Trump Meets With Gore: Reason For Concern?

By William Teach December 6, 2016 – 6:17 am

So, this happened Monday

(CNN) President-elect Donald Trump met on Monday with Al Gore — one of the most vocal advocates of fighting climate change.

Before the meeting, Trump spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on a daily briefing call that Gore would meet with Ivanka Trump, the President-elect’s daughter, about climate issues, but he did not know what specifically was on the agenda. He had also said the former Democratic vice president would not meet with Trump himself.

But Gore told reporters after the meeting that he met with Trump himself after seeing Ivanka.

“I had a lengthy and very productive session with the President-elect,” Gore said, according to the pool report. “It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the President-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I’m just going to leave it at that.”

Now, there is no reason why people cannot meet and talk with political opponents, or any type of opponents. As a matter of fact, that should be a good thing in an open and free society. However, what was the subject(s) of the meeting? Did Gore attempt to persuade Trump on Hotcoldwetdry? Or, perhaps they discussed the best private jet to take to the next ‘climate change’ meeting, COP 23 in Bonn, Germany, in early November 2017? Or, maybe about a national carbon tax? Or, maybe they discussed the property values of mansions in Malibu?

There’s certainly room for agreement in action, as I’ve stated many, many times. There’s nothing wrong with pushing for more alternative energy. The problem is how it is done. The current mode of throwing billions in taxpayer money, most of which goes to campaign donors, to alternatives programs which produce few jobs and little energy, and, that energy is well above the cost of current energy, is a bad method. There are many things to find common ground on, like true environmental standards, discount all the ‘climate change’ garbage. More energy efficiency. And so forth.

But, this kind of meeting with zero details creates concern, and is one of the reasons I’ve long stated that I really don’t trust the guy. We’ll have to see what he actually does when inaugurated.

What’s Up With That’s Eric Worrell doesn’t seem concerned. I guess we’ll see, and whether Ivanka can talk daddy into doing lots of the same things Obama did.

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NYC Intentionally Congesting Traffic For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach December 5, 2016 – 5:21 pm

I will say, it would be great if the traffic in big cities, like NYC, was reduced, particularly personal traffic. But, that’s more along the lines of safety, less noise, fewer actual pollutants, and just the annoyance of that much traffic. Warmists, though, have their own ideas (via Moonbattery)

(NY Post)  City officials have intentionally ground Midtown to a halt with the hidden purpose of making drivers so miserable that they leave their cars at home and turn to mass transit or bicycles, high-level sources told The Post.

Today’s gridlock is the result of an effort by the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations over more than a decade of redesigning streets and ramping up police efforts, the sources said.

“The traffic is being engineered,” a former top NYPD official told The Post, explaining a long-term plan that began under Mayor Mike Bloomberg and hasn’t slowed with Mayor de Blasio.

“The city streets are being engineered to create traffic congestion, to slow traffic down, to favor bikers and pedestrians,” the former official said. (snip)

The goal of the jammed traffic is to shift as many drivers as possible to public transit or bicycles.

Who wants to bet that de Blasio fails to use bicycles, walk, or take public transit? Unless you consider city owned vehicles limo’ing him around as public transit. And you have to know that so much of this is due to Cult of Climastrology beliefs. Fortunately, he’ll be able to blame the mid-town issues on soon-to-be President Trump. As Moonbattery notes

Leftists instinctively disapprove of automobiles because they let you go most anywhere, whereas mass transit takes you only where planners have determined you ought to go, and bicycles don’t take you far. These preferences come packaged in global warming malarkey.

Remember, though, this is for you, not for Warmists themselves.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a day made so hot by carbon pollution that people need umbrellas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on a Dem bill demanding the TSA panders to the gender confused.

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New Climaprognostication: Smaller But More Powerful Storms

By William Teach December 5, 2016 – 10:24 am

For the most part, the Cult of Climastrology has failed in their doomsaying when it comes to storms. Their constantly changing duckspeak on hurricanes, for example. On tornadoes. On the end of snow. And so much other weather. So, now we get

Climate change will drive stronger, smaller storms in US

The effects of climate change will likely cause smaller but stronger storms in the United States, according to a new framework for modeling storm behavior developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. Though storm intensity is expected to increase over today’s levels, the predicted reduction in storm size may alleviate some fears of widespread severe flooding in the future.

The new approach, published today in Journal of Climate, uses new statistical methods to identify and track storm features in both observational weather data and new high-resolution climate modeling simulations. When applied to one simulation of the future effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, the framework helped clarify a common discrepancy in model forecasts of precipitation changes.

“Climate models all predict that storms will grow significantly more intense in the future, but that total precipitation will increase more mildly over what we see today,” said senior author Elisabeth Moyer, associate professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and co-PI of the Center for Robust Decision-Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP). “By developing new statistical methods that study the properties of individual rainstorms, we were able to detect changes in storm frequency, size, and duration that explain this mismatch.”

Great. More computer models. The same as looking into a crystal ball. Regardless, it’s all about future doom

“While our results apply to only one model simulation,” Moyer said, “we do know that the amount-intensity discrepancy is driven by pretty basic physics. Rainstorms in every model, and in the real world, will adjust in some way to let intensity grow by more than total rainfall does. Most people would have guessed that storms would change in frequency, not in size. We now have the tools at hand to evaluate these results across models and to check them against real-world changes, as well as to evaluate the performance of the models themselves.”

And, as you’d expect, this is all blamed on Mankind. They take what is a primarily natural process, then blame Mankind, then create computer models to support their pseudo-religious beliefs, then demand all sorts of Big Government solutions. Oh, and more money for “research.”

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Obstruction Is Suddenly Fashionable Again, Just Don’t Call It Obstruction

By William Teach December 5, 2016 – 9:06 am

You can bet that, come January 20, 2017, the Credentialed Media will surely follow the Democrat line that it’s not obstruction, it’s principled opposition

(Politico) Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.

Multiple Democratic senators told POLITICO in interviews last week that after watching Republicans sit on Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court for nearly a year, they’re in no mood to fast-track Trump’s selections.

Now, in all fairness, what comes around goes around, much in the same way that Democrats might be hoist on their own petard when it comes to the nuclear option. That said, obstruction is a time honored way to make sure, among other things, that the minority party cannot be run over by the majority.

But it’s not just about exacting revenge.

Yes it is.

Democrats argue that some of the president-elect’s more controversial Cabinet picks — such as Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Steven Mnuchin for treasury secretary — demand a thorough public airing.

In other words, demagoguery and character assassination will occur.

“They’ve been rewarded for stealing a Supreme Court justice. We’re going to help them confirm their nominees, many of whom are disqualified?” fumed Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). “It’s not obstruction, it’s not partisan, it’s just a duty to find out what they’d do in these jobs.”

See? It’s no longer obstruction!

Democrats can gum up the works with procedural delays, but, they will not be able to block any of Trump’s appointments.

That said, the days of mandated bipartisanship for critical nominations are over. Democrats ensured that when they changed Senate rules in 2013 to kill the 60-vote requirement for all nominations except the Supreme Court. Democrats then moved to approve dozens of lifetime judges, though Republicans required procedural votes to stall the nominations as long as they could.

What will be a real hoot is when Trump nominates someone to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

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Pelosi: Hey, There’s No Need To Change The Direction Of The Democratic Party

By William Teach December 5, 2016 – 7:16 am

One has to wonder if Democrats saw this interview or read about it and went

(Daily Caller) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she doesn’t believe people in the Democratic party want to take a new direction during an appearance on “Face the Nation” Sunday.

Despite the Democrats underwhelming results on election night, Pelosi said the party is not questioning its identity.

“Well, I don’t think that people want a new direction. Our values unify us,” she told host John Dickerson. “And our values are about supporting America’s working families. That’s one that everyone is in agreement on.”

Yet, America’s working families have rather checked out on the Democrats in large numbers. They’ve been losing at the federal, state, and local level since the 2010 elections. Under Pelosi’s leadership (should that be in quotes?), the House has seen historic losses. You can obviously blame that a bit on Obama, but, Obama didn’t suffer himself in 2012. Regardless, she sees no problem with the values of the Democrats, like jacking up the minimum wage which will put so many of the working families on the unemployment line as they are priced out of a job. Or forcing citizens to accept the gender confused in the bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers with their underage daughters. Or all the Special Snowflakes and Social Justice Warriors having fits over everything that causes a little bit of upset, requiring safe spaces and coloring books and demands for fascistic regulations.

Or how the economy is basically hanging on a life line thanks to Democrat policies. Or the poor state of health insurance thanks to Obamacare. Or that they want gun confiscation. Or that they’re policies make citizens less safe from crime. Or that they favor illegal aliens over American citizens. Or that they want to bring in tens of thousands of people from areas rife with Islamic extremism with virtually no background checks. Or etc and so on.

“What we want is a better connection of our message to working families in our country. And that clearly in the election showed that message wasn’t coming through,” she said. “But we are united in terms of the security of our country, which is our first responsibility, to be smart and strong and not reckless in how we protect the American people, strong in how we protect our economy.”

In Nancy’s World, it’s not that the message is bad, but that they need better distribution. I guess she missed that their message has been propagated via social media directly to the consumer, without the Credentialed Media filter, and it hasn’t helped Democrats.

That said, from a pragmatic point of view, Republicans should hope that Nancy holds the course.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 4, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on some Trump Derangement Syndrome.

It’s umbrella week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach December 4, 2016 – 9:45 am

Happy Sunday, the first in December as we creep towards a new year. There’s a nip of winter in the air. Not quite sure who did this pinup, it’s coming up with multiple names, but, hey, who doesn’t love an American cowgirl?

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline covers the Green Party dropping it’s Pa recount
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That takes on the tornado outbreak hysteria
  3. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog takes on the hottest year ever meme
  4. Black and Blonde Media has the latest Hollywood whiner
  5. Bunkerville highlights liberals slurring average Americans
  6. Chicks On the Right discusses the insanity of the Barbie movie
  7. DaTechGuy (baldilocks) notes that Trump is both God and the Devil
  8. Doug Ross @ Journal notes the 14 things Dems must do to live up to their principles
  9. Fire Andrea Mitchell notes how the recounts in Milwaukee went
  10. Flopping Aces has the new Democrat dog whistle
  11. Gay Patriot wonders if the Left can move beyond hate
  12. Legal Insurrection has sore losers week
  13. Moonbattery notes what white liberals really think of black voters
  14. The Daley Gator notes that there is actually a war on Christmas
  15. And last, but not least, the First Street Journal takes a look at the real unemployment numbers

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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Everybody Panic: No One Can Stop Trump From Using Nuclear Weapons

By William Teach December 4, 2016 – 8:08 am

Fortunately, Trump’s no Caesar yet, as the Washington Post’s Alex Wellerstein has a meltdown in the Era of Trump

No one can stop President Trump from using nuclear weapons. That’s by design.

Sometime in the next few weeks, Donald Trump will be briefed on the procedures for how to activate the U.S. nuclear arsenal, if he hasn’t already learned about them.

All year, the prospect of giving the real estate and reality TV mogul the power to launch attacks that would kill millions of people was one of the main reasons his opponents argued against electing him. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons,” Hillary Clinton said in her speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination. She cut an ad along the same lines. Republicans who didn’t support Trump — and even some who did, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) — also said they didn’t think he could be trusted with the launch codes.

That’s funny. Because enough people in the States that mattered ignored the bleating and voted to make Trump president. Deal with it.

Now they’re his. When Trump takes office in January, he will have sole authority over more than 7,000 warheads. There is no failsafe. The whole point of U.S. nuclear weapons control is to make sure that the president — and only the president — can use them if and whenever he decides to do so. The one sure way to keep President Trump from launching a nuclear attack, under the system we’ve had in place since the early Cold War, would have been to elect someone else.

Perhaps Democrats should have nominated someone else who could have beaten Trump, instead of engaging in Trump Derangement Syndrome based on unhinged feelings of future doom.

Wellerstein goes on to explain exactly why only the President can initiate the launch of nuclear weapons, an interesting read from just an informational point of view, before ending with

The people who set up the current command-and-control system did believe there was a check in place: elections. Don’t want an insane president to have nuclear weapons? Don’t put one in office. But this isn’t necessarily much of a check — even rational presidents have bad days; even high-functioning people succumb to mental illness or substance abuse. (snip)

Congress ceded a considerable amount of power to the presidency in 1946. Seventy years later, maybe it is time lawmakers took some of it back.

So, now that Trump will soon be President, Things Must Change. In 2008, a demagogue with delusions of grandeur and a belief in the extreme power of the Executive Office and the will to use it was elected, a guy with no actual executive experience and penchant for destroying political opponents, yet, these same weenies writing for news orgs felt no need to worry about him using nuclear weapons. I guess it has to do with the notion that Obama wouldn’t want to irradiate all the golf courses.

Fortunately, Trump is no Caesar

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Yeah, TDS in full. After eight years of a true imperial presidency.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 3, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible electricity sucking smartphone that No One Else should be allowed to have, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on certain people needing to get a grip.

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