If All You See…

By William Teach October 26, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is the need to live like Native Americans from 1,000 years ago, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on the latest from Florida.

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Good News: The Worst Is Yet To Come With Obamacare

By William Teach October 26, 2016 – 10:30 am

Obamacare is going downhill, just as predicted. Democrats know it, which is why they’re trying to get Republicans to fix it

https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/790686313485770753

Because the worst is yet to come

(NY Post) Still ahead: Budget crises in the states that accepted temporary federal bribes to massively expand their Medicaid rolls. More premium hikes on the exchanges, as ever fewer healthy people sign up for coverage — prompting even lower enrollment, and more price hikes, in a sharp “death spiral.”

The “Cadillac tax” will kick in soon, too — so if your union has won great health coverage at the bargaining table, that plan will pay a penalty to Uncle Sam.

The legal challenges aren’t done yet, either.

The entire thing is unsustainable, so

Now ObamaCare is collapsing, and presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton vows to “fix” it with new spending and even more Washington control of the market. If she gets Democratic majorities in Congress, she’ll keep that promise — and the madness will grow.

The Democrats next action is to implement a public option, which they’re already calling for, as insurers limit their Exchange offerings, if not drop out altogether, as we’ve seen happening. This is not a bug of Ocare, it’s a feature. And the next stage is a full single payer system. Ocare was just a step in the direction.

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The Polar Vortex Is Going To Get Worse, And It’s Your Fault For Driving A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

By William Teach October 26, 2016 – 8:08 am

Or, maybe it’s because you refuse to spread awareness of ‘climate change’. Or don’t want to give up their money and liberty to government. This is the kind of thing we’re getting from Scientific American these days (which has been moving in the direction of utter politicization, much like Nature)

Dreaded Polar Vortex May Be Shifting

The polar vortex in recent years has brought the kind of miserable cold to northern states that made it hard to breathe outside. We’re probably in for more of the same.

In other words, “winter”. But, there’s no such thing as natural winter in Warmist World

That’s the finding of a new study published yesterday in the journal Nature that finds that as the Arctic warms, it is shifting the polar vortex to Europe. That in turn will bring more bursts of frigid cold to North America.

Those temperature drops could lead to miserable days in February and March, the research finds. Conversely, those drops in temperature could offset some of global warming’s effect in those regions, said Martyn Chipperfield, professor of atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.

“Climate change can lead to extremes; it’s not like a regular change, everyone to the same extent at all times and places,” he said. “Despite the overall warming, you can get in places like the Northeastern U.S. extreme cold events. That’s consistent with climate change and global warming.”

See? Winter cold and snow and ice and stuff is not unnatural anymore, all because you refuse to give up meat and pay carbon taxes.

Still, don’t expect prolonged periods of cold every winter, Chipperfield said. Climate change increases periods of extreme weather, but that doesn’t mean every winter will bring the effects of the polar vortex, he said.

“You can get regional occurrences of cold temperatures despite what we think is an overall move to a warmer climate,” he said, adding, “Climate change can lead to more extreme events, not just a shift in the average.”

More and more, the yammering from Warmists exposes that this really is a cult, not a scientific endeavor.

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The Washington Post Knows How The Democratic Party Can Reach Out To Trump Supporters After Election Day

By William Teach October 26, 2016 – 7:45 am

The Washington Post’s uber rich 1%er class warrior Katrina vanden Heuvel joins in on the whole “what happens after Hillary wins?” genre of opinion pieces, and it’s a doozy

A progressive’s answer to Trumpism
How the Democratic Party can reach out to Trump voters after Election Day.

As election 2016 winds to an end, it’s hard not to begin looking beyond Nov. 8. With Donald Trump behind in the polls and lashing out at the media, there is rampant speculation that Trump is laying the groundwork to launch his own media empire in the wake of his likely defeat. Yet, if he loses, Trump’s next move may well be less important than what’s in store for his supporters, whose long-simmering pain and rage have exploded into plain view.

This is followed by paragraph after paragraph of slamming Trump and many of his supporters, while at the same time backhandedly acknowledging that his supporters have some points on the lousy economy and stuff, before arriving at the ideas the Democrats should employ to reach out to Trump voters

A serious progressive agenda should grapple with the grave challenges that many Trump supporters face. To that end, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — who won strong support from working-class whites in the primaries — offered a useful blueprint. To start, we need a more progressive trade policy that gives priority to working people over corporate lobbyists and profits. As Roosevelt Institute fellow Mike Konczal argues, a truly progressive vision for trade would not embrace Trump’s retrograde protectionism but would strengthen workers’ rights and preserve the ability of countries to regulate multinational corporations. We also need debt-free college to increase opportunities for the next generation. And we need “Medicare for all” to create more security and flexibility as the traditional nature of work evolves.

So, the idea here is to reach out to Trump voters by pushing Big Government ideas and policies? Free college and health care for all, paid for by???????

As University of California at Berkeley law professor Ian Haney-López recently wrote in the Nation, “Remaking our politics and economy depends on a broad coalition that must include substantial numbers of racially anxious whites. Ignoring their fears, or worse, pandering to them, further impoverishes all of us. Instead, we must have a unified message for whites as well as people of color: Fearful of one another, we too easily hand over power to moneyed interests, but working together, we can rebuild the American Dream.”

Katrina is nothing if not consistent. As a super rich person herself (some estimate she’s worth $430 million) she’s espousing class warfare against her own class as a way to entice Trump voters

Whatever happens when the votes are counted in two weeks, it will be a political and moral imperative for Democrats to start paying attention to many of Trump’s supporters and working to advance an inclusive populism that gives them hope for their future. If they fail, it’s only a matter of time before a more polished, less toxic Trump emerges and threatens to drag us all back into the past.

Usually, I would say that there’s no way the big government dominance of a Progressive (nice fascist) agenda would work in enticing Republican voters to come together with Democrats. However, this is the era of Trump, and most Trump supporters have seemingly given up their Republican/Conservative beliefs in favor of populism/nationalism, so, it just might work.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Mike Pence to GOP: ‘It’s Time to Come Home’ Or Something

By William Teach October 25, 2016 – 3:56 pm

I actually had a funny little NY Times Editorial Board piece on Hotcoldwetdry teed up, but, this one is bugging the hell out of me

(NBC News)  With two weeks until Election Day, Mike Pence has squared up his message for Republicans: “Come home.”

The GOP vice presidential candidate repeated the line seven times at a campaign rally on Monday afternoon.

“I want to submit to all of you, it’s time to reach out to all of our Republican and conservative friends and say with one voice: ‘It’s time to come home and elect Donald Trump as the next president of the United States,'” Pence emphatically told a crowd of several hundred supporters at a Salisbury, North Carolina, campaign stop.

Pence asserted that their ticket has “won over independents” and “many southern Democrats,” yet in recent weeks, Trump has lost the support of a litany of Republican lawmakers, effectively fracturing the party amid depressed poll numbers.

See here’s the problem: he’s not asking for our votes, he’s deeming the way we should vote. Throughout this whole Trump fiasco, I’ve mentioned this numerous times, namely, that Trump won’t ask for our votes. He’s come out with some good plans and such, ones which would be great if not attached to the name Trump.*

But politicians still need to ask for our votes. I don’t mean by name, but asking groups for their votes. Trump and company have asked Bernie fans for their votes. Blacks. Democrats. Other groups. But, not conservatives, and not really Republicans. He’s said he didn’t need our votes.

So, this “come home” schtick has annoyed me more and more as the day wore on, politically. Perhaps Pence should come home and get back to his conservative roots.

*This was meant more as a backhanded compliment towards Trump. He has released some excellent plans, such as the one from Gettysburg and his SCOTUS picks. If, say, the plans and such were attached to Rubio, Cruz, or some other Republican, #NeverTrump would be super thrilled. They’d say that, while some were more pie in the sky, which we get during elections, the plans and such were great. But, because they come from Trump, they are ignored.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 25, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a company making people fat which is bad for the climate, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on an idiot confusing the Constitution withe the Communist Manifesto.

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Say, How About A List Of All The People, Places, And Things Trump Has Insulted?

By William Teach October 25, 2016 – 10:30 am

It’s going to be a NY Times heavy blogging day, because, quite frankly, the Fish Wrap is a constant source of amusement for me, what with the far far left opinions, stories, their utter buy in on ‘climate change’ (while refusing to make any changes in the writers lives nor at for the Times’ operations), and their utter partisanship

The 281 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List

Since declaring his candidacy for president last June, Donald Trump has used Twitter to lob insults at presidential candidates, journalists,news organizations, nations, a Neil Young song and even a lectern in the Oval Office. We know this because we’ve read, tagged and quoted them all. Below, a directory of sorts, with links to the original tweets. Insults within the last 60 days are highlighted. RELATED ARTICLE

Recently insulted: Donna BrazileThe Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton FoundationNorth American Free Trade AgreementObamacareHillary Clinton

Seriously, the two writers, JASMINE C. LEE and KEVIN QUEALY, took the time to do this. Interestingly, they don’t take the time, nor do the other writers, to investigate Hillary or other Democrats in the same manner.

Some are really insults. Some are just standard politics. Some are just silly, such as

It continues on and on and on. Sure, there are some true insults in there. Some is just commentary that’s right on the mark. Heck, we could go to the opinion pages of most newspapers, including the Times, and find similar insults being lobbed at Trump. Also, in the “news” sections.

But, the Times had little problem with Hillary declaring half of the Trump supporters as “deplorables.” Going by the primaries numbers, that would be 6.65 million Americans insulted.

How about the parents of those killed in Benghazi, who were lied to by Hillary and called liars on multiple occasions by Hillary and her team?

Hillary has obviously insulted Trump, to go hand in hand with the big list from the Times of Trump insulting Hillary. She’s insulted Millenials and environmentalists. She’s insulted the disabled. Black people.

Let’s not forget all the people and places Obama has insulted. I have a big list which I stopped bothering updating a few years ago, because Obama keeps insulting the same people again and again. Friendly countries, their leaders, and, of course, Americans. Sometimes Americans as a whole.

Where’s the outrage from the NY Times on this? For the most part, I’m not defending Trump, though, some of those insults are really more of “insults”, big nothing burgers. Just noting that difference in treatment. And that the NY Times is also over-doing it with their highlighting of “insults.”

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Things The NY Times Is Very Worried About: Pig Farms In North Carolina

By William Teach October 25, 2016 – 7:03 am

Of all the subjects the NY Times editorial board could chime in on, this one’s a hoot (don’t worry, though, because I have another one set up for later today)

North Carolina’s Noxious Pig Farms

The landscape of eastern North Carolina is dotted with giant pools of bright pink sludge. These are waste lagoons, where industrial farms across the state dispose of billions of gallons of untreated pig urine and feces every year.

The waste can carry E. coli, salmonella, cryptosporidium and other bacteria that can lead to serious illness or death if they spread to humans. After Hurricane Matthew deluged North Carolina this month, at least 14 of the lagoons flooded.

Environmental advocates and state officials have been flying over regions to identify overflowing lagoons where floodwaters have become mixed with the waste, a public health hazard that could last for weeks as bacteria flow into rivers and streams, potentially sickening those who come into contact with those waters.

Bacteria can also contaminate groundwater, the main source of drinking water for more than three million North Carolinians. Meanwhile, the nitrogen and phosphorus in hog waste can kill fish and damage ecosystems. State officials are now beginning to test rivers to assess the level of contamination.

Now, this is certainly a concern from a purely environmental and health point of view. And boy howdy do they smell. We used to drive by one on the way from ECU to Emerald Isle back in the day, and if the wind was wrong, even rolling up the windows made no difference. That said, I’m assuming the NYTEB will assault the pig farms in NY state and refuse to eat any pork, right? Wait for it

In states where hog farmers use waste lagoons, like North Carolina and Illinois, flooding is a serious hazard that may become more frequent as climate change leads to more severe storms. Even under normal conditions, lagoons can produce dangerous gases, noxious smells and dust containing hog waste. People living near these lagoons are at increased risk of asthma, diarrhea, eye irritation, depression and other health problems.

North Carolina took steps toward protecting its residents by passing a moratorium on new lagoons in 1997 and making it permanent in 2007. But around 4,000 lagoons constructed before 1997 remain in active use. Unless North Carolina and other states require agriculture companies to change their waste-disposal methods, what happened after Hurricane Matthew will happen again.

So, what recommendations are the NY Times editorial board offering? Really, none. And without offering solutions, that’s what you call “whining.’ The point here, though, is to whine about ‘climate change.’ These people. Sheesh.

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Team Obama Confirms Big Ocare Hikes, Reduced Choice

By William Teach October 25, 2016 – 6:45 am

If only someone had told us that this would happen due to the way the law was written and implemented. Seriously, this is coming out of the blue

(AP) Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That’s sure to stoke another “Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election.

Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.

Moreover, about 1 in 5 consumers will only have plans from a single insurer to pick from, after major national carriers such as UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Aetna scaled back their roles.

“Consumers will be faced this year with not only big premium increases but also with a declining number of insurers participating, and that will lead to a tumultuous open enrollment period,” said Larry Levitt, who tracks the health care law for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.

Obviously, many Republicans jumped on this news, proclaiming the law a failure, pretty much as they said it would be. Senator Orrin Hatch stated that the law “does little to dispel the notion we are seeing the law implode at the expense of middle-class families.”

And, of course

Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has proposed an array of fixes, including sweetening the law’s subsidies and allowing more people to qualify for financial assistance.

So, rather than replacing the law with something that works, she’d prefer to double down and throw more money at the problem, proving that Obama was lying about the costs of Ocare.

This will surely mean more calls from Democrats for a “public option”. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell was out on the trail recently, surely having already known the horrendous Ocare numbers, pimping for a “government option.” Everything is going exactly like predicted. Opponents of Ocare said that prices would go way up while killing off insurers, and that Dems would call for even more government control, up to a public option followed by pushing for single payer.  And that’s what is happening.

Democrats own this turd of a law. It’s all on them.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Surprise: We’ve Hit Another “Tipping Point”

By William Teach October 24, 2016 – 4:12 pm

Never let a good talking point go to waste

400 parts per million: We’ve reached a climate change “tipping point”

In September, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stayed over 400 parts per million for the first time in thousands of years, a level more than 100 ppm over the atmosphere’s natural variations.

Um, no. Cute fake fact, though.

Four hundred ppm had been labeled as a “tipping point,” at which the climate would begin an unstoppable slide into hotter temperatures.

Yet Jonathan Overpeck Ph.D., co-director of the Institute of the Environment , said the number is more symbolic than scientific, though still a cause for concern.

“We don’t know if the tipping point was higher or lower than this,” Overpeck said. “There are actually many different tipping points.”

OK, so, despite the headline, it’s utterly bunk scientifically, and this little Warmist is trying to scare people.

The UA may not be planning for sweeping changes, but it’s still a leader in climate research and climate solutions, and has been working to help inform decision makers on human adaptation techniques and the maintenance of natural ecosystems, according to Overpeck.

“We are ground zero for climate change in the U.S.,” Overpeck said. “We have the most urgent reasons to act on climate change.”

Ground zero? I thought that it was Alaska? Or Tuvvulo? This island or that island? I’m confused.

“We can’t just look for technological or financial solutions,” Martinez-Lugo said. “We need to look for philosophical and moral solutions as well. There is no silver bullet.”

In other words, we’re back to my talking point, that this is about governmental control. It’s interesting that so many young folks, like the writer, Melissa Hefferman, a student at the University of Arizona, used to be about freedom and liberty and sticking it to the man and such. Now, they’re all about advocating for reducing their lifestyles, increasing their costs of living, limiting their jobs market chances, and increasing the role of government within their own lives. All over this mythical “tipping point.”

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