Defunding Planned Parenthood Would Lead To More Births Or Something

By William Teach March 14, 2017 – 7:19 am

Apparently, the primary things Planned Parenthood does is provide abortions and contraception to people who refuse to pay for their own in order to have irresponsible sex

Defunding Planned Parenthood could lead to thousands more births, CBO projects

A congressional plan to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal funding would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births, according to a new federal budget analysis.

The prediction came Monday as part of a much-awaited analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which assesses the fiscal impact of major legislative bills. It was part of a more sweeping look at a congressional health care bill that would repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare.

The analysts estimated that excluding the women’s health organization from the Medicaid program for one year, as congressional Republicans have proposed, would particularly affect low-income areas and communities without many health care options, leaving 15 percent of those people “without services that help women avert pregnancy.”

If only there was somewhere else someone could purchase contraceptives other than Planned Parenthood. Perhaps the bill should change the law so that places like pharmacies would be allowed to provide contraception. Maybe the new legislation would allow condoms to be sold in bathrooms and handed out in schools. Too early for that amount of sarcasm?

As for the plan overall

(Washington Post) House Republicans’ proposal to rewrite federal health-care law would more than reverse the gains the Affordable Care Act has made in the number of Americans with health insurance, while curbing the federal deficit, according to a widely anticipated forecast by congressional analysts.

The analysis, released late Monday afternoon by the Congressional Budget Office, predicts that 24 million fewer people would have coverage a decade from now than if the Affordable Care Act remains intact, nearly doubling the share of Americans who are uninsured from 10 percent to 19 percent. The office projects the number of uninsured people would jump 14 million after the first year.

But the GOP legislation, which has been speeding through House committees since it was introduced a week ago, would lower the deficit by $337 billion during that time, primarily by lessening spending on Medicaid and government aid for people buying health plans on their own.

The report predicted that premiums would be 15 percent to 20 percent higher in the first year compared with those under the Affordable Care Act but 10 percent lower on average after 2026. By and large, older Americans would pay “substantially” more and younger Americans less.

The problem with this repeal and “replace” bill is that it doesn’t include any of the follow up measures people like President Trump and Rep. Paul Ryan have promised. It was crafted in a manner that would allow it to be passed through budget reconciliation. Apparently, for some reason, it is impossible to repeal Obamacare in the same manner it was passed, through reconciliation. And a full repeal is what we were promised. It’s what the GOP ran on since 2010.

Any follow up bill would (hopefully) create a pathway where it was easier and less expensive to purchase health insurance. But, that can’t be scored, because those bills have not been released.

Personally, I’m not real sad that this bill is looking bad. Go back to the drawing board, find a way to do full repeal, and have a replacement plan that works. There are plenty floating around.

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Unshockingly, Winter Storm Stella Is Man-Caused Global Warming

By William Teach March 14, 2017 – 6:57 am

With any type of event, especially weather, what you end up with is a few smatterings, a few rumbles, linking the event to Hotcoldwetdry. There were a few tweets, many which screeched curse words at Donald Trump for not being a Warmist, and then boom! Tons of them starting Monday. And, then we get the articles fables

(Daily Caller) Winter Storm Stella hasn’t even struck the northeastern U.S., but that hasn’t stopped at least one media pundit from linking the storm to man-made global warming.

Stella is expected to bring up to 2 feet of snow to New York City and Boston through Tuesday. Washington, D.C., and Baltimore are expected to get between 8 and 10 inches of snow, no doubt sending the region into “Mad Max”-style anarchy.

By any measure, Stella looks like a big storm, but the only certainty about the storm is it, like pretty much every other extreme weather event, will be linked to global warming.

Climatologist and environmental writer Eric Holthaus couldn’t help himself. He had to link the storm to man-made global warming in a Daily Beast article. Holthaus wrote that “[t]wo studies published last year argue that climate change may be making the ingredients for big East Coast snowstorms more likely.” (snip)

Holthaus didn’t stop with one article on the subject. He wrote a second post for the blog Grist, arguing: “We’re not just getting freak weather anymore. We’re getting freak seasons.”

Of course he did. A nice guy, from my interactions with him on Twitter, but, deluded. Both those fables are repeated, as I’m finding, around the news media, such as here. He’s not the only one, as you may well know

Winter Storm Stella’s ‘ingredients’ linked to global warming, says climate change expert

“Extreme weather is the new normal,” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday while making emergency announcements ahead of the storm.

While March snow is not unheard of, aspects of this storm are suggestive of erratic weather patterns that have arisen in recent years, said NASA climate scientist and Columbia University researcher Justin Mankin.

“One of our expectations of global warming is an average decrease in snow, but also an increase in snowfall extremes,” he said.

“There is a robust expectation of increased extreme weather events. Increasingly the climate science community has been able to attribute the risk of occurrence of those weather extremes to global warming.”

Writer Amanda Mikelberg never bothered doing that whole Journalism thing and ask other scientists, because that wouldn’t serve the Narrative.

Then we have Anna Swartz telling us that snow not only doesn’t disprove AGW, but is caused by AGW. Slate says it’s not necessarily caused or linked to ‘climate change’, but, then goes on to say it’s ‘climate change.’ And plenty more. As Roy Spencer writes

The Nor’easter and cold temperatures will be blamed on the same climate change that caused the unusual warmth over the eastern U.S. over the past couple months.

Global warming theory is in fact so malleable that it predicts anything. More cold, less cold. More snow, less snow.

What a powerful theory.

And what’s even more amazing is that climate change can be averted by just increasing your taxes.

He should have used my terminology, as in “can be averted with Everyone Else’s taxes.”

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North Carolina Lawmaker Looks To Investigate NCAA, ACC Over HB2

By William Teach March 13, 2017 – 4:30 pm

Hmm, now, this is an interesting turn of events. Let’s not forget that the NCAA, like many, many companies, held tournaments in Houston, Tx, which has a similar bill for the city when it comes to the gender confused. Let’s also not forget that the NCAA, ACC, and all sorts of companies, for all their caterwauling, refused to have their own policies which would allow the gender confused to use whichever bathroom they want at venues and offices. Consider, if you were at the ACC finals, and went into the opposite gender bathroom and got caught, you could be arrested and fined. This goes for every NCAA venue to be used during March Madness. If they cared so much, why not use cities like San Francisco and New York City, which have ordinances about letting the gender confused legally invade the privacy of the opposite biological gender? Anyhow

(WNCN) On Selection Sunday, a North Carolina lawmaker announced his plans to file a bill aimed at the NCAA and the ACC.

Representative Mark Brody (R-Monroe) wants to investigate if the two organizations violated their tax-exempt status by engaging in political or lobbying activities. This bill comes after the two organizations moved championship games from North Carolina because of House Bill 2.

In a Facebook post he wrote

There comes a time when the citizens of North Carolina need to stand up and say “Enough of this foolishness”!
Monday I will file the Athletic Association Accountability Act. It is an act to determine whether the NCAA and the ACC have violated their Tax-Exempt status by engaging in political or lobbying activities.
Specifically, the NCAA and the ACC have allegedly engaged in excessive lobbying activities that exceeded their respective charters by using economic retaliation against NC for the purpose of forcing the General Assembly to adopt social legislation that is not connected to their core mission.
I believe the NCAA and the ACC have stepped out of bounds and, to the best of my ability, will never allow the General Assembly to relinquish its legislative authority over the internal affairs of the State or succumb to economic extortion to and from either the NCAA or the ACC.

Get the popcorn!

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Trump Should Be Afraid Of These Climate Change Kids Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2017 – 2:43 pm

A recent meme among Warmists over the past week is the notion that Donald Trump is going to have to deal with a lawsuit filed by a bunch of kids (meaning, of course, by interest groups using the kids as props) on Hotcoldwetdry, and it is a loopy lawsuit, proving that schools are unable to teach our founding documents properly

The Trump administration really doesn’t want to face these kids on climate change

A showdown is brewing in the U.S. courts, one that pits young Americans against President Donald Trump and the fossil fuel industry.

Central to the fight is a lawsuit that accuses the federal government and energy companies of failing to adequately address human-caused global warming. A group of 21 citizens, ages 9 to 20, claim that failure violates their “constitutional rights to life, liberty and property.”

Now Trump and fossil fuel defendants want the case to go away.

Can someone please show me that right in the Constitution? And, they aren’t even getting the Declaration of Independence correct. Are these kids suddenly worried about property rights? Strange. Liberals are usually against that.

Anyhow, of course Team Trump wants this to go away. They see no merit in the case.

The lawsuit initially targeted former President Barack Obama who, for all his efforts to tackle climate change, still couldn’t shake the nation’s dependence on oil, coal and natural gas. Now Trump has inherited the lawsuit. But unlike Obama, Trump says he doesn’t believe climate change is a threat. His EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, is working to dismantle the climate policies that Obama put in place.

Not mentioned is that Team Obama attempted to have the case dismissed, as well.

Say, I wonder how much fossil fuel has been used to get this suit going and keep it going?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 13, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on a disastrous Trumpcare promise.

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Fewer Illegal Aliens Could Mean Fewer Homes Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2017 – 8:41 am

Once again, the Credentialed Media has conflated legal immigrants and migrant workers with those who are unlawfully present

Fewer immigrants could mean fewer new homes

For Stephan Sardone, owner of a Dallas-based home remodeling company, “a day without immigrants” last month meant a day without one of his subcontractors on a job in the city’s affluent Preston Hollow neighborhood.

Every one of the subcontractor’s employees skipped work on Feb. 16 to take part in an informal nationwide strike designed to highlight the importance of foreign-born workers to the U.S. economy and protest President Trump’s immigration agenda. The strike caused a minor inconvenience for Sardone, but its message certainly wasn’t lost on him.

Perhaps that subcontractor should be investigated for potentially employing illegal aliens.

That’s because homebuilders, remodelers and subcontractors rely heavily on foreign-born workers and are already coping with a long-running labor shortage. The lack of labor has depressed construction levels throughout the housing recovery, contributing to an imbalance between supply and demand for homes and thus driving up prices.

Well, gee, there are millions of Americans out of work. They could certainly do the job, could they not?

Tighter controls on immigration, whether legal or illegal, under President Trump may only exacerbate the homebuilding industry’s labor shortfall.

But, Trump is not talking about legals: he’s talking about illegals.

Foreign-born workers represent nearly 30 percent of those employed in construction trades, according to a study by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) that analyzed Census data. The share of immigrants is particularly high in some trades that are crucial to homebuilding (such as carpentry, painting and drywall installation) and don’t require much formal training.

It’s an open secret that many unauthorized immigrants work in the construction industry. While they represented a 5 percent share of the U.S. civilian labor force in 2014, they made up about 13 percent of workers in the construction sector that year, according to a Pew Research Center study. In a ranking of industries with high shares of unauthorized immigrant workers, agriculture came in first, followed by construction.

Those are disturbing stats: 5% of the civilian workforce and 13% of those in the construction sector are unlawfully present and taking jobs away from legal citizens and those who are here on visas. Much of the rest of the article does its best to mix legal with illegal immigration.

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Democrats Dive Into Conspiracy Theory Over Firing Of Preet Bharara

By William Teach March 13, 2017 – 8:19 am

As you’re well aware, Democrats have become rather unhinged at Trump’s request that the remaining 40+ federal prosecutors resign, even though this is something presidents do, because these prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the president. Clinton asked them all to resign early on, as did Obama. There was no outcry from the Democrats or the media. Of course, they had hissy fits when George W. Bush asked for resignations, because hypocrisy.

Preet Bharara refused to resign, which supposedly forced Trump to fire him. While Trump was well within his rights to make this move, I do believe it was a mistake, because Bharara was damned good at his job, and was willing to go after everyone, regardless of party, and, because his sector was New York, he was nailing corrupt Democrats left and right. As is the norm, Democrats are jumping into conspiracy theories. The first is to “question the timing.” Many Leftists are going down this route. Mika on Morning Joe threw this out there around 730 this morning.

Then we have this crazy Democrat

(The Hill) Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said there could be a connection between the firing of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and investigations into President Trump.

During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Cummings, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, said the president has the right to fire U.S. attorneys.

But he noted that not very long ago, the president said he was willing to “keep the U.S. attorney there in New York.”

“And then suddenly, he’s, I guess, changed his mind,” Cummings said.

“I’m just curious as to why that is, and certainly there’s a lot of questions coming up as to whether … President Trump is concerned about the jurisdiction of this U.S. attorney and whether that might affect his future,” he continued. (snip)

“So I think that in part, the president has created this situation for himself. But yeah, sure, no doubt about it, when they asked about the Emoluments Clause and possible violations of it and the U.S. attorney’s relationship to that, I think that had perhaps something to do with.”

When pressed further on whether he thinks there might be a connection, Cummings said: “There very well may be.”

Just imagine the media response had a Republican questioned Obama in this manner for firing someone. They would have circled the wagons and attacked the Republican for trotting out unfounded conspiracy theories, and demanded proof. But, then, the media have mostly not demanded any evidence on the Russia claims, and are more than willing to perpetuate the conspiracy theories themselves.

And we have this tweet by Bharara, via Mediaite

which led to liberal freakouts

Sigh. Snowflakes

New Yorkers will immediately get that opaque reference to the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption. Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo put them together in July 2013 to probe politicians of suspected corruption. Then suddenly disbanded it in 2014. There were allegations that the governor’s office tried to stifle investigations linked to Cuomo, so a US Attorney—Bharara—lead an investigation into whether there was malfeasance. In 2016, he announced there was insufficient evidence.

Anyway, it’s worth mentioning that watchdog groups asked Bharara on Wednesday to look into the president’s foreign business dealings for possible violations of the emoluments clause.

Those watchdog groups are all vastly left leaning, despite the Washington Post attempting to proclaim they’re bipartisan. CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics), Democracy 21, and Paul Smith of the Campaign Legal Center (which primarily goes after Republicans and supports Democrat beliefs). These groups are just continuing the leftist attempts to go on fishing expeditions to find any way to get rid of Trump, because they cannot accept the election outcome.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 12, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to use over fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day The Right Scoop, with a post on people still trying to push Michael Brown conspiracies.

It’s Asian week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 12, 2017 – 9:44 am

space girl patriotic pinup

Happy Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day here in America. The clouds are gleaming, the snow is flying, and the young squirrels are very confused on this 12th of March (no, it’s not ‘climate change’, it’s just weather. Snow happens). Did everyone change their clocks? I’m not sure who did this pinup, searches failed.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. neo-neocon discusses attorneygate
  2. No Tricks Zone notes another subsidized company in a subsidized industry files for bankruptcy
  3. Chicks On The Right discusses questions Muslims don’t want to answer
  4. Creeping Sharia notes what happens when a girl is sexually assaulted in Sweden
  5. Doug Ross @ Journal covers California’s exit tax
  6. Fire Andrea Mitchell discusses how many people Trump should immediately fire
  7. Gates Of Vienna features an open letter to Trump from Sweden
  8. Gay Patriot covers the USDA wanting to shut down a farm for Wrongthink on gay marriage
  9. The Geller Report notes the rise in child brides in the UK among Muslims
  10. Jihad Watch covers Harvard smearing all sites which are leftist
  11. Legal Insurrection provides a Nancy Pelosi irony alert
  12. Moonbattery covers taking back the rainbow
  13. Political Clown Parade says don’t go away angry, just go away
  14. Powerline says it’s time to clean house
  15. And last, but not least, Raised On Hoecakes discusses freedom of speech through censorship

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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ACLU Is Suddenly Concerned Over Length Of Time Illegal Aliens Are Held

By William Teach March 12, 2017 – 8:34 am

Might there be an ulterior motive to what the ACLU is attempting to do?

(NBC LA) The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government to limit the amount of time that people can be held before seeing an immigration judge, saying many are held for months while waiting for an initial appearance.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court on behalf of three Mexicans at a San Diego immigration detention center, but the ACLU asks to represent all people who are held on immigration violations along California’s border with Mexico who are held for more than 48 hours.

People “routinely languish in detention for two months or longer before they see a judge,” according to lawsuit, calling the wait excessive and a violation of constitutional rights for people in custody.

“The first hearing before an immigration judge, like first appearance in criminal court, is critical to ensuring due process,” it says.

The lawsuit comes as President Donald Trump moves to significantly expand border and immigration enforcement, which will further strain already stretched detention centers and courts unless Congress provides more money.

Well, now, that’s interesting. Despite the absence of reports over the last eight years, apparently, Mr. Obama’s executive branch agencies were holding illegals for a long time, longer than the ACLU likes. In fact, Supreme Court decisions allowed this. Where were the lawsuits from the ACLU then? Let’s ask Reuters

U.S. civil liberties group ACLU seeks to tap anti-Trump energy

The American Civil Liberties Union is launching what it bills as the first grassroots mobilization effort in its nearly 100-year history, as it seeks to harness a surge of energy among left-leaning activists since the November election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S. president.

The campaign, known as PeoplePower, kicks off on Saturday with a town hall-style event in Miami featuring “resistance training” that will be streamed live at more than 2,300 local gatherings nationwide.

It will focus on free speech, reproductive rights and immigration and include presentations from legal experts, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero and “Top Chef” television star Padma Lakshmi.

Obviously, it is crystal clear that the ACLU is not interested in civil rights, but, instead, being a far left activist group agitating against a sitting United States president. And many of their proposed actions are to protect those who are unlawfully present in the nation over the best interests of citizens of this nation.

As far as their lawsuit goes, they should be careful what they wish for. We already have reports that Team Trump will bring in 50 more judges to adjudicate case against illegal aliens.

What if, in response to this suit, Team Trump, sends out 100, 150, 200 or more judges to makes sure the cases are disposed of quickly, meaning that illegals who are caught are sent packing back to their home countries ASAP? It’s a case of being careful what you wish for, because you may get it.

The obvious intent of the lawsuit now is, in fact, to be opposition to the duly elected POTUS, and kiss the asses of left wing people and solicit donations. Attempting to force the release of illegal aliens into the nation would hurt citizens. Whose side is the ACLU on?

Meanwhile, in other illegal alien news, California actually has legislation teed up, Senate Bill 54, which would turn the entire state into a sanctuary state. And Denver is becoming a big sanctuary spot for illegals. Democrats care more about people unlawfully present in this nation, who are often involved in other crimes which hurt actual citizens, than they care about actual legal citizens of this nation. Why? We all know why. It has nothing to do with any morals (since Liberals have none, being the primary proponents of abortion) or caring. It’s about attempting to gain more low wage, low education voters.

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