Sore Loser Symphony: It’s Time To Abolish The Electoral College

By William Teach December 20, 2016 – 6:53 am

It’s now official, at least as far as the Electoral College certifying their votes (hilariously, of the 7 who did not hold faith, most switched their vote away from Hillary), that Donald Trump is the president elect. After all the caterwauling and machinations from the mostly Democratic Party sore losers, which came after all the calls for Trump and his people to respect and honor the election outcome, Democrats lost again. So, we get a bit of Sore Loser Symphony from the NY Times Editorial Board (among others)

Time to End the Electoral College

By overwhelming majorities, Americans would prefer to elect the president by direct popular vote, not filtered through the antiquated mechanism of the Electoral College. They understand, on a gut level, the basic fairness of awarding the nation’s highest office on the same basis as every other elected office — to the person who gets the most votes.

Which goes to show that our education system on the Constitution and the way our federal republic works is horrendous.

But for now, the presidency is still decided by 538 electors. And on Monday, despite much talk in recent weeks about urging those electors to block Donald Trump from the White House, a majority did as expected and cast their ballots for him — a result Congress will ratify next month.

And so for the second time in 16 years, the candidate who lost the popular vote has won the presidency. Unlike 2000, it wasn’t even close. Hillary Clinton beat Mr. Trump by more than 2.8 million votes, or 2.1 percent of the electorate. That’s a wider margin than 10 winning candidates enjoyed and the biggest deficit for an incoming president since the 19th century.

Yes, Mr. Trump won under the rules, but the rules should change so that a presidential election reflects the will of Americans and promotes a more participatory democracy.

Le sigh. Does it really need pointing out that we don’t have a democracy, we have a federal republic, and we have it for a reason? That the system was set up because states are big, many of them bigger than the European nations most people had come from at the time? I won’t provide links: anyone who doesn’t understand needs to reflect on just how their schools failed them.

The Electoral College, which is written into the Constitution, is more than just a vestige of the founding era; it is a living symbol of America’s original sin. When slavery was the law of the land, a direct popular vote would have disadvantaged the Southern states, with their large disenfranchised populations. Counting those men and women as three-fifths of a white person, as the Constitution originally did, gave the slave states more electoral votes.

There’s so much either incompetence and lack of knowledge or willful misunderstanding, it would be hard to know where to fisk it. So, why bother? These people are sore losers, and have reverted to their raaaaacism theme, which is a typical sign that a Democrat really has no adult argument.

The Sore Loser Symphony continues on for a few more paragraphs, but, Democrats should remember, things do not always turn out the way they expect them to. It looks great on paper, then, say, Republicans in Democrat states which almost never vote Republican realize that their votes actually matter, and they get out and vote for the GOP instead of voting 3rd party, not voting President, or just staying home.

You know, though, if the situation was reverse the NY Times and other Sore Losers would be telling us how prescient and awesome the Framers were in setting up this system.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 19, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a tree that can save planet Earth from getting a fever, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on who the HuffPo blames for migrant sex assaults.

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With Charlotte Move, NC’s Gender Confused Law Should Soon Be Repealed

By William Teach December 19, 2016 – 11:38 am

This whole thing started because the Charlotte City council decided they were going to force private businesses to allow the gender confused to use whatever bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms the wanted, and to hell with costs and privacy issues. The first time they tried, the measure failed. The GOP controlled General Assembly warned them not to attempt it again. They did. And, we ended up with HB2

(WTVD) The Charlotte City Council voted Monday to repeal a bathroom ordinance passed in early 2016 that led to the General Assembly convening a special session to pass North Carolina’s controversial HB2 law. Within minutes, Governor-elect Roy Cooper said the controversial state law will be repealed too. Governor Pat McCrory confirmed he will call for a special session for that purpose.

Charlotte’s law made businesses allow people to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity.

In response, HB2 requires people to use the restroom according to their biological sex listed on their birth certificate in government buildings, schools, and universities. It also blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination rules.

It looks pretty sure to occur, based on what the GOP GA leaders are saying.

However, I have a recommendation. First, there should be a provision that if any other city tries this in NC, the gender confused portion of HB2 will be automatically reinstated.

Second, the repeal law should require that all NCAA and NBA stadiums, Pepsi, Google, and any other private entity that complained, boycotted, etc, be required to have only gender neutral bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers. Since most refused to say whether they practice what they preach, they should be forced to walk the talk.

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It May Never Snow For Christmas In Cambridge Again Or Something

By William Teach December 19, 2016 – 10:30 am

The return of the “snowfall is a thing of the past” meme, which started with The Independent, and has since been deleted, probably due to it being yet another failed Warmist prognostication. It certainly hasn’t stopped other Warmist news outlets from trotting out the crazy, because a good talking point, no matter how anti-science it is, will never be discarded by the Cult of Climastrology. Here we go again

Why it may never snow again in Cambridge at Christmas

Dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones you used to know? Unfortunately snowfall on Christmas day may be a thing of the past, as climate change causes temperatures to rise in December.

According to figures released by the Met Office, we are more likely to see snowfall between January and February than December.

Oli Clayton, a spokesperson at the Met Office, told the News ,:“Climate change has also brought higher average temperatures over land and sea, which has generally reduced the chances of a white Christmas.”

The Met Office is renowned for getting their predictions right, ya know.

“Typically, in December there are only two days where snow settles on the ground, and in December the chances of those two days happening on Christmas are quite slim.”

Cambridge had its last white Christmas in 2010, which Dr Cain said was a “surprise”. She added: “As the UK’s average temperatures are increasing, snow on the ground is less frequent as temperatures are not dropping below zero. When Cambridge had a white Christmas in 2010 it was an unusually cold patch, and it took us all by surprise as it was out of the ordinary.”

So, wait: the chances of a white Christmas, heck, snowfall in December, is already historically unlikely? So, it’s just the normal climate, not Hotcoldwetdry?

Professor Aled Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University, said: “It is 200 years since we have regularly had white Christmases in the UK so it is not likely we will have a snowfall in the next two weeks. Although a lot of factors impact the weather, weather patterns are shifting due to climate change, which is creating warmer and wetter Decembers.”

So, it was apparently normal back during the Little Ice Age, but, in what is a typical Holocene Warm Period, it has to be due to people driving fossil fueled vehicles. These people think you’re stupid. Sadly, a goodly chunk of their disciples are stupid.

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New York Is Super Proud To Be A Sanctuary City

By William Teach December 19, 2016 – 7:17 am

You’re probably thinking “wait, NYC is a sanctuary city for illegal aliens? I thought Democrats told us that they didn’t really exist? Even Hillary’s running mate, Tim Kaine, said they were a myth. It’s not like there’s a map (which is incomplete). Or a list (more complete). Or that many Progressive (nice fascist) cities like San Francisco declare openly that they’re sanctuary cities. Now we have the Editorial Board of the NY Times

Proud to Be a Sanctuary City

If the next president’s immigration agenda includes a pitched battle over “sanctuary” cities, a term Donald Trump uses with disgust, the proper response from places like New York will be: Bring it on.

The word “sanctuary” as Mr. Trump deploys it — a place where immigrant criminals run amok, shielded from the long arm of federal law — is grossly misleading, because cities with “sanctuary” policies cannot obstruct federal enforcement and do not try to. Instead, they do what they can to welcome and support immigrants, including the unauthorized, and choose not to participate in deportation crackdowns they see as unjust, self-defeating and harmful to public safety.

In other words, the 2nd sentence contradicts the 1st, as they work to obstruct federal laws and enforcement, typically by refusing to not even bother checking immigration status, and, if they do, not bothering to either alert federal authorities and/or simply releasing them.

New York City wears that kind of “sanctuary” label proudly. As California considers bold steps to shield its residents from a possible Trump immigration assault, the New York City Council has already built its own strong web of protections. A groundbreaking City Council program has provided free legal representation for children who fled violence in Central America and arrived unaccompanied at the border. Of 1,265 cases accepted under the program, 72 children were granted asylum and 55 obtained lawful permanent residency. The Council has expanded health and legal services in immigrant communities. And it passed bills to keep federal immigration agents out of the Rikers Island jails, and to forbid city police and corrections officers from detaining suspects for deportation, unless there is a judge’s warrant.

Here’s a bold solution: The GOP Congress should remove federal funding for sanctuary cities for law enforcement, and President Trump should invite all illegals to move to the sanctuary cities. He should say “if you’re there, we won’t come after you.” Federal law enforcement should refuse to investigate crimes in the sanctuary cities. And, as crime explodes, as the city budgets explode, as urban blight increases, as urban poverty increases, as the cities become run down and trash ridden, moving towards Mogadishu status, we’ll all laugh and laugh and laugh.

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NY Times Has Great News: Our Republic Is Ending, Becoming Either Nazi Germany Or The Roman Empire!

By William Teach December 19, 2016 – 6:55 am

The Sore Loser Symphony continues. Trump Derangement Syndrome reigns. Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner lays out the Sore Loser playbook for how Democrats will attempt to block Trump. Michael Moore has his own Sore Loser request for the Electoral College. And then there’s Sore Loser Paul Krugman, who had nary a bad word or complaint about Obama during the past 8 years, proclaiming we’re either heading towards Nazi Germany or the Roman Empire

How Republics End

Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s. And they are right to do so. It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.

It sounds like some people need Prozac, or at least to get off the current drugs they’re on.

But the ’30s isn’t the only era with lessons to teach us. Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the ancient world. Initially, I have to admit, I was doing it for entertainment and as a refuge from news that gets worse with each passing day. But I couldn’t help noticing the contemporary resonances of some Roman history — specifically, the tale of how the Roman Republic fell.

Here’s what I learned: Republican institutions don’t protect against tyranny when powerful people start defying political norms. And tyranny, when it comes, can flourish even while maintaining a republican facade.

His main complaint is, you guessed it, about foreign influence. And because of that

And what happens to the republic as a result? Famously, on paper the transformation of Rome from republic to empire never happened. Officially, imperial Rome was still ruled by a Senate that just happened to defer to the emperor, whose title originally just meant “commander,” on everything that mattered. We may not go down exactly the same route — although are we even sure of that? — but the process of destroying democratic substance while preserving forms is already underway.

Interesting. Where were Krugman’s complaints when the IRS was abusing its power? When Obama and his people were slamming through more and more regulations, including the vile and oppressive Waters Of The United States and Clean Power Plan, putting more and more power and control in the hands of Los Federales? When Obama and the Dems jammed through Obamacare over the will of The People?

Krugman has a few more complaints, putting the blame on Republicans (hey, remember when Republicans tried to investigate governmental wrong-doing, and had their investigations slow walked by Democrats and the Obama admin? Remember all the regulations from Obama that have been blocked and he’s ignored what the federal judges said “don’t do this”?), of course, ending with

One thing all of this makes clear is that the sickness of American politics didn’t begin with Donald Trump, any more than the sickness of the Roman Republic began with Caesar. The erosion of democratic foundations has been underway for decades, and there’s no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover.

But if there is any hope of redemption, it will have to begin with a clear recognition of how bad things are. American democracy is very much on the edge.

Well, hey, Paul, I have a solution. First, term limits for Congress. Second, repeal the 17 Amendment, let States appoint their Senators. Third, reduce the size and scope of federal agencies. Those three things will put more power back in the hands of the states and the people, as it’s supposed to be, and limit elected officials “toeing the party line and defending the party’s rule.”

Furthermore, get rid of public unions. Follow federal laws, like on immigration. Protect the borders. Make sure that people voting are actually eligible to vote.

You’re still nuts, though.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 18, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is snow that kids will soon never see again at Christmas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on the Sore Losers’ Last Stand.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 18, 2016 – 9:09 am

Happy Sunday! A beautiful day in America, only a week away from Christmas. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline notes that the media are still sore losers
  2. NoTricksZone covers green preaching Germany missing it’s carbon targets
  3. Bizzy Blog discusses real news vs fake news
  4. Blazing Cat Fur notes more of those peace loving migrants in Italy
  5. Chicks On The Right features one of those super tolerant liberals
  6. Creeping Sharia has a chilling map showing attacks on women by “migrants”
  7. Evil Blogger Lady has Trump Derangement Syndrome from the right
  8. Jihad Watch covers a woman loving Canadian army Muslim chaplain
  9. Moonbattery features yet another hoax hate crime
  10. Outside The Beltway notes that the Electoral College is not un-Constitutional
  11. The Geller Report covers Germany’s “rent a Jew” program
  12. The Last Refuge wants to save the Snowflakes this Christmas
  13. The Lid notes the hyper-PC Christmas season
  14. The Other McCain notes the theory that the Internet makes you gay
  15. And last, but not least, Watcher Of Weasels has embracing the 2nd Amendment

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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Washington Post Suddenly Concerned About A Divisive Tone From The President

By William Teach December 18, 2016 – 7:41 am

No, not the one who’s been in office for almost 8 years. Nor the one who seems to be involved in actual events. No, this one, as posed in the “news” section by Philip Rucker and John Wagner

Trump’s tone could pose challenge as he seeks to govern a deeply divided nation

He strode out on a catwalk at a football stadium here to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.” A 50-foot cedar tree, which aides installed behind his stage with a crane, was decorated with Christmas ornaments larger than human heads. His crowd, thousands deep, held up familiar signs (“Make America Great Again”) and reprised signature chants (“Lock her up!”).

“This is where it all began,” President-elect Donald Trump exhorted, basking in the adulation of the Alabamians who had come to see him Saturday afternoon in the same stadium where 16 months earlier he staged the first electric mega-rally of his improbable campaign. (snip)

Rather than projecting inclusiveness and striving to heal the wounds from the bitter election, as past presidents-elect have done, Trump has traveled on his “USA Thank You Tour” only to states he turned red on election night. He has whipped up his massive crowds, and they in turn have displayed their allegiance — a powerful reminder to members of Congress that it could be politically dangerous to cross him. (snip)

As Trump assembles his administration and prepares to govern, he has continued the divisive rhetoric and showmanship of his campaign. He has mocked his opponents, sneered at the media and trumpeted his electoral feats. To the nearly 54 percent of voters who cast ballots for someone else, Trump’s message has been, in short: Get on board or get left behind.

Now, they do have a point. Trump could certainly work to heal some divisions and should certainly be taking less shots, really, no shots, at individuals and groups who disagree with him. This is antithetical to the system whereby citizens should be subject to reprisals from elected officials, as laid out in the 1st Amendment. It’s below the station of President, and even President-elect.

That said, where was the concern over the last almost 8 years over Obama’s divisiveness? Obama consistently picked fights with Congressional Republicans, using language that not only smeared and insulted them, but did the same to Citizens who vote Republican. He’s insulted directly or had his surrogates insult numerous citizens and groups. He’s insulted the Supreme Court.

He’s called American’s lazy more than once, and done it while overseas. He’s called us soft (though, let’s be honest, people who vote Democrat very much seem to be soft). He called one police department stupid. He’s called others racist. Insults to those who opposed Obamacare. The NRA and those who support it. Gun owners in general.

He’s attacked private citizens and groups both domestic and abroad. He’s insulted other countries. Heck, I have a giant list (which hasn’t been updated this term, because, really, this is what he does) of all the people, places, and things which have been insulted or met his big bus.

Obama has done almost nothing to bring people together. But, of course, in the Age Of Trump, the tenor of the media will be totally different. What they don’t get, though, is that they were on the ballot. I scoffed at this notion from Trumpites numerous times, but, they were correct. And the media lost. Citizens know it. And will judge the media accordingly as the pull their anti-Republican and anti-Trump schtick.

Interestingly, at the end of the article, after so many have moved on to new stories, we learn

At the end of his speeches — after the teasing and taunting, after the Christmas greetings, after the cries in the crowd to jail Clinton — Trump has looked ahead to life as the president and tried to cast himself as a unifying figure.

His crowds may have been the white voters of red America, but the president-elect has declared, as he did Thursday night in Hershey, Pa., that his message is for Americans “from all parties, all beliefs, all walks of life.”

“Whether you are African American, Hispanic American or Asian American or whatever the hell you are, remember that we are all Americans and we are all united by one shared destiny,” Trump said. “So I’m asking everyone to join this incredible movement.”

Huh. That’s more than Obama ever did.

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Warmists Are Still Pushing The Population Reduction Meme

By William Teach December 17, 2016 – 3:12 pm

Perhaps they should refuse to breed and reduce their own population

(Delmarvanow) In a classic case of confusing root causes with symptoms, an environmental report on the United States’ rising contribution to climate change during a recent 15-year period was titled “The Carbon Boom.”

It should have been titled “The Population Boom,” as virtually the whole increase measured in carbon dioxide emissions came from more people, not from burning more fossil fuel per capita.

This remains, approaching every environmental solution in terms of reducing our carbon (or nitrogen or land-use) “footprint,” lowering our per-capita impacts — seldom even discussing the other major part of the solution, the size of the population.

So, it’s people, not fossil fueled vehicles. For a change, though, they aren’t aiming at poor people in 3rd world shit holes

In their paper, Population Engineering and the Fight Against Climate Change, Travis N. Rieder, a Johns Hopkins bioethicist, and his colleagues Jake Earl and Colin Hickey, of Georgetown University, examine a range of techniques societies could use, or use more widely, to stabilize population. The authors, all moral philosophers, rule out the most coercive policies, such as sterilization and mandated family sizes. They would aim stronger population-slowing measures at wealthier, more developed countries to avoid unfairly targeting poorer, more desperate and less educated people.

Of course, the wealthier nations already have a much lower birth rate

The authors point out that our reproductive choices have a “carbon legacy,” as every child’s contribution to climate change continues for generations and expands with that child’s children and grandchildren, and so on. It’s enough to utterly swamp all the reductions one might make in their own impacts.

Sure looks like they’re aiming at everyone, though. And for all the protestations about not being anti human, they’re anti human.

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