…is an ocean that will soon rise up due to evil lead ammunition which contributes to climate change, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on a college offering classes to toddlers on being good little Leftists.
Read: If All You See… »
Forcing people to comply with things they don’t believe in is love!
How Gay Marriage Suggests A Strategy For Climate Change
The iPhone shows how rapidly society can change if it wants to, a California energy commissioner said last week, and gay marriage shows that change can happen in public policy too.
Climate policy could be next, said David Hochschild, the environmental commissioner on the California Energy Commission and an architect of Proposition B, San Francisco’s successful $100 million solar initiative.
No one was forced to purchase an iPhone by The Government, though some people were forced to comply with gay marriage or risk being run out of business, harassed, and fined.
“There was gay marriage nowhere until 2004, then we saw that state by state by state by state it got adopted, and now of course it’s in all 50 states. Over a very short period of time. You go back 12, 13 years and you ask how many people think gay marriage is universal and I think most people would assert, it’s not going to happen,” Hochschild said during a Stanford University seminar last week.
“I think there’s actually some lessons for the climate movement in what happened with marriage equality, because they framed the movement in terms of love: Government has no place to get between two people who love each other,” he said. “I actually think climate change is the same thing. It’s about loving the next generation, and I think that is a good way to think about it.”
See? It’s about about loving, forcing people by Government decree to accept gay marriage, and the same should be done with ‘climate change’. So, for love, people should be forced to
Government!
The iPhone is his model for change potential: “It’s gone from basically not existing to being ubiquitous in a decade,” he said. And he thinks cigarettes model the country’s addiction to fossil fuels. The smoking rate has fallen from about 50 percent in 1965 to 15 percent today, he said, in spite of early and expensive efforts by the tobacco industry to foster doubt about the science.
Again, the first is a voluntary purchase for something that people want, and see the positive benefits. The latter is something that government forced on people. Sure, smoking is bad for you. So is drinking. Interestingly, so many of the strikes against the tobacco industry was because of their lies, shoddy science, and false advertising. Sounds exactly like the state of climate science.
Remember, it’s all about the love!
Read: ‘Climate Change’ Movement Should Take A Page From Gay Marriage Playbook Or Something »
Why, yes, they are still at it. It could have been done months ago, except Rory Cooper, now North Carolina governor, worked pre-election to make sure that all Democrats voted against any repeal of HB2
(WTVD) North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper floated a new proposal for the repeal of House Bill 2 on Tuesday.
“February needs to be the month that we get this done or it may be too late,” said Governor Cooper.
HB2 requires people to use the restroom according to their biological sex listed on their birth certificate in government buildings, schools, and universities. The law also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections and blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination and living wage rules.
Forgotten is the primary point of the legislation, namely that government cannot force private businesses and entities to change their bathrooms and showers and locker rooms and such to accommodate the gender confused. It was in direct response to the passage of a law in Charlotte by Democrats that did just that, and Charlotte had been warned to not do it. HB2 allows private businesses/entities to decide for themselves.
Cooper offered a three-part compromise.
1) Repeal HB2
2) Increase punishments for offenders who threaten safety or privacy in public restrooms or changing rooms
3) Mandate that local governments allow 30 days for public and General Assembly input before passing any anti-discrimination ordinances
Of course, as WRAL reports, Cooper pulled an Obama, announcing he wants this done by forgetting to discuss it with the leaders of the NC General Assembly first. It’s like a typical Obama “so let it be written, so let it be done” move.
And one point of HB2 was that it didn’t penalize transgenders for using the bathrooms and such of the sex they identify with. HB2 was not about penalizing the gender confused: it was about telling NC government of all levels what they cannot do.
In a statement released later Tuesday, Senate Leader Phil Berger’s (R-Rockingham) office said Cooper’s news conference was the first they’d heard of the new proposal.
“…Given that Gov. Cooper’s refusal to enforce existing criminal trespass laws as attorney general was a major reason legislators were forced to pass HB2 in the first place, it is difficult to take seriously his pledge on ‘strengthening penalties.’ This proposal does nothing to address the basic privacy concerns of women and young girls who do not feel comfortable using the bathroom, undressing and showering in the presence of men…” Berger’s spokesperson Amy Auth wrote in part.
And Lt. Governor Dan Forest, a Republican, released a statement
Heterosexual men will be able to access women’s showers and bathrooms by simply posing as a transgender individual. They will be able to watch women and children shower, or shower next to them. As long as the man doesn’t touch them, assault them or film them, no legal protection would be afforded the offended woman or child. Nothing. As a husband and father of four, the concept of ‘Look But Don’t Touch’ as a meaningful response to HB2 is a sad commentary on how far the progressive movement and the elected officials beholden to it, will risk the safety of our people to achieve a radical social policy agenda.”
Cooper wants to put all the power in the hands of the municipalities, which is how this started in the first place.
In my mind, the best compromise would be to repeal all sections except those telling NC government that it cannot force the private sector to accommodate the gender confused and telling government that people need to use the bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms that accord with their biological sex, while continuing to have no penalties on the individual gender confused who use them, beyond already existing law.
Cooper’s “deal” will simply allow local government to enact laws which require compliance and higher costs to private entities, all to accommodate a tiny, tiny, tiny number of people who are gender confused, and will violate the privacy, at a minimum, of citizens, especially women and girls, who would prefer not having men in their bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms. And then this would lead to requirements that boys who think they’re girls on girls sports and competition teams, as we’ve seen in other states.
Seriously, though, this is what Cooper and the Democrats are concerned with: forcing men into the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers of girls. But, then, previous governor Pat McCrory and the Republican General Assembly did leave Cooper with a state in pretty darned good shape.
Did you maintain appropriate insurance coverage in 2016? Perhaps you switched jobs, and, being that most companies require you be on the job for 90 days before you are allowed to be on their insurance plan, meaning you were probably out of insurance for 91 days, meaning you are ripe to be slapped with a fine/tax/fee by the IRS. Perhaps you lost your job and were out of insurance for over 90 days, and could be hit with the mandate. Not anymore
(Hit and Run) How much difference does a single line on a tax form make? For Obamacare’s individual mandate, the answer might be quite a lot.
Following President Donald Trump’s executive order instructing agencies to provide relief from the health law, the Internal Revenue Service appears to be taking a more lax approach to the coverage requirement. (snip)
The health law’s individual mandate requires everyone to either maintain qualifying health coverage or pay a tax penalty, known as a “shared responsibility payment.” The IRS was set to require filers to indicate whether they had maintained coverage in 2016 or paid the penalty by filling out line 61 on their form 1040s. Alternatively, they could claim exemption from the mandate by filing a form 8965.
For most filers, filling out line 61 would be mandatory. The IRS would not accept 1040s unless the coverage box was checked, or the shared responsibility payment noted, or the exemption form included. Otherwise they would be labeled “silent returns” and rejected.
Instead, however, filling out that line will be optional.
Earlier this month, the IRS quietly altered its rules to allow the submission of 1040s with nothing on line 61. The IRS says it still maintains the option to follow up with those who elect not to indicate their coverage status, although it’s not clear what circumstances might trigger a follow up.
I suspect that as this news starts making its way through to the citizens, many will choose to refuse to check the box even if they did have qualifying health insurance in 2016, much like so many chose “American” on the last census form instead of their race. One question is whether electronic 1040s will allow someone to skip over line 61, as they would usually require all lines to be completed. Perhaps the tax software companies will make changes? Later in the article we see that many are making changes.
The IRS notes that taxpayers are still required to pay the mandate penalty, if applicable. “Legislative provisions of the ACA law are still in force until changed by the Congress, and taxpayers remain required to follow the law and pay what they may owe‎,” the agency statement said.
Ellis says the new policy doesn’t fully rise to the level of declining to enforce the law. “If the IRS turns a blind eye to people’s status, that isn’t quite not enforcing it,” he says. “It’s more like the IRS wanting to maintain plausible deniability.”
Essentially, monkey don’t see, monkey don’t penalize.
Patterico, posting at Red State, has hesitations about this method, and has some valid points and makes a good case, particularly about weakening the law making it easier for the GOP to not repeal and replace. Perhaps so, but, that’s politics. For many, paying the fine/tax/fee is a bread and butter issue, and they’ll like this.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: IRS Says They Won’t Really Enforce The Obamacare Mandate »
If by this the Cult of Climastrology means “manufacturing, smoothing, adjusting, and making it up out of nowhere”, then, yeah
We’re Accelerating Climate Change 170 Times Faster Than Nature, Says a New Study
Natural elements are “negligible” compared to human influence.There are people who deny climate change altogether. Then there are people who claim that, yes, climate change exists, but humans are barely affecting it, because it would happen anyway.
Yeah, all of the aforementioned people are wrong, according to a brand new equation developed by scientists.
The Australian National University announced on Sunday that, according to recent research, humans are causing the climate to change a whopping 170 times faster than it would naturally. According to the researchers, evidence shows that greenhouse gas emission caused by humans over the past 45 years has affected temperatures at a rate that “dwarf[s] the natural background rate.”
Said Will Steffen, a climate change expert and ANU professor, in a statement:
“Over the past 7,000 years the primary forces driving change have been astronomical — changes in solar intensity and subtle changes in orbital parameters, along with a few volcanoes. They have driven a rate of change of 0.01 degrees Celsius per century.”
By comparison, humans have increased the rate of temperature rise to 1.7 degree Celsius per century.
Right off the bat, we see shoddy science. There have been multiple cooling and warming periods throughout the last 7,000 years. Furthermore, we’re only talking about a 1C or less increase in supposed global temperatures since 1850. that’s sure a lot less then 1.7 per century, is it not?
What they’re attempting to do here is wipe away all the previous warm and cool periods in the Holocene, making it seem as everything was hunky dory right up to the time period they want, which seems to be the last 45 years. Which, interestingly, would including a period of slight cooling and a long term Pause, where the warming has shown to be either statistically insignificant or zero, depending on the data.
Why would we think that people who have a vested interest, monetarily and otherwise, in perpetuating their cause would ever stop?
Read: Humans Are Making ‘Climate Change’ Accelerate 170 Times More Than Nature Or Something »
…is a world turning to desert because Other People use gas powered heat, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the NFL wanting men in the women’s room.
Read: If All You See… »
Another holiday, another day for Progressives to hijack it for something or other. This is what happens when people don’t have jobs and anything better to do
Eve Ensler Wants To Topple The Patriarchy With ‘Revolutionary Love’
Sick and tired of roses and chocolates this Valentine’s Day? Eve Ensler and the One Billion Rising campaign have an alternative V-Day event that might strike your fancy.
Come Feb. 14, One Billion Rising will opt less for cards and candy and more for awareness of the violence endured by women and girls. As it has done every year since 2012, the organization ― which takes its name from a stark statistic claiming one in three women around the world will be beaten or raped during their lifetime* ― will host a series of “risings†in over 200 countries that advocate for the victims of such violence and rail against the impunity that persists in its wake.
Well, that’s a good start. No mention of all the rape that occurs on college campuses run by Liberals or in the Democratic Party run big cities. Of course, it’s going to devolve into a hotbed of far leftism
In New York City, however, the V-Day rising will be unique. Dubbed “Artistic Uprising ― A Call For Revolutionary Love,†the event is not only aimed at shining a light on the women and girls at risk of violence, but also on “refugees, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQI people, black people, the indigenous, the poor†― individuals who find themselves under threat in America’s present political climate.
Interesting. Women are treated like, well, utter shit in so many Muslim areas and Muslims (obviously, not all). We’ve seen the rape epidemics in Europe from all the “refugees”. Will there be a discussion of this?
“Activists will RISE against the neo-fascist, racist patriarchy taking hold in governments throughout the world, against bigotry, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, anti-immigration, nativism, white nationalism, climate change denial, imperialist and capitalist aggressions, misogyny and hate,†One Billion Rising wrote in a press release for the NY-specific rally. “From Standing Rock to financial deregulation to the ‘Muslim Ban,’ activists will demand the new regime’s agenda be dismantled.â€
I ran across this typical piece of progressive Rage Against Everything (except, of course, Muslims treating women like shit) while looking for ‘climate change’ news. And the rage continues in paragraph after paragraph.
The funny part is that these nutters, who had a legitimate point about sexual assault before going down Wackadoodle Road, fail to understand that their whole politics are based on Progressive ideology, which has its roots in early 20th Century fascism. It’s all about central government dominance.
“We’re seeing an assault on women [here],†Ensler told HuffPost. “This administration has not only escalated [rape culture] but has really normalized it,†she added. “So we are rising for immigrants. We are rising for African-Americans. We are rising for LGBTQIA. We are rising for women. We are rising for everyone in this country who is under siege, which is just about everyone except for white men for as far as I can tell.â€
Um, what? Trump has escalated rape culture? Really? How so? These people are deranged. And this is why people tune out. You take a legitimate issue and crank up the crazy from a tropical depression to a category 5 hurricane.
Read: It’s Time To Topple The Patriarchy With Revolutionary Love Or Something »
See, the problem here is that Ivankia is the Wrong Type Of Woman, according to Liberal World, per CBS News, which goes all Twitchy with their use of tweets
A great discussion with two world leaders about the importance of women having a seat at the table! ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/AtiSiOoho0
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) February 13, 2017
The horror!
Some objected to the imageor used it to criticize Ivanka.
“The Oval Office should not be a prop for the president’s daughter,†one user tweeted.
“You have no business in the White House,†posted another. “Our country is not run on nepotism.â€
Those are from tweets that are embedded at the article. There are plenty more in response under her tweet. And, plenty in support, as well. But, we also get this in the CBS comments
And even more.
CBS was nice enough to point out that Obama had people sit at the desk, including children. It’s no big deal. But, liberals gotta liberal.
Read: Things That Make Liberals Upset: Ivanka Trump Sitting At POTUS Desk »
The immigration sweeps have mostly disappeared from the news, in the few days since they occurred. Nevertheless, liberals have been howling over the sweeps, and the Democrat base is still wound up on blogs and social media. Immigration stooge Jorge Ramos had a shoot out with Sean Hannity, and couldn’t really provide any cogent, cohesive, rational, adult arguments for the illegals.
Now, we know that the sweeps, most of which were planned while Obama was still in office, targeted criminals (which begs the question, why were they not deported immediately to start with). Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wanted more details. OK
(LA Times) Federal officials on Monday released details about an immigration sweep in Los Angeles and surrounding counties last week that resulted in the arrest of 161 people living in the country illegally.
Of the 161 people arrested in L.A. and surrounding counties last week, 151 had been convicted of a crime. More than a quarter of those arrested — 42 people — had been convicted of domestic abuse, while an equal number had either drug or assault convictions, according to the statistics released Monday. Seventeen people had been convicted of a sex crime.
Three-quarters of the people arrested came from Mexico, with the rest coming from 12 other countries. Men accounted for most of the arrests, with only seven women in the group.
Some in the group who reentered the U.S. after previously being deported will now face possible criminal prosecution or be deported immediately. By Friday, more than three dozen Mexicans had been deported.
The ICE statement highlighted the more serious criminals in the group, which included a Honduran man who had previously been deported and had convictions for drug trafficking, spousal battery and petty theft, and a Mexican man who already had been ordered deported by an immigration judge and had convictions for drug trafficking, a weapons violation and spousal battery.
The group also included a felon from Jamaica who had prior convictions for a weapons violation, drug trafficking and domestic violence, and an Australian man taken into custody in West Hollywood who was previously convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
And that’s just the Los Angelos area.
These are the people Democrats are losing their minds over. These are the people Democrats threw their support behind. The Daily Kos, one of the leading leftist blogs, discussed the “racist immigration raids.” Latinos held a “day without Latinos” march in Milwaukee. There was another protest march in Baltimore. And plenty of other marches and shows of support.
They’re showing support for hardcore criminals. This is what it has come to on the political left.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Who Are The Illegal Aliens Democrats Are Supporting In Wake Of Sweeps? »
You might have heard about this one as it was screamed from the rafters by Democrats, their base, CAIR, and the Credentialed News
(Washington Examiner)  Reporters are at it again – and again, and again and again.
The latest spun-up, anti-President Trump story involves Ibtihaj Muhammad, a New Jersey native who made headlines last year when she became the first female Muslim-American to win an Olympic medal for the United States.
Muhammad, a lifelong American citizen, claimed in an interview Tuesday that she was detained “just a few weeks ago” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. She said she was held for a few hours without explanation.
Of course, the Media Industrial Complex didn’t report it that way. They simply ran with a soundbite from an interview in Popsugar, such as at this article on NJ.com (I hang out there a lot and converse under the name DevilUKnow. Been doing it since 2003 under different names. Used to have the best forums, till the formats were changed). The Examiner article by T. Becket Adams notes all the breatheless reporting by the media.Of course, none of the breathless articles, most of which attempted to link and/or Blame Trump, discussed the so-called “Muslim ban”, and yammered about Islamophobia, asked any basic journalistic questions
I’m wondering if any “news” outlet, such as this one, has asked her to provide proof of the allegation. You can bet if a Republican was making some sort of claim, the media would dig dig dig.
Myself and others asked. Well, days later, guess what?
The problem with this particular news cycle, however, is that the alleged detaining occurred in December, before Trump had even been sworn in as America’s 45th president.
Muhammad clarified several days after her Feb. 7 interview that she meant December 2016 when she said, “just a few weeks ago.”
She even tweeted that it occurred in December 2016, as is screen-captured in the Examiner article. Huh, Adams continues
First, it’s mind-boggling that no one thought to ask her for the exact date on which she was reportedly detained. It’s a basic duty of journalism to get the who, what, where, when, why and how to every story. That no one thought to pursue the “when” is astounding.
Secondly, Muhammad isn’t blameless in all of this. A less-than-charitable person would suspect her of being purposefully vague and imprecise. She was asked a simple “yes or no” question about the president’s immigration order. Instead of giving a simple answer, she provided an anecdote involving the very misleading use of “just a few weeks ago.”
And the media wonders why their credibility is low.
Read: Say, About That “Female Muslim US Olympian Stopped At Airport” Story »
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