LA Gets 2028 Olympics, Paris 2024: Who Pays The Carbon Offsets?

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 5:18 pm

So, this happened

(Washington Post)  Los Angeles has decided its Olympic aspirations can wait four years, which means Paris is poised to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.

The two cities had both been awarded hosting rights by the International Olympic Committee and have been negotiating for the past three weeks on which city would go first and which would wait until 2028. On Monday afternoon, a deal between the three parties was announced, with Los Angeles agreeing to stage the 2028 Summer Games.

Hooray? The NY Times wonders what an LA Olympics would look like, with events such as

  • A shortest shower competition.
  • Fastest to extricate your car from stacked parking.
  • Santa Monica Boulevard slalom.
  • Food truck drag racing on Silver Lake Boulevard.

Well, those are cute, but, one wonders what all the “green” stuff will look like. Remember, the past few Olympics tried this, and didn’t do so well. On the bright side, they intend to use many existing structures in California for the games and housing the contestants. On the other hand, what’s the carbon footprint of all the fossil fueled flights and vehicle trips from all over the world? How about all the fossil fuels used to build lots of things? Will California require athletes, trainers, media, etc, to purchase carbon offsets? What about all the food and energy that will be used?

This goes towards Paris, the home of the silly Paris Climate Agreement, as well. Hosting the Olympics cannot be carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an opera house that will soon be flood from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on Obamacare’s continuing death spiral.

BTW, since someone asked, the “jokes” before the picture are mostly based on things I’ve read from Warmists in stories, comments, and on Twitter. I’m not making those things up out of the blue.

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‘Climate Change’ Blamed For Nearly 60,000 Indian Farmer Deaths

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 10:30 am

You refuse to buy local, stop using a hair dryer, take showers longer than 2 minutes, and don’t unplug your cable box when not in use, so, you’re to blame

Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims

Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.

Illustrating the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural industry to spikes in temperature, the study from the University of California, Berkeley, found an increase of just 1C on an average day during the growing season was associated with 67 more suicides.

An increase of 5C on any one day was associated with an additional 335 deaths, the study published in the journal PNAS on Monday found. In total, it estimates that 59,300 agricultural sector suicides over the past 30 years could be attributed to warming.

Could be. May. Their computer models and preconceived notions to create Blamestorming tell them so.

Worse than the parched crops were the bank loans that loomed over many farming families, said Rani Radhakrishnan, one of the protesters.

In February, owing 80,000 rupees (£945), her husband stood outside his bank branch in the city of Trichy, and consumed a toxic concoction. He died on the spot.

So, it could possibly be something else? Like backbreaking debt?

The crime bureau found that more than half (58 per cent) of the 12,602 farmer suicides in 2015 were driven by bankruptcy, indebtedness and other farming-related issues.

“Suicides occur due to extreme economic despair,” said M S Swaminathan, a geneticist who has studied India’s agriculture industry

Of course, that’s blamed on Hotcoldwetdry, as well.

There have actually been record harvests in India, leading to price drops, which leads to less money, leading to banks wanting money that farmers do not have. Na. Climate change. And this politicized social psychology study is being pimped in news outlets around the world, with nary a paper saying “is this really correct?”

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Latest Game Of Thrones Was A Coded Message To Black People And About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 7:16 am

Seriously, the show can’t just be a show, can it? Nope, there has to be some incredibly deep and super secret message

Sunday’s Game of Thrones Was a Message to Black America

For three weeks, we have preached about how Game of Thrones teaches us everything we need to know about white America. So, this week, you might expect us to joke about how Sansa should’ve cooked for Bran when he came home from that long road trip, or how Euron Greyjoy is turning into Anthony Scaramucci. I bet you just knew we would have an extended discussion about the scene where the official from the Iron Bank lamented how its investments in the slave trade were doing poorly. (and we could probably mention how the same people who preach about racism and stuff are making what they would consider unacceptable racist jokes)

Instead, this week, the Game of Thrones writers created an episode that spoke in coded language, dropping jewels only black people could pick up. While there are too many to name, here are the major keys dropped by episode 3 of this season of Game of Thrones:

Race baiter Michael Harriot goes on to mention three things: Beware of White Allies, We Need Black Leaders Like Jon Snow, and The Black Imagination Is Too Small, all of which complain and smear white people. And include mentions of Trump, Republicans, Scaramuchi, and lots of political whining. We get things like

What happens when you mix white feminism with white privilege and add a dash of white allyship? You get Daenerys Targaryen—the physical embodiment of the word “problematic.”

While it might be true that she is the “breaker of chains” (notice how she rattled off every one of her titles when our play cousin Jon Snow walked into her living room at Dragonstone, while Davos simply introduced Jon Snow as … well … Jon Snow), we must remember that Daenerys’ much-ballyhooed benevolence is tied to her obsession with winning the presidency Iron Throne.

and

Many people have criticized Jon Snow. Because of his mixed heritage, some say he’s “not really one of us.” Others say that since he left our neighborhood and started hanging out with those white boys at the wall and the rednecks Wildlings, he can’t be trusted.

Is it acceptable to make that joke with the strikethrough? What if it was the “N” word instead, written by a white writer? Would that be OK? I think we all know the answer. There’s lots more Idiocy throughout, if you’d like to give a Jack Sparrow look for a bit, ending with

Game of Thrones teaches us that if we are to remain alive, we must always remember that even when they are offering a kiss, there might be poison in their mouths.

Sigh. Then we have this

‘GoT’s’ White Walkers Could Be a Metaphor for Climate Change

The White Walkers are an undeniably evil force in Game of Thrones, but the above video argues that they’re not just senseless monsters — they’re actually a metaphor for climate change, an issue that George R.R. Martin has spoken about before.

While it may sound a little strange at first, it’s actually a very convincing argument. Despite being such an existential threat to humanity, the White Walkers are generally not taken so seriously. Stories about them come through grim secondhand accounts, and are often dismissed as fake by people like Tyrion Lannister and Ned Stark. Sound familiar?

Like climate change, the wealthier characters in the show can ignore the White Walkers, as the poor and vulnerable are affected first. Watch the video above.

This is not the first time that the ‘climate change’ nutters have made comparisons, and probably won’t be the last, even as the show is scheduled to wrap up in three more episodes. But, I do like the schtick about “wealthier characters”, as that is a great allegory for all the ‘climate change’ leaders, like Gore, Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tom Steyer, etc and so on, who refuse to practice what they preach while attempting to force the middle and lower classes pay the penalties, in the form of taxes, fees, higher cost of living, and lost of freedom.

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Good News: Prosecutors Look To Treat Illegal Alien Crimes Different From Actual Citizen Crimes

By William Teach August 1, 2017 – 6:54 am

It’s oh-so-special that illegal aliens who commit crimes are potentially being treated differently than if a U.S. citizen commits the same crime. Because the rule of law or something. We can see lawsuits against district attorney’s offices, cities, counties, and states coming

A Deal to Avoid a ‘Life Sentence of Deportation’

The drunken-driving case seemed straightforward, the kind that prosecutors in Seattle convert into a quick guilty plea hundreds of times a year: a swerving car, a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, a first-time offense that caused no injuries.

The only complication was the driver. A 23-year-old undocumented immigrant studying at the University of Washington, she had gained some assurance against deportation through a federal program for people who had entered the country illegally as children. If she pleaded guilty to driving under the influence, the punishment any Washington resident might face could be compounded by a more permanent penalty. She could lose her protected status; she could be deported.

Which, for the prosecutor, presented a difficulty: Was this what justice should look like?

Well, yes. The illegal alien in question made a choice to get drunk and then drive. No one forced her to do so. She had to know there would be consequences.

Now that President Trump’s hard line has made deportation a keener threat, a growing number of district attorneys are coming to the same reckoning, concluding that prosecutors should consider potential repercussions for immigrants before closing a plea deal. At the same time, cities and states are reshaping how the criminal justice system treats immigrants, hoping to hopscotch around any unintended immigration pitfalls.

In other words, they are looking to make accommodations that they wouldn’t make for citizens. Or people who are lawfully present in the U.S. on visas.

“There’s certainly a line of argument that says, ‘Nope, we’re not going to consider all your individual circumstances, we want to treat everybody the same,’” said Dan Satterberg, the prosecuting attorney for Seattle and a longtime Republican, who instituted an immigration-consequences policy last year and strengthened it after the presidential election. “But more and more, my eyes are open that treating people the same means that there isn’t a life sentence of deportation that might accompany that conviction.”

With that in mind, his office allowed the student to plead guilty to reckless driving instead of driving under the influence. The deal, which included three days of community service and two years of probation — milder than the standard driving-under-the-influence penalty of 24 hours in jail, a few days’ community service and five years’ probation — did not jeopardize her protected status.

So, every person who was convicted of drunk driving can now sue to have their penalties reduced in Seattle (and, yes, there are some Republicans who are utter squishes on illegal immigration). Interestingly, the Times is actually doing Journalism on this, including exactly the argument I’ve made

If he made accommodations for an immigrant, (county attorney in Cochise County, Ariz) Mr. McIntyre said, he felt that he would also owe a citizen in similar circumstances the same option, “because is he not being, essentially, negatively impacted by his U.S. citizenry?”

Exactly.

But reducing criminal penalties can help immigrants by keeping them out of jail, which can make it more difficult for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to find them, or by preserving their options in immigration court.

In other words, there are games being played with the criminal justice system in order to protect illegal aliens who commit crimes above already being unlawfully present. This is the point where the federal system should jump in and charge prosecutors and district attorneys with things like prosecutorial misconduct and violations of immigration law, such as 8 U.S. 1324, providing shelter to an illegal alien.

Luke Larson, the deputy prosecutor on the case of the Washington State student charged with drunken driving, said several factors favored a milder charge, including her strong academic record and lack of a criminal history.

Something they most likely wouldn’t do for a U.S. citizen. Things like this tend to rear up and bite people in the posterior.

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Tropical Storm Emily Brings Out The Typical Climate Nutters

By William Teach July 31, 2017 – 3:09 pm

First, we get this

(USA Today) Tropical Storm Emily formed Monday morning just west of Tampa, and is expected to move inland across the state, the National Hurricane Center said.

As of 11 a.m. ET, the storm was approaching the mouth of Tampa Bay, the hurricane center said.

Emily’s maximum sustained winds were near 45 mph. Little change in strength is forecast until landfall occurs later Monday. Tropical-storm force winds extend up to 60 miles from the center of the system.

These are the types of things that have been happening since before Mankind existed. But, of course

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 31, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a world where the seas are rising and the ground is being turned into desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on insurance vs health care.

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Plastic Bottles Are Almost As Dangerous As Hotcoldwetdry Or Something

By William Teach July 31, 2017 – 10:42 am

Here we go

Planet’s addiction to plastic bottles ‘as dangerous as climate change’

A million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an environmental crisis some campaigners predict will be as serious as climate change. EURACTIV’s partner The Guardian reports.

New figures obtained by The Guardian reveal the surge in usage of plastic bottles, more than half a trillion of which will be sold annually by the end of the decade.

The demand, equivalent to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second, is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a western, urbanised “on the go” culture to China and the Asia Pacific region.

By 2021 this will increase to 583.3bn, according to the most up-to-date estimates from Euromonitor International’s global packaging trends report.

Most plastic bottles used for soft drinks and water are made from polyethylene terephthalate (Pet), which is highly recyclable. But as their use soars across the globe, efforts to collect and recycle the bottles to keep them from polluting the oceans, are failing to keep up.

Now, here are my issues: first, plastic getting into the environment in this manner is a real environmental concern. I’ve harped about this many times. People just throw their plastic bottles, bags, etc out, and besides despoiling the landscape and waterways, they create an environmental mess (it’s well worth reading the rest of the article).

Second, why the need to even mention ‘climate change’? In fact, in the article itself, climate change is only mentioned once, in relation to the headline. Yet, the proliferation of plastic pollution is a real issue, a read danger, and it doesn’t help in making the comparison. It can mean people simply tune out when read the headline.

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Hot Take: Opposition To “Government Schools” Is Linked To The Confederacy

By William Teach July 31, 2017 – 7:57 am

Do you have a problem with government run schools? Do you worry that they have serious issues, like being more about indoctrination than teaching? That they are rigid in thought, waste taxpayer money, are chock full of nutty progressives, and that it’s darned impossible to get rid of bad teachers? That there are political agendas, no accountability, wasted funds, and one size doesn’t fit all? Well, that makes you part of the Confederacy, a racist, bigot, and so forth

What the ‘Government Schools’ Critics Really Mean
The roots of the phrase lie not in libertarian economics but in Confederate rebellion.

It’s right there in the subhead, you haters, you

When President Trump recently proposed his budget for “school choice,” which would cut more than $9 billion in overall education spending but put more resources into charter schools and voucher programs, he promised to take a sledgehammer to what he has called “failing government schools.” That is harsh language for the places most of us call public schools, and where nearly 90 percent of American children get their education. But in certain conservative circles, the phrase “government schools” has become as ubiquitous as it is contemptuous.

What most people probably hear in this is the unmistakable refrain of American libertarianism, for which all government is big and bad. The point of calling public schools “government schools” is to conjure the specter of pathologically inefficient, power-mad bureaucrats. Accordingly, right-wing think tanks like the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute and the Acton Institute have in recent years published screeds denouncing “the command and control mentality” of “government schools” that are “prisons for poor children.” All of these have received major funding from the family of the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, either directly or via a donor group.

All government is not bad. Nor do all libertarians and conservatives think government is bad. It’s about what government does that can be the problem, like, say, when the county school board decides that one child will be sent to a traditional schedule school on the other side of the county, meaning they have to get up very early in the morning to catch the bus, while the other will be sent to a year round school. And the parents have little to no say about this, and just have to deal with it. That is not hyperbole. That is something that happens around Wake County. Though, it got a lot better once Republicans briefly took over school board. There is still very little a parent can do about where their child is sent, though.

The libertarian tradition is indebted, above all, to the Chicago economist Milton Friedman, who published a hugely influential 1955 paper, “The Role of Government in Education.” A true believer in the power of free markets to solve all of humanity’s problems, Friedman argued that “government schools” are intrinsically inefficient and unjustified. He proposed that taxpayers should give money to parents and allow them to choose where to spend education dollars in a marketplace of freely competing private providers. This is the intellectual foundation of Ms. DeVos’s voucher proposals.

That makes sense, does it not? Empowering the parents. Not so fast

But the attacks on “government schools” have a much older, darker heritage. They have their roots in American slavery, Jim Crow-era segregation, anti-Catholic sentiment and a particular form of Christian fundamentalism — and those roots are still visible today.

If you think it can’t get any nuttier, this is the NY Times allowing an anti-Christian bigot, someone who is virulently against an displays of religion in public, and is behind a host of other far, far left Progressive beliefs, attempt to smear people who think that the public education system is failing the children. She ends with

When these people talk about “government schools,” they want you to think of an alien force, and not an expression of democratic purpose. And when they say “freedom,” they mean freedom from democracy itself.

Apparently, wanting choice for your kids in how they get educated is anti-democracy or something.

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El Paso Times Blames U.S. Government For Illegal Alien Deaths

By William Teach July 31, 2017 – 7:34 am

Apparently, because we have an actual border with Mexico, and attempt to protect it, and stop people coming across it illegally, the U.S. is to blame, along with Mexico

Mexico, U.S. share blame for tragedies: Editorial

Recent drownings in the Rio Grande and neighboring canals in El Paso aren’t an isolated tragedy. Like the deaths of 10 migrants in a truck in San Antonio, they are the result of grievous failures by the Mexican and U.S. governments.

So far this year, more than 230 migrants have died or gone missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the International Organization on Migration. This month has been the deadliest, with 83 dead or missing through July 24.

There are a few more paragraphs, discussing the human smuggling, and how people just want better lives (I’m betting the editorial board of the El Paso Times wouldn’t be quite so accepting of illegals and their “plight” if they were camping out in the board member’s back yards, which goes for all the other USA Today network papers, such as the Abilene Reporter-News, who picked this up), along with some blame aimed at Mexico for not doing something about the smugglers and gangs, till

But the U.S. government, through its jumbled and ineffectual immigration policies, also shares significant blame for these repeated border tragedies.

Political leadership has refused for years to fix what everyone recognizes is a broken immigration system. An emphasis on “border security” efforts has been unmatched by any efforts to address economic and political realities that drive people to leave their homes for the difficult life of a migrant.

What, exactly, is broken in our immigration system where the government, tasked by the Constitution with stopping outsider invaders, attempts to stop people from crossing the border illegally? Other than that they can’t stop them all, of course. The editorial sure seems to be taking the position that the border should simply be open and anyone who wants to cross it should be able to do so.

Tens of thousands of migrants head to the United States in search of work each year, with many employers willing to hire them at a time of 4 percent unemployment in this country. But lack of political will has prevented the United States from creating any viable legal path to connect migrants and employers, increasing the power of the human smugglers in Mexico and Central America.

Those employers are willing to employ them at a fraction of the minimum wage. Most are actually skill-less people who do not speak our language, do not know our customs, and come from backwards nations.

Increased border security efforts have caused the traffickers to move their human cargo through ever more dangerous means, such as crossing swollen rivers.

See? How dare the U.S. government protect its borders!!!!!1!!!!

The xenophobia and political weakness has led the United States to create a de facto immigration policy that places human lives in increasing danger. That also is a stain on a great country.

By crying xenophobia, they are advocating for open borders. I recommend that all the editorial board members allow illegals to come live at their home

It’s crazy to blame the United States because people choose to break our laws. However, there is one caveat: the editorial board forgot to assign blame to Barack Obama, who created a situation where illegals thought they could get away with ignoring our immigration laws.

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