Women’s March On Washington Bogs Down In SJW Bickering

By William Teach January 10, 2017 – 4:49 pm

Live by the SJW, die by the SJW (via Hot Air)

(NY Times)  Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them.

Ms. Willis, a 50-year-old wedding minister from South Carolina, had looked forward to taking her daughters to the march. Then she read a post on the Facebook page for the march that made her feel unwelcome because she is white.

The post, written by a black activist from Brooklyn who is a march volunteer, advised “white allies” to listen more and talk less. It also chided those who, it said, were only now waking up to racism because of the election.

“You don’t just get to join because now you’re scared, too,” read the post. “I was born scared.”

This all about feminist racial identity politics, with a smattering of every other type of SJW movement and far left Progressive ideology. The list of sponsors for this “grassroots” march, which I mentioned weeks ago, and you can see at Legal Insurrection, reads as the Typical Prog March. The above from the Times stems from a Facebook post by ShiShi Rose, including

I want to remind you that that is a privilege.

It’s a privilege that white supremacy wasn’t at the forefront of your reality, because you benefit from it.

I want to remind you that no ally ever got very far, in any movement, without acknowledgement of their own privilege daily. You do not just get to join the efforts that people of color have been working for their entire lives to both teach and survive, without doing work, too. You don’t just get to join because now you’re scared, too. I was born scared.

Now is the time for you to be listening more, talking less, observing, taking in media and art created by people of color, researching, unlearning the things you have been taught about this country. You should be reading our books and understanding the roots of racism and white supremacy. Listening to our speeches. You should be drowning yourselves in our poetry. Now is the time that you should be exposed to more than just the horrors of this country, but also the beauty that has always existed within communities of color. Beauty that was covered over because the need to see white faces depicted was more important.

The entire thing has morphed into a SJW orgasm march, with actually little about women. Mostly, it’s about people being Outraged about race, and some proclaiming other feminists should just shut the hell up. The heads of the march committee are social justice organizers, meaning that no one else would dare employ them, as they are lawsuits waiting to happen. One of them, Linda Sarsour, is an avowed defender of violent Palestinians and despises Israel and Jews. She refuses to condemn extremist/violent Islamists, and, as I noted in 2014

This is not to say she is an extremist. But, it is very interesting that her group receives quite a bit of funding from Qatar, a massive funder of radical Islam. She defends Islamic terrorism suspects. She has many anti-Israel statements. And likes to make hate crimes against Muslims up out of thin air.

Definitely check out the long post at Legal Insurrection, and, get a good laugh at these leftist SJWs applying their moonbattery against each other.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 10, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon pollution creating dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on a member of the all-inclusive party.

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Warmist Journalist Worries About The Emotional Toll Of Covering Climate In Age Of Trump

By William Teach January 10, 2017 – 11:28 am

Andrew Freedman is Very Concerned. This follows on the heals of the meltdown by leading member of the Cult of Climastrology Eric Holthaus (who’s a pretty nice guy, from my interactions on Twitter), who has been driven to therapy.

The emotional toll of covering climate change in the Trump era

I never found covering climate change to be difficult on an emotional level until two years ago. When I became a father.

Suddenly, projections of temperature changes in 2050 were more real. Where I used to be able to dismiss them as time periods when I wouldn’t be around anymore, or be old enough not to care so much, now, those years were a pertinent reality.

Wait, I thought kids were Bad for ‘climate change”, and no one should have them? Oh, right, the Warmist meme is about stopping Black people in Africa from having kids.

Since then, I’ve doubled down on the beat, with grit and determination. But then came November. The election of Donald J. Trump sent me into a temporary tailspin.

What does this mean for my son’s future, and what does this mean for my profession right now?

In short: Nothing good.

So, if being a journalist sucks right now in general, being a climate reporter doubly sucks.

What changed in November wasn’t just the way in which vitriolic comments on Twitter and elsewhere got even more personal and menacing. It’s that there’s also, now, a sense of hopelessness that’s crept into my emotional core, and that of many of the sources that I talk to over the course of my reporting.

Man, if only there was something he could do, like, say, beat the drum for Warmists to practice what they preach.

This creeping sense of dread—which makes me prone to gallows humor when not simply looking at the floor, after someone asks me how climate programs will fare under Trump—makes the job that much more challenging.

There’s only so much I can excerpt of this essay of doom. Read the whole thing.

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Obama Still Trying To Push His Gender Confused Requirements In Schools

By William Teach January 10, 2017 – 8:18 am

He’s already lost in court with his earlier guidance on how schools should accommodate and pander to the tiny number of kids who believe they’re gender confused (which was a thinly veiled threat from Obama’s Executive Office), now he wants to continue the push

(Daily Caller) The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling that suspended enforcement of the administration’s order allowing transgender students and workers to use the bathroom of their choice.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor, a George W. Bush appointee, blocked enforcement of the order in August.

Lawyers for the administration asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to throw out O’Connor’s ruling, arguing the courts do not have the power to review the government’s order. They also argue O’Connor’s ruling was too broad, as it applied to the entire country, instead of the states challenging the order.

They really did argue that courts do not have the power to review Obama’s orders.

The agencies argued that the guidelines they issued only reflect their interpretation of Title IX, and are not orders bearing the full force of law. They further contend the guidelines were issued because of ambiguities in Title IX, since the law does not address how a school should accommodate a transgender student. As a consequence, they argued the court must defer to their interpretation of the law, since a court may not overturn an agency’s interpretation so long as it is “reasonable.”

In other words, they argued that since they created this guidance out of thin air, since Title IX is about women, and there is zero mention of the gender confused, the courts shouldn’t be allowed to rule against them. What should really happen is that the court should tell them that you can’t interpret something that doesn’t actually appear in law, so, they should ask Congress to modify Title IX.

One has to wonder how Obama would feel about gender confused “women” sharing the bathrooms, changing rooms, and showers with his daughters. Or if they are on the same sports teams/competitions as his daughters, taking spots away from real women, and always beating them.

Buzzfeed has more, including the filing. Regardless, unless the 5th rules by the 20th, you can bet Trump’s DOJ will drop this whole thing. Piano Lady puts it well at the DC

The economy has gone to hell, Iran has more than $160 billion, and ISIS is now in over 30 countries … while our retarded president spends his days trying to get grown men into bathroom stalls next to little girls … history will not be kind to this traitor.

Priorities.

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Washington Post Still Searching For A Way To Stop Trump From Being President

By William Teach January 10, 2017 – 7:53 am

Richard Cohen is one of the Washington Post’s deep bench of uber-liberals. He’s managed to annoy everyone, even causing Salon to write “the inexplicably still-employed centrist hack that the neoconservative editorial board of the Washington Post masquerades as a liberal” (which says more about how far left Salon is), while Media Matters has had numerous tizzy’s, including this one. Regardless, he’s an uber-leftist, and, let’s face it, someone at the Washington Post had to have approved this

How to remove Trump from office

Donald Trump is a one-man basket of deplorables. He is a braggart and a liar. He is a bully and a demagogue. He is an ignoramus and a deadbeat, a chiseler and either a sincere racist or an insincere one, and his love for himself is matched only by my loathing of him. He is about to be president of the United States. A constitutional coup may be in the offing.

A constitutional coup? After paragraph after paragraph whining about Trump, and then noting that impeachment would be really difficult, we read

There is, however, another way. Under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, the vice president, together with a “majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” can remove the president for being “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” No doubt the mere mention of incapacitation would summon a horde of lawyers to Washington to contest it or the meaning of every term.

But it is plain that the 25th Amendment does give a role to Cabinet members that is not generally considered when they are up for confirmation. This time, however, they should all be asked whether they are aware of the 25th Amendment and, if need be, whether they would be willing to implement it. Some would say that they do not respond to hypotheticals, but a willingness to abide by the Constitution is not a hypothetical. It is, instead, a grave duty.

Funny, that grave duty wasn’t apparent when Obama was in office. There’s no lack of lists of just how he violated the Constitution.

But, hey, Cohen is “just wondering”, musing

Is this going to happen? Probably not. We’ll just muddle through a Trump presidency, as we have some others. But the nature and malevolence of Donald Trump have to be borne in mind. He has shown little regard for the Constitution, as exemplified by statements saying that by definition anything a president does is legal, and he is prone to vulgar statements and tactics. Recall that he was once the most prominent birther, evidence of either racism or a chilling willingness to pander to it. Recall also, as Meryl Streep did at the Golden Globes, that Trump mocked Serge Kovaleski, a physically disabled New York Times reporter, and then denied that he had done anything of the sort. Here was the bully in full repugnance. Here was the liar in full contempt for the truth.

Don’t think this is a one-off. Liberals have been bandying this meme around for quite some time. The first mention I can find is loony liberal Ben Brenkert at The Hill. It’s been pushed by the nutty Daily Kos. And wacky Keith Olbermann. The meme really ratcheted up at the end of November. There’s at least one petition (which didn’t get close). For the most part, this yammering stayed on the edges of Liberaldom after The Hill screed. Now it’s moved into the mainstream, thanks to the always loony Washington Post opinion pages.

You know what would have stopped Trump, Democrats? Not nominating someone as bad as Hillary. Those of us on the right dealt with Obama for 8 years. You can cope with Trump.

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Historic California Sequoia Collapses From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 9, 2017 – 5:42 pm

Did you hear this one?

(SF Gate) The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, a former “drive-through” giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County, was felled in California’s weekend storms.

The tree was hollowed out in the 1880s to allow tourists to pass through it, and even allowed cars, but more recently has hosted only hikers. It was part of the “Big Trees Trail” at the state park.

Jim Allday of Arnold is a volunteer at the park who was working there Sunday. He said the tree went down about 2 p.m. and “shattered” on impact.

So, of course, since all these storms are being blamed on ‘climate change’, we get this

https://twitter.com/YungRama/status/818525525132066816

https://twitter.com/jeffreymmiller/status/818472408747245569

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 9, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on an SJW insult generator.

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The Great Barrier Reef Almost Drowned Or Something

By William Teach January 9, 2017 – 11:08 am

Can you pick out what’s wrong with this?

The Great Barrier Reef located off the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia, is the largest living structure in the world.  It is home to a wide range of life, including fish, sea turtles, giant clam, seahorse, sea snakes, nudibranch, sea turtles, stingray, sharks and many more.  Good thing it didn’t die 125,000 years ago.

Researchers from the University of Sydney found that Australia’s natural wonder almost drowned and died during the Last Interglacial period.  This period, Yahoo News said, was marked with higher temperatures, which led to melting of glaciers and polar ice sheets, raising sea levels.

Scientists say that both the temperatures and sea levels then were higher than they are now, and they fear that the Earth is headed in the same direction if global warming continues, Morning Ticker reported.

Let’s start with the notion that corals and all the sea life that lives there “almost drowned”. The Yahoo News article mentioned has this quote

“In combination with climate change predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in the absence of improvements to reef management and human impacts, sea-level pressures could tip the reef over the edge, potentially drowning it for good,” Belinda Dechnik from the university, who was also lead author of the study, said in a statement.

That statement also includes the pithy headline “Great Barrier Reef almost drowned,” as well as several mentions of sea life drowning from ocean heights rising, which brings us to the second issue: what caused the sea rise back then?

But, hey, this is not about science, it’s about attempting to scare people into letting government dominate their lives and accepting increased costs of living.

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Democrats Now Totally Willing To Work To Fix Obamacare

By William Teach January 9, 2017 – 7:25 am

For the most part, Democrats have avoided campaigning on Obamacare since it was passed. Most did not even want to discuss it. It was a loser topic, which has seen Democrats go from a wildly majority party before the 2010 midterms to massive losses at the federal, state, and local levels. They own this lock, stock, and barrel. So, what do they want to do now?

(Washington Times) After six years of resisting legislative changes to Obamacare, President Obama and Democrats now say they’re ready to work on fixes to the massive health law — so long as they expand the federal government’s role in health care.

With Republicans about to control all the levers of political power and moving to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are searching for ways to defend the law.

For many of them, that means admitting to flaws in the six-year-old law, and saying they can work with the GOP on fixes — as long as they don’t undermine the central achievements of Obamacare.

Mr. Obama said that means boosting the amount of money the government doles out to help people buy health insurance, and offering government-run plans to compete with the private sector.

“I’d sign on to a Republican plan that said we’re going to give more subsidies to people to make it even cheaper, and we’re going to have a public option where there isn’t an option,” the president said Friday in an interview with the Vox media outlet. “Here’s the problem: I don’t think that’s the thing that they want to do.”

In other words, they want to double down on Obamacare. The same thing that has seen their party’s fortunes decline precipitously.

Obama did get one thing correct: there should be no repeal without a plan to replace. I know some have said “just toast it and we’ll go back to the way it was.” It’s too late for that. That time was the 2012 elections. Now, there needs to be a plan to make sure people can obtain health insurance if they want it. Of course, lots of healthy people do not want it (their mistake, IMO). And the GOP is going to have to deal with those who received insurance via the Medicaid expansion, which accounted for a majority chunk of the new enrollees.

As far as Obama seeing it? He broke it, he doesn’t get to be involved now. He’s also on his way out the door. Soon to be inaugurated President Trump can, via executive order, trash so many components which were created by HHS. The contraception mandate, the work hours requirement, the number of people in companies requirement, and so forth, can all be sent to the ash heap with the wave of a pen.

The best thing the GOP can do is implement a few rules while relaxing the Federal government’s control of health insurance and healthcare. Why do we need them to be involved in our decisions? Get out of the way and mind your own business.

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Hollywood Liberals Have Meltdown During Golden Globes

By William Teach January 9, 2017 – 7:01 am

Out of touch and determined to alienate half the country

(Fox News) Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, some liberal stars were determined to use the 74th annual Golden Globes to have the last word 12 days before Trump is sworn into office.

During a night that saw “Moonlight,” “La La Land,” “The Crown” and “Atlanta” win big it was the next president of the United States that got the most attention.

Just minutes into the show, host Jimmy Fallon used his time on stage to take digs at Trump after he was forced to improvise for the first few minutes of the show due to a broken teleprompter.

Once his script was up and running, Fallon called the Golden Globes “one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote.” That, though, isn’t quite true. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a collection of 85 members, has its own methods of selecting winners.

Oops?

Fallon often used the President-elect as a punchline, even comparing him to belligerent and cruel “Games of Thrones” King Joffrey, but Meryl Streep (video at Mediaite) changed the tone of the evening when she launched into a somber speech about Trump.

Streep said Trump’s behavior “sank its hooks in my heart” and she slammed what she called Trump’s “instinct to humiliate.” She asked for a “principled press to hold Trump [accountable]” and to call him out “for every outrage.” Her comments were met with applause, tears and support by her fellow actors in the audience. Actor Chris Pine called her speech the “best message of tonight.”

Excitable Hugh Laurie (you might remember him from House) is even worried that this could be the last Golden Globes, because Trump. If they wanted half the country to tune out, I’m sure they received their wish. And the more they do this, the more people decide they won’t pay the exorbitant prices to go to the movies.

When asked, Trump said he did not watch the Golden Globes, but dismissed Streep as a big Hillary supporter, nor was he surprised by the attacks from “liberal movie people.”

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