Supergirl Trots Out Warmist For The Sake Of Warmist

By William Teach October 10, 2017 – 10:32 am

They want to prove they’re totally woke and work hard to drive away a dwindling viewer base, along with introducing a Trump-like villain

(NewsBusters) CW’s Supergirl has now had almost five extra months to come to terms with the Trump Presidency. At this point, the show could either move on like the rest of the country or double down in disgrace. Unfortunately, the October 9 premiere “Girl of Steel” doubled down and doesn’t show any signs of letting up its liberal, anti-Trump slant.

Let’s start with the moderate stuff and work our way up the ladder. Since the lackluster season two finale, Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) became Press Secretary to female President Olivia Marsdin (Lynda Carter), which is sadly not the most unbelievable thing we have to take in this episode. Right off the bat, she answers a question about whether the president believes in climate change.

Cat: Okay, Carl.

Carl: Does President Marsdin believe climate change is real?

Cat: Uh, yes. Yes, Carl. As a matter of fact, she does. She also believes that two plus two equals four and the Earth is round because the President is not a moron. Any third grader knows that global warming is the biggest threat of our time. And I’m happy to report that the intellectual capacity of our President is not inferior to that of an eight-year-old. Next question.

And then a bunch of fans changed the channel, because, as Newsbusters Lindsay Kornick notes

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say they wanted to appear on Newsbusters this week. And what does this remark on climate change have to do with the plot? Absolutely nothing. It’s just yet another excuse for the show to remind us how enlightened they are when it comes to “science.” Forgive me for thinking that people who call those who have the slightest doubt about the religion of climatology names are the actual eight-year-olds.

There’s a term for this: Climarettes. It’s a brain disease where Warmists have to interject their cult into everything out of the blue.

Check the article out, as it shows the Trump-like villain, because the show is so woke and into SJW stuff.

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EPA Head Announces Doing Away With Clean Power Plan

By William Teach October 10, 2017 – 7:04 am

This was a pledge of Donald Trump’s during the campaign, and we have heard that this was going to happen over the past few weeks. Now…

(CNN) Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday his agency’s plans to withdraw the Clean Power Plan, the sweeping Obama-era rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

While speaking in Kentucky at an event with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Pruitt said he will sign the proposed rule repealing Obama’s plan Tuesday.

“When you think about what that rule meant, it was about picking winners and losers. Regulatory power should not be used by any regulatory body to pick winners and losers,” he said at the event. “The past administration was using every bit of power and authority to use the EPA to pick winners and losers and how we generate electricity in this country. That’s wrong.”

CNN obtained a copy of the leaked proposal to repeal the milestone Clean Power Plan, the outcome of President Donald Trump’s executive orders calling for the review of the plan and questions the legality of the original rule.

“Under the interpretation proposed in this notice, the CPP exceeds the EPA’s statutory authority and would be repealed,” the proposal reads. “The EPA welcomes comment on the legal interpretation addressed in this proposed rulemaking.”

Obviously, those who were in favor of the Big Government energy sector controlling Clean Power Plan had a freakout, as seen further down in the story. Many of them are threatening lawsuits, including Excitable NY AG Eric Schneiderman.

As National Review notes

There were three good reasons to abandon the Clean Power Plan, and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt cited two of them in his decision, announced Monday, to rescind the cumbrous carbon dioxide rule.

The first argument against the Clean Power Plan is cronyism…..

The second argument Pruitt made is that CPP exceeds the EPA’s statutory authority under the Clean Air Act……

Which brings us to the third reason to repeal CPP, arguably the most significant one: The American people, through their elected representatives, have had many opportunities to limit carbon dioxide emissions in the hopes of mitigating climate change. Congress has considered the question and declined to do so. The duty of the EPA is to see to the enforcement of the law as enacted by the people’s representatives, not to frustrate their intent.

This is a continuation of rolling back the mission creep of federal agencies, particularly as it occurred under Obama. If Warmists do not like this, then they should try and win elections on the platform of increasing the size and power of government over citizens and private entities, enacting policies by executive fiat, and artificially increase the cost of energy and the cost of life by leaps and bounds on citizens.

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Democrats May Play Hardball On Dreamers, Threatening Government Shutdown

By William Teach October 10, 2017 – 6:48 am

Democrats should be careful in wanting an all or none position on some sort of legalization for the Dreamers: they might end up with the latter

(Washington Post) Some House Democrats are raising the specter of withholding support for must-pass spending legislation later this year in response to President Trump’s hard line immigration proposals — meaning the fate of roughly 690,000 younger undocumented immigrants could become a major factor in negotiations to keep the government open after December.

Will the media assign blame to Democrats if a budget bill doesn’t get done and we get a shutdown? Of course not, but, the Trump Twitter machine won’t let them get away with that.

Democrats on Monday dismissed Trump’s calls to construct a wall along the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border, crack down on “sanctuary cities” and seek ways to curb Central American migrants from illegally crossing into the country. But conservative Republicans insisted that such issues must be addressed before Congress considers offering legal status to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, a group known as “dreamers.”

“What the White House put forward is a complete non-starter,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in an interview, blaming Trump’s senior policy aides for advancing “un-American” ideas on how to deal with immigration.

“There’s nothing in it to negotiate because it does not have shared values of who we are as Americans,” she added.

Essentially, Pelosi and others are wanting that “give us everything we want and we we won’t offer anything back” position and have no problem trotting out their silly talking points to get it. One has to wonder if Democrats are more invested in having an Issue to scaremonger and bloviate on, rather than finding an actual solution. This wouldn’t be unusual for Democrats: when it comes to identity politics and such, if the problem is solved, Democrats have nothing to bitch about.

And, apparently, in Pelosi’s World, following duly passed federal law is now un-American.

“The White House is willing to negotiate. Democrats are not,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for lower immigration levels. “That means the odds of no bill by March have increased — not because the White House principles are overly ambitious but because Schumer is not going to make a meaningful counter offer. They want amnesty in exchange for nothing.”

That’s it exactly. The question here, though, is will elected Republicans stay strong? Even though they control Congress, they seem rather squishy and unable to take a stand.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Welcome To The Era Of Monster Hurricanes Or Something

By William Teach October 9, 2017 – 5:22 pm

I’m breaking the Internet rule about using “or something” a second time in a day, but, this one deserves it. The Associated Press is getting a jump on Halloween with this headline and fear-mongering screed

Welcome to the era of monster hurricanes

It’s not just this year. The monster Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, Jose and Lee that have raged across the Atlantic are contributing to what appears to be the most active period for major storms on record.

And the busiest part of hurricane season isn’t even over.

An analysis of 167 years of federal storm data by the Associated Press found that no 30-year period in history has seen this many major hurricanes, this many days of those whoppers spinning in the Atlantic, or this much overall energy generated by those powerful storms.

Is this an article or an opinion piece written by one of the Usual Warmist Suspects? Regardless, we do not have the data available to truly make these kinds of accusations, since the majority of that time period was with no satellite coverage, and, there is no way to compare to the time of the Little Ice Age, the Global Climate Optimum, nor the other Holocene warm and cool periods to see if things were different.

Nor does this prove anthropogenic causation.

Scientists caution it is too soon to draw conclusions from the data and they don’t say the intense activity confirms a trend. Storms in the distant past may have gone unnoticed, which could make earlier generations appear quieter than they were. Some scientists say past hurricane data is so weak that it’s impossible to connect the recent activity to global warming.

But more intense storms are what scientists expect to see as the planet’s climate changes because warmer ocean water is fuel for hurricanes. And they say it is important to better understand this current intense period to save lives and prevent worse future destruction.

On one hand, they say that the first 3 paragraphs shouldn’t be taken seriously, because they just don’t know. Then we get the same talking point about more doomy hurricanes that we saw right after the 2005 season, after which landfalling major hurricane activity stopped fo almost 12 years.

Was it just as busy for major storms in the 1930s or 1890s? The numbers say no, but scientists won’t draw conclusions because they fear a large undercount of storms before the 1960s.

Boom. Pretty much everything prior is shown to be a load of mule fritters.

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If All You See..

By William Teach October 9, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil stadium using tons of electricity causing carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on Brie Larson finding her inner victim.

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UN Wants Businesses, Individuals To Take The Carbon Neutral Pledge (and buy UN carbon offsets)

By William Teach October 9, 2017 – 10:37 am

Brought to you by people who take long fossil fueled trips many times a year to attend conferences that complain about Other People taking fossil fueled trips, and refuse to reduce their own carbon footprints

(Innovators Magazine) Businesses and individuals are being urged to join a UN initiative and contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The United Nations Climate Change secretariat is promoting the ‘Climate Neutral Now Pledge’, a voluntary programme that encourages organisations to take climate action by ‘measuring, reducing, and offsetting’ their unavoidable emissions. To offset emissions they can’t currently avoid, signatories can offset them by buying UN-Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) which finance projects in developing countries including solar and wind farms.

And this is a movement everyone can join. Individuals who want to get involved can sign up to the Citizens Climate Pledge at climatepledge.global. An online calculator estimates someone’s climate footprint so they can also effectively ‘measure, reduce, and offset’ their negative environmental impact by taking steps such as purchasing United Nations-certified climate credits.

In other words, the UN wants to make some nice cool climacash off pushing this junk science issue, and, get the names, email addresses, and other information from Useful ClimaIdiots to use for their purposes. Have to admit, it’s a good plan, because there are plenty of ClimaIdiots.

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It’s Time For Companies To Boycott 2nd Amendment Supporting States Or Something

By William Teach October 9, 2017 – 8:12 am

Here’s a super great idea from the Washington Post’s uber-left wing Jonathan Alter: getting companies to boycott states that uphold the principles of the 2nd Amendment. Funny how he doesn’t recommend that companies boycott Democratic Party run cities/jurisdictions that have tons of gun restrictions yet have tons of gun violence, to go along with all the other violence and property crime

It’s time for companies to boycott gun-lax states

Even if Congress takes action on the bump stocks or other modifications used by the mass murderer in Las Vegas, Washington will not be the center of change on gun violence. The president and Congress are owned by the NRA, and public attention will soon shift away from the latest massacre, as it always does.

But there’s reason for hope in states that are hungry to keep and attract business, which means every state in the union. Gun safety advocates should take heart from the backlash against bathroom bills and other anti-gay laws in red states. The institutions that stood up in those fights — from Apple to the NCAA — offer a path forward.

Corporations have a moral and fiduciary duty to enhance the safety of their workplaces and other venues they use. When mass shootings were rare, they weren’t as much of a concern. Now that they’re a common occurrence, the calculus for locating businesses, conventions, sporting events and concerts must change. Companies cannot fully guarantee the safety of their employees and customers anywhere, but risks are clearly greater in “gun lax” states.

Interestingly, if you look at the graphic of where the shootings have occurred over the last 50 years, you see a pattern of them being in mostly Democratic Party run areas and/or done by a Democratic party supporter or Islamist.

And places that are gun free zones. It’s weird how criminals with murder on their minds do not follow the law, right?

Those states should now be faced with a choice: They can have assault weapons and gun show loopholes. Or they can have good jobs and events from responsible corporations. But they can’t have both.

And then they’ll look at the violent and property crimes rates, and realize that Democratic Party run areas are more dangerous.

Imagine if chief executives looking out for the safety of their employees and conference attendees announced that they would locate new facilities and hold conventions, concerts and other gatherings only in “gun responsible” states (which different companies could define differently). We might see activity overnight in several state legislatures.

Doubtful. The companies are in the business of making money, and the terms, cost of living, and so forth tend to be better in the areas that love the 2nd Amendment.

The NRA and its toadies say that no law could have definitively prevented this or any other massacre. This is a dodge: Traffic laws don’t prevent all car crashes or air bags all deaths in those accidents. But they help. If the carnage in Las Vegas prompts even a few more state experiments, something good may yet come from this evil.

The “toadies” would be the citizens of the United States who believe in the Bill Of Rights, and, let’s not forget that Senator Dianne Feinstein said that no gun laws would have stopped the Las Vegas shooter. And let’s not forget that, once again, this is all aimed at the law abiding gun owners, not the people who would use guns in a criminal manner.

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Trump Releases His Demands For A Deal On Dreamers

By William Teach October 9, 2017 – 7:48 am

Democrats and illegal alien supporters have been increasing their calls for a “clean” Dreamer bill, one which pretty much provides amnesty without any give or take, without any security measures, basically one that gives them everything they want and gives up nothing. Mr. Trump lets the illegal alien supporters know that if they want something big like a pathway to citizenship, they are going to have to give up a lot

Trump administration releases hard-line immigration principles, threatening deal on ‘dreamers’

The Trump administration released a list of hard-line immigration principles late Sunday that threaten to derail a deal in Congress to allow hundreds of thousands of younger undocumented immigrants to remain in the country legally.

The administration’s wish list includes the funding of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a crackdown on the influx of Central American minors and curbs on federal grants to “sanctuary cities,” according to a document distributed to Congress and obtained by The Washington Post. (snip)

The list released by the administration, however, would represent a major tightening of immigration laws. Cuts to legal immigration also are included. And, while Democrats have called for a path to citizenship for all dreamers, a group estimated at more than 1.5 million, a White House aide said Sunday night the administration is “not interested in granting a path to citizenship” in a deal to preserve the DACA program.

This halfway resembles a press release from the DNC, which is unsurprising when deal with leftist outlets like the Washington Post. Democrats are said to be very upset by…demands for security in dealing with people who are violating our national sovereignty and laws.

“The administration can’t be serious about compromise or helping the Dreamers if they begin with a list that is anathema to the Dreamers, to the immigrant community and to the vast majority of Americans,” Schumer and Pelosi said in a joint statement Sunday evening. “We told the President at our meeting that we were open to reasonable border security measures … but this list goes so far beyond what is reasonable. This proposal fails to represent any attempt at compromise.”

Border security and a crackdown on illegal aliens is anathema to the Dreamers? Who cares? They’re here illegally. If we chose to provide them with some sort of legal status, they should be happy, rather than acting like children upset because they got a cookie instead of a bowl of ice cream. The Washington Post, like most outlets, forgets to link to the document from Team Trump. Politico has it here. It’s long and detailed, unlike the way Obama would simply provide a sticky note with a few bulletin points he wants done.

ABC News goes on to note

They included a complete overhaul of the green-card system that would limit family-based green cards to spouses and the minor children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents as part of an effort to end what is known as “chain migration.”

The White House also said it wants to boost fees at border crossings, hire 10,000 more immigration enforcement officers, make it easier to deport gang members and unaccompanied children, and overhaul the asylum system. And it wants new measures to crack down on “sanctuary cities,” which don’t share information with federal immigration authorities, among other proposals.

“These priorities are essential to mitigate the legal and economic consequences of any grants or status to DACA recipients,” White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told reporters in a Sunday evening conference call. “We’re asking that these reforms be included in any legislation concerning the status of DACA recipients.”

If the illegal alien Dreamer supporters want something big for the Dreamers, they are going to have to give back big stuff.

But it remained unclear whether the president considers each of the more than a dozen priorities to be non-negotiable or whether the White House sees them more as a starting point for negotiation with members of Congress. Officials on the call notably declined to say whether the president would veto legislation that did not include each and every one of them.

Most likely, these are things that can be negotiated, and the more the Dreamer supporters want, the more they will have to give up to Trump and the illegal alien hardliners (meaning those who want to follow the law).

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 8, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean taking over all the land from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Knuckledraggin My Life Away, with a post on Dianne Feinstein contradicting herself.

It’s NHL week on IAYS! Gotta start with my Devils. Great start for 1st game. Can they make the Playoffs? That’s all I’m asking this year. It used to be that if they didn’t win the Cup, there was no point. Oh, and if you’re a Flyers or Rangers fan? Don’t expect to see your team this week. Uh uh. No way. They’re Evil.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 8, 2017 – 9:32 am

Happy Sunday! Another beautiful day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, the geese are honking. Good grief are they honking (I have a pond out back that comes off the Neuse River). This pinup is by Valery Barykin, with a wee bit of help (and, yes, I know that’s Cyrillic writing).

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. NoTricksZone covers the new thing called “global stilling”
  2. Adrienne’s Corner wonders if we’ll ever know the truth on Stephen Paddock
  3. Chicks On the Right notes the continuous fall of NFL ratings
  4. Creeping Sharia has the early history of extremist Islam in America
  5. Datechguy’s Blog covers “don’t impose on my, Bro!”
  6. Gay Patriot discusses double standards in business
  7. Jihad Watch covers a warning on a “hate speech” resolution
  8. Legal Insurrection discusses the sudden media interest in Executive Office travel costs
  9. Michelle Malkin says we need fallacy control now
  10. Moonbattery notes you can be jailed in California for using biologically correct pronouns
  11. MOTUS AD wonders why Americans own so many guns
  12. Neo-neocon holds forth on Canadian free speech
  13. Pacific Pundit is not impressed by the idiots with torches at a Confederate statue
  14. Powerline jumps into Ireland celebrating Che
  15. And last, but not least, Raised On Hoecakes wonders how high people would make the minimum wage

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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