…is a world that will soon be covered 100% by water from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Vox Popoli, with a post on perception vs perspective.
It’s ladies of horror movies week, so, have to start off with one of the best, Jamie Lee Curtis from Halloween. Since there are so many “scream queens” and only 6 more days, who’s your favorite?
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! A great day in America, as Spring comes ever so closer. This pinup is by Guilherme Asthma, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets†calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me
Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!
Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.
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Once again, I’ll explain that my support Donald Trump is exceedingly low. If he ends up being the GOP candidate I will hold my nose wear a gas mask and vote for him, because it is better to have someone who at least says he’s a Republican, and work to keep the Senate and House. You won’t see any posts showing deep support for him. Sometimes, politics is simply about bad choices and worse choices, but you have to look at the big picture. Regardless, it is amusing how some are having utter meltdowns over Trump, ones that seem a bit beyond the normal over a GOP candidate. Here’s the NY Times’ Nicholas Kristoff
IS there any scarier nightmare than President Donald J. Trump in a tense international crisis, indignant and impatient, with his sweaty finger on the nuclear trigger?
Well, yes. Hillary even said it in 2008, it is Barack H. Obama having to answer a 2am call, something he has failed at numerous times. On the bright side, Obama tends to surrender. Then hit the golf course.
“Trump is a danger to our national security,†John B. Bellinger III, legal adviser to the State Department under President George W. Bush, bluntly warned.
Really? Did Trump employee a person who used a home brew, unsecure server in contradiction to regulations and laws, which exposed national security information, everything from privileged communications to the highest levels of communication? Did Trump call ISIS the “JV team”? Did Trump sign a deal with Iran, which essentially kicks the can for Iran’s nuclear ambitions down the road while enriching Iran’s government coffers?
Most of the discussion about Trump focuses on domestic policy. But checks and balances mean that there are limits to what a president can achieve domestically, while the Constitution gives a commander in chief a much freer hand abroad.
That’s what horrifies America-watchers overseas. Der Spiegel, the German magazine, has called Trump the most dangerous man in the world. Even the leader of a Swedish nationalist party that started as a neo-Nazi white supremacist group has disavowed Trump. J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, reflected the views of many Britons when she tweeted that Trump is worse than Voldemort.
Oh, thank God, I don’t know what we would have done without the opinion of kid’s books writer. Of course, this is not to say Trump isn’t a fool on international policy
Asked about Syria, Trump said last year that he would unleash ISIS to destroy Syria’s government. That is insane: ISIS is already murdering or enslaving Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities; executing gays; destroying antiquities; oppressing women. And Trump wants ISIS to capture Damascus? (snip)
Trump has also called for more U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq, and raised the prospect of bombing North Korean nuclear sites. A poorly informed, impatient and pugnacious leader can cause devastation, and that’s true of either Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump.
Yeah, that’s level 10 stupidity. Fortunately, there are typically people who are continuously in government, such as those who sit on the Joint Chiefs, who can say “yeah, um, President Trump, that’s pretty darned crazy.” Not in those words, of course.
The third risk is to America’s reputation and soft power. Both Bush and President Obama worked hard to reassure the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims that the U.S. is not at war with Islam. Trump has pretty much declared war on all Muslims.
Um, no. He’s took a position against all those who have radical leanings, and has stated that those who hold positions compatible with American values should not be here. And he’s 100% correct.
There’s something heartbreaking about the prospect that America’s next commander in chief may be a global joke, a man regarded in most foreign capitals as a buffoon, and a dangerous one.
Well, we’ve spent over 7 years with a guy who is a joke on the international stage, at least by foreign leaders.
It all seems a bit beyond the normal election season freakout, possibly because the Establishment is horrified that someone might get the nomination per the voters that they cannot control, that is not part of their little clique.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Say, Is There Anything Scarier Than Donald Trump With His Finger On Nuclear Trigger? »
This has made at least one Warmist, by the name of Mike Mullen to have a sad
MORE MINNESOTANS BELIEVE IN GOD THAN CLIMATE CHANGE
Minnesotans are religious. We’re Americans, after all.
But when it comes to God, we’re actually far down the list. Uh, not His list: A new poll from the Pew Research Centerranks Minnesota in the bottom half of American states in self-proclaimed faith.
That study found that 56 percent of us “believe in God with absolute certainty,” while 47 percent said they pray on a daily basis. On church, cathedral, temple, or mosque attendance, about 34 percent of Minnesotans say they attend religious services on a weekly basis. (snip)
Earlier this week, Mother Jones dug out the shameful fact that a majority of respondents in 10 of the 14 states voting in this week’s Super Tuesday primaries do not believe climate change is “mainly caused  by humans.” Those results, from a 2014 study by Yale, capture a bunch of the southern states that voted this week. But we’re there, too: Just 48 percent of Minnesotans believe in manmade climate change, tying us with Georgia and putting us one point below Texas.
…And Minnesotans, in turn, are 8 percent more likely to believe in God than to believe the scientists.
And this means doom or something
Some day our reckoning with all of these facts will come. Until then, the least you could do is say a little prayer for science.
Of course, what he’s referring to is known as “science”, because it isn’t quite real. It’s like thinking you’re buying ice cream, when it is really a “frozen dairy desert“. But, hey, there’s a reckoning coming!!!!!
Read: Bummer: More Minnesotans Believe In God Than ‘Climate Change’ »
…is a sea that’s going to rise hundreds of feet because Someone Else ate a steak, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on the top 300 Conservative websites.
Any recommendations for next week’s theme?
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And they’re suing to stop it
(CNN) Five New York women are fighting to halt the state’s “Tampon Tax.”
Margo Seibert, Jennifer Moore, Catherine O’Neil, Natalie Brasington, and Taja-Nia Henderson, filed a lawsuit Thursday against New York’s tax department and its commissioner, Jerry Boone.
Their demand: Stop imposing a 4% “luxury tax” on feminine hygiene products.
The complaint points to guidelines published by the taxation department in 1998 and 2014 that categorize pads and tampons as “general merchandise.” That means they’re not eligible for a “medical supplies” tax exemption.
Of course, it’s the patriarchy
“There can be only one explanation for the Department’s decision to tax tampons and pads but not Rogaine, dandruff shampoo, foot powder, chapstick, and so many other less medically necessary products also used by men…[these products] are used by women only,” the complaint reads.
Wait, women don’t use any of those other products?
However, as amusing as this is, they do have a point.
So, you’re thinking of a burger for lunch and a steak for dinner? You’re looking forward to spring so you can crack open the grill and cook up some awesome strip steaks? Heck, maybe you’ve said “damn the cold and snow, we’re grilling out!” Well, you’re a murderer. So says Vice’s Matt Smith
Meat Is Murder — On the Climate, Anyway
Beware the cows.
Sure, it looks like we’ve got them where we want them, penned up in farms, easily led to the meat-packing plants. But in an ongoing display of passive resistance, they may be trying to take us with them.
Beyond the fat and cholesterol, they’re also one of the leading sources of methane — a planet-warming greenhouse gas with 25 times the punch of carbon dioxide on a 100-year time scale. And those emissions are expected to go up planet-wide as developing countries urbanize and get richer, putting a Western-style diet within the reach of billions more people.
So, it will allow people starving in 3rd world sh*tholes, er, developing nations, to get enough food? What’s the downside? Why is it that 1st World Warmists are always trying to deny those in 3rd world nations the same benefits the 1st Worlders have?
And when you total up the effect of all the feed, fertilizer, and fuel involved in modern farming, that quarter-pound cheeseburger ends up having the same carbon footprint as a nearly seven-mile (11-kilometer) drive, said Dawn Undurraga, a nutritionist with the nonprofit Environmental Working Group.
So, Warmists shouldn’t have either, in order to save Gaia? Chicken and pork are not quite as bad, but, they’re still EVIL.
Worldwide, livestock account for about 15 percent of global emissions — and reducing consumption “will be critical” to hitting the climate change targets world leaders set in Paris in December, the British think-tank Chatham House estimates. That pact set a goal of limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times, a mark the world is roughly halfway toward already.
“A shift to healthier patterns of meat-eating could bring a quarter of the emissions reductions we need to keep on track for a two-degree world,” Chatham House reported in November.
The notion here is that millions, many even billions or trillions!!!!!!!!!1!!! will die if the temperature of the earth goes up a wee bit, so, all you people should mostly stop eating meat, otherwise, doom.
Eating too much meat also contributes to the rise of obesity and the spread of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes. But worldwide consumption is expected to expand more than 75 percent by 2050 — and few people are aware of the connection between climate change and diet, Chatham House noted.
“Few people care about the connection between climate change and diet.” Fixed that.
That’s the question the headline on the front page of the NY Times is asking, while the headline in the article reads
Rank and File Republicans Tell Party Elites: We’re Sticking With Donald Trump
From Michigan to Louisiana to California on Friday, rank-and-file Republicans expressed mystification, dismissal and contempt regarding the instructions that their party’s most high-profile leaders were urgently handing down to them: Reject and defeat Donald J. Trump.
Their angry reactions, in the 24 hours since Mitt Romney and John McCain urged millions of voters to cooperate in a grand strategy to undermine Mr. Trump’s candidacy, have captured the seemingly inexorable force of a movement that still puzzles the Republican elite and now threatens to unravel the party they hold dear.
In interviews, even lifelong Republicans who cast a ballot for Mr. Romney four years ago rebelled against his message and plan. “I personally am disgusted by it — I think it’s disgraceful,†said Lola Butler, 71, a retiree from Mandeville, La., who voted for Mr. Romney in 2012. “You’re telling me who to vote for and who not to vote for? Please.†(snip)
The furious campaign now underway to stop Mr. Trump and the equally forceful rebellion against it captured the essence of the party’s breakdown over the past several weeks: Its most prominent guardians, misunderstanding their own voters, antagonize them as they try to reason with them, driving them even more energetically to Mr. Trump’s side.
The article makes a good point: the voters are doing what voters do: vote. They’ve picked their candidate. And, for good or bad, Trump is doing better than Rubio, Cruz, and Kasich. Other Republican contenders have been knocked out (personally, I think Scott Walker would have been the best choice, but, it looked like he didn’t want to participate in the Trump Show). The point of the primaries is for the voters to choose their candidate, and, if it ends up being Trump with the required delegates, then, for good or bad, he’s our contender. And the voters do not want the Establishment thwarting that process.
I’ll avoid editorializing on Trump himself, as I think you know I am not a fan. I will say, based on Trump’s positions, many in the GOP are correct in their assertions, but, Republicans are tired of the Establishment dictating the direction of the Party, and this very much shows in the way the Trumpistas, as Rush Limbaugh calls them, are responding and supporting Trump.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Does The GOP Face Rebellion Over Establishment Calls To Stop Trump? »
…is a world turning to desert because Other People haven’t gone vegan to reduce their carbon emissions, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is House Of Eratosthenes, with a post on the small thermal exhaust port.
That’s Kirsty Gallacher. British.
Read: If All You See… »
Think Progress’ Special Warmist Snowflake Samantha Page is very vexed by Donald Trump’s position on ‘climate change’, and, really, this would apply to most Republicans running
This One Chart Shows How Crazy Trump’s Climate Positions Are
Now that the results from Super Tuesday are in, we can officially pivot to considering Donald Trump as the most likely Republican presidential nominee. November will see a Trump v. Clinton or a Trump v. Sanders face-off, barring a few, impressively over-analyzed scenarios.
With that in mind, ThinkProgress wanted to revisit our climate and energy candidate chart, where we help voters understand where candidates stand.
We have updated the Democratic candidates, now whittled to only Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, by breaking out Atlantic and Gulf offshore drilling and including new data on fossil fuel donations, and we added a few lines that reflect some of Trump’s more aggressive energy and climate positions.
The Republican candidate has been remarkably mum on climate issues — perhaps because, as he has repeatedly Tweeted, Trump believes climate change is a hoax. (He also may or may not believe that the hoax is perpetrated by the Chinese.)
I will say this, I think Trump is completely off base when he says it is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. That’s silly. But, on to said chart, which is below the fold, because it is very long
Read: One Chart That Shows How CWAAAAZY Trump Is On Hotcoldwetdry »
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