Democrats Need To Embrace Hardcore Climate Radicalism To Survive Or Something

By William Teach November 29, 2016 – 10:30 am

The Week’s Ryan Cooper takes exactly the wrong message away from the election, but, hey, I’m good with this, because it means even more Democrat losses

Why the Democrats need to get radical on climate change

The Democratic Party leadership that set up Hillary Clinton as the 2016 nominee is one of the all-time failures in American political history. Not only did they bobble an easily winnable presidential election, they have overseen a virtual collapse of the party at the state and local levels. Now a climate denier will take office at a time when aggressive climate policy is literally a matter of life and death. (By the way, global sea ice coverage is right now something like eight standard deviations below the average.)

But more than that, Democrats must admit that their previous climate record was also pathetically inadequate. If they wish to preserve the United States in its current form, or perhaps even at all, hardcore climate radicalism must become an ironclad party commitment. (snip)

All this means that when Democrats do manage to claw back power, climate policy is going to have to be aggressive on the order of a total war mobilization to get emissions down in time.

If they get hardcore on Hotcoldwetdry, they might not see power. When stacked against other issues, particularly bread and butter types, it almost always comes in last or next to last. When people have nothing better to do, they might care. Tell them that all the policies to stop Hotcoldwetdry will increase their cost of living, increase their energy bill, increase the cost of food, increase the cost of homes, restrict their freedom, etc and so on, citizens mostly say “no thanks!”

But, hey, Dems, keep pushing things people want nothing to do with. They can end up like the Labor Party in Queensland, Australia.

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Court Orders NY AG To Turn Over Climate Change Secrecy Docs

By William Teach November 29, 2016 – 8:10 am

This is pretty bad news for the Cult of Climastrology and Schneiderman in particular

(Washington Times) A court has ordered New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to turn over documents related to a multistate confidentiality agreement on climate change investigations.

New York Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack ruled that Mr. Schneiderman has 30 days to comply with the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s May 5 request under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.

The Democratic prosecutor, who launched last year a probe into ExxonMobil, has fought the request for any pact made with other states or certain environmental activists, arguing that such documents are exempt from disclosure.

Sam Kazman, general counsel for the free market institute, called the court’s decision “a blow to the anti-speech campaign led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.”

“While the campaign by him and his cohorts that began in March continues against those who disagree with him on global warming, we are glad to see that it is being held subject to the basic laws of the land,” Mr. Kazman said in a Monday statement.

Schneiderman and his co-conspirators might think they can ignore the rulings from judges in Texas, but, not New York, though you can expect that he’ll slow walk this and possibly even blow the ruling off. The last thing that members of the Cult of Climastrology want is transparency in any form or fashion.

“By requiring Schneiderman to fully comply with our freedom of information request, the court is ensuring that agencies cannot use shortcuts as a means of skirting New York’s Freedom of Information law,” he said.

Warmists will use any shady venues to hide their documents. And their data. They are very unhappy in letting anyone see either.

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Trump Picks Obamacare Foe Congressman Tom Price For HHS Head

By William Teach November 29, 2016 – 7:44 am

You may or may not like some of Trump’s other picks and potential picks (such as Romney for State, which I think would be a great pick), but this one is outstanding

(Washington Post) President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), a fierce critic of the Affordable Care Act and a proponent of overhauling the nation’s entitlement programs, to lead the department of Health and Human Services, a person briefed on the decision confirmed Monday night.

An announcement of Trump’s selection of Price, a third-generation doctor who chairs the House Budget Committee and became a fervent champion of Trump’s candidacy, is expected to be made as early as Tuesday.

As HHS secretary, Price would be the nation’s top health official and the incoming administration’s point person for dismantling the sprawling 2010 health-care law, which Trump promised during his campaign to start dismantling on his first day in the Oval Office. The 62-year-old lawmaker, who represents a wealthy suburban Atlanta district, has played a leading role in the Republican opposition to the law and has helped draft several comprehensive bills to replace it. The GOP-led House has voted five dozen times to eliminate all or part of the ACA but has never had a chance of accomplishing its goal as long as President Obama has been in the White House.

Price has a very detailed plan, HR2300, Empowering Patients First Act. I like the part about him being from a wealthy suburb. Does the WP write the same thing about Nancy Pelosi and others?

Price has not had executive experience or run an agency. HHS is a sprawling department with a $1 trillion budget. Its Medicare and Medicaid programs affect the lives of more than 100 million Americans young and old. It regulates the nation’s food and drugs. Through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it runs public health programs that reach into every state and around the globe. It is an engine of biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health.

Suddenly, not having executive experience is a Bad Thing. Obama didn’t have any. Nor did Hillary Clinton. Nor many of Obama’s picks. But, in the Era of Trump, this is once again a bad thing.

Vox’s Excitable Sarah Cliff says that Price is exactly the person you pick if you want to dismantle Obamacare

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services Secretary, already has a plan for how to abolish Obamacare.

The Washington Post reported late Monday that Trump intends to announce Price, who currently serves as House Budget Chair, to lead the federal agency overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act.

Price will arrive with at HHS with a clear blueprint for what comes next: he is the author of the Empowering Patients First Act, one of the most thorough and detailed proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare. He’s the HHS Secretary you’d pick if you were dead serious about dismantling the law.

Unsurprisingly, Cliff attempts to paint the legislation in the worst possible light. Of course, in Liberal World, anything that doesn’t create a single payer system, or at least a “public option”, to replace the failed Obamacare system is evil in their minds. What will Price’s legislation do?

“The Empowering Patients First Act puts patients, families and doctors in charge by focusing on the principles of affordability, accessibility, quality, innovation, choices and responsiveness. Those principles form the foundation of the solutions in H.R. 2300 – solutions including individual health pools and expanded health savings accounts, tax credits for the purchase of coverage and lawsuit abuse reforms to reduce the costly practice of defensive medicine. The solutions in the Empowering Patients First Act will get Washington out of the way while protecting and strengthening the doctor-patient relationship.”

That whole empowering citizens and limiting government thing is obviously 180 degrees against what Liberals want.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Tufts U. Safe Spacers Reject Free Speech Resolution

By William Teach November 28, 2016 – 2:44 pm

All these little Special Snowflakes should remember that what goes around could come around. Oh, and that the Real World will soon smack their massively in-debt faces with the Cold Mackerel Of Reality

(Heat Street)  The Tufts University student government has overwhelmingly rejected a resolution to broaden free-speech protections on campus, with some student leaders denouncing the measure as an “unsafe” act that “actually really harms students.”

The resolution from Tufts student Jake Goldberg had called for adding clarifications to the university’s speech guidelines, which have earned Tufts a “red light” rating from the free-speech advocacy group FIRE.

The resolution took aim at the university’s vague administrative prohibitions against “inappropriate language,” “gender bias,” “hurtful words,” and “comments on an individual’s body or appearance,” among other examples cited in the measure.

Such guidelines were far too broad, and threatened free speech rights on campus, Goldberg argued. Clarifying language was needed “so that we the students are fully aware of exactly what conduct violates Tufts’ policies and simultaneously receive the full protection of the First Amendment in regards to speech.”

Tufts student leaders did not agree. The student senate recently voted down the measure 26 to zero, with two abstentions, the College Fix reports. A number of student senators argued that the proposal “actually really harms students” because “clarity in itself is subjective.”

And then people wonder how we ended up with Donald Trump. Seriously, they even felt unsafe because a resolution on free speech, guaranteed by the Bill Of Rights, was mentioned.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 28, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution created hot snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on the new science of exercise.

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There’s Now A Support Group For Being Sad Over ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 28, 2016 – 10:30 am

Poor little snowflakes (heatflakes?), bless their hearts

Sad about climate change? There’s a support group for that.
A new program, reflecting lessons from Alcoholics Anonymous, aims to help people work through their grief about climate change. The first step: Admit we have a problem.

A dozen people sit in an airy Salt Lake City conference room, the view of the Wasatch mountains a reminder of why they’re here. It is October 2016, and they have gathered to share in grief.

But this is not a typical support group. This smattering of artists, activists, writers, and others is discussing their feelings about how they each contribute to climate change.

The gathering is the brainchild of Laura Schmidt, who described the meeting in a recent Skype interview. Schmidt’s day job at HEAL Utah is to rally others to support clean air legislation in the state. By night, she’s been organizing this monthly “Good Grief” group, which focuses on working through heavy feelings about difficult societal problems, especially climate change.

It really goes downhill after that, even describing the 9 steps these delicate heatflakes need to take to get over their “grief”, which, let’s be honest, is self imposed based on junk science.

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NY Times Is Really Enthused To Use Spectrum Auction To Increase Government Broadcasting

By William Teach November 28, 2016 – 7:18 am

Because what we need are more government held indoctrination divisions

(NY Times) With the demand for wireless broadband growing, the Federal Communications Commission is auctioning off a big chunk of the public airwaves. Billions of dollars are likely to change hands, a windfall that could transform local media across the country. (snip)

The proceeds from these sales could produce enormous public benefits if they are used to build a 21st-century infrastructure for public interest media. For states, communities and universities holding licenses in play, the auction presents an important opportunity to invest in new ways to meet the information needs of the public.

A broad and exciting array of public interest initiatives, including digital news sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, public data sites, apps and civic engagement, could be built with some of the money generated by the auction.

This moves into a specific discussion of goings on in New Jersey, where writer Christopher J. Daggett resides. He was once a nominal Republican, and has since gone to the dark side as a supposed Independent, one who is vastly left-wing

Even so, New Jersey lawmakers are looking hungrily at the potential bonanza of any sale to plow into the state budget. But these airwaves are the public’s, and their use has always come with public-interest obligations. A significant portion of any proceeds should be deployed strategically to meet the public’s real need for news and for information that helps citizens live their lives.

Among other uses, the New Jersey fund could support civic technology apps to put valuable data about elections, services and government spending into people’s hands; stronger community news coverage and watchdog journalism, particularly in underserved urban areas; more outlets for diverse voices that have traditionally been left out of newsrooms and news coverage; and a statewide civic engagement network to help people identify and explore the issues that matter most to them. Money might also be directed to support education, arts and culture.

In other words, this is about creating a massive Orwellian government news media with tons of taxpayer funded distribution points, which, let’s face it, would push the Government’s point of view.

Now, let me ask, since this is the type of thing that Democrats would certainly support: how would you like this apparatus under the hands of a President Trump?

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Trump Punks Media With Claim Of “Millions Of Illegal Votes”

By William Teach November 28, 2016 – 7:01 am

The liberal leading and Democratic Party supporting news media still do not get Donald Trump. He made a big chunk of his campaign as an assault on that same media, and won. Many, including me, scoffed at the notion that the MSM was on the ballot, as so many of his supporters claimed. Well, they were. And he’s still punking them.

Surely, Trump has noted the huge number of pieces on the electoral college and the calls to do things like abolish it and/or have the electors go faithless and vote for Hillary. He’s certainly seen all the MSM article/opinion pieces on the recount in 3 states Trump won. So, he goes and drops this

Now, if we just look at that tweet, as the media surely has, we get a Typical Media Freakout

This continues all over the place within the Credentialed Media. Could Trump be correct? Probably not. But, hey, without an examination of the tallies in places like California and New York, how do we know that they didn’t have millions of illegal aliens, felons, people voting two or more times, and legal aliens voting?

This is where Trump has trolled the media, exposing their bias. Rather than wondering if there is a possibility that there could be lots of people voting who shouldn’t, they immediately jump to the types of hysterical anti-Trump headlines, and articles, that you would expect. Unless Trump had been a Democrat, then they would have been sympatico, much like all the ones on the Electoral College and attempted recounts.

But, Trump continued

Adding this in, we see that Trump most definitely understands the notion of getting rid of the Electoral College and replacing it with the popular vote. The election would be put in the hands of just a few areas. Candidates would only need to campaign in a small number of areas, rather than a large number of states. Among other issues.

We can look forward to at least 4 years of this kind of media apoplexy over everything.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 27, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon polluting leather that comes from horrible carbon polluting cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on what to do about “fake news”.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 27, 2016 – 9:10 am

Happy Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day in America, one closer to the end of the Era Of Obama. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and people will be flocking to the gyms for their twice yearly day of “I gotta do something about these pounds”, the other being January 2nd. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help, though didn’t need to.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Michelle Malkin covers Hillary now questioning the election results
  2. Creeping Sharia wonders if Islam is compatible with the Constitution
  3. Jihad Watch explains who these refugees heading to Europe actually are (and what they do)
  4. The Geller Report notes how the ROP is making the world a safe place
  5. The Last Tradition covers Typical Obama when it comes to Castro
  6. This ain’t Hell… has a few feel good stories
  7. Virtual Mirage has a few taxing questions
  8. Weasel Zippers discusses the oh so tolerant LGBT community
  9. Noisy Room covers the new censorship regime
  10. Neo-neocon wonders who decides decorum and respect
  11. Moonbattery covers the price women have to pay for gender confused social justice
  12. Just One Minute notes that it’s been a brutal month for the left
  13. Heat Street notes that no shave November is now under attack for being too masculine
  14. Fire Andrea Mitchell offers thanks to Obama for Iran’s latest move
  15. And last, but not least, Fausta’s Blog is tickled by the irony of the day Castro met Lucifer

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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