Bummer: Climate Change Could Lead To Longer Patio Season

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 5:15 pm

Somehow, this is a Bad Thing

Climate change, economics could lead to longer patio season

Kingston’s sidewalk patios are set to close for the season at the end of October, but the city may soon allow them to remain open year-round.

Councillors voted unanimously on a motion instructing staff to review the current patio bylaw with an eye to extending the season.

The current bylaw gives patios a seven-month window to open on municipal property – from April 1 to October 31 – but councillors say that may be long enough. They cite climate change and economics as factors that need to be considered.

“While often we find big large strategies to invest in our downtown we also have to pay attention to the details like this to ensure that we have a healthy vibrant downtown,” said Coun. Richard Allen, who introduced the motion to a warm reception October 4.

In other words, they see extra revenue in the proposal, so are using ‘climate change’ as a rationale. Anyhow, what’s wrong with a longer patio season?

BTW, this is Kingston, Canada, located at the upper north east of Lake Ontario.

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If All You See…

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

…is a field that has been flooded from extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the Pentagon issuing a transsexual handbook.

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Say, What’s The Conservative Christian Case For Climate Change Action?

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 10:18 am

Another day, another person attempting to give us the “moral” case for Believing in Hotcoldwetdry and Doing Something

The Conservative Christian Case for Climate Change Action

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Reagan told us that the phrase came from a Puritan leader, John Winthrop, who quoted Jesus as his boat was nearing the New World: “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” In what has become a season of vastly different visions for American greatness, these words deserve reconsideration today.

Winthrop’s vision demanded a profound sense of moral duty and obligation. It’s time to heed this call and live up to our responsibilities, to move into a sustainable future for America’s kids and all God’s children. To do so, we need to reckon with the driving force of the U.S. economy for the past century: fossil fuels.

To be “pro-life” is to care deeply about the great moral challenge of climate change, as climate disruptions impact each child of God in every nation. No one is left out. Food and water scarcity are made worse across the developing world. Sea-level rise, increased asthma, and disease carrying insects across the U.S. are just a few of the other climate-related impacts.

Here’s the first problem: the writer, Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox, fails to provide proof that Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the current Holocene warm period. Without proof, there is no “moral” reason to take action. Of course, Hescox is part of groups that may have some conservative leanings, such as being pro-life, they also push leftist stuff, like ‘climate change’, social justice, are pro-illegal alien, some are pro-gay marriage, etc.

The good news is that overcoming climate change presents us with a tremendous opportunity to create a better world. In order to realize it, we must end the partisanship and dump the denial. The scientific debate about climate change is over. We might not know all the particulars about how quickly the oceans will rise, but the causation is clear. One only has to open a window to know that our environment has changed.

But, that provides no scientific proof of causation. If I look at my window and see the sun rising later and later and setting earlier and earlier, is that proof of anthropogenic climate change?

To overcome climate change and be that shining city on a hill, each of us must take responsibility for our energy use. Through public policies, we must act to price carbon and address the market’s failure to count all costs, and we must invest in research and development to create sustainable progress powered by ever-improving clean technology.

More government, more taxation, more control of people’s lives. How is that moral? Especially when Warmists cannot even prove their assertion of AGW?

Oh, and he’s apparently super thrilled with fascist Warmist Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

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Woman Of The People: Hillary Treated Security Personnel So Poorly They Didn’t Want To Protect Her

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 7:54 am

It’s shocking that Hillary would ever mistreat the little people, isn’t it? We know she hates the phrase “everyday Americans”, because she most certainly hates everyday Americans. We know she mistreated the Secret Service when Bill was President, and that the White House staff lived in fear of her. She attempted to destroy the women who credibly accused her husband of sexual misconduct and rape. She mistreated the parents of those killed in Benghazi to their faces, and has called them liars. There are also lots of unvetted allegations, like supposedly wanting to ban military uniforms in the White House, to go with her constant hatred for the little people. And there’s this

(Daily Caller) Department of State security officers found then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton so unpleasant they refused to work on her security detail, a former agent claims in newly-released FBI documents.

The FBI Monday released 100 pages of documents relating to its investigation of Clinton’s private email server. The documents incorporate summaries of several interviews the FBI conducted, including one with a woman who served as an agent with the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) during Clinton’s time as secretary of state.

During her interview, the agent said Clinton treated agents rudely and with contempt, and was so unpleasant that senior agents typically avoided being on her security detail.

“[Redacted] explained that CLINTON’s treatment of DS agents on her protective detail was so contemptuous that many of them sought reassignment or employment elsewhere,” the interview summary says. “Prior to CLINTON’s tenure, being an agent on the Secretary of State’s protective detail was seen as an honor and privilege reserved for senior agents. However, by the end of CLINTON’s tenure, it was staffed largely with new agents because it was difficult to find senior agents willing to work for her.”

We also learn that Hillary usually broke diplomatic protocol, snubbing ambassadors to ride with her (Muslim brotherhood) aide Huma Abedin. This embarrassed them, and also made security more difficult. Hillary just doesn’t seem to like people, even her own supporters. Remember when she told her supporter to get to the back of the line? Apparently, that woman didn’t have the cash to donate to the Clinton Foundation, Hillary’s personal slush fund, so didn’t deserve proper treatment from Hillary. Maybe if security had donated, Hillary might have been nice.

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NY Times Suddenly Very Concerned Over People Complaining About Vote Rigging

By William Teach October 18, 2016 – 7:29 am

The Editorial Board of the NY Times is in a snot over Trump’s constant comments about the election being rigged, which is being aped by his most ardent supporters, and use this as a means to attack all Republicans

Shameful Silence on Donald Trump’s Lies About Vote-Rigging

It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the party’s top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening example is Mr. Trump’s frenzied claim that the presidential election is being “rigged” against him — a claim he has ramped up as his chances of winning the presidency have gone down.

Instead of disavowing this absurdity outright, Republican leaders sit by in spineless silence. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, are the two most powerful Republicans in the country and should be willing to put the national interest above their own. Both know full well that there is no “rigging,” and yet between them they have managed one tepid response to Mr. Trump’s outrageous accusations: “Our democracy relies on confidence in election results,” Mr. Ryan’s spokeswoman said, “and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity.”

Interesting. Certainly, this who rigging thing is over-the-top and absurd. But, is it out of bounds? We know the Democratic Party primary was pretty much rigged for Hillary to a degree. We know that the general election is pretty much rigged from the 90% Democrat supporting media’s point of view, which happens every election cycle.

Other than that, though, how is this rigged? And why is it required for high end Republicans to squash Trump and the surrogates who yammer on about it being rigged, as further described in the article? We’re told that this is like “standing back while an arsonist pours gasoline all over your house, then expressing confidence that the fire department will get there in time.”

Say, where was the NY Times when Democrats were going ape over the supposed theft of the 2000 election? Liberals still say Bush stole the election. They, somewhat quieter, say Bush stole the 2004 election by rigging Ohio. Where was the NY Times EB when Democrats, including elected ones, were saying that Bush would cancel the 2004 and 2008 elections over some sort of manufactured incident. Where was the NY Times pre-elections when Democrats were complaining about the elections being rigged via Diebold voting machines and other things?

Fortunately, the NY Times EB is there to TELL us what is patriotic (you know, like condemning a war and smearing the US military personnel in the middle of a war zone)

So what should patriotic Republicans be telling the nation?

First, they must reject bogus claims of voter fraud, which has been shown time and again to be virtually nonexistent. That will take work, since the specter of fraud, inevitably tinged with racist overtones, has long been a rallying cry among Republicans. But never before has a major party’s presidential candidate openly encouraged this attack on the legitimacy of the electoral process. Mr. Trump does it almost daily. On Monday morning, he tweeted, “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day.” His claims are never backed up by any evidence, but they’re still working: Only about one-third of Trump supporters believe their vote will be counted accurately, in contrast with two-thirds of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, according to a Pew Research poll.

Interesting. On one hand, we’re told we need massive gun control in order to save one life. On the other, it’s fine if there is just a little bit of voter fraud. And if you don’t decry Trump’s rigging comments, you’re unpatriotic.

Second, top Republicans must reject the ridiculous notion that a national election can be “rigged.”

If that’s the case, then why have Democrats called for federal and United Nations observers during our elections? The NYTEB never had a problem with this.

Since part of what Trump means is that the media is rigging the election by taking a full stand for his opponent, why is the NY Times only condemning Trump and Republicans? They barely touch Hillary. If she had an R by her name, all the things she’s done would get her the Trump treatment.

Still, Trump needs to stop the rigging talk. It’s not helping him win. But, then, I’m not sure he wants to win. He was in Wisconsin Monday night. Why? He’s not going to win the state. It’s a waste of time. Except, he used the time to attack Paul Ryan. He’s essentially trying to burn the GOP down. And he’s attacking Republicans who do not support his rigging claims. He seems to spend more time attacking Republicans than attacking Hillary and Democrats.

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Warmists Rather Upset That Farmers Aren’t Buying Their World Ending Prognostications

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 4:18 pm

People who find the weather very important pretty much every day for their income are smarter than the Progressive rubes pushing the ‘climate change’ narrative

Most Farmers Still Doubt They Have Anything To Do With Climate Change
Devastation from extreme weather events like Hurricane Matthew isn’t changing their minds, either.

(Lots of yammering about “extreme weather” events, like Hurricane Matthew, which have always happened but now doom us due to CO2 or something)

For his part, (North Carolina farmer Peyton) McDaniel doesn’t think climate change had anything to do with the devastation brought to his farm. His family has been farming its land since 1756 and has seen all sorts of weather across all those decades, he noted.

“I don’t think you can point to global warming or a manmade problem on this,” McDaniel added. “It’s more of a cyclical thing.”

The minimal amount of existing research on the topic shows that most farmers would probably agree with McDaniel, even though their industry is both uniquely vulnerable to extreme weather and a significant source of climate change-causing greenhouse gases.

How dare he actually hold a reasonable position! How dare he use history! It’s uncouth!

Many farmers would agree that weather patterns are changing and extreme weather is increasing, but most don’t think these have anything to do with human activities, according to Dr. J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., a sociology professor at Iowa State University.

“Farmers in general are taking extreme weather more seriously,” said Arbuckle, who has interviewed and polled farmers in the Corn Belt region on the issue. “But most of them are more in line with there maybe being a human cause, but probably some natural cause to it.”

Except, actual research shows there is no increase in “extreme weather”, or, as we used to call it, weather. No increase in drought, flood, tropical systems, tornadoes, etc. In fact, in many cases, these events have gone down. Regardless, the weather has always changed from year to year, and the long term trends create climate, which has always changed. There’s no need to subscribe to some mythical belief that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, and that the only way to solve it is to increase governmental control of everything, including our individual lives. Unless you have an ulterior motive.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is woodland area that will soon whither away from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Vulgar Curmudgeon, with a post on how much Obama lives the 1st Amendment.

I forgot to mention Sunday that it is girls outdoors week. As always, discuss what you want in the comments.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ To “Destroy Beautiful Sunsets

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 10:30 am

And Leftists make fun of the uber-crazy people standing around with “Repent Now, The World Is Ending” signs, calling them crazy religionists? Oh, brother. Tim Blair points out the wackadoodleness

(Daily Telegraph) Adults aren’t falling for climate change hysteria, so warmy alarmists are now appealing to their base: pre-teen children.

Further to last week’s post, the Daily Telegraph now reports:

Doomsday climate change lessons are being taught to children as young as eight who are concluding that human activity threatens to destroy beautiful sunsets and ­waterways.

Six schools in the state’s north are trialling a “world first” curriculum that is expected to be adopted across the state, if successful.

From the press release about this taxpayer funded program

“Some students take photos of beautiful things such as sunsets or waterways and then write about how it could be lost or destroyed because of climate change.”

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“Taking It In The Shorts”: Obama Steps Up Marketing Campaign As Ocare Continues Its Slow Death Spiral

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 7:15 am

Nothing like getting a mailer or seeing an add for a product that is going to cost you more each year while seeing the available usage decrease

(Forbes) The Obama administration is rolling out a new and broader marketing strategy to get more Americans to sign up for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, taking to Instagram and sending millions more Americans direct mail.

The Obamacare marketing effort will include more than 10 million pieces of direct mail, a huge increase from 800,000 Americans targeted by mail last year, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency rolling out the law. In addition, a social media campaign will, for the first time, include images and video ads on Instagram to target millennials.

Would this be necessary if the law passed solely by Democrats was working well?

Ads promoting health coverage will move beyond traditional television and radio to social media and gaming platforms like Twitch. Ads and videos on YouTube and Facebook will also be used as they have been in the past.

As if the ads already on those sites weren’t annoying enough as it is.

Most of those who are losing coverage will have other choices. The Obama administration is confident it can build on the more than 11 million Americans who had coverage via the healthcare marketplace earlier this year by using “smarter targeting and new tactics,” Kevin Counihan, the CEO of HealthCare.gov said last week. “I’m confident our outreach campaign will give more consumers the information they need and help us continue our historic progress in reducing the number of uninsured.”

The problem here is that the law was originally deemed as being the solution to the 30-45 million Americans without health insurance. Even the scaled back 20 million number is still not being hit, all while the government spends tons of taxpayer money, even though we were told it would be “revenue neutral”. Everyone having affordable health insurance that can be used without paying through the nose is a good idea. Unfortunately, the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act fails.

An S&P forecast predicts that Ocare participation will shrink by 8%. I wonder if the flyers and ads will remind consumers that they could face penalties simply for being Americans without insurance? Remember, 1.4 million Obamacare participants are going to lose the plans they previously signed up for via Ocare.

Meanwhile, in the People’s Republik Of California, which utterly embraced Ocare, even the SF Chronicle can’t whitewash this turd of a law

1.4 million enrollees get some federal aid to help cover the cost of their premiums. The increases will be felt most acutely by those policyholders who make too much money to qualify for those subsidies. These are self-employed people or those who otherwise don’t get health insurance through their employers.

“I was in favor of Obamacare,” said Ted Weinstein, a self-employed literary agent in San Francisco, referring to the Affordable Care Act. “Now I’m taking it in the shorts with a 27 percent rate increase (next) year.”

Good thing this is saving families $2500 a year, ya know!

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“Freedom Spoken Here”: NC GOP Office Firebombed, Vandalized

By William Teach October 17, 2016 – 6:49 am

Sadly, politics can over-inflame people’s passions

(Raleigh N&O) The Orange County Republican Party headquarters was firebombed overnight Saturday and graffiti was spray-painted nearby in an attack that the GOP called “political terrorism.”

A flaming bottle was thrown through a window of the office and a swastika and “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” were painted in black on the side of an adjacent building, Hillsborough officials said in a news release.

Of course, some were quick to call this a “false flag” operation. Sorry, no, it’s typically Leftists perpetrating fake hate incidents.

Governor Pat McCrory stated

“The firebombing of a local political headquarters in Orange County is clearly an attack on our democracy,” McCrory said in a statement. “Violence has no place in our society – but especially in our elections. … I will use every resource as governor to assist local authorities in this investigation.”

Hillary offered her response

to which the NC GOP thanked her. And

“The North Carolina Democratic Party strongly condemns this attack,” she said. “Violence has no place in our political system. … Our deepest sympathies are with everyone at the North Carolina Republican Party.”

Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper tweeted, “Violence has no place in our democracy and can not be tolerated. The culprits must be caught and brought to justice.”

Trump went with

Overly bombastic.

Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the state GOP, called the bombing “political terrorism.”

Later, Woodhouse said, “Whether you are Republican, Democrat or Independent, all Americans should be outraged by this hate-filled and violent attack against our democracy. … Everyone in this country should be free to express their political viewpoints without fear for their own safety.”

Thankfully, no one was hurt or killed. Here’s the kicker

The flaming bottle, which Woodhouse described as a significant Molotov cocktail, and bomb, was thrown through a window that bore the words “Freedom spoken here.”

If Democrats are lucky, the perpetrators will be folks that they can easily disassociate themselves from, some individual or group that is beyond Leftist fringe.

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