Surprise: Trump Is Still Whining About Colorado Loss

By William Teach April 15, 2016 – 6:53 am

Why yes, yes Donald Trump is still pitching a fit over the way Colorado chose its delegates, to the point of writing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which he does make a few good points, but, really, it just seems whiny

On Saturday, April 9, Colorado had an “election” without voters. Delegates were chosen on behalf of a presidential nominee, yet the people of Colorado were not able to cast their ballots to say which nominee they preferred.

A planned vote had been canceled. And one million Republicans in Colorado were sidelined.

In recent days, something all too predictable has happened: Politicians furiously defended the system. “These are the rules,” we were told over and over again. If the “rules” can be used to block Coloradans from voting on whether they want better trade deals, or stronger borders, or an end to special-interest vote-buying in Congress—well, that’s just the system and we should embrace it.

Let me ask America a question: How has the “system” been working out for you and your family?

The system gave us John McCain and Mitt Romney. It also gave us control of the Senate, House, a majority of state governor mansions, and a huge increase in state general assemblies. You know who should have been complaining about the GOP establishment? Christine O’Donnell, who legitimately won the primary to be the Senate candidate in Delaware, then had the NRSC immediately state they would not provide funding, and pretty much refused to back her. Yet, instead of being whiny, she plugged on.

Anyhow, let’s refer back to this

Priebus went on to tweet about how the entire nomination process works, certainly a shot at Trump. Who continues on and on with his complaints in the WSJ opinion piece. And then takes shots at Ted Cruz, including

The great irony of this campaign is that the “Washington cartel” that Mr. Cruz rails against is the very group he is relying upon in his voter-nullification scheme.

My campaign strategy is to win with the voters. Ted Cruz’s campaign strategy is to win despite them.

The problem here is that Trump is actively working to isolate a goodly chunk of Republican voters, who may well refuse to vote for him in the general election, and it doesn’t seem as if he even knows it. For one thing, he complains about special interest groups, without realizing that many of those groups are made up of good conservatives. The NRA is a special interest group. So are TEA Party groups. Does Trump have a problem with them? He’s turned Republicans into voters who aren’t just against him during the primaries, but also the general

Just as I have said that I will reform our unfair trade, immigration and economic policies that have also been rigged against Americans, so too will I work closely with the chairman of the Republican National Committee and top GOP officials to reform our election policies. Together, we will restore the faith—and the franchise—of the American people.

Here he shows that he has no clue how the system works. The individual states pick how they’re nomination process works, with some input from the national GOP. It sure appears as if Trump wants to implement a centralized government solution in creating a one size fits all method.

Do you know what would be great? If Trump would spend as much time attacking Democrats, Hillary, Obama, Sanders, etc, as he does attacking Ted Cruz, the RNC, the “GOPe”, and other Republicans.

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Surprise: Leftists Find A Reason To Be Against Polygamy

By William Teach April 14, 2016 – 3:18 pm

Let’s start here, with an article by Noah Feldman on why polygamy is Constitutional

Now that a U.S. appeals court has declined to strike down Utah’s bigamy laws, it’s reasonable to ask: What does the Constitution, properly interpreted, have to say about the topic?

Legally speaking, the issue can be split in two. The first question is whether a state may criminalize marriage to more than one person. The second is whether, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year to require states to recognize same-sex marriage, there now exists a fundamental right to marry more than one person — and to make states treat plural marriages on equal terms with marriages between two people.

I’ll leave you to read the rest, but, it is something many people, including myself, noted in the post gay marriage as approved by the Supreme Court nation. If marriage is no longer between a man and woman, if this all about love being love and no one should stand in the way, then why not have bigamy and polygamy be legal? Love is love. If it’s consenting, sure thing. Ah, not according to the always very leftist and unhinged Washington Monthly

In our present society, marriage is a consensual matter and an entirely optional one. It isn’t actually necessary anymore. But that doesn’t mean that we’ve entirely transcended human nature. There are still a host of reasons why our society benefits when people form monogamous units, including the increased likelihood that children are raised by both parents, the avoidance of the transmittal of sexual diseases, the reduction of how many families need government assistance, and (yes) a reduction in male violence.

Finally, if we look around the world and in the history books, polygamy and women’s rights do not go together. If we’re talking about a situation where women are completely autonomous agents who enter into these plural marriages voluntarily, that may seem almost like an advance in rights. After all, they’d be free to have multiple husbands. Somehow, it never works out like that, as we can see in the still-surviving polygamist outposts in our own country.

Got that? Having just two parents over multiple parents is supposedly a benefit. It’s not explained, we just have to take their word for it. Interestingly, Liberals have worked very hard to destroy the family unit. Double interestingly, those against gay marriage have stated that it is a benefit to have a mother and a father, rather than 2 mothers or two fathers. Suddenly, liberals like a similar argument.

Furthermore, we are being told that a consensual arrangement is Violence Towards Women in practice. What happened to Love Is Love?

However you look at it, I don’t think you can productively analyze the merits of anti-polymany laws without reference to more than the implications of some recent Supreme Court cases and an appeal to fundamental rights. We’re people who are trying to live together in societies. Our laws and customs reflect that, even when they become less and less ideally suited to the times.

Yes, our laws and customs do reflect our rights. Why did the political Left destroy them regarding gay marriage? Why are they looking to destroy them regarding the restriction of people to the bathroom of the biological sex? Why the need to make belief in abortion a sacrament? Why the need to go against the passage of time and look to re-institute authoritarian government within democratic societies? Why the need for class warfare? And so, so much more? And it does beg the question within context: if gay marriage is suited for the times, why not polygamy and bigamy? Love is love, right? Right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 14, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a world drying out and turning to dirt from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fire Andrea Mitchell, with a post on Progressives destroying a war memorial.

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Scientists With Vested Interest Confirm The 97% Consensus Or Something

By William Teach April 14, 2016 – 8:52 am

Those who make their living by pushing a political position regarding ‘climate change’ are at it again

Scientists Just Confirmed The Scientific Consensus On Climate Change

Almost 16 years after Harvard researcher Naomi Oreskes first documented an overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, a research team confirmed that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is happening.

The study, published Tuesday, brought together 16 scientists, including seven authors of consensus studies that documented similar conclusions over the years despite varying research approaches. While reaching this so-called “consensus on consensus,” authors concluded that scientific agreement on human-caused climate change is “robust” with a range of 90 to 100 percent, depending on the question and methodology.

“It’s important to have [it] on the record,” said Will Cantrell, professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, who was not part of the study. “I don’t think any one study is going to change a lot of people’s minds, but it’s better to have the information than to not have it,” he told ThinkProgress.

Let’s start off by noting that consensus is not science. Secondly, many of the papers mentioned later in the missive have been proven to be frauds, such as the Cook 97% paper….say, isn’t it interesting that they all seem to arrive at the same number? Never 95, 96, 98. Always 97…..which has been shown to be even more of a fraud.

Techniques used to assess expert views on human-caused climate change include analyzing peer-reviewed climate papers, surveying members of the relevant scientific community, compiling public statements by scientists, and mathematically analyzing citation patterns. For this paper, authors used a statistical technique called meta-analysis, which is a way to combine the findings from independent studies, and essentially did a meta-study of meta-studies.

In other words, they simply looked at papers by those with similar beliefs (and monetary interests) and put them together. It is interesting that the Warmists try this consensus schtick constantly, rather than providing rock solid scientific proof. Correlation is not causation.

That’s from Watts Up With That?, regarding a different consensus chart.

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Glenn Beck: Trump Will Campaign With Hillary If He Loses

By William Teach April 14, 2016 – 7:15 am

Let’s note first that Glenn Beck went off the rails long ago in regards to Donald Trump running for president. I do believe that I’ve mentioned before that it seems that Trump is just about all Beck talks about, and it’s not very flattering, almost every time I tune in to his show. Granted, I typically only listen for short periods a few times a week, but, anecdotally, it’s almost every time I tune in. Or a commercial. Or product endorsement. Or some of that old time revival religion.

The thing is, once you remove the Cwaaaaazy, he’s been kinda right. Is he right on this?

(The Blaze) Glenn Beck boldly predicted Wednesday morning that current Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump will join forces with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton if he fails to secure the GOP nomination in July.

“You will see Donald Trump, if he loses the primary, if he loses the nomination — and he doesn’t start a third party, which I don’t think he will — you will see Donald Trump run or campaign with Hillary Clinton,” Beck opined on The Glenn Beck Radio Program.

The conservative talker said Trump would be inclined to team up with the former secretary of state because, should he lose the Republican nomination at the party’s convention this summer, he will feel it was stolen from him.

“You will see him, because he’ll say, ‘They stole it from me, and Lyin’ Ted, you can’t have Lyin’ Ted.’ And he will campaign with Hillary,” Beck said.

Might Trump do this? If he loses, we shall see. Considering his Democratic Party support in the past, and, quite frankly, his whining about the process (you know, the one that is published and set before the primary season even starts) could lead to this.

Beck’s prediction comes on the heels of Trump telling supporters at a New York rally Tuesday that the Republican political system is “rigged” against him, adding that it is both “dirty” and “disgusting.”

Whose fault was it that Trump had no ground game in Colorado? Trump often has no ground game outside of a few markets, while Cruz is traveling all over states.

Of course, in all fairness, I have to wonder if Beck will support Hillary if Trump wins. Most likely not, he would back so third party unknown. I will say this (again): the idea is to win the general election, while retaining the Senate (which has the possibility of flipping back to D) and the House, along with as many state governorships and general assemblies. The GOP has become so polarized that it might be impossible for Trump supporters to vote for Cruz and visa versa. Much of the blame can be laid at the feet of Trump and his staff. You can also blame big pundits like Beck, who I heard say the other day that it might be better to have Hillary as president than Trump, in a situation where the GOP would be able to block her.

Which is super awesome, because the GOP has done a great job in blocking Obama, am I right?

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Akiel Denkins Shot By Officer In Self Defense, Per Wake DA

By William Teach April 13, 2016 – 5:46 pm

This is an interesting situation. When Akiel Denkins was shot and killed by a Raleigh police officer, it was immediately assumed that this was raaaaacism, and the local media, and even some national media, went right along, publishing 2nd hand hearsay claiming that he was shot in the back while running away. Because he was such a little darling, what with his drug dealing, beating women, etc. The Narrative quickly broke down, and the story disappeared. But, now it’s back with some more info to counteract the Narrative

(WTVD11) Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has concluded that Raleigh Police Senior Officer D.C. Twiddy shot Akiel Denkins in self-defense and will not face any charges.

In a release issued on Wednesday, the DA’s office concluded that Officer Twiddy shot 24-year-old Denkins on Feb. 29 “as a matter of last resort and only because he reasonably believed his own life was in danger.”

The release went on to say that Denkins was armed and grabbed Officer Twiddy’s gun during a struggle.

The DA’s findings back up Raleigh Police’s report and a preliminary autopsy report which both stated that Denkins was shot during a struggle after a foot chase in the downtown area.

The gun found at the scene had Denkins’ DNA on it, as did Officer Twiddy’s service weapon, highlighting that Denkins tried to grab it.

Of course, many are not accepting this, and plan on trying other legal avenues. His mother stated

“Now it’s my time to fight,” she said. “And that’s what I am going to do. “I have to fight for justice for my son that’s what I am going to do.”

Your son, sorry to tell you, was a criminal, a bad guy. Justice would have been getting him to stop dealing drugs and committing felonies.

Now I’m just waiting for all the local news media to say “whoops, perhaps we shouldn’t have run with the racism aspect from the get go based on hearsay.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 13, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a wild space far away from you that would be perfect for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on Germany’s newest response to the Cologne sex attacks.

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Climate Change Is A Terminal Diagnosis Or Something

By William Teach April 13, 2016 – 10:59 am

Some Warmists will tell us that the Cult of Climastrology is not prognosticating total doom from ‘climate change’. Strange how it is easy to find articles which have Warmists telling us we are doomed, and I wasn’t even looking for it. Here’s Rhonda Seifert, a “Nurse, researcher, writer, activist, mother, seeker of answers to the “Big Questions””…wait, a mother? Doesn’t she know that rugrats are Bad for ‘climate change’?

Ignoring Climate Change Symptoms Will Lead to Terminal Diagnosis

As a nurse, I can tell you how hard it is to be present when someone is getting the news of a terminal diagnosis. Worse yet is when there were signs, many of them, that were ignored. Signs that, had they acted, would have likely resulted in a very different outcome. What is it that causes one person to ignore the signs until it is too late, while another seeks help and gets a cure?

Recently, I have had some well-meaning friends and family tell me that I worry too much about climate change. That I can’t do anything about it, so I need to stop worrying. Every part of me that is a mother and every part that is a nurse wants to yell back, “No! Don’t you say that.”

Ignoring symptoms of climate change, or denying that it is happening, does not help us any more than it helps someone with early signs of cancer. Telling each other to stop worrying about it is not going to save us. It is not going to save our children. The only way that we can save ourselves is if we face this difficult and scary diagnosis. Climate change is happening. It’s happening right now. And if we keep ignoring this problem, it will become a terminal diagnosis.

Uh huh

You probably know some of the early cancer signs. Do you know what some of the signs of climate change are? These are 10 common signs: 1) Higher Temperatures, 2) Changing Rain and Snow Patterns, 3) Rising Sea Levels, 4) Increase in Droughts, 5) Warmer Oceans, 5) Extreme Weather, 7) Increased Ocean Acidity, 8) Shrinking Sea Ice and Melting Glaciers, 9) More Severe Fire Seasons, and 10) Less Snowpack.

None of which proves anthropogenic causation. Let’s quickly note that seas are rising less than expected during a Holocene warm period. Extreme weather is not happening, in fact, it seems to be less extreme. Fire seasons are not worse. Ocean acidity is not happening, and corals actually evolved during a time of higher seas with higher temperatures. There are other points, but, you’ve read them all before. No rock solid proof of Mankind-induced causation.

Of course, Ms. Seifert offers 7 things you can do. Most are simply spreading awareness, such as #7, which advocates annoying your friends and family with non-stop yammering. And

4. Find out what you can do personally to reduce your carbon footprint at Carbon Fund.

Interestingly, the ideas at the link do not include giving up your fossil fueled travel and making your life carbon neutral. They just have little ideas to do things, which are really more of being environmentally friendly, which is separate from the ‘climate change’ doomathon. The do have ideas how to ruin your wedding, though. We also get

5. Even better, support legislation that will correctly price the cost of carbon such as CCL’s Carbon Fee and Dividend (CFD).

Is anyone shocked that a Warmist would push a carbon tax? This seems to be a favorite method. This one is cute in that it advocates “Use a border adjustment to discourage business relocation.” It’s like they want to control everything with Big Government.

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Reince Priebus To Donald Trump: Stop Whining

By William Teach April 13, 2016 – 8:17 am

Donald Trump has been losing contests as of late, and has been complaining almost non-stop about it. Reince Priebus has a message for The Donald

(The Hill) Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Priebus late Tuesday pushed back at criticism from GOP front-runner Donald Trump that the primary process is unfair.

“Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It’s the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break,” Priebus tweeted.

It is the second time in as many days that the RNC chairman has taken to Twitter to push back on Trump, tweeting late Monday that “the rules were set last year. Nothing mysterious –nothing new.”

His latest remarks came after Trump claimed during a town hall Tuesday night on CNN that he didn’t think the RNC wanted him to secure the nomination, blasting the “very unfair” nomination process.

“I know the rules very well, but I know it’s stacked against me by the establishment,” Trump said during the town hall in New York ahead of the state’s primary next week.

Whenever Trump loses, he either complains, insults, or sulks. When he wins, he crows

Take a chill, Donald. You sound like a liberal, you know, those who are still not over Bush winning Florida in 2000. You can’t win them all. Some people support Cruz over you.

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NC Gov McCrory Signs Executive Order On HB2, Clarifying Points Of Legislation

By William Teach April 13, 2016 – 8:00 am

This is what a good leader does: listens to people, and solves some of the issues. There were a few points in HB2 which concerned people ….. well, the entire thing freaked out Leftists, who, for some reason, are super concerned about allowing those few gender confused people out their to share bathrooms with Other People’s children, yet are strangely unconcerned with the way radical Islam treats gays….., such as protections for gay workers. McCrory released this statement

Governor Pat McCrory has signed an Executive Order to protect the privacy and equality of all North Carolinians. Executive Order 93 clarifies existing state law and provides new protections for North Carolina residents.

Executive Order 93 does the following:

  • Maintains common sense gender-specific restroom and locker room facilities in government buildings and schools
  • Affirms the private sector’s right to establish its own restroom and locker room policies
  • Affirms the private sector and local governments’ right to establish non-discrimination employment policies for its own employees 
  • Expands the state’s employment policy for state employees to cover sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Seeks legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination

With this Executive Order, the State of North Carolina is now one of 24 states that have protections for sexual orientation and gender identity for its employees.

“After listening to people’s feedback for the past several weeks on this issue, I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of misinformation, misinterpretation, confusion, a lot of passion and frankly, selective outrage and hypocrisy, especially against the great state of North Carolina,” said Governor McCrory. “Based upon this feedback, I am taking action to affirm and improve the state’s commitment to privacy and equality.” (WT note: all bold comes from the website, the red is mine)

The two big points here are that he will seek legislation that will restore the right to sue for discrimination in state court, which was a boo boo in HB2, and local government is allowed to have it’s own non-discrimination policies. Also, this provides protections for LGBT workers in state government, which, really, were already there per state and federal law, this executive order simply reaffirms it. HB2 never did away with those protections, unlike how the unhinged opponents portrayed it.

Real leaders understand that sometimes there are errors in legislation, unintended consequences, and will work to fix them. That’s what McCrory did (quite frankly, McCrory has always been a middle of the road Republican, not a Conservative). Others like to double down on failure. And, if Liberals do not like HB2, they can win the election. HB2 has much less of a consequence than the travesty of Obamacare. So a few gender confused cannot use the bathroom of their “gender identity”, and must use the locker room and shower of their biological gender, at least within government property. The private sector can have whatever policy they choose.

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