warlike due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on shithole countries.

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Surprise: Many In 1st World Do Not Care About Trump’s “Sh*thole” Remark

By William Teach January 13, 2018 – 8:23 am

First off, the “shithole” remark is basically a he said/she said thing. Many claim Trump said it, many said he didn’t. And, really, the more the media and Democrats run with this, the chance for some sort of fix for the Dreamers keeps going down. But, what about around the rest of the 1st world?

Trump’s Immigration Remarks Outrage Many, but Others Quietly Agree

The Czech president has called Muslim immigrantscriminals. The head of Poland’s governing party has said refugees areriddled with disease. The leader of Hungary has described migrants as a poison.

This week, Austria’s new far-right interior minister suggested “concentrating” migrants in asylum centers — with all its obvious and odious echoes of World War II.

So when President Trump said he did not want immigrants from “shithole” countries, there was ringing silence across broad parts of the European Union, especially in the east, and certainly no chorus of condemnation.

In fact, some analysts saw the remarks as fitting a pattern of crude, dehumanizing and racist language to describe migrants and asylum seekers that has steadily edged its way into the mainstream. Coming from the White House, such words may be taken by some as a broader signal that racism is now an acceptable part of political discourse.

They love throwing around the raaaaacism word, don’t they? But, there’s a little bit of unintentional journalism in this

But the political reality is that migration has become a salient issue — and not only for right-wing, populist and nativist politicians. Across many affluent societies, people are anxious about technological change, rising inequality and stagnant wages, and they have focused their ire at the global flows of capital and, especially, labor. There are also concerns about demographic change, as the world becomes less white and as western societies age.

Moreover, the chaos and violence that have driven people from the Middle East, Southwest Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to seek to live elsewhere, even as far away as Australia and Canada, have also raised fears about refugees who do not appreciate the values of the countries hosting them — or even worse, fears of terrorists taking advantage of humanitarian policies to infiltrate societies and then carry out attacks.

Yes, people are very concerned about all these “refugees”, “migrants”, and illegal aliens streaming from shithole areas around the world into 1st world nations, bringing the same shithole values with them. In Europe, people are dealing with rape and crime epidemics, neighborhoods are being turned into 3rd world cesspools, cars are being burned, gangs run rampant, and, as much as Leftists want to dismiss it, there are no go zones where police won’t go. There are sexual grooming gangs. People are afraid to go to public swimming pools. Women are told to dress demure so they aren’t sexually harassed and even assaulted. They’re bringing their Sharia law and 9th century beliefs with them.

Sure, there are some good ones. But, how many still refuse to assimilate, and also demand that the nations change for the immigrants?

At the end of the day, nations have a responsibility to limit who they let in. Their first responsibility is to their citizens, not people bringing incompatible values

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Los Angeles, Which Uses Vast Amounts Of Fossil Fuels, Considers Joining Lawsuits Against Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach January 13, 2018 – 8:03 am

The City of Los Angeles proper is a rather large place. It encompasses 502 square miles, and has a population of almost 3.8 million. This requires a massive fleet of fossil fueled vehicles, from police vehicles to ambulances to fire trucks to helicopters to garbage trucks to buses to all sorts of other city owned vehicles. After that comes all the privately owned vehicles. And the multiple airports. And, of course, all the energy used to keep the city running. But, of course, climate signaling

(Patch) Four Los Angeles City Council members Friday called on the city to file a lawsuit against large oil companies and seek to hold them responsible for damage to the city from climate change.

The leaders signed a motion that was introduced and would direct City Attorney Mike Feuer to report to the council on options for filing claims against oil companies in a similar manner that the city of New York undertook earlier this week by filing a lawsuit against BP, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips. ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, charging that the world’s five largest publicly traded oil companies are partially responsible for global warming and have known about the consequences of fossil fuels to the environment but have tried to hide it.

“By knowing that their business practice was contributing to climate change and doing nothing to stop their destructive ways, the oil and gas industry should be held liable for the current and future damage climate change is causing our city,” said City Councilman Mike Bonin, who introduced the motion with Councilman Paul Koretz that was seconded by council members Jose Huizar and Marqueece Harris-Dawson. “Taxpayers should not be footing the bill for infrastructure repairs that likely wouldn’t have been necessary had it not been for the willful neglect of the fossil fuel industry.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah, blah blah blah. Perhaps they should blame themselves for their own use of fossil fuels. No one, get this, forced them to use fossil fuels.

Again, what all the fossil fuels companies should do is refuse to sell gasoline to the city of Los Angeles. If someone is threatening to sue you, or suing you, you don’t do business with them, do you? Let LA, and all the other municipalities, try and operate without gasoline.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Bummer: Pink Pussy Hats Now Considered Offensive To Gender Confused

By William Teach January 12, 2018 – 4:09 pm

It’s always something with these people

(Detroit Free Press) A year ago, they stormed the streets of big cities and small towns to make their views known: Women’s rights are human rights. Many wore on their heads what became the de-facto symbol of feminism in 2017, the pink pussyhat.

The Women’s March is back in 2018 with its Power to the Polls anniversary protests on the weekend of Jan. 20-21. The focus during this Women’s March reboot is to register more women to vote, and to elect women and progressive candidates to public office.

But this time when marchers take to the streets in cities from Lansing to Las Vegas, there could be fewer pink pussyhats in the crowds.

The reason: The sentiment that the pink pussyhat excludes and is offensive to transgender women and gender nonbinary people who don’t have typical female genitalia and to women of color because their genitals are more likely to be brown than pink.

Money quote

The Women’s March chapter in Pensacola, Fla., posted to its Facebook page that it is discouraging marchers from wearing the hats to this year’s event.

“The Pink P*ssy Hat reinforces the notion that woman = vagina and vagina = woman, and both of these are incorrect. Additionally, the Pink P*ssy Hat is white-focused and Eurocentric in that it assumes that all vaginas are pink; this is also an incorrect assertion,” it posted to its Facebook page. The post has been shared more than 1,200 times.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 12, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on Nancy Pelosi going all Marie Antoinette.

As always when I do the water bottle thing, please recycle. May not be a ‘climate change’ thing, but, is good for the real environment.

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Canadians Totally Want To Fight ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 12, 2018 – 10:30 am

They’re just not too enthused on paying for it

Report says Canadians want to fight climate change – as cheaply as possible

Most Canadians care about the climate – but not quite enough to welcome massive energy bill hikes or to buy an electric car.

That was one of the many interesting snippets to come out of a recently-released report for Natural Resources Canada. The report’s purpose was to help tailor the government’s resource-related plans to meet “the needs of the public.” (snip)

When Canadians were also asked to rank their energy-related values, the most highly ranked values were usually “minimizing environmental impacts” and “keeping energy cheap and affordable.” That doesn’t mean that Canadians are willing to find a way to balance the two. When asked to consider “trade-offs” that might come up in Canada’s energy future — such as between affordability and the environment — “many had difficulty understanding why these goals might conflict with one another.”

While 62 per cent of Canadians are interested in buying an electric or zero-emission vehicle, only 32 per cent told the researchers that they had a “strong interest” in purchasing these eco-friendly rides. Four out of ten Canadians had little to no interest in buying an electric car.

It’s kind of a mixed bag, but, overall, what we find is the typical answers: no one really wants to pay for their beliefs.

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Trump Calls Some Nations “Sh*tholes”: Isn’t That Why People Leave And Come To The U.S.A. Legally And Illegally?

By William Teach January 12, 2018 – 7:18 am

This is the Media Freakout Of The Day, which will probably last at least through the weekend

Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries in Oval Office meeting

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers.

As you’d expect, this is all over the news media, with #Resist outlets expressing their normal Outrage. Joe Scarborough is having his normal hissy fit. And all the blogs and small outlets are discussing. But, hey, what about

(Daily Caller) Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended President Donald Trump’s Thursday comments about immigrants coming to America from “shithole” countries, and said the media’s visceral outrage over the story was preposterous.

Carlson was speaking with Jose Parra, the Latin communications director for former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, and said he had visited Haiti and doesn’t understand why people were offend by Trump’s accurate characterization.

“The idea that you are not allowed to say that they’re pretty crummy countries, Haiti for example or El Salvador, I’ve been in both of them — that’s why people are leaving them to come here,” Carlson said. “So I don’t understand what the sin is. You’re not allowed to point out that other countries aren’t as good places to live as America?”

There’s plenty more at the link, including the video, but you get the idea: people are leaving their 3rd world shitholes developing nations (how many times have I written it that way?) to come to the United States illegally? Or simply doing things like traveling across the land and simply showing up, demanding asylum? How many Democrats are complaining about ending the programs that gave temporary protected status to people from places like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti, because those countries are too dangerous and too shithole for those who received temporary asylum to return to? That’s right, a lot of Democrats are complaining.

If they were nice countries, the people wouldn’t be leaving in droves. It’s cute how people who wear pink pussy hats, scream obscenities on a constant basis, call for impeaching and/or assassinating Trump, talk about punching Trump, etc and so on, get the vapors over calling shithole countries shithole countries.

BTW, Trump denies using the language

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NY Times Goes After NYC Mayor De Blasio For Climahypocrisy

By William Teach January 12, 2018 – 6:59 am

Somehow, this random act of journalism by Jim Dwyer slipped through the layers and layers of #Resist editors

Battling Climate Change from the Back Seat of an S.U.V.

Purring in the mild winter day, a small armada of S.U.V.s was parked Thursday morning along 42nd Street outside the New York Public Library. Inside was Mayor Bill de Blasio, at an interfaith prayer breakfast that went on for quite a while.

By divine right of mayoralty, or someone, 13 vehicles waited at the curb in a no-standing zone, among them four black S.U.V.s (three Chevy Suburbans and one Yukon XL) an ambulance, a huge E.M.S. vehicle and a police school safety van. The engines on those big boys were running while the mayor was inside, for about two hours. (snip)

One day earlier, Mr. de Blasio announced that the city would sue five big oil companies for the hardships and costs inflicted on New York by climate change. For an archipelago city with 520 miles of coastline, rising seas are no joke. Among the targets of the suits was Exxon Mobil, whose own scientists found, as most scientists have, that climate change was real and that human behavior was contributing to it. Even so, Exxon supported organizations that attacked those very conclusions. In the suit, New York follows the lead of governments around the Bay Area in California that have filed similar cases.

Whatever the merits of the suit, Mr. de Blasio and his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, are the very embodiment of a possible line of defense by the oil companies. Namely, that it wasn’t the oil companies that created the greenhouse gases, but society in general — companies and individuals who used oil to generate electricity, or for transportation.

In other words, De Blasio is a climahypocrite, a guy who talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk. The article goes on to note that De Blasio takes a fleet of vehicles 11 miles to go to his gym in Brooklyn There’s plenty of gyms a lot closer.

Former Mayor Bloomberg, a billionaire, rode the subway most days. On the other hand, Mr. Bloomberg routinely splurged on carbon usage by deploying his personal fleet of carbon-inefficient private jets and helicopters for long-distance travel. He would use them to fly to a weekend home in Bermuda, for instance, or to Europe. In an episode so rich you could choke on it, Mr. Bloomberg brought an entourage aboard his personal Falcon 900 to Copenhagen, at a cost in carbon emissions that was 37 times more than if the group had flown commercial.

Said trip was to a ‘climate change’ meeting, the UN IPCC at Copenhagen, which complained quite a bit about Other People’s use of fossil fuels. For people who tell us that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the minor temperature increase since the end of the last Holocene cool period, they sure have a speck of trouble doing something about their own oversized carbon footprints, eh?

And Mr. Dwyer is correct: Exxon and the other companies should highlight the hypocrisy of people like De Blasio. In fighting back against the suits emanating from California Believer municipalities, Exxon highlights the hypocrisy of said municipalities. In a slightly different manner.

Again, all those fossil fuels companies threatened by De Blasio should refuse to sell their products to the City Of New York. The place couldn’t operate without them.

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Surprise: Germany Goes Climahypocrite

By William Teach January 11, 2018 – 5:26 pm

We should all be used to things like this with the Cult of Climastrology by now

(Daily Signal) Climate hypocrisy is nothing new.

Celebrities cruise around the world in their private jets, eating filet mignon while telling you to pack a salad and bike to work to reduce your carbon footprint.

So, color me not at all surprised that Germany, a vocal critic of the U.S.’ decision to exit the Paris climate accord, is preparing to abandon its 2020 climate targets.

Strong economic growth is a critical reason why Germany is very likely to miss its target.

In other words, Germany refuses to destroy their own economy at the alter of the CoC, despite being one of the global leaders in pushing the junk science.

Germany’s abandoned 2020 targets are the latest domino to fall in what is failed international climate policy. Many proponents of action argue that even though the Paris climate accord is nonbinding, with no repercussions when a country fails to comply with its nationally determined contributions, the agreement was an important first step.

The parties that have entered into the Paris accord sure have a funny way of showing they’re committed to it.

Despite bashing the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, all of the industrialized countries are not on schedule to meet their respective targets. Germany is not alone in the European Union.

This is simply a repeat of the Kyoto Protocol, where all the nations around the world patted themselves on the back, then went on to fail to achieve their targets.

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