Climate Science Scammers Are Totally Fighting Back Against Trump Or Something

By William Teach April 18, 2017 – 10:30 am

In the runnup to the big climate march in D.C. on the 24th, which has already turned into a massive hotbed of typically Leftist memes, along with infighting about things such as “is Bill Nye the Science Guy too White?”, you can expect many more screes such as this from Union Of Concerned Scientists’ president Kenneth Kimmell

Why scientists are fighting back. We’ve had enough of Trump’s war on facts

Next Saturday, in Washington, DC, and in hundreds of rallies around the world, scientists and their supporters will stage what is likely to be the largest gathering of its kind in history. The March for Science, an idea hatched by a few enthusiastic people on Reddit, has mobilised scientists and their supporters as never before.

As a colleague observed: “You know you’re in trouble when scientists take to the streets.” He’s right. I’ve worked closely with scientists for decades and, by training and temperament, they tend to be happiest in the lab, testing and retesting experiment results – among the last groups of people you might expect to find protesting.

So, why are they grabbing placards now? Because an unprecedented attack on science, scientists and evidence-based policymaking is underway in the US federal government.

Because Trump is pulling their taxpayer sponsored funding for their failed and highly political research. That’s why.

Nowhere is the attack more ferocious than on the issue of global warming, where the Trump administration has taken a wrecking ball to the modest but important policies put in place by President Obama. First among them is the Obama administration’s signature Clean Power Plan, the nation’s first-ever limit on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, which Trump has vowed to repeal.He has also pledged to “reopen” (which could well mean “weaken”) hard-won vehicle fuel economy standards that have already begun lowering carbon emissions and oil consumption. Meanwhile, in a tragic example of wilful blindness, Trump has abolished a rule requiring federal agencies to consider how large federal projects affect climate change and how climate impacts, such as sea level rises and drought, might affect the long-term viability of the projects themselves. This is akin to erecting a building on a fault zone without considering earthquakes.

Obama, huh?

https://twitter.com/Carlos_S01/status/854101883518156800

My organisation, the Union of Concerned Scientists, with its more than 500,000 members and supporters, has joined with allies from the climate, environmental justice and labour movements to help organise both the March for Science and the People’s Climate March.

As the demonstrations are likely to show, an enormous number of people understand what is stake. The greatest attack on science in memory may wind up spurring the greatest mobilisation of scientists, and allies far and wide, we have ever seen.

Which leads to this from the official Twitter of the climateScam march

And that article is all about purchasing climate offsets, a nice little scam that allows members of the Cult of Climastrology to not practice what they preach.

Because walking the talk would be inconvenient, and, of course, this all has nothing to do with science.

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Bummer: Arrests Of Illegal Aliens With No Criminal Records Doubles Under Trump

By William Teach April 18, 2017 – 7:56 am

According to Merriam-Webster

Illegal – not according to or authorized by law : unlawful, illicit;

According to the Washington Post

Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit of not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands of illegal immigrants who have been otherwise law-abiding.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 21,362 immigrants, mostly convicted criminals, from January through mid-March, compared to 16,104 during the same period last year, according to statistics requested by The Washington Post.

Arrests of immigrants with no criminal records more than doubled to 5,441, the clearest sign yet that President Trump has ditched his predecessor’s protective stance toward most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Otherwise law abiding, except for the part of being in the United States against the law.

Advocates for immigrants say the unbridled enforcement has led to a sharp drop in reports from Latinos of sexual assaults and other crimes in Houston and Los Angeles, and terrified immigrant communities across the United States. A prosecutor said the presence of immigration agents in state and local courthouses, which advocates say has increased under the Trump administration, makes it harder to prosecute crime.

And well they should be terrified, as they are unlawfully present. They are not authorized by law to be here. People engaged in breaking the law should be fearful.

“My sense is that ICE is emboldened in a way that I have never seen,” Dan Satterberg, the top prosecutor in Washington state’s King County, which includes Seattle, said Thursday. “The federal government, in really just a couple of months, has undone decades of work that we have done to build this trust.”

And right there is a major problem: a duly sworn member of the Justice system, tasked with upholding and enforcing The Law, is ignoring the law in order to coddle illegal aliens. Heck, King County has authorized the use of $750,000 in taxpayer money that was left-over from 2016 to help protect illegal aliens.

In January, he issued executive orders that made all undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation. In February, Trump’s press secretary said the “shackles” were off immigration and border agents, whose unions backed Trump in the election.

“I think the instruction is, ‘Go about your business in terms of apprehending immigrants,” said Joanne Lin, senior legislative counsel with the ACLU. “It’s wherever they can find them.”

Well, yes, that is the job of ICE, and federal government, to catch and deport anyone who is unlawfully present in the U.S. Why is that so hard to understand?

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Trump’s Juggling The Foreign Policy Balls Obama Dropped

By William Teach April 18, 2017 – 7:34 am

If you’ll remember back to 2009-2012, Barack Obama spent quite a bit of time Blaming Bush on a constant basis, for which the rest of the Democrats and their compliant media cheerily agreed, and helped propagate. Interestingly, the same media mostly fails to note all the problems left behind by Mr. Obama, ones he created

Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped

The Trump administration is taking heat for striking a Syrian air base with Tomahawk missiles and hitting ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan with a MOAB, a conventional bomb so big that it has been dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs.” No doubt there are useful debates to be had about the pros and cons, both tactical and juridical. But one sure upside of these strikes is that they are a step toward restoring abroad the credibility of America as a power to be reckoned with.

That’s big, in ways that go way beyond the immediate battlefields. In a world grown dramatically more dangerous during President Obama’s eight years of appeasement and retreat, America badly and urgently needs to restore its lost credibility.

It would be great if diplomats could protect America, its allies and its interests with words alone. But in matters involving aggressive tyrannies, words don’t mean much unless they are backed up by military muscle and the credible willingness to use force. When that threat goes missing, predators take notice.

What? You mean a strongly worded letter, a reset button, and hashtags with signs and sad faces do not work? Huh.

It’s also clear that when America backs down, the threats tend to compound. Predatory regimes tend to do business together, observe each other and learn from each other. When Russia snatches turf from a neighbor and gets away with it, that sends a message to China.

Beijing, with its interest in building artificial islands topped with military bases in the South China Sea, can see that it’s open season in Asia for accelerating such territorial grabs. When North Korea conducts an illicit nuclear test and gets away with it, we can reasonably assume that Iran takes note.

For the world’s most dangerously ambitious and threatening tyrannies — from Russia to China, from North Korea to Iran — Obama’s neutering of American power over the past eight years created a host of opportunities that they eagerly seized. The sorry truth, given the character of these regimes, is that they would have been fools not to.

We had the failed “red lines”, strikes that would be “unbelievably small” that never happened, outsourcing the protection of Syrian civilians to Russia, blowing off the Arab Spring and Green Uprising in Iran, crafting a deal that will see Iran flush with cash and able to restart its quest for nuclear weapons in around 10 years, blowing off Poland on missile defense, Russia taking Crimea, calling ISIS the JV team, and so much more.

All this is part of the Obama legacy: the rising global agglomerate of emboldened tyrannies, with which Trump must now deal. Call it the Axis of Opportunism. To this scene, we must also factor in the jihadi non-state outfits which over the past eight years have made the most of the vacuums created by Obama’s various retreats. These include al Qaeda and the Taliban, both still going concerns; ISIS, which thrived when Obama withdrew U.S. troops from Iraq and for too long dismissed the dangers; and the terrorist-infested misery of today’s Libya, where Obama led from behind.

This is all left to President Trump. What does he do? Coddling and hashtags while leading from behind sure hasn’t worked. Does belligerence and strength work? Will Trump enforce “peace through strength”? Time will tell.

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Good Grief: U of Wisconsin-Madison To Have Free Tampons In Men’s Bathrooms

By William Teach April 17, 2017 – 6:23 pm

Social Justice Warrioring on steroids (or, should that be estrogen?)

(College Fix) The University of Wisconsin-Madison is rolling out a new pilot program to provide free menstrual products in several of its campus bathrooms — including some men’s restrooms.

The public university will offer the women’s hygiene products in three campus buildings. In two of them, Helen C. White and Sterling halls, the products will be available in all of the women’s restrooms, said Steve Wagner, a spokesman for the school, in an email to The College Fix.

But in a third venue, the Red Gym, the products will be available in all of the building’s bathrooms, he said.

Asked why women’s hygiene products are needed inside men’s bathrooms, Wagner said: “Menstrual products will be available in all of the bathrooms of the Red Gym so that they are available to any student who might need them.”

Can you guess what’s coming?

It appears the products are needed in men’s bathrooms to benefit transgender males (biological women who identify as male).

Sigh. Oh, and they were originally called “women’s hygiene products” in the Badger Herald, which then clarified with an update to calling them “menstrual products.” Refer back to John Cusack.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 17, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil dog sucking up Earth’s resources and cause sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on how Chicago celebrated Easter.

It’s yoga pants week.

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Good News: We Have Just 10 Years To Save The Planet From ‘Climate Change’ (Again)

By William Teach April 17, 2017 – 10:17 am

Because all the other time frames to save Gaia from minuscule increases Warmists say is caused by Mankind’s output of carbon pollution have failed (along with all their other predictions), it’s time for another

(Breitbart) In the latest in radical climate doomsaying, a new report warns that fossil fuel consumption will need to be reduced “below a quarter of primary energy supply by 2100” to avoid possibly disastrous effects on global temperatures.

In their report, titled “Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks,” a team of eight scientists warns that “anthropogenic emissions need to peak within the next 10 years, to maintain realistic pathways to meeting the COP21 emissions and warming targets.”

The statement was immediately repackaged by environmentalists to read: “Scientists say we have ten years to save the earth.”

As is always the case in studies of this sort, the scientists juggle dozens of variables, none of which is entirely predictable and which taken together tell us virtually nothing about the future of the environment.

Doesn’t matter. Warmists have their marching orders, irregardless of all the previous failed prognostications of doom in 10 years (there are plenty more to list), doom in 500 days, the Arctic is doomed in this year and that year and the other year, and so forth. Heck, some say we don’t even have 10 years till humans are extinct from AGW.

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Bummer: Fear Is Making Illegals Disappear From The Border

By William Teach April 17, 2017 – 7:15 am

It’s apparently very horrible, according to Daily Beast writer Betsy Woodruff, that illegals have disappeared from border town shelters

Fear of Trump Makes Migrants Disappear From Mexican Border

In the 35 years Gilda and Juan Francisco Loureiro have been running a shelter in northern Mexico for undocumented immigrants, they’ve never seen a week like this one.

The shelter, called Albergue San Juan Bosco, is perched on a steep hillside looking over the busy border town of Nogales, Mexico. Its walls are painted bright turquoise and tangerine, and its wide-open double doors look west over low hills and Highway 15. Since they opened it, upward of 1 million people have slept there on their way to the U.S. But on the day I visited, it was almost empty.

It didn’t used to be this way, Gilda and Juan Francisco, known as Paco, explained. In the decades since they opened the space to give migrants a place to shower and sleep before crossing the border, the shelter—with separate rooms full of bunkbeds for men and women—would regularly house 100 migrants per night. Sometimes, that number would hit 300 or more, and Gilda and Paco would pull out thin mattresses to fit everyone on the floor.

Right now it’s almost empty. No illegals looking to make their way to Los Estados Unidos. Why?

They can only think of one explanation: President Donald Trump.

Trump hasn’t yet made good on his bombastic campaign trail promises. The wall is still just a twinkle in his eye, and the deportation force hiring sprees haven’t happened yet. ICE agents have conducted raids targeting undocumented immigrants, but they aren’t actually that different in scale from raids that happened during the early years of the Obama administration.

But the symbolism of Trump in the Oval Office and the threat of extended detention has already deterred many migrants. Migrants are scared, explained Jose, a young Honduran man staying at the San Bosco shelter in hopes of getting to the U.S. They might be less scared in the future, he said, but for now they’re waiting.

Most of those “migrants” are people who would become illegal aliens, people who are unlawfully present, the minute they cross the border. Now, the flow has turned into a trickle.

Williams said she expects the number of migrants crossing the border to go back up because Trump hasn’t changed the structural realities that drive migration: He hasn’t made southern Mexico any less poor and violent, and he hasn’t made the cartels any weaker. The changes in the last month are significant, she said, but temporary.

So, it’s now Trump’s Fault that many parts of Mexico are horrible, and he’s supposed to Do Something about it? Please. The thing is, they aren’t just coming from Mexico, so, as long as the crackdowns continue, and the media is willing to continue telling future illegals that they should be super fearful, the flow will stay low.

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NY Times Editorial Board Really Wants President Trump To Stop Being Mean To North Korea

By William Teach April 17, 2017 – 6:58 am

On the “straight” news pages, the NY Times has called the North Korea situation a “slow motion Cuban missile crisis.” On the opinion pages, the Editorial Board almost seems to be taking North Korea’s side in order to Bash Trump, their favorite game

President Trump’s Loose Talk on North Korea

As a candidate, Donald Trump seemed to pay no more attention to North Korea’s accelerating nuclear weapons program, which his predecessor has warned is America’s most urgent threat,…

Actually, Obama said that ‘climate change’ was America’s, and the world’s, most urgent issue. But, in all due respect, Obama had the right idea in mostly ignoring North Korea’s, or, to be specific, Kim Jong-un’s, provocations. Typically, when the North Korean leaders became frisky and bombastic, the United States, the U.N., and other nations gave them stuff. Like when Bill Clinton gave them a nuclear reactor. Of course, NK tested lots of nuclear bombs and long range missiles during Obama’s time. But, they would anyhow. Obama didn’t give them anything for those provocations.

…than he did to other complex foreign policy issues. Now he is paying attention, but not in a helpful way. His intemperate talk is adding to regional tensions, unnerving allies and likely reinforcing North Korea’s longstanding fear that it could one day be attacked by America — the very reason North Korea invested in a nuclear arsenal in the first place.

It would be risky for Mr. Trump to let overconfidence and bombast, expressed in tweets and public statements, box him into some kind of showdown with the North’s ruthless leader, Kim Jong-un, who has displayed similarly macho traits. South Korea, Japan and even Russia have urged both sides to avoid a devastating miscalculation.

It almost seems as if the NYTEB is taking North Korea’s side, does it not? But, um, wait, how did this get in the editorial

The North will almost certainly test another nuclear device in the future. But pressure from China, the North’s main ally and trading partner, which itself is under pressure from Mr. Trump, may have helped persuade Pyongyang to postpone that nuclear test for now.

So, wait, Trump’s bombast and hard talk (remember the Cuban missile crisis article? Guess who else was talking tough as that occurred?) has made a difference? Huh.

What’s missing in the White House is a coherent strategy, something beyond statements and asking China for help. Mr. Trump needs to be firm, not reckless in his talk, ratchet up sanctions and find a way to engage the North in negotiations. Peace and security in Asia, as well as the relationship between Washington and Beijing, depend heavily on whether Mr. Trump and President Xi Jinping of China can together manage the North Korean threat.

Well, no one has really managed the NK threat as of this time. You look at the timeline regarding NK’s missile and nuclear diplomacy, and you see a rogue nation which continuously ramps up the provocations. How have all the sanctions since 1992 worked out? How about all the negotiations?

Crazy nut jobs like Kim Jong-un are going to do what they do. Perhaps Mr. Trump’s threats, tough talk, and bombast will succeed where others have failed, because he’s trying to get China to Do Something. As a client state of China, NK might actually listen. But, then, it might not. Who knows. What we do know is that the leftist media prefers to slam Mr. Trump rather than Kim Jong-un.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 16, 2017 – 9:13 am

Happy Easter Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and it’s a day to celebrate His rising. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline notes North Korea’s failure to launch
  2. Independent Sentinel notes Obama’s best buddy Iran getting frisky on ICBMs
  3. Victory Girls Blog has Katy Perry being traumatized by Trump’s election
  4. This ain’t Hell… notes Chris Christie doing something great for a veteran
  5. The Right Scoop covers an ethics complaint filed against Rep Adam Schiff (D)
  6. The Lid discusses Maxine Water’s bid to be the most corrupt member of Congress
  7. The Last Refuge covers Trump re-aligning geo-political alliances
  8. The Daley Gator discusses more nuclear grade stupidity
  9. Raised On Hoecakes covers the Rise of Christ
  10. Outside The Beltway discusses impeachment fantasies
  11. Noisy Room covers Democrats bowling for abortions
  12. Neo-neocon notes the power of Trumphobia
  13. MOTUS A.D. discusses the notion that sometimes it’s you
  14. Moonbattery has a quickie on the dumbest thing seen all day
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection notes the latest thing that is considered sexist

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. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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Happy Easter: Say, Were Trump Voters Tricked By Satan Or Something?

By William Teach April 16, 2017 – 7:59 am

Deep, important thoughts from the Huffington Post as they practice being part of The Resistance, using the occasion of Easter to blast not just Mr. Trump, but the people who voted for him, allowing Social Studies educator, Alan Singer, to go hog wild (hogs are bad for global warming, of course)

“Easter Sermon”: Were Trump Voters Tricked by Satan?

According to Election Day exit polls, 81% of white evangelical Protestants and 60% of whites that identify as Roman Catholic voted for Donald Trump. This “Easter Sermon” quotes Scripture and addresses what I believe are inconsistencies between Christian values and the way many White Christians voted in the last election. People who follow my blog know I am not a believer, but I am a scholar familiar with the Bible. Read what I have to say and consider the message. No insult to believers is intended.

So, an atheist is going to explain scripture?

Matthew 4:1 tells us that after he was baptized Jesus went into the wilderness where he fasted for forty day and forty nights and was tempted by Satan. Matthew tells us that Jesus was strong and stood up to the devil’s challenges. But we are mere men and women, and the forty days and forty nights in the wilderness, forty days and forty nights of trials and tribulations, unemployment, bad employment, low wages, runaway jobs, hungry children, mortgage payments, and little hope for the future, weakened our bodies and souls, and we were tempted, and we listened to Satan. Satan promised things that never were and never can be, and too many of us, weakened, were willing to believe. And we were tricked. And Satan’s agents rose to the seat of power. And the forty days and the forty nights will expand and grow darker and there will be a pale over this land and every land.

In Galilee Jesus preached that blessed are the poor, the meek who shall inherit the earth; they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: the merciful; the pure in heart; the peacemakers; and they that have been persecuted for they are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. The candidate many White Christians voted for does not express these values. Donald Trump does not live these values.

Donald Trump ignores the poor, scorns the meek, deports the hungry and thirsty, bans the persecuted, has never been pure in heart, and threatens war. He is an extremely wealthy man with a history of self-promotion and cheating and mistreating others – certainly not the salt of the earth or the light of the world.

In case Mr. Singer forgets, Hillary Clinton is pretty darned rich, too. She wholeheartedly supports abortion on demand with no restrictions. She ignored the plight of people in the Middle East when they attempted to rise up in the Arab Spring, and, particularly, those in Iran with the Green Uprising. She called Bashar Assad a reformer. Where’s that led Syria? She helped create the conditions which led to the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, and has turned Libya into a hellhole of radical Islamists. She made plenty of money off the backs of the poor in Haiti, leaving them to suffer. She supports gay marriage, not exactly Bible friendly. This line of thought could continue for quite some time, but, of course, let’s remember that Hillary didn’t get the religious vote except for certain groups. This all matters little to Lefties, because the idea is to assault Trump and his supporters. Trump may not be the greatest, but, he’s better than Hillary.

Matthew 21:12 tells us that Jesus entered into the “temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves; and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.”

This is about telling us that the Trump admin is a den of robbers, really rich ones, as Mr. Singer continues on. Of course, this sorta misses the mark, since government is not a house of prayer.

The Bible says “And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.” But the new Pontius Pilate and Satan’s agents want to end public support for health care.

So, I guess Trump is Pontius Pilate. Good grief.

In the Old Testament Book of Exodus, Pharaoh followed Satan and refused to obey the God of Moses. Plagues befell the land of Egypt. Blood, Frogs, Vermin, Wild Animals, Pestilence, Boils, Hail, Locust, Darkness, and Death of Egypt’s first-born sons. Today we face new plagues but they are equally terrifying. Climate change, raising oceans, powerful storms, drought, famine, nuclear war. The human race is at risk if righteous people follow Donald Trump.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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