If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is an awesome horse which should used to replace all fossil fueled vehicles on farms to stop sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on Tim Kaine and his tax hiking ways.

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Democratic Party Platform Calls For WWII Scale Mobilization To Fight Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach July 23, 2016 – 7:36 am

Anthropogenic climate change has become another one of those issues that Democrats worship over the years. Not enough to really make any big changes in their own lives, mind you, because they really do not care whether it is a scientific fact, nor do they care that it involves little science. This is all about politics, in creating a big and stronger central government, in controlling citizen’s lives, in controlling private entities and the economy, and increasing taxation. Here we have Excitable Joe Romm at the George Soros funded Think Progress squeeing

Democratic Platform Calls For WWII-Scale Mobilization To Solve Climate Crisis

This month, the full Democratic Platform Committee approved the strongest statement about the urgent need for climate action ever issued by a major party in this country.

The platform makes for the starkest possible contrast with a party that just nominated Donald Trump — a man who has called climate change a hoax invented by and for the Chinese, who has denied basic reality such as the drought in California, and who has vowed to (try to) scuttle the unanimous agreement by the world’s nations in Paris to take whatever measures are necessary to avert catastrophic warming and keep total warming “well below 2°C.”

In contrast, one party in this country has finally embraced the blunt — and scientifically accurate — language of climate hawks as to what those measures actually entail:

We believe the United States must lead in forging a robust global solution to the climate crisis. We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II. In the first 100 days of the next administration, the President will convene a summit of the world’s best engineers, climate scientists, policy experts, activists, and indigenous communities to chart a course to solve the climate crisis.

Of course, as I noted yesterday, most countries seem rather lackadaisical when it comes to ratifying the Paris climate agreement. Some are actively hostile to it.

But, regardless, if the U.S. must lead, should not the very people who pushing this lead themselves? Should they not walk the talk, practice what they preach?

The final draft of the platform — which must still be approved by the Democratic National Convention next week — also calls for a price on CO2 and other greenhouse gases: “Democrats believe that carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases should be priced to reflect their negative externalities, and to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy and help meet our climate goals.”

Which would significantly raise the cost of living while lowering the standards of living for middle and lower class citizens. Yet, again, the very people who are pushing this refuse to give up their own fossil fuels, to make their own homes 100% renewable energy, to only buy local, to turn their AC up to 85, etc and so on. Put in context of the rest of their platform, this is all about Progressive (nice fascist) government. Read through the full platform. Government, government, government.

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Alaska Supreme Court Shoots Down Parental Notification For Underage Abortions

By William Teach July 23, 2016 – 7:15 am

The pro-abortion worshiping Left has long had a major problem with parental notification, seeing this as a restriction too far…well, really, any restriction on abortion is a restriction too far. In this case, what they’re very upset with is privacy rights and equal protection rights of underage girls. Keep that in mind

(AP) The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday struck down a state law requiring parental notification for girls under age 18 seeking abortions, agreeing with pro-abortion rights advocates that the mandate approved by voters in 2010 was unconstitutional.

Justice Daniel Winfree, writing for the majority, said the court was not deciding whether abortions should be available to minors without restrictions but that the abortion notification law violated Alaska’s constitutional equal protection provisions giving the same rights to all Alaskans.

In a concurring opinion, Justice Dana Fabe disagreed that the law violated the girls’ equal protection rights but said she believes it violated their right to privacy.

“I believe that the Alaska Constitution permits a parental notification law, but not one that contains provisions that are among the most restrictive of any state’s notification laws,” she wrote.

The measure passed by 55.05% to 43.94%. That is a higher percentage than Obama won either time, and we were told that Obama’s wins gave him a mandate. Regardless, let’s consider: abortionistas sued over keeping parents in the loop when their underage children wanted an abortion because of privacy and equal protection.

Yet, these same Leftists have no problem whatsoever in allowing males who are gender confused or are pretending to be gender confused into the shower, locker rooms, and bathrooms of underage girls, violating their privacy and equal protection rights.

I’m sure they have some tortured logic duckspeak for the contradictory opinions, but, they matter not, because things like privacy and equality are never the point: it’s about worshiping certain “idols” at all costs. You can bet that individual liberal parents would want to be notified, and that they would not want men in the showers with their kids. But, for Other People, abortion without restriction and gender confused in those areas with Other People’s daughters Should Be Allowed. That’s the way they roll. Who cares if this is bad for parents and females? They have an agenda!

The decision was praised by pro-abortion rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska and Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands, which challenged the law.

“A young woman seeking an abortion doesn’t need additional hurdles. She needs a doctor,” said Joshua Decker, executive director of Alaska’s ACLU, in a statement.

Which is funny, since abortionistas caterwaul and sue when any measures are passed that require abortion facilities to operate under the same medical standards as a medical facility. Heck, abortionistas would have a snit fit if abortion facilities were required to have the same medical standards as a tattoo parlor.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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High Flying John Kerry Says Hotcoldwetdry As Dangerous As Terrorism

By William Teach July 22, 2016 – 5:08 pm

Good thing he took a long fossil fueled flight to Vienna to tell us this

(News and Advance) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says climate change is as dangerous as, if not more than, the threat from the Islamic State and other extremist groups.

Speaking on Friday at an international conference on climate change, Kerry said the issue might not get as much public attention as terrorism. But he says the climate change meeting is as important as one in Washington this week on combatting the Islamic State group. He says what’s being discussed in Vienna could “literally” save life on planet Earth.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooded thank to Other People’s carbon footprints, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post wondering why police want to delete the Nice attack video.

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U.N Wants Quick Paris Climate Agreement Ratification As Countries Get Cold Feet

By William Teach July 22, 2016 – 1:00 pm

The Paris climate agreement was hailed as “historic”, and all these big wigs in government were in total love with it. Well, 7+ months later, the reality is starting to sink in

U.N. pushes fast-track ratification of Paris climate deal as countries get cold feet

The United Nations has issued a plea for nations to fast-track ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement as some countries are backtracking on support for the deal’s sweeping restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged nations to attend a “special event” Thursday where they may deposit their “instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the Paris Agreement on climate change.”

“I urge you to accelerate your country’s domestic process for ratification of the Agreement this year,” Mr. Ban said in a statement.

His push for rapid ratification comes amid the increasingly chilly reception for the agreement, adopted by 195 parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, by nations concerned about the impact of the carbon restrictions.

The change of heart even has a name: “Clexit,” short for “climate exit,” a take-off on “Brexit,” the successful June 23 British vote to leave the European Union.

There is major concern with the Philippines, which has said they won’t join, because the restrictions are “stupid.” There is also major concern with Australia (whose voters have repudiated government attempts to institute ‘climate change’ policies by voting them out of office.) There is concern for Britain and Germany. Every know that India and China will not abide by the terms, even if they ratify it. If Trump wins, he has stated uncategorically that he will trash it. Developing countries will abide only in terms of wanting that sweet, sweet climate cash from productive countries.

Since then, 19 countries have ratified the agreement, which goes into effect 30 days after ratification by 55 nations responsible for 55 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

It was also specifically set up to avoid having to place it in front of any duly elected legislatures, yet, just 19? It’s expected that many more will sign by December, but, seriously, much like with the Kyoto Protocol, most will do no more than pay lip service. And so many are losing the will to enact economy damaging measures that cause their middle and lower class citizens harm.

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DNC Rather Un-enthused To Release Their Own Donor Lists

By William Teach July 22, 2016 – 7:22 am

Since the Citizens United ruling, Democrats have thundered on about the need for sunlight and transparency when it comes to donors. They’ve caterwauled about secret lists of people and companies donating “dark money”, and they want it stopped. They want to force donors to be exposed. Well, not their own donors, of course. Republican donors.

(AP) The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wants to keep its donor list under wraps until after the convention even though a state open records agency has ordered its release.

A Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee lawyer told a judge Thursday the release of fundraising records could harm the organization’s last-minute efforts to seek donations and negotiate vendor contracts.

They always have an excuse as to why their donors should be kept secret while Republicans should be published. Why? Many reasons. One of them is certainly so the individuals, groups, and companies can be targeted in a negative manner by Democrats.

Another is surely that many of the donors are big moneyed individuals and companies, ones that Progressives despise, and the DNC would prefer that their unhinged base not know about this.

Regardless of the reason, the DNC is, as typical, refusing to practice what they preach. Don’t forget, their platform calls for repealing Citizens United, and Hillary wants a Constitutional amendment to kill it. It also calls for the end to dark money. Yet, they won’t even release their donor list when it is required by law. Go figure.

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Trump Makes His Acceptance Speech

By William Teach July 22, 2016 – 7:05 am

I’ll admit that I did not watch all of it, just snippets for a few minutes at a time. Reading the transcript, though, is very, very different from having seen it on TV. You truly lose the flavor, which, IMO, seemed angry and bellicose. Perhaps I missed the parts where Donald was soft. Rather than reinvent the wheel, let’s go to Leon Wolf at Red State

But as the speech wore on, Trump quickly reverted to the angry, yelling monotone of Will Farrell’s “voice immodulation syndrome” character from Saturday Night Live that characterized his prior teleprompter performances. And combined with the actual rhetorical content of this particular speech, it made for a long, depressing, angry night.

By the time Trump was about 20 minutes into the speech, you were left with the impression that you lived in some third world hellhole and you never knew it before tonight. Although Trump was saying words that probably appeal to the majority of Americans about supporting the police, he finished repeatedly with promises that he, personally, would “RESTORE LAWWW AND ORRRDER” which ought to have raised the hackles of anyone with a single libertarian cell in their body.

Then things got ugly when Trump veered off script for the first time during the speech when discussing the Syrian refugees and angrily declared “WE DON’T WANT THEM IN OUR COUNTRY!!” The tone of Trump’s delivery got progressively worse and angrier the longer he went into his speech, to the point that by the end, he even sounded angry and confrontational when he was discussing the fact that he loved his family.

Even the crowd seemed confused about how to respond emotionally – or perhaps they were simply under the effect of some sort of bizarre mass hypnosis….

Watching the audience, they did seem confused. During the pauses, both planned an unplanned, many were just sitting there. Many broke out into chants of USA USA time and again (something you’ll never hear at the DNC), yet many were looking around, unsure as to what was going on. I don’t think I’ve ever hear a campaign speech from a presidential candidate like this one. This should have been the time to humanize Donald, to show his soft side, his caring, his ability to lead. Instead, what was probably passionate came off overly angry.

I’ll liken this to corporate trainers who speak really really loud. Have you ever had one? I’ve been in a few like that, and you start losing interest in listening to what this person who is YELLING AT YOU is saying.

Yes, there were times to be angry. Islamic terrorism for instance. But, it can’t mostly be loud. This was the speech the hardcore Trump supporters wanted, not the one needed to truly introduce Trump to the country as the GOP candidate.

It all leads to the question, what did they undecideds think? What of those who are on the fence regarding voting Republican against Hillary? Did this sway #NeverTrumps, or harden their position?

Here’s another point Leon Wolf makes

What was depressing to me – but by no means surprising – is that there was almost no attempt to articulate or defend the ideas of limited government or liberty under the constitution. As Aaron noted, Trump barely bothered to even mention the words (and didn’t mention “liberty” at all). Moreover, almost all of the concepts Trump mentioned throughout his speech of necessity involved expanding both the scope and intrusion of the Federal government.

This is something I’ve mentioned several times, here and on Twitter, as well as in Real World conversations. What are Trump’s notions of liberty, freedom, limited government, and adherence to the full Constitution? He doesn’t talk about this much.

Nor did Trump attempt to reach out to “heal the divisions” that arose during campaign season, and have even continue since Trump gained the necessary number of delegates. It’s not up to the aggrieved to heal nor put those aside. And Trump will need all the Republicans who are on the fence, and even those who are #NeverTrump to win. His hardcores work overtime to insult people who haven’t jumped on the Trump train. Trump could fix this. He doesn’t, and seemingly won’t.

Now, we await the polls to see if the speech moved the needle.

What are your thoughts?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a paddle board needed to navigate a soon to be flooded world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on the smear merchants right and left.

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The GOP Outsourced Judicial Nominations To The NRA Or Something

By William Teach July 21, 2016 – 11:07 am

Democrats have a fevah and it’s more and more gun control, ie, taking a means of personal protection away from law abiding citizens, leaving them at the mercy of law breakers, often emboldened by Leftist gun and legal system policies. And, the NRA drives them bonkers, as we see in this NY Times opinion piece by Linda Greenhouse

How the G.O.P. Outsourced the Judicial Nomination Process.

The massacre of children and teachers in Newtown, Conn., didn’t do it. Neither did the mass murder of worshipers in Charleston, S.C., nor of county employees in San Bernardino, Calif., nor of people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Nor, most likely, will the recent coldblooded murders of police officers persuade the Republicans in Congress to enact even modest measures to make it harder for people to get their hands on weapons of destruction.

Funny how the last two didn’t persuade Leftist that perhaps the is a problem in Islam.

If the affirmative act of passing legislation is out of reach, it seems to me that there is one thing an aroused and disgusted public ought to focus on: reclaiming the judicial confirmation process from the National Rifle Association.

Over the past seven years, Senate Republicans have outsourced the confirmation process to the gun lobby. This is not hyperbole, but fact. The N.R.A.’s instant and evidence-free denunciation of Judge Merrick B. Garland, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy, may have appeared to be just piling on, since Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, had already announced that no nominee would even be granted a hearing. But in fact, it was merely the tip of the iceberg.

Missing is that Judge Garland had four chances to vote with the 2nd Amendment, and voted against it all four times.

Regardless, this is all about how the GOP is in the pocket of the NRA, to which I say: “so what?” The NRA is standing up for the Constitution, and not just the 2nd Amendment. If any judge is willing to betray, to go against the 2nd Amendment, might they be willing to do the same with the others? A judge who is unwilling to uphold our founding documents, which set the Way Government Acts, should not be anywhere near a courtroom.

Furthermore, let’s consider that the Democrats have sold their souls to be in the pockets of other interest groups, such as the entertainment industry, trial lawyers, public and private sector unions, but they all pale in comparison to their worshiping at the feet of abortion groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Emily’s List. There is no issue more important to Democrats than being pro-abortion. There is no minor restriction on abortion that they will allow.

  • Restricting non-relatives from taking an underage girl across state lines to have an abortion? Dems say “hell no!”
  • Requiring parental notification? Dems say “hell no!”
  • Restrictions on late term abortion, even close to the due date? Dems say “hell no!”
  • Requiring any medical standards at abortion facilities? Dems say “hell no!”
  • Shutting down protests and Free Speech by pro-life citizens? Dems say “hell yes!”

Whenever a Republican nominates someone for a judgeship, the very first thing Democrats will trot out is their position on abortion. They can couch it in any term they like – pro-choice, a woman’s right to choose, women’s health, etc – but, it is all the same: a deeply held belief that the unborn can be casually discarded for convenience.

Let’s also not forget that Dems align themselves with Islamic radical groups. They are thrilled by Iran getting nuclear weapons. They align themselves with groups that want to wipe Israel off the map, and often push for this same thing. They align themselves with Palestinian terrorists. They align themselves with the communist movement, which has killed hundreds of millions. They aligned themselves with Hugo Chavez and the Castro brothers. They align themselves with horrible people like Tookie Williams, who murdered a police officer. They align themselves with the worst elements of Black Lives Matter, and denigrate police officers.

Those would be the same police officers that are supposed to protect citizens after the citizens have been disarmed. Go figure.

So, liberals can spare me their indignation about the NRA when they align themselves with baby killers and others.

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