If All You See…

By William Teach September 15, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a bridge getting closer to the water due to fossil fuels caused sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on Paris police thwarting a jihad attack on a gay nightclub.

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‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Mean The End Of Coffee Beans Or Something

By William Teach September 15, 2017 – 11:16 am

Today’s bit of Cult of Climastrology doomsaying

CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS COULD MEAN THE END OF COFFEE BEANS

The world never looks quite as grim with a cup of coffee in hand. But coffee, like all agricultural products, could be thrown into upheaval by climate change, making an already terrifying situation even bleaker. And a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a different perspective on the challenges that may block coffee fiends from a good cup of their necessary beverage.

When looking at the risks of climate change, two key factors have to be taken into account. The first is whether the species you’re worried about—coffee plants, in this case—can withstand temperature and precipitation changes to their habitat.

Newsweek even provides a helpful photo of Hillary Clinton drinking a cup of coffee. Probably to wash down the pills that keep her from collapsing like at the 9/11 observation in 2016.

The new study takes a different approach—it looks at the fate of bees, which pollinate coffee plants. When we think about bees, we tend to picture the basic honey bee, hive-dweller and agricultural superstar. But there are actually thousands of species of bees, which each fit into an ecosystem.

In addition to mapping how coffee-suitable habitat in Central and South America may shift with climate change, the scientists looked at how bee-suitable habitat may shift, then they combined those factors.

The coffee habitat predictions are grim: The scientists think good coffee ground in 2050 will span only a fifth to a quarter of current coffee-friendly habitat. That’s a more dire picture than global estimates have suggested.

And in 2050 we’ll find out that there are record coffee crops, because Warmist models and doomsaying have failed about 95% of the time. Eh. Warmists, if they’re still around, will probably tell us record crops are linked to ‘climate change’, as well.

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Pro-Illegal Alien Groups, Democrats, Upset Over Bill Allowing Immediate Deportation For Gang Members

By William Teach September 15, 2017 – 6:53 am

Pro-illegal alien supporters keep telling us that they do not want the “bad ones”, only the good ones, and then, in the next breath, show their support for the bad ones

REPUBLICAN BILL WOULD DEPORT IMMIGRANTS ON SUSPICION OF BEING IN A GANG—EVEN IF THEY HAVEN’T COMMITTED A CRIME

If you’re in a gang and you’re an immigrant, you shouldn’t be in the United States, some Republicans say.

On Thursday the Republican-led House passed a new bill to remove immigrants from the U.S., even if they have never committed a crime, because they associate with “the wrong people.”

“It’s time we stand up for our children and end this brutal gang violence occurring in our neighborhoods, once and for all,” House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote on Twitter after the bill, known as the Criminal Alien Gang Member Removal Act, passed.

The bill makes being a member of a gang a deportable offense and allows those applying for immigration status to be refused on suspicion that they are.

Technically, it’s already encoded in the laws regarding immigration status, under “good moral character.” But, of course

Republicans pointed out that under current laws, it was not possible to deport gang members until they are convicted of a crime.

“The bill targets immigrants for detention and deportation even if they have not committed a crime or been suspected of committing a crime,” said the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) in a statement about the bill when it was brought to the Congress early this week.

The bill is written in a way, the civil rights group said, that allows the Department of Homeland Security to “target groups as varied as churches and fraternities for designation as a criminal gang.”

Good grief. Typical over-reach hysteria by the pro-illegal alien supporters.

Under the new law, however, young people who have never committed a crime could be profiled and considered to be a part of a gang simply for having an association with the wrong people, the NIJC said in its statement about the bill.

Democrats didn’t see the law as working to achieve Republican goals without its allowing immigrants to be targeted and deported with little or no evidence.

“The bill broadly overreaches and puts Americans and immigrants at risk of being unjustly profiled,” said Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham in a statement.

This bill is an attempt to crackdown on violent gangs that are chock full of illegal aliens, and some lawfully present aliens, like MS-13. But, of course the pro-illegal alien folks have a problem with this, because they see future Democratic Party voters, regardless of whether they are gang members, and they have this knee-jerk reaction to any initiatives and/or legislation that cracks down on illegals.

This was passed on mostly party lines, 233-175, with only 11 Democrats voting to crack down on illegal alien gang members. Only one Republican voted against. Sadly, with the Democratic Party support for illegal alien gang members, there is little chance in the Senate, as the Democrats will surely filibuster and not even allow a vote. Mitch McConnell would be well served to figure out a way to force a vote, and force Democrats Senators to go on record as supporting illegal alien gang members.

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Bombing On London Subway Being Treated As Terrorist Attack

By William Teach September 15, 2017 – 6:34 am

This has all the hallmarks of an Islamist attack

(Daily Mail) A ‘bucket bomb’ has exploded on Tube train at the height of rush hour today sending a ‘wall of fire’ through the carriage injuring at least 20 people including children in a suspected terror attack.

Terrified passengers ‘ran for their lives’ and were seen covered in blood with scorched legs, faces and hair after the incident at Parsons Green station in west London at 8.20am.

Photographs from the District Line train show what experts believe is a ‘pretty unsophisticated’ bomb in a flaming white bucket inside a Lidl freezer bag with Christmas lights connected to a battery protruding out of the top.

Witnesses said there was a loud ‘bang’, a flash and then a ball of flame engulfed the area but police believe it failed to properly detonate.

Scotland Yard sources have said that it is being treated as terrorist incident but could not confirm claims there is another device and the suspect is on the run.

But an officer at the scene told MailOnline: ‘We believe there is a second bomb – there is a man with knives on the loose.’

It doesn’t look like much

but, it doesn’t take a whole lot to hurt a whole lot of people. So far, there are no reports of anyone being killed, but a lot of people where burned, some badly.

We can all be pretty sure what is going to happen next. The person law enforcement believes is responsible will be of Muslim persuasion, then we’ll find out all sorts of information about how the person was radicalized, and ISIS will most likely take responsibility. Then there will be raids, and more radicalized Muslims will be arrested. And Britain will keep letting them in.

But

https://twitter.com/BurlyboyWilly/status/908638169020665856

Because tweeting the wrong thing in Britain can get you detained. I’m sure London Mayor Sadiq Khan will have some inspirational words about terrorist attacks (from his hardcore Islamist brethren) being just part and parcel of living in a big city.

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Liberals Finally Find A Wall They Like

By William Teach September 14, 2017 – 3:49 pm

Well, there are lots of walls they do like. Like the ones they build around their homes to keep out the riff raff. Especially in liberal cities, where they do not want blacks and latinos on their property. And (via Twitchy)

Well, I can understand the need for the barriers: Liberals, especially their hardcore elements like BLM and Antifa (which Democrats mostly refuse to denounce, and only then with all sorts of exemptions and asterisks), are violent, and need to be separated.

https://twitter.com/sean_spoonts/status/908340161569849344

That’s why Obama built a wall around his Chicago and D.C. homes.

PS: again, I’m not a big proponent of a full border length wall, but, it would be great in the middle of nowhere areas.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible grill using evil coal, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Hillary’s delusional reading of classics.

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Bummer: Monster Storms (Which Have Always Happened) Aren’t Changing Minds On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 14, 2017 – 10:57 am

I’m starting to see a pattern out of the Cult of Climastrology, where they are creating a Narrative about hurricanes not changing people’s minds on anthropogenic climate change. Here we have Bloomberg’s Jennifer Dloughy giving it a shot

Monster Storms Change Coastlines, Not Minds on Climate Change

Back-to-back hurricanes fueled by warm Atlantic waters may have altered the coasts of Texas and Florida, but there’s no indication they are shifting the politics of climate change.

Except, Harvey was fueled by average to below average Gulf waters, not the Atlantic. Irma developed over below average Atlantic waters, before hitting mostly normal waters as it hit the Caribbean islands. Why this need to lie from Warmists?

“We cannot ignore that carbon emissions are causing our ocean temperatures to get warmer, which is fueling more powerful hurricanes,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, at a lightly attended hearing on carbon-capture technology.

Yet that is exactly what many are doing on an issue that increasingly breaks down along partisan lines. Republicans in charge of the House and Senate haven’t scheduled hearings to examine the phenomenon. President Donald Trump has ignored shouted questions on the topic and administration officials have brushed the whole issue aside as a distraction.

Why would they schedule any? There is nothing abnormal about hurricanes during hurricane season. It is interesting that a mildly active hurricane season is everything, while almost 12 years of no landfalling major hurricanes means nothing.

People in areas that have experienced extreme weather are only marginally more likely to support climate adaption policies such as elevation requirements and restrictions on coastal development, according to research published in the September issue of “Global Environmental Change.” Instead, political party identification is a much bigger factor in how people viewed the issue, according to the study that examined public opinion data coupled with geographic information about extreme weather events.

And any changes in thinking after extreme weather are likely to be temporary.

“There was no discernible difference after a month between people who experienced more extreme weather and those who did not,” Llewelyn Hughes, a professor at Australian National University, and David Konisky, a professor at Indiana University, said in a Washington Post essay describing their research. “Even though events like Hurricane Irma are tragic, it may very well be that people tend to forget about them quite quickly and get on with the rest of their lives.”

Because most are not brainwashed cult members who think every incident of Bad Weather is caused by Someone Else’s carbon footprint. Instead, they realize storms are a natural part of, get this, weather.

There are also parallels to the gun control debate, which didn’t dramatically shift after shootings of schoolchildren in Connecticut and a congressman in Virginia.

That’s it, I’m done. Nutballs.

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Deal Or No Deal On DACA WIth No Border Wall

By William Teach September 14, 2017 – 9:07 am

What actually just happened?

(Daily Caller) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi say President Donald Trump agreed to legalize recipients of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program without a border wall.

“We had a very productive meeting at the White House with the President. The discussion focused on DACA. We agreed to enshrine the protections of DACA into law quickly, and to work out a package of border security, excluding the wall, that’s acceptable to both sides,” the two Democratic leaders said in a joint statement late Wednesday night.

This caused many MAGA folks to lose their minds, such as the head cheerleader

The other head cheerleader, Sean Hannity, blamed the GOP. Joe Walsh responded to Hannity, saying it was Trump’s fault, and to stop coddling him. Breitbart even called Trump “Amnesty Don.”

But, Sarah Sanders tweeted out that “While DACA and border security were both discussed, excluding the wall was certainly not agreed to.” And Trump this morning

One has to wonder where the reality lies

Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar echoed Pelosi and Schumer telling reporters that the president told a group of House members who visited the White House Wednesday that Trump was not interested in funding the border wall in the DACA fix.

“We were talking about DACA. We brought up DACA. Then he [Trump] says, ‘We need border security,’” Cuellar told reporters. “And then he looks up and says, ‘No wall. Put it somewhere else.'”

Reading in Politics, it seems as if Trump was willing to do a deal on DACA without the border wall funding being in this particular bill, but the funding would need to be elsewhere. It’s not being forgotten. Of course, where better to put it than right in any DACA bill? Because, otherwise, it will not get done.

Of course, the bills that are under discussion would provide legal avenues for way more than the supposed 800,000 Dreamers. Hundreds of thousands more. And Trump seems to be going full bore Amnesty with his tweets this morning, such as

“Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!” Trump wrote. “They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own – brought in by parents at young age. Plus BIG border security.”

OK, let’s compromise: the parents have to self deport prior to any initiation of legal status for DACA kids. Since the parents broke the law, that seems fair.

As the saying goes, the proof is in the details. We’ll wait to see what they are. Based on previous GOP attempts, they’ll surely disappoint us, as they’ll give it all up to Democrats for security that will never materialize.

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Who Better To Talk About Divisions Than VP Who Served Under An Extremely Divisive President?

By William Teach September 14, 2017 – 8:46 am

The NY Times, with their perpetual #Resist foundation (which would have been around no matter which Republican won, of course), has given a platform to Joe Biden, who served as Vice President to Barack Obama, a president who worked hard to be as divisive as possible during his two terms, and the o-ed is a hoot of blindness

Joe Biden: Reclaiming America’s Values

In over 45 years of working in global affairs, I’ve observed a simple truth: America’s ability to lead the world depends not just on the example of our power, but on the power of our example.

American democracy is rooted in the belief that every man, woman and child has equal rights to freedom and dignity. While the United States is far from perfect, we have never given up the struggle to grow closer to the ideals in our founding documents.

The constant American endeavor to live by our values is a great strength that has drawn generations of strivers and dreamers to the United States, enriching our population. Around the world, other nations follow our lead because they know that America does not simply protect its own interests, but tries to advance the aspirations of all.

Obama’s example: leading from behind. Blowing off the attempt at freedom during the Iranian Green Uprising and the Arab Spring. Backing the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Essentially blowing off the Russian invasion of Crimea. Refusing the previously promised missile shield for Poland. Making a deal with Iran that kicks the can of Iran’s nuclear aspirations down the road while giving the America hating nation, which wants to destroy Israel and is the world’s #1 state sponsor of terrorism, the means to enrich itself, with the money used to fund terrorism. Those are but a few examples of Joe’s America under Obama.

This has stood as the foundation of American foreign policy throughout my political career — until recently.

Around the world, including in the United States, we are seeing the resurgence of a worldview that is closed off and clannish. President Trump keeps longstanding allies such as Germany at arm’s length, while expressing admiration for autocrats like Vladimir V. Putin who thwart democratic institutions.

Meanwhile, Obama managed to constantly annoy our allies while reaching out to our enemies. Leading from behind. Telling Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that Putin should give him some space because he would have more flexibility after the election.

Oh, and I wonder if Joe has any words on Obama’s handling of Syria. The red lines he set and then blew off. Not too mention ignoring the rise of ISIS.

Rather than building from a narrative of freedom and democracy that inspires nations to rally together, this White House casts global affairs as a zero-sum competition — for the United States to succeed, others must lose. Among the many problems that plague the Trump administration’s foreign policy, this line of thinking is perhaps the most disturbing.

During a speech in July, Mr. Trump said, “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” This statement divides the world into “us” and “them.” No American political figure has so narrowly defined our interests since the period between the world wars.

First, Joe’s boss wasn’t particularly interested in pressing freedom and democracy at home, much less around the world. Perhaps Joe should ask Obama about why the IRS intentionally targeted Conservative groups, and the FBI targeted journalists. Second, if Joe wants freedom and democracy, he should want to keep the radical, regressive, extremist Islamists out of the West, as they want to bring their values to our nations and force us to change to their radical, extremist, regressive beliefs.

Joe whines about a few more things, leading to

Reclaiming our values starts with standing up for them at home — inclusivity, tolerance, diversity, respect for the rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of the press. If these are the democratic principles we wish to see around the world, America must be the first to model them.

IRS targeting. Forcing women and girls to share their bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms with the gender confused. Running guns into Mexico. Targeting the press. Supporting Democrat voting groups which shut down free speech, often violently. Ruling by executive fiat. Targeting people engaged in religious freedom. Again, just a few examples of Joe’s boss.

You cannot define Americans by what they look like, where they come from, whom they love or how they worship. Only our democratic values define us. And if we lose sight of this in our conduct at home or abroad, we jeopardize the respect that has made the United States the greatest nation on earth.

Perhaps Joe should talk to his Democratic Party brethren, who are less than interested in upholding our “democratic values”, as they refuse to accept the outcome of the election, and want Trump impeached simply because he won and Hillary lost.

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Crazy Today: “hegemonic masculinity and reconceptualizing competition”

By William Teach September 13, 2017 – 5:09 pm

This is real

No, really. This comes from the Journal Of Philosophy In Sports. Yes, that’s a real thing, too

Toward sport reform: hegemonic masculinity and reconceptualizing competition

Hegemonic masculinity, a framework where stereotypically masculine traits are over-emphasized, plays a central role in sport, partly due to an excessive focus on winning. This type of masculinity marginalizes those that do not possess specific traits, including many women and men. I argue sport reform focused on mitigating hypercompetitive attitudes can reduce this harmful and marginalizing hegemonic masculinity in sport. I make this argument first by challenging the dichotomous nature of sport, especially in recognizing that all outcomes are a blend of winning and losing, that ties are relevant and informative outcomes to contests, and that winning and losing do not always tell accurate stories of the outcome. Secondly, I contend that expanding the potential outcomes in sport can help broaden the emphasis of competitive sport to take into account playing well and improving, in terms of both the test and the contest. I conclude that these reforms decrease hegemonic masculinity, making sport better for all.

It’s like someone use one of those programs that just spit out words in a seemingly coherent pattern. Really, I started to go and put a few lines in bold, but, they’re all wackadoodle.

Expanding outcome? Games can end in a win, loss, or tie, depending on the sport. What else is there? It does look like Ms. Coleen English (isn’t English considered raaaaacist now? Along with proper Grammar?) is setting up women to be considered hothouse flowers who need tons of protection (probably via government) rather than being people who can compete.

But, hey, I wonder, if we shouldn’t focus on winning and losing, then why are Democrats so utterly Level 10 Unhinged over Trump winning and Hillary losing?

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