Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Manages To Hit NYC, Gov. Cuomo While Attacking Trump

By William Teach July 3, 2017 – 7:26 am

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a piece in the NY Times today, in which you would have though that someone at the New York City based paper would have said “hey, wait a minute, he’s slurring us as New Yorkers!” as Rahm punches NYC and Governor Cuomo in the face (figuratively)

In Chicago, the Trains Actually Run on Time

On Thursday, in the wake of a subway derailment and an epidemic of train delays, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the busiest mass transit system in America. That same day, the nation’s third-busiest system — the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority — handed out coupons for free coffee to riders stuck in the second year of slowdowns caused by repairs to prevent chronic fires.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, a recent survey found that 85 percent of passengers are satisfied with service on our transit system, the nation’s second most used. (snip)

How have we done it? First, we put reliability ahead of expansion. We focused relentlessly on modernizing tracks, signals, switches, stations and cars before extending lines to new destinations. Unlike New York, which has spent billions to reach Hudson Yards, or Washington, which has concentrated on trying to reach Dulles Airport (both laudable projects), Chicago has improved the existing system.

So, also shots at the Democratic run city of Washington, D.C. and surrounding areas. And Rahm spends many more paragraphs telling us just how the trains are awesome. And, we have to agree, Chicago’s trains are running great. So, why does Rahm does this?

Rather than tweeting about violence in Chicago, President Trump should be looking to Chicago as a model for the infrastructure investments and economic growth he wants to replicate across the country. Instead of embarking on his wrongheaded plan to privatize infrastructure construction, he should expand existing programs that have used local-federal partnerships to build transportation systems.

And, he proposes that Los Federales give Chicago double the money they have been, along with

And Washington should increase the portion of the Highway Trust Fund that supports mass transit to 25 percent, while also raising the gas tax by 10 cents. Yes, Americans would pay more at the pump, but it is a smarter alternative than the Trump administration’s privatization plan, under which we will all pay more in tolls and fees to the private investors who would own our roads and bridges.

We could talk about how well that massive government infrastructure went under Mr. Obama while Rahm was his Chief of Staff (shovel ready, anybody?), but, instead, let’s note that, regarding Chicago (stats per Hey Jackass! as of this morning)

  • 316 Shot and killed
  • 340 murders
  • 1495 shot and wounded
  • A person is shot every 2 hours and 27 minutes
  • A person is murdered every 12 hours and 53 minutes
  • 80.4% of those murdered have been Black
  • 85.7% of the murders have no arrest
  • 82 have been shot in the butt

While the homicide trend is certainly not as bad as 1970’s through very early 2000’s, it’s trending back up since 2016.

But, hey, the trains are awesome!

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 2, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is evil asphalt meant to support evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on Barack continuing to help Iran.

Well, of course it is America week on IAYS.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 2, 2017 – 9:30 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous pre-Independence Day day in America! The birds are singing, the sun is shining, the Dodgers are kicking butt. This pinup is by K.O. Munson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That discusses the minuscule energy from solar and wind
  2. NoTricksZone explains how a brief gust of wind turned into a doomy tornado thanks to fake news climate hysteria
  3. 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny notes Google giving $2 million for gun control
  4. Adrienne’s Corner covers the libtards calls for civility
  5. America’s Watchtower has the latest insanity from Maxine Waters
  6. Blazing Cat Fur highlights another wonderful refugee plotting jihad
  7. Chicks On The Right explains what happens when a city drops their sanctuary status
  8. Creeping Sharia covers the fake hate crime attack in Ohio
  9. DaTechGuy (Baldilocks) notes the media catching wind of the violent Progressives in Portland
  10. Fausta’s Blog discusses Canada’s war on freedom of speech
  11. Flopping Aces has the week in radical leftism
  12. Gay Patriot wonders if Trump’s Mika/Joe tweets are strategic
  13. Jihad Watch notes a German court approving Sharia police patrolling
  14. Legal Insurrection covers some sanctuary city insanity
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit covers the latest threat from Antifa

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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Washington Post Very Concerned About A Potential Government Wide Questioning Of “Climate Science” Or Something

By William Teach July 2, 2017 – 8:31 am

This Washington Post article is less about ‘climate change’ than about shoddy journalism using zero named sources – they’re all anonymous – to have a conniption fit about the government questioning the “consensus” of climate science. But, hey, wait till we get the money quote

EPA chief pushing governmentwide effort to question climate change science

The Trump administration is debating whether to launch a governmentwide effort to question the science of climate change, an effort that critics say is an attempt to undermine the long-established consensus human activity is fueling the Earth’s rising temperatures.

The move, driven by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, has sparked a debate among top Trump administration officials over whether to pursue such a strategy.

A senior White House official, who asked for anonymity because no final decision has been made, said that while Pruitt has expressed interest in the idea, “there are no formal plans within the administration to do anything about it at this time.”

Consensus is not science, and the senior official is probably a cook for all we know.

But officials are discussing whether the initiative would stretch across numerous federal agencies that rely on such science, according to multiple Trump administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement has been made.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who once described the science behind human-caused climate change as a “contrived phony mess,” also is involved in the effort, two officials said.

Writers Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis throw in a few names in an attempt to make this all look legitimate, instead of a whisper campaign and journalism that looks more like something from a conspiracy theory website. We’ve already seen the huge number of articles that have turned out to be false or wrong. How do we trust something based 100% on anonymous sources?

Here’s the money quote

The idea, according to one senior administration official, is “to get other federal agencies involved in this exercise on the state of climate science” to examine “what we know, where there are holes, and what we actually don’t know.”

OH MY GOD!!!!!! They might do a scientific investigation into what we do and don’t know!!!!!!! Science doesn’t work this way!!!! Science is all about declaring a belief, manufacturing data to support it, and then saying the science is settled!!!! Don’t these people know that that is the Scientific Method? That science is never questioned? We’re doooooooomed!!!!! Because consensus science has never been proven wrong!!!!

A plethora of scientific assessments over the years have concluded that human activity — such as the burning of fossil fuels — is driving climate change, and it poses grave risks both to the environment and to human health. In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that it is “extremely likely” that, since the 1950s, humans and their greenhouse gas emissions have been the “dominant cause” of the planet’s warming trend.

And a plethora of assessments have stated that human activity is not the dominant cause. Everyone knew that frogs gave you warts, until someone did Science. Everyone knew that world was flat, until someone questioned the science. Cracking your knuckles doesn’t give you arthritis. Lightning does strike twice. Even Einstein has had his theories questioned, and even superceded. And Newtonian Gravity? Yes, that was questioned, and superceded by general relativity.

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NYC Subway As A Stand-in For Socialized Medicine

By William Teach July 1, 2017 – 2:57 pm

The same people who run the New York City transit system are the same ones who want to run America’s healthcare system

Closures, overcrowding, rats: New York City commuters face ‘summer of hell’
The city’s aging subway has been declared ‘a state of emergency’. Combined with closures on other rail lines, riders are bracing for the worst

There was a time – somewhere between the 1990s exorcism of violent crime from much of New York City and Thursday, when a “state of emergency” was declared for the city’s transit system – when a nightmare scenario on the subway meant a rat crawling up your leg, over your chest and nearly into your hoody.

That remains a vividly awful prospect. But in the summer of 2017, rats are competing with a ballooning number of alternative potential torments for commuters (the term is used optimistically) who venture into the city’s aging underground.

Dangerously overcrowded platforms. Chronically delayed trains. Terrifying and injurious derailments. Tunnel strandings. Signal malfunctions. Fisticuffs. Electrical outages. Garbled announcements. Knockout stenches. Non-rat wildlife. Stairs, shoulders, backups, backpacks, bad attitudes and bad breath.

A particularly unlucky group of rush hour F-train riders last month were stuck inside overheating train cars for so long that video of their desperate fingers prizing open fogged-up doors looked not so much like the scene from a commute as footage from a zombie movie.

Democratic Party control sounds great, especially when combined with a far, far left mayor high on being a Social Justice Warrior. Good ole Bill is more concerned with Other People being forced to comply with climate change BS and virtue signaling on the Paris Climate Agreement.

Then we look over the Atlantic, and see that parents were denied the ability to take their child out of the hospital and bring him to the U.S. for treatment, and now

Leftists love this stuff. Right up till it punches them in the face

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If All You See…

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

…is sunlight made stronger by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on a new German law on “hate speech.”

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NY Times Seems Pretty Upset That EPA Would Allow People With Other Views To Present Them

By William Teach July 1, 2017 – 8:14 am

Science in Liberal World is like everything else in Liberal World: one view allowed, no dissension allowed, Wrongthink must be shut down

E.P.A. to Give Dissenters a Voice on Climate, No Matter the Consensus

Once you’ve mentioned consensus, you’ve admitted this is not about science, but politics.

Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, plans to convene a team of researchers to test the scientific premise of human-caused climate change, he told coal industry executives on Thursday.

Speaking at a board meeting of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a lobbying group for coal companies and their industry allies, Mr. Pruitt said his staff had already begun preparations for a “red team-blue team” exercise to challenge mainstream climate science, according to two people who attended the meeting but were not authorized to speak about it publicly.

What’s the problem? Allowing different views sounds like good science, right? Oh, no, not in Warmist World

The initiative, first reported by E&E News, is the latest in a series of moves at the E.P.A. that critics say is undermining the role of academic research at the agency charged with protecting the nation’s environment and public health.

In other words, people who get a lot of research money in academia are upset that their highly partisan, cultish research might be undermined by actual science. They do not like that the different teams would provide and debate. They’re very concerned with the debate part

Many mainstream climate scientists say the proposal would make a mockery of scientific research, which already relies on an extensive process of peer review to weed out flawed analyses.

Those scientists worry that Mr. Pruitt’s exercise will not be conducted in good faith, and will only create a platform for marginal views that have already been disproved in the normal course of scientific debate.

And this is the problem in a nutshell for Warmists: they would have to actually prove their hypotheses and findings in a public forum against scientists who disagree. They’ve gotten used to being the only fish in the pond, and not truly having to prove what they say.

“The key will be to see who they get to staff the teams,” Dr. Dessler said. “I can’t imagine mainstream scientists rushing to sign up for a process which is clearly a waste of time. My guess is that, in the end, many of the participants will have dubious credentials.”

That is the key: will Warmist scientists be willing to debate and defend their Beliefs on anthropogenic climate change? For the most part, they have been unwilling to do so in a public forum. Most of the big time leading Warmists have been unwilling to debate. Because, on the few occasions they do, they lose badly.

The article is essentially saying that “the science is settled”, and no one should be allowed to debate. Why are Warmists so scared to put debate and defend?

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Some People Are Losing Their Minds Over GOP Immigration Bills

By William Teach July 1, 2017 – 7:19 am

What is so wrong with trying to control who is entering the United States, and attempting to make sure they are doing it legally? What is wrong with attempting to make sure that jurisdictions are not intentionally sheltering people who are unlawfully present? Most other countries do this. Let’s start off with Scott Shackford at libertarian leaning Reason

GOP Pushes Bad, Punitive Anti-Federalist Immigration Bills Through the House

House Republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor of two bad immigration-focused bills yesterday that potentially punish those in the United States illegally with new harsh prison sentences and attempts to push cities into helping federal authorities deport people.

I’m failing to see the problem.

The first bill, popularly known as “Kate’s Law,” adds new criminal penalties and federal prison sentences to any immigrant who returns to the United States after being deported for criminal behavior. But it also threatens up to 10 years in federal prison for illegal immigrants who repeatedly return to the United States after being deported, even if they’ve committed no other crimes. It also forbids the immigrant from challenging the legitimacy of any prior removal orders.

The great thing about Kate’s Law is that it is really meant to deter illegal alien absconders from recrossing the border. We don’t want to actually throw them in jail unless the illegals force the issue. We’d rather they not come back. Shackford spends little time in trying to say bad things about a law named after a woman murdered by an illegal alien who had recrossed the border after being deported 5 times. He’s not that brave.

But, he does spend a lot of time whining about the No Sanctuary For Criminals Act, especially since Rep. Justin Amash whiningly voted against it, along with Kate’s Law.

What the “No Sanctuary for Criminals Act” does is forbid municipalities from stopping local law enforcement officials from helping federal immigration officials by complying with detainer orders. In areas of immigration enforcement, it overrules the ability of cities to control the behavior of their own law enforcement officers.

And that’s part of the “anti-federalist” argument. However, Los Federales are tasked by the Constitution with enforcing immigration. Are local officers allowed to ignored a kidnapper from another state because federal law enforcement wants them caught and demands they be held? All ICE asks is that an illegal alien be held for 48 hours. That’s it. If they do not pick the illegal up, they can be released. The problem is ICE’s at that point.

These bills represent attacks on immigrants that aren’t backed up by data. There is little evidence that illegal immigrants are a source of crime that justifies new, harsher federal criminal penalties and the data suggests otherwise. Furthermore, it’s utterly inappropriate for the federal government to try to overrule a state or city’s control over its own law enforcement officers.

Not in this case. Some on the Right who support illegals go through just as many contortions as those on the Left.

Not to be outdone, Cleveland.com runs an op-ed by Kok-Leong Seow, pithily entitled And then they came for me. He forgets to mention that his parents brought him to the country when they came here unlawfully. But, he thinks all these dealing with illegal aliens is totally like the book 1984, and then dives down an Insanity Hole

It’s that dramatic. It’s happening. It’s history repeating itself.

We are a country of laws. But law does not equal morality. The world has a history of implementing and enforcing laws that aren’t just. North Koreans are executed for having a different opinion than the regime. Blacks were counted as 60 percent of a person. Cherokee people were forced to Oklahoma. Japanese were put in internment camps. Jews were gassed in chambers. Stalin starved all of Ukraine. There are many more examples. All were part of law. All seemed justified at the time. But all were regrettable and shameful events in history.

You read that right. This illegal alien presumes to dictate the immigration laws of the United States because he and his family came illegally, and then compares enforcing existing law with the mass murder of Jews. Are we supposed to take this seriously at this point? Then end point of these pieces, along with many others, is that they want the enforcement to stop and amnesty to occur. Surprise?

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Surprise: Warmists “Correct” Satellite Data To Accord With Their Beliefs

By William Teach June 30, 2017 – 3:00 pm

For a long time now, there has a been a massive discrepancy between the satellite data and Warmist models and “ground data”. Well, obviously, that was a big issue for the Cult of Climastrology. So they did what they do best: modify the data

Climate change sceptics suffer blow as satellite data correction shows 140% faster global warming

Climate change deniers and sceptics have long pointed to satellite data showing lower temperatures than those recorded on the ground.

However, new research has found an explanation for this apparent discrepancy.

The orbit of satellites around the Earth gradually decays over time due to friction in the Earth’s atmosphere and this gradually changes the time they pass over any one spot and this obviously has a significant effect on the temperature.

Using information from the satellites, the scientists, Dr Carl Mears and Frank Wentz, of Remote Sensing Systems, a California-based research company, developed a new method of correcting for the changes.

Obviously, they found something startling

And what they found was startling.

The rate of warming was about a third higher at 0.174 degrees Celsius per decade between 1976 and 2016, compared to 0.134C per decade.

Is anyone surprised that massaging and adjusting the data with a “new method” suddenly gave them not only an outcome that accords with the Warmist’s talking points, but is even worse than thought?

Writing in the Journal of Climate, the scientists said: “The changes result in global-scale warming … about 30 per cent larger than our previous version of the dataset.

Of course it did.

BTW, this still wouldn’t prove that the warming is mostly/solely caused by Mankind.

Oh, and I wrote this in the morning for posting in the p.m., ran across this

https://twitter.com/SteveSGoddard/status/880756744447774720

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 30, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that has risen because evil people kill trees to read books, you might juts be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on the battle between Marie Bartiroma and John Podesta over his Russia links.

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