Warmists Have New Tactic: Frame Support For ‘Climate Change’ Initiatives As Being Patriotic

By William Teach April 30, 2016 – 10:15 am

This is a shameless attempt by Warmists to convert Conservatives to their cause. Providing rock solid evidence would be the best solution, but, since there is an absence of that, the Cult of Climastrology has to try other things

(Daily Caller)A new study by Oregon State University (OSU) psychologists have come up with a new tactic for turning skeptical conservatives into full-blown global warming alarmists: frame the debate in terms of patriotism.

OSU academics found conservatives were more amenable to “pro-environmental” ideas, like man-made global warming, when they were framed as “obeying authority, defending the purity of nature and demonstrating patriotism,” according to a press release.

“We think we’re just discussing issues, but we’re discussing those issues through particular cultural values that we normally take for granted,” Christopher Wolsko, the study’s lead author and an assistant psychology professor at OSU-Cascades. “If you re-frame issues to be more inclusive of those diverse values, people’s attitudes change.”

I’ve actually run across said study on a few of the Warmist sites I peruse, and missed the patriotism part. The part about obeying authority is a hoot, because, while Conservatives are certainly for law and order, we aren’t going to blindly follow along on certain issues. Conservatives darned sure didn’t follow when President Bush and other Republicans were pushing “amnesty” for illegals. If anything, it is Left leaners who blindly follow what they are told by their “betters”, even when those betters are utter hypocrites.

I wonder if Barbara Boxer was paying attention to this study. Remember the climate change bonds story? Remember this tweet?

The Daily Caller article is from the 26th. The study was released a few days prior. Serendipity?

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Democrats Introduce Resolution In Support Of Reducing Illegal Alien Deportation

By William Teach April 30, 2016 – 7:32 am

This apparently comes from the Democratic Reward Law Breakers Caucus

(Think Progress) In the hopes of reducing the number of immigrants swiftly deported back to their home countries, three House Democrats introduced a resolution Thursday to amend federal policies that have resulted in harsh consequences for hundreds of thousands of individuals and their families.

The “Fix96 Resolution” would repeal two immigration laws that dramatically expanded the type of offenses that could be considered “aggravated felonies” — a category of criminal convictions that carry harsh consequences like mandatory detention, potential deportation, and a permanent ban from re-entering the United States.

These laws, signed in 1996 by former President Bill Clinton, have made it easier to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who commit minor crimes. Under the policies, being in possession of marijuana, shoplifting, and writing a bad check are all defined as “aggravated felonies.” As it stands now, immigrants who commit these type of low-level criminal offenses are arrested, sent to serve their prison sentences, and immediately turned over to federal immigration custody for potential deportation proceedings.

Heck, just being present in the country illegally should be enough to get them deported. Remember, Democrats want to reward illegal aliens who have further committed other crimes to be able to stick around, and be given lawful status, preferably the ability to vote. On the flip side, they want to prosecute citizens for Wrongthink and being climate Skeptics. Very skewed priorities.

The resolution, sponsored by Reps. Grijalva, Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Judy Chu (D-CA) and supported by more than 80 immigrant advocacy organizations, is likely to be shot down in the Republican-controlled Congress. But Democratic lawmakers’ goal is to “set the tone” and “lay the foundations” for a national dialogue about immigration reform, La Opinion reported.

If elected Republicans had any cajones, they’d take the Democrats up on this dialogue. Instead of letting the resolution die in committee, they’d hold a debate and a vote on it, putting Democrats on record as supporting people who not only broke our immigration laws, but broke other criminal laws. Make a big deal out of this. Talk about it a lot. Highlight exactly who Democrats are fighting for: namely, law breakers. There are costs to illegal aliens, almost all of them negative.

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Agenda News: TG Woman’s Defiance Supposedly Backfired On “Her”

By William Teach April 30, 2016 – 7:15 am

There’s a reason I call this “agenda driven news”, and we’ll get to that shortly. First, though, let’s see a photo of this lady in question

Biological man or woman? If you didn’t already know from the headline, what would you think? Would you even consider whether a man or woman? That screenshot comes from the video, which is worth a watch to further reinforce the agenda driven news, which appeared on the front page of WTVD, and was obviously part of their live news

TRANSGENDER DURHAM WOMAN SAYS DEFIANCE BACKFIRED ON HER

There’s a movement on social media where transgender people go into bathrooms and snap selfies in the mirror. They’re doing so in defiance of House Bill 2.

One transgender Durham woman said she wanted to make a statement when she went into a women’s restroom, but says she learned what’ll happen if you’re caught.

Alexis Adams is a transgender woman and says she used the women’s restroom inside the Durham Transit Center.

She says she was humiliated beyond belief and bystanders were stunned as security escorted her out of the Transit Center Thursday.

“I couldn’t think. I couldn’t speak. I was speechless,” Alexis Adams said.

She claims a custodian confronted her when she came out of a stall, and then security came, and she was “outed in front of everybody.” First, can you imagine a situation in which a custodian would go into the women’s room to confront someone like this? Perhaps if they heard something breaking or people fighting, maybe bawling their heads off. Even then, they’d probably call security or the police, because they wouldn’t want to lose their jobs. Second, isn’t the point of taking selfies “outing in front of everybody?”

Durham officials said they have not been able to substantiate Adams’ claim that an incident occurred.

“We talked to staff and police officers, we can’t find any evidence she was escorted out,” said Durham Public Affairs Director Beverly Thompson.

Does Ms. Adams have a shred of proof that this occurred? Better yet, does WTVD have a shred of proof that this happened? They ran with this story, put it on broadcast, yet, it couldn’t be substantiated. Are there any witnesses? The Durham PD public affairs department would like to know. How is this in any way news if the story cannot be substantiated? Why did WTVD show little journalistic integrity in the way they ran the story when it couldn’t be substantiated? Because this is agenda driven news. Someone makes a claim, it fits in with the liberal bias, and a news outlet, and sometimes a lot of them, jump on it in a less than skeptical manner.

Did they ask to review any security video of the incident? Surely, there are security cameras within the Durham Transit Center.

How many hoaxes have been exposed after the news media ran with the stories? We just had the Whole Foods anti-gay cake hoax (and the hoaxer, Pastor Jordan Brown, skipping Sunday service). We just found out that a campus noose incident at Salisbury College was a hoax perpetrated by two Black students. So many of these incidents of hate and such end up being hoaxes. And the media runs with them, rarely ever asking for proof. Did WTVD ask Ms. Adams if she could prove the allegation?

And, if you saw “her” going in the ladies room, would you even think about it?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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There’s An App For Dealing With CEO’s Bullying NC Over Gender Confused Law

By William Teach April 29, 2016 – 3:57 pm

Yes, yes there is

https://twitter.com/LadyLiberty1885/status/726135503645466625

From the link

Are you tired of Activist CEO’s from big companies like Apple, PayPal and Target bullying your state over laws like North Carolina’s common sense facilities protections in HB 2?

There’s an app for that.

It’s time to fight back. You can make your voice heard thanks to the NC Values Coalition.

Go to mobilize4change.org/gUco6Q1  and click on the app to send an email to these corporations doing the biding of the LGBT activist groups like the Human Rights Campaign and Equality NC.

Lady Liberty 1885 has the full text of what is sent. Also

https://twitter.com/LadyLiberty1885/status/725410088295514112

Liberals don’t care. They want the itty bitty tiny number of gender confused folks to use whatever bathroom, locker room, and shower they choose to use, regardless of the privacy and protections women and children deserve. Why? Leftists really can’t explain, other than a few talking points they’ve been given.

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If All You See…

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

…is a fish whose species will soon be swimming between the skyscrapers of Manhattan, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on the BDS movement.

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“Confronting Climate Change Is Our Moral Obligation”, You Guys!

By William Teach April 29, 2016 – 10:48 am

More proof that this is really more a cult than a science, as multiple religious leaders yammer on about Hotcoldwetdry

(The Hill) We are bishops from the global South and North, united by faith and humanity. As pastors, we seek to comfort the young and the old, the healthy and the infirm.

We try to ensure that the powerless are heard and the powerful are engaged. In accordance with these values, we join hands with Pope Francis to call upon our leaders to protect all of creation from ecological calamity as they prepare to sign the Paris climate change accord later this week at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Snip)

Those of us living in the industrialized nations in the global North know that we are disproportionately responsible for carbon pollution. Those of us living in developing nations in the global South know that we are disproportionately impacted by climate change. In solidarity, then, we must all examine our lifestyles with sobriety and support public policies that place the common good of everyone over the narrow self-interests of the few.

In other words, these religious leaders are advocating for more authoritarian government over freedom.

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Agreeable Warm Weather Is A Clear Sign Of ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach April 29, 2016 – 7:22 am

So far, it seems as if climate change, whether it is mostly/solely natural, mostly/solely man induced, or somewhere in between, has people happy with the weather. They find it agreeable and preferable. this has made the Cult of Climastrology very unhappy, though

Unseasonably warm weather a clear sign of climate change, say scientists
El Niño driving current spike in warm weather and May almost certain to be warmer than average from 1961 to 1990

Huh. It seems that the subhead contradicts the headline, since El Nino is very much a natural process that has been going on well before the current warm period.

Unseasonably warm weather across Australia, which is set to continue through the coming month, might be putting a spring in people’s step but is a clear sign of dangerous climate change, according climate scientists and meteorologists.

Australia and the rest of the world have been reeling from a string of temperature records being smashed. February caused alarm when it was the most unusually warm month on record by a huge margin. But that record was broken immediately by March.

In other words, we’re doomed from agreeable weather. Yes, Warmists are serious. Such is the doom and gloom bubble they live in.

“The previous record had about a one in 43-year chance due to natural climate variations alone but now occurs about one year in six in the present climate, that is already affected by human-caused climate change,” he told Guardian Australia.

“It’s evidence that climate change is already happening – and increasing the risks of hot extremes.”

It’s interesting that when it is cold records being smashed, and we see things like spring snow, years without a spring, snow in Egypt, etc, it is dismissed as being just weather. Or blamed on ‘climate change’ and someone driving a fossil fueled vehicle.

The current spike in warm weather is happening partly because of the monster El Niño that spread a pulse of warm water across the Pacific Ocean in 2015. That El Niño is dissipating, spreading the warmer water around Australia, raising temperatures.

No, it’s pretty much happening solely because of El Nino, and the fact that warm periods happen.

But all that was happening on top of the background of global warming, Trewin said. He said that these days, in an El Niño year, the world tended to experience extreme temperatures and merely “above average” temperatures in other years. Only when a La Niña cooled the globe were there normal or slightly cool temperatures.

What is “normal”? Was it normal to see a dip in temperatures from the 1940’s through the 1970’s, despite a huge rise in the use of fossil fuels, energy, and manufacturing? No worries, Warmists will always have some sort of excuse and will always apply some blame. Because that’s what pseudo-religious cults do.

Of course, most cults don’t demand that the government institute massive tax schemes and restrict the liberty of private citizens.

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White House Blamestorms Over Continued Weak GDP Numbers

By William Teach April 29, 2016 – 6:55 am

Remember, Hillary wants to continue with similar economic policies if she becomes president

(Washington Post) The White House labored Thursday to explain a first-quarter economic report showing the weakest growth in two years, even as President Obama was trumpeting his mastery of the economy in a New York Times Magazine interview.

The Department of Commerce reported that U.S. gross domestic product rose 0.5 percent in the first quarter of 2016, the third straight sluggish start to a year. Consumer spending and business purchases both fell, continuing trends that could have ominous implications for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign as she tries to claim the mantle as Mr. Obama’s successor.

Of all the metrics used to quantify economic well being, GDP is the most important. And GDP has been anemic during the vast majority of Obama’s presidency. This is the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. So, of course, Blamestorming!

Jason Furman, Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser, blamed the first-quarter slowdown on “weak foreign demand and low oil prices,” and some private economists say growth should pick up later this year. But Republicans were quick to trumpet the disappointing number as an indictment of the administration’s economic stewardship.

Not too be outdone, Josh Earnest

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said that congressional Republicans were in part to blame for the weak growth, saying the economy would be stronger if Congress had agreed to Mr. Obama’s proposals for higher spending on infrastructure projects three or four years ago.

“The reason that opportunity was missed was because of Republicans’ stubborn refusal to consider any priority that President Obama has identified. That’s unfortunate,” Mr. Earnest said.

So, the answer is more government spending, per Earnest. Why is the answer never “grow the private sector”? Mr. Obama himself attempted to defend his poor economic record in an interview with the NY Times, which is long on excuses. And Republicans were quick to pounce

“Today’s GDP report showing the weakest period of economic growth in two years is the latest sign the Obama economy isn’t working,” said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. “Despite all of the evidence Obama’s liberal policies are leaving middle-class families behind and holding back growth, Hillary Clinton thinks this president doesn’t get enough credit and wants to double down on his failed agenda.”

The only two metrics that seem to be doing well, at least on the surface, are the unemployment rate and stock markets. Of course, the unemployment rate is low due to historic numbers of people dropping out of the jobs market, and let’s not forget that wages are low, due to so many of the jobs being part time and service industry. As far as the stock market goes, I thought liberals hated Wall Street? GDP, along with earnings growth, are the two most important metrics for We The People. If you’re one of the 1%ers, you’re doing pretty well in the Obama economy. Otherwise, you aren’t doing so well. And if this continued poor GDP continues, Obama will have a historic record

Again, assuming 2.67% RGDP growth for 2016, Obama will leave office having produced an average of 1.55% growth. This would place his presidency fourth from the bottom of the list of 39*, above only those of Herbert Hoover (-5.65%), Andrew Johnson (-0.70%) and Theodore Roosevelt (1.41%)

Congratulations, Mr. Obama! Of course, this means economic pain for the non-1%, who have suffered under your foolish economic and regulatory state policies.

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Obama Thinks A Bigger Fence Is Great For The White House

By William Teach April 28, 2016 – 4:27 pm

Imagine, if you make the fence around the White House a little bit taller, it would stop idiots from jumping over it

(NBC)  The U.S. Secret Service plans to raise the height of the White House security fence by 5 feet and add a new concrete foundation to reduce the risk of fence-jumpers, according to a copy of an agency report obtained by the News4 I-Team.

The agency, along with the National Park Service, said it intends to begin building a “taller, stronger” fence to protect the White House grounds by 2018.

In all fairness, this seems to be originating with said Secret Service, not the Obama administration. But, Obama has been dead set against the wall on the Mexican border, and has bashed Donald Trump for his plan to build a bigger and better wall. Why won’t he put the kibosh on this bigger fence if they do not work and separate people?

BTW, just to reiterate, I’m not a big fan of a wall along the entire border, I think there are better methods, as I’ve outlined previously.

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If All You See…

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

…is a world flooding from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Western Hero, with a post on right and wrong versus legal and illegal.

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