Surprise: Ontario Tries To Bury Cost Of ‘Climate Change’ Policy

By William Teach July 30, 2016 – 2:30 pm

The cost of the Cult of Climastrology’s policies have real world implications for consumers. They just don’t want you to know about it

(Financial Post) Ontario consumers won’t see a separate line item on their electricity bills showing the cost of the Liberal government’s cap-and-trade plan to fight climate change.

The Ontario Energy Board has decided charges related to the cost of the program, which is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, will be included in the ’delivery’ line charge on hydro bills.

The board admits utilities and industrial natural gas users argued for a separate line item to provide greater transparency to customers about the cost of cap-and-trade, but it says consumer groups said that wasn’t necessary.

Just too be clear, many of the people complaining about not getting what they want are often the same people who voted in the politicians who implemented the Hotcoldwetdry policies. Now they are shocked that government is going to be less than transparent in showing just how much the cap and trade policies cost them.

The Opposition accuses the government of trying to “bury the evidence” on bills that cap-and-trade is another “cash grab,” and says it’s “apparent” that the energy board is more concerned about protecting the Liberals than consumers.

PC energy critic John Yakabuski says people have a right to know exactly how much the government’s climate change plans will cost them every month.

Yakabuski says to make matters even worse, consumers will pay the HST on top of the cap-and-trade costs, which he says amounts to “a tax on top of a tax.”

This will supposedly raise $1.9 billion (Canadian money) a year. The government plans on spending $8.3 billion on all sorts of spreading awareness, nagging, and forced changes campaigns. Virtually every carbon market has fallen into junk bond status, so, all this money has to come from somewhere. That would be you average citizen.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 30, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Wizbang, with a post telling Ann Coulter to go away.

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Say, Can Climate Action Woo Suburban Voters?

By William Teach July 30, 2016 – 8:22 am

Once again, climate change tends to come in last or next to last on lists of things that concern Americans. Somehow, Democrats think that pushing climate change will woo suburban voters

(Grist) Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, one of the leading climate hawks in Congress, thinks climate change can be a potent political issue this fall.

“I think it’s a very powerful suburban swing-voter issue,” Markey told Grist during a reception at the Democratic National Convention. “In the suburbs, people care about clean water, clean air, climate science. They are, in large part, in a position where they can prioritize it because to a large extent they’re doing well, but they can’t protect their families from climate change.” And wooing suburban swing voters, Markey says, will be essential for a presidential candidate to build a winning coalition.

He’s right on that last point, at least. Cities lean liberal and rural areas lean conservative, but the majority of Americans live in suburbs, so that’s wherepresidential elections are won and lost. And college-educated white voters — a mostly suburban group — are a key swing constituency. Counterintuitively, though, college-educated Republicans and independents are actually less likely to fully accept climate science than non-college educated Republicans and independents.

Yeah, that’s the ticket. Spend lots of time and money (not too mention all that fossil fuel showing you’re a hypocrite) woo people on an issue that is virtually unimportant to the suburban voters. Tell them about how all this “climate action” will increase their taxes, increase their energy costs, and increase their cost of living. Tell them how it will require them to make costly upgrades to their homes and home appliances, and restrict which ones they can use. Tell them it will limit their consumer choice and personal liberty. Tell them how it will put more power over their lives in the hands of a central government and its bureaucracy. That should work out well.

Meanwhile, what do Dem voters think of ‘climate change’ vs terrorism?

(The Blaze) Voters attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week faced the question of which issue concerns them more — climate change or the Islamic State terrorist threat. And their answers fell in line with Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent claim that climate change is at least as dangerous as the threats posed by the Islamic State.

The conservative website the Daily Signal asked delegates and attendees of the convention which issue they believe poses a more significant threat to the U.S., and all of the respondents shown on the video were more concerned about climate change.

Total nutters

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Breitbart: It’s Time For Conservatives To Back Trump Because He Will Implement Conservatism

By William Teach July 30, 2016 – 8:06 am

Breitbart’s Scott Pinsker takes a swing at attempting to woo those Conservatives who do not support Trump in one form or fashion, starting out with

What’s more important: Conservative beliefs or conservative outcomes?

The two are not the same.

In American politics, the relationship between beliefs and outcomes isn’t necessarily causal, and for generations, this distinction has been the fatal flaw in the conservative movement – the poison arrow to our Myrmidonian heel.

He spends a long time explaining how previous “conservative” presidents and a Congress controlled by the GOP has failed to enact conservative legislation in order to push Trump as The Guy Who Can Get Conservative Policies Enacted. A long time. A long time. The problem here is that this attempts to blame Conservative voters, rather than elected officials who go squishy, and also forgets that many Republicans claim to be Conservatives, but, are really just Republicans. There’s a difference.

Anyhow, on to Trump

Because conservative beliefs do not necessarily lead to conservative outcomes – and this is why the Trump candidacy represents a generational opportunity for conservative voters to finally achieve conservative results.

Beliefs matter, but tactics, leadership, media strategy and executive-level oversight matter as well, and that’s the strongest conservative argument for Donald Trump.

This is, of course, followed by slurring Ted Cruz, not the best way to bring the Cruz voters to your side. But, you know, Trump is totally the guy to get it done in a Conservative manner!

But Trump also fights like hell for what he believes in.  He understands how to market and sell a vast array of goods, concepts and services, and he’s demonstrated an uncanny knack for transforming our 24/7 media culture into his personal Ottoman cushion.  He’s staked his most precious commodity – his reputation – on stopping illegal immigration, crushing ISIS, rebuilding the economy, streamlining the federal government, reining-in waste, promoting a conservative judiciary, diminishing the power of liberals, negotiating better agreements, and achieving conservative outcomes.

Question: If you’re an ideological conservative, would you prefer a chief executive who goes Medieval on his political opponents to achieve 75 percent of what you believe, or an unaccomplished philosopher-king who agrees with you 100 percent of the time, but lacks the skill-set to implement any of it?

Another slap at Cruz, but, I have to ask, what actual experience does Trump have in getting things done in government? He may or may not be able to deal with a board of directors numbering 535.

And to be fair, Trump’s philosophy isn’t exactly left-leaning: He’s pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, supports state’s rights, vows to slash government growth, backs a revamped military, and holds Antonin Scalia as his judicial model.

By any subjective standard, that’s a fairly conservative worldview.

Except, not that long ago he was pro-abortion, anti-gun, voting Democrat, and was for the use of government to take private property for the use of other private entities. That ain’t American Conservative, people. Trump cannot even really define American Conservatism.

Trump is not a philosopher-king conservative.  He’s not a purist.  Instead, he’s a mercurial, Machiavellian executive who sidesteps obstacles, cuts corners, manipulates loopholes, gouges eyeballs and leverages positional assets to achieve what he wants.  His focus is on outcomes – on winning – not on ideology. (snip)

For conservatives – and for our country, which is rapidly approaching a tipping-point – it could make all the difference in the world.

It’s time for conservatives to consolidate for Trump.

The problem here is that I, as someone who is #NeverHillary but concerned about Trump being a stealth candidate, am not offered any actual hard reasons to vote Trump. I’m not #NeverTrump, but, if I check the box for Trump, it will be as a vote against Hillary, not one for Trump.

I. Don’t. Trust. Him.

Where’s the evidence that Trump will get things done in an American Conservative manner? Where’s the evidence that he legitimately evolved on issues? Being an American Conservative, also known as Classical Liberalism, is a philosophy. Why must we abandon our principles for someone we do not trust? The same people squeeing over Trump were telling us how bad McCain and Romney were. Both had much stronger conservative cred than Trump. Neither were perfect.

What if Trump’s “outcomes” lean Democrat? Lean Big Government? Lean authoritarian, much like with Obama? I’ll give him props for being anti-illegal immigration for a long time. Also, against ‘climate change’.

Will he actually appoint conservative judges? Will he reign in government spending? Will he do all things he says? Who know? We don’t.

But, let’s consider: we know what Hillary will do. We know the kinds of judges she will appoint, from the Supreme Court down. Would you prefer to roll the dice with Trump, or flip a 2 headed coin with Hillary? We know she’ll grow government, appoint leftist extremists to lead executive branch offices. We know she’ll attempt to implement more socialist medicine, all the way up to single payer. We know she’ll attempt to hamstring business. She’ll attempt to implement restrictive gun control on law abiding citizens. She’ll continue the open borders policies. She’ll continue the march towards a bigger and more powerful centralized government. She’ll allow implementation of economy killing freedom-removing ‘climate change’ policies. The list goes on.

The question comes down to “can you hold your nose and take a chance that Trump isn’t full of mule fritters, that he’ll actually be the guy he says he now is, that he will attempt to do what he says, and check the box for Trump in  vote against Hillary?”

Do know know what would help? If he and his surrogates, along with his ardent supporters, would attempt to woo those not on the Trump train, rather than being nasty and insulting us.

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Favorite Zombie Books

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 8:07 pm

I’ve mentioned before that I am a huge fan of the zombie genre. I ran across some really good zombie books years ago, early on in the Amazon Kindle rise, when you were able to find great books that you’d never find in the book stores nor libraries. A good zombie book is focused less on all the gore, and more on the dystopian story. Good characters, good action, good dialogue, good plot. Some just don’t cut it. What about those that do?

This started when reading a tweet linking to a list of the 10 best apocalypse books, which mentioned World War Z, which I found boring and tedious. This led to a discussion, and so many mentioned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Again, I found it boring as sin. I was asked for my list. In no order, other than the first two, which are really the best around, here goes (not dropping links, that would take too long, but you can find all at Amazon)

  • Zombie Fallout series by Mark Tufo
  • Dead series by TW Brown
  • Apex Trilogy and Z-burbia series by Jake Bible
  • The Infected series by Joseph Zuko
  • Blood Soaked series by James Crawford
  • Survival Instinct series by Kristal Stittle
  • Zombie Rules series by David Achord
  • Voodoo Plague series by Dirk Patton*
  • All the zombie books by Nicholas Ryan, but especially Zombie War
  • Z Risen series and The Front by Timothy W. Long
  • Valley of the Dead: The Truth Behind Dante’s Inferno by Kim Pattenroth (this was cool. A little slow, but cool)
  • Opening Dante’s Gate by Paul William Bear Brewster
  • Dead Highways series by Richard Brown (which come way too slowly)
  • Dead Drunk: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse series by Richard Johnson
  • Terra Necro series by Michael Crocket (unfortunately, he hasn’t written anything else in years)
  • White Flag of the Dead series by Joseph Talluto.
  • The Creeping Dead by Edward P. Cardillo (cool because it was at the Jersey shore)
  • Purge of Babylon series by Sam Sisvath*
  • Dead Living by Glenn Bullion

There’s a ton of others I’ve read, which were good, but don’t quite make the list. Plus, I get a ton via Kindle Unlimited, so, they aren’t saved. I try and put them in Goodreads, but, not all. Some are also sorta zombie, hence the asterisk. Any you can add, if you’re into it?

Just started a new series, The Hunger by Jason Brant, which has two more books in series so far. His other stuff looks great, too. Plus, I have the newest by Simon Green to read, Dr. DOA. And Return Of The Phoenix by Heath Stallcup. Blood Cruise and Fighting Iron 2 by Jake Bible. The Jennifer Project by Larry Enright. And Voodoo Plague #12 which comes out tomorrow (will read that one as soon as done with The Hunger). Then the 9th book in the Purge series by Sam Sisvath on August 2nd, which is the last in the series, so, teed up. And the next in the Dead Highways series on the 5th. So, one of those times have too much too read, rather than searching for something of interest.

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Nutty Sex Survey Includes 33 Different Genders

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 3:22 pm

Through evolution, humanity has evolved to have two genders. Sure, there are a few cases where something went wrong with genes, but, you either have XX or XY. Not in Liberal Nutjob World

IT SEEMS like a simple question: “Which of the following terms do you feel best describes your gender?”

But there are 33 possible responses to this question in The Australian Sex Survey, which is being conducted by researchers at The Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

They’ve partnered with The Australian Sex Party, AdultMatchmaker.com.au and adult industry lobby group The Eros Association to create a 15-minute anonymous survey about our sex lives.

Yes, 33

The article is nice enough to define what all this insanity means to people who essentially have mental illness. It’s all about “identity”. There really should be two more: Biologically male and biologically female.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gay Patriot, with a post on the party of elderly feminists.

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Italy Could Reduce Climate Change If They Went Vegetarian

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

Considering the state of Italy’s economy, how they’re being inundated with refugees and Islamists, organized crime and corruption, a divide between the north and south, and heck, even their treatment of women, I’d think that this would be one of the last things Italians would be concerned about

(Newsweek) The announcement last week that Turin—the industrial core of meat-loving Italy—will be making moves toward vegetarianism was met with some groans. According to The Guardian, the meat-reduction agenda introduced by the city’s new mayor, Chiara Appendino, drew complaints of nanny-stateism; one disgruntled Tweeter mocked the proposal, writing: “If you disobey [the mayor’s agenda] in Turin you’ll go to bed without dinner.”

Yeah, people are pretty pissed off. You can make Italian dishes without meat, but, really, you are going to find some type of sausage, beef, pork, or seafood in most.

But it’s growing increasingly impossible to ignore how our carnivorous preferences are tangled up in the fate of the planet. Agriculture and food production currently account for about a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions, 80 percent of which are livestock-related, according to new research from the Oxford Martin School. The study modeled four different global scenarios to predict how those numbers might alter by the year 2050: in one, consumption and production continued at the current rate; another predicted the outcome of adherence to global dietary guidelines, which limit red meat, sugar, and total calories while emphasizing fruit and vegetable intake; the last two modeled the impact of strict vegetarian and vegan diets.

You first, Warmists, you first

That will, undeniably, require instigating a societal sea change. And if we follow the logic that the biggest shifts must happen gradually, the pushback against Appendino’s leap to vegetarianism is understandable. However, Barcelona, as our sister site CityLab Latino recently reported, is dealing a softer blow by declaring itself “veg friendly” and a “friend of vegan and vegetarian culture.” While shying away from a prescriptivist approach to diet, Barcelona will work to establish itself as a convener of information about the meat-free lifestyle: a new meeting space, BCN Veg Point, will bring consumers and entrepreneurs together in discussion, and the city will launch a new app and guide to the local vegan and vegetarian hotspots.

In other words, government force and Nannystatism is required. Funny how this issue always comes around to increased governmental power.

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Every Vote This Year Is For Or Against Climate Change, Ya Know!

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 7:21 am

Because ‘climate change’ is the top issue of the campaigns!

This Year, Every Vote Is a Vote for or Against Climate Change

YESTERDAY, THE 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia aired a five and a half minute video about climate change. Directed by James Cameron and narrated by Sigourney Weaver, it featured Don Cheadle, Jack Black, America Ferrera, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and other celebs. Instead of scientists and hockey sticks, it had forest fires, Hurricane Sandy survivors, and a summer blockbuster soundtrack. The gist: Climate change is causing awful things in America and abroad. If you care to stop it, vote for Hillary Clinton.

None of that is as remarkable as the context in which it was shown. In the decades since scientists first warned a US president that greenhouse gas emissions would doom us all, no political party has ever presented itself as taking the issue seriously during a presidential election. This year is different. And not because the Republican candidate calls climate change a hoax. What’s new is Democrats are going on the offense. Speaker after speaker at the convention has laid into Donald Trump and his party’s denialism. Climate action is a prominent plank in the Democratic Party platform. They’ve made the stakes clear: A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for planet Earth.

So, vote Hillary or die. Uh huh. The interesting part here is that Hillary hasn’t really shown that much passion for the subject, mostly treating it as a box to be check to patronize her unhinged base (which refuses to give up their own use of fossil fuels and go carbon neutral). Will she actually push Hotcoldwetdry policies? They don’t seem important to her. A President Hillary would most likely allow her federal agencies to run wild in implementing policies, but, wouldn’t actively push them herself.

Even Hillary surely realizes that ‘climate change’ is last or next to last on the list of American concerns.

This election year is different. “I would say, just taking a moment and looking back, there is no question that this year climate change is in the forefront of presidential election issues, much more than it every has been and with greater urgency,” says Cristine Russell, senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, who covered science and environment for decades for the Washington Post. Why? Well, Gore’s documentary amplified popular culture’s acceptance of climate science. Katrina, Sandy, and the Great Western Drought happened. Scientists got better at attributing specific weather events to climate change. One hundred and seventy-six countries signed an international accord to collectively confront global warming. Climate change is no longer subordinate to other issues. It encompasses them.

Got that? No longer is ‘climate change’ just subsuming actual, real, important environmental issues and placing them under the Hotcoldwetdry banner: it’s putting every issue under the banner. Which will turn people off, not too mention that the wrong fix will be applied.

As far as the film goes, there are lots of whoppers, duckspeak, and misinformation. I’ll let you read it for yourself, while noting that the people who put it together and appeared in it tend to use lots and lots of fossil fuels. Also, how much fossil fuel was used for the entire Democratic National Convention, from putting it together, to holding it, to get people to and fro? How much energy was used, how much trash was created, all the rubber for the balloon drop, all the wasted food, the dead tree signs? What was the carbon footprint?

All in all, no one really cares, but, keep beating that drum, Warmists.

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Woman With Virtually No Accomplishments Makes History Or Something

By William Teach July 29, 2016 – 6:58 am

There’s quite a bit of sqeeeing going on the news media over the nomination of Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee. It’s History! The NY Times says so

Clinton Makes History

….

Mrs. Clinton’s nomination — bringing women, barred first by law and then by custom, to the pinnacle of American politics — is to be celebrated as inspiration for young Americans, and as hope for women in nations and cultures that deny them the most basic opportunities. It is further proof that opening doors to women elevates and strengthens our nation.

Well, now, that’s interesting, because she has virtually no positive accomplishments over her time as a public figure. Quick, name one. Getting a bill renaming a federal center in NYC really doesn’t count much, does it? Let’s be honest: Hillary has ridden Bill’s coattails since he became governor of Arkansas. Call that sexist, call it misogynistic, the truth hurts. She was pathetic as a reverse carpet bagger senator, and was worse as Secretary of State.

Of course, to point anything out and go against her is sexism

Some Americans remain deeply uncomfortable with women leading corporations, let alone the free world. No woman is more aware of this than Mrs. Clinton, who has struggled as first lady, senator and secretary of state to strike the right balance between what society expected of women and what she aspired to accomplish.

See?

What is already clear is that Mrs. Clinton has had to work fiercely hard, under a withering scrutiny no male candidate would face, and that that hard work has now resulted in a profound service to the nation: A short time ago, the idea that a woman would attain her party’s presidential nomination was beyond audacious; it no longer is.

Yeah, no man with that bad a record, who is that unlikable and has a problem speaking to citizens outside of small gatherings would ever have trouble. Now that she is official (after having help from the DNC in spiking Bernie Sanders’ attempt), the compliant news media can frame all opposition as sexism.

Now over to the “straight news” at the Times, with this filed under “news analysis”. In other words, an opinion piece disguised

Hillary Clinton Asks Not for Trust, but for Faith in Her Competence

The trust of the American electorate remains out of her reach. Its affections still elude her.

So after 40 years in public life, Hillary Clinton grasped for something less lofty and far more attainable here on Thursday night: an unquestioned acknowledgment of her readiness for the job.

Her speech was rather short on actual accomplishments, because her history in government is rather short on actual accomplishments.

This all is pretty much repeated across the news media, you’ll get the same things at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, LA Times, etc. Hillary is utterly corrupt, incompetent, and soulless. She’s a big government statist who has no idea what the middle and lower classes go through. She wants to disarm law abiding citizens while having her own armed security for decades. She’s an unindicted felon who exposed national security for her own convenience. Her foundation is a criminal racket which spends just 10% on charity. She has no legislative record to speak of, and her time as Sec State saw the rise of ISIS, the disaster in Syria, support for Islamic extremists, and the rise of Russia, among others.

History is not always positive.

Anyway, her speech was agitated, hectoring, pandering, and robotic. There were catcalls and boos. Even Bill apparently found it boring

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