Cruz Hits Trump On Amnesty, Liberal Values

By William Teach January 19, 2016 – 6:58 am

It goes to show, when you tangle with a guy who is incredibly smart, and was a national debate champion while at Princeton, a guy who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1995, and a guy who’s sponsored over 97 conservative pieces of legislation in the Senate, said guy is not going to back down nor get into the hemming and hawing which other candidates have descended into. Silly Molly Ball has said the in-fighting is all part of a “portrait of a party on the verge of coming apart,” which is the type of fable that we see many times during election season. This is what’s called “robust debate”

(Fox News) Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz launched one of his toughest attacks yet against fellow contender Donald Trump in New Hampshire Monday night, accusing the billionaire real estate developer of being “nowhere to be found” during during the debate in Congress over whether to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.

“If you didn’t stand up and fight amnesty, when the stakes were live or die, do we lose this permanently or do we win, I would suggest as voters you have reasons to doubt the credibility of the promises of a political candidate who discovers the issue after he announces for president,” the Texas senator said at a town hall meeting in Whitefield.

Let’s not forget that Trump has called for amnesty even while declaring he’d built the border wall. Trump has been pretty crystal clear in his support for amnesty.

Cruz also questioned whether Trump is a true conservative, noting donations he’s made to Democrats over the years, including $50,000 in 2010 to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama. And Cruz rejected Trump’s self-comparison to Ronald Reagan, saying he was “pretty sure” Reagan never supported or made large donations to Democrats.

One can understand donations from a businessman to a candidate, attempting to curry favor in a race which was going to go Democrat 100%, but, $50k? And not that long ago.

“Donald Trump has said he thinks eminent domain is fantastic and he supports using government power to seize private people’s homes to give them to giant corporations to say hypothetically build a casino,” Cruz said. “We have an obligation to protect the rights of Americans and private property is central to the rights of Americans.”

Trump agreed with the Kelo decision “100%“. Trump has recently stated that he only supports eminent domain “when it creates jobs“. While taking private property for private use. Is that a conservative position?

(The Hill) “If he’s giving checks to Democratic politicians and he supports their views… then it starts to suggest, ‘gosh if he publicly supports their views if he finances their causes,'” Cruz told Boston radio station WRKO. “Then suddenly when he announces as a candidate for president, every single one of his views changes — listen if he has had a change of heart, I am thrilled.”

Cruz, who is competing with Trump for the GOP nomination, added that if Republican voters want a nominee who will “cozy up to Chuck Schumer — by the way he’s written checks to Chuck Schumer, I never have — then you ought to be backing him.”

Trump tried to attack Cruz on his loans from Goldman Sachs and Citibank, to which Cruz responded

“You want to assess who stands with Wall Street? Then look at the actual records of the candidates,” he added. “Donald Trump vocally and enthusiastically supported TARP, the bailout of the big banks. He vocally and enthusiastically supported Barack Obama’s stimulus plan.”

While Donald certainly has many Conservative/Republican positions, he also has many Leftist positions and squishy Establishment Republican ones, as well. And, for all Trump’s bluster about 9/11 after Cruz hit him with NYC liberal values, it seems as if Trump did not give to 9/11 charities. Nor does Trump give all that much to charities in the first place, at least not his own money.

Trump should be praised for attacking Democrats harshly, rather than tiptoeing around, as Republicans so often do. He should be praised for refusing to back down when the media and Democrats start whining, something Republicans usually do. But, is he really a Conservative? He has some good positions. He also has some bad ones. Rubio is being destroyed be Conservatives for his Gang of 8 illegal aliens legislation. Why is Trump getting a pass?

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‘Climate Change’ Will Harm Your Eyes Or Something

By William Teach January 18, 2016 – 3:27 pm

Another day, another scary story, all because you, yes you, refuse to handwash your clothes and let them line dry in the middle of winter. And turn your evil heating down to 58. And take a hot shower. And haven’t given up meat. And took a shower longer than 2 minutes. And used more than 2 sheets of TP. And and and

Ways Climate Change Can Harm Your Eyes

In order to treat routine but sometimes impairing degenerative eye conditions that come with age, many of us even seek out treatments from a Laser Eye Surgeon or other eye specialist. But what if our eye health is being negatively affected by something far bigger and of far more global concern and consequence that most of us struggle to understand? (snip)

As Greenhouse gases and pollutants enter the earth’s atmosphere and hang thickly, they cause damage to the Ozone layer; that part of our planet’s precious atmosphere that works to filter potentially damaging UV rays from the sun. If human beings are exposed to excessive amounts of this UV radiation, over an extended period, and without any preventative approaches to mitigate the effects of that exposure, we may find ourselves suffering not only from sunburn, but potentially poor eye health.

Some studies show that as much as five percent of an adults eye problems could be directly attributed to the impacts felt as a result of the depletion of the Ozone Layer and our growing exposure to damaging UV radiation. Symptoms that an adult might include experience and report to their optician include but are not limited to the formation of cataracts, macular degeneration, redness and itchiness, and inflammation of delicate parts of the eye.

And there you have it. You drove your fossil fueled vehicle to work, hence, you’ve destroyed the ozone layer and damaged other people’s eyes. You bastards!

Here’s something funny, though

Would it surprise you to learn that our eyes are not only at risk from things you’d expect are related to climate change, like Ozone depletion and Greenhouse gases, but also some of the measures we take to decrease Greenhouse gases and our carbon footprint?

This is evident, given that as we seek to mitigate the effects of climate change, we are increasingly turning to solutions such as the use of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL)in our homes and places of work and in other environments that we frequent such as gyms, shopping centres and libraries. Using solutions like CFLs absolutely helps us to save on electricity costs and potentially reduces our impact on the environment, but many people don’t ever stop to consider that some of the CFLs and fluorescent lights can also emit damaging UV radiation.

Oops.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 18, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise up hundreds of feet from the use of evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Mounties in hijabs.

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Cult Of Climastrology Uses MLK To Pimp ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 18, 2016 – 10:30 am

Earlier, we had the Washington Post Editorial Board using MLK Day to advocate for hardcore Islamists and violent, rapist refugees. Of course, you didn’t think that someone within the Cult of Climastrology wouldn’t use the occasion to yammer about ‘climate change’, did you?

It seems, though, as if Al Gore’s Climate Reality forgot to follow through on their plan to discuss Hotcoldwetdry in relation to “climate justice” and MLK. Nothing over at Facebook, no follow up tweets. Maybe later?

Would Dr. King be a big believer in ‘climate change’? Only he knows, but, perhaps a man who was fighting for freedom and equality might be a bit annoyed that the people pushing ‘climate change’ tend to be people who are advocating for more governmental control of people.

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Democrat Candidates Work To Outdo Each Other On Being Anti-2nd Amendment

By William Teach January 18, 2016 – 8:08 am

The Democrats held a debate Sunday night, the perfect time to make sure as few people as possible watch, a way to ensure that Hillary Clinton can continue her march to her coronation as the Democratic Party Establishment Candidate. They discussed a variety of talking points, including who is the toughest on ownership of firearms by law abiding citizens

(Yahoo News) The three Democratic presidential candidates sparred over gun control early on in their debate in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday night.

Their exchange began with questions about the shifting position of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on a bill limiting liability for gun manufacturers and sellers whose products are used in crimes. As Sanders has gained in the polls, frontrunner Hillary Clinton has attacked him on the issue.

Though the spotlight was on Clinton and Sanders, the long-shot third-place candidate Martin O’Malley got in the last word on gun control. O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, argued that both Clinton and Sanders are “inconsistent” on guns. (snip)

The exchange began with the moderators asking Sanders about reversing his position on a 2005 bill that gave some gun manufacturers and sellers immunity from liability. Sanders voted for the legislation, and Clinton had been attacking him for it before he announced a change of heart on Saturday, just before the debate.

Placing liability on the manufacturers for their products working correctly would be a death knell on the industry, which is exactly the point in pushing this issue. Do we sue alcohol makers for people getting drunk and killing themselves or others?

Anyhow, Bernie is super enthused that the NRA has given him a D-minus rating. Hillary has an F. So does O’Malley, who fought back against his two rivals

“When it comes to this issue, I’m the one candidate on this stage that actually brought people together to pass comprehensive gun safety legislation,” he said, later adding, “It did have a ban on combat assault weapons, universal background checks, and you know, we did not interrupt a single person’s hunting season. I’ve never met a self-respecting deer hunter that needed an AR-15 to down a deer.”

A couple points. First, for all his gun safety legislation, many cities in Maryland are very violent, especially Baltimore, which has seen a massive uptick in “gun violence” in 2015. If these universal background checks work so well, what’s up with all the shootings? Why is Baltimore, a city he was mayor of from 2000-2007, known for the massive use of bullet proof plexiglass in stores to protect the workers from extreme violence, often from people illegally in possession of guns?

This may play well to the Democratic base, and those few who actually watch these debates, but it won’t do well during the General election season.

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Washington Post Editorial Board Says MLK, Jr., Would Totally Accept Refugees

By William Teach January 18, 2016 – 7:40 am

In case you were unaware, today is Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. As such, it behooves the Washington Post Editorial Board to publish an editorial which proclaims that he would support all the “Syrian” refugees and other Muslims that Mr. Obama wants to import to the United States, an editorial that starts out, unshockingly, with bashing a few Republicans who have called for a temporary hold on bringing in more of these Muslim refugees until we can truly verify who they are.

But on the holiday set aside to honor Martin Luther King Jr., it is worth recalling that tactical consequences are not the principal reason Americans should find the Trump proposal repellent. We are a nation founded on the ideal that every individual has value and deserves to be judged on his or her own merit. Each of us can make choices about the importance, to ourselves, of our racial or national heritage, our religion or lack thereof, our sexual identity. No one else has the right to make those choices for us. Being Muslim, or black, or Irish American doesn’t tell anyone else who you are, much less what you are worth. When we start judging people based on the categories they belong to, we diminish ourselves.

Interesting. If we’re supposed to be judged on our own merit, then, according to the members of the WPEB, we should do away with all quotas, whether they be for school, work, sports, movies, awards, etc. According to the WPEB, groups like the NAACP, Black Lives Matter, and the Congressional Black Caucus should be abolished.

Double interesting, if no one else has the right to make choices for you, per the WPEB, then the WPEB should be against the way women and gays are treated within Islam.

Oh, and as far as judging people based on the categories they belong too? Perhaps the Editorial Board should look at how their paper continually judges negatively all those who fail to follow their WP’s liberal beliefs.

In April 1963, while he was in jail for leading nonviolent demonstrations against segregation in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. King, an Atlanta minister, faced criticism for having come from outside the state to stir up trouble. He rejected the “outside agitator” label. “Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider,” he wrote.

That might leave room to think of foreigners differently; nations have a right to decide who may enter. But Dr. King would have been the first to say that recognizing the humanity of every person is essential in those decisions as in domestic affairs. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny,” Dr. King wrote in the same letter. “Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”

Don’t you find it interesting that the WPEB, comprised mostly of White Liberal Men, just happens to know exactly what Dr. King would think on this issue?

Perhaps Dr. King might think differently. If we’re using the quote, perhaps he might think that all these refugees directly raping and sexually assaulting women and girls might indirectly affect all of us. Perhaps he might be a bit concerned over the need to provide class on “how not to rape”. Perhaps he might be a bit concerned about the violence and criminality that so many of the refugees bring. Perhaps he might be a bit concerned about how women are treated liked 2nd class citizens within Islam. I dare say Dr. King might know a bit about discrimination, and wouldn’t be too pleased at the way women and gays are treated within Islam.

That’s a precept that can be found in some variation in most of the world’s religions. It’s easy to preach, harder to practice. Our difficulty in sensing our place in that “inescapable network of mutuality” helps explain why a police officer may be more likely to shoot a fleeing suspect who doesn’t look like him, why we may be more forgiving of drug addiction when it afflicts people who do look like us — and why we can harden our hearts to desperate refu­gee children whose families worship an unfamiliar God.

Except, the majority of these “refugees” arriving in Europe so far tend to be young, fighting age males. One town had to take the extreme step of banning “Syrian” refugees from the public swimming pools because of all the sexual harassment originating from the refugees.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 17, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post wondering why feminists aren’t speaking out about what’s happening in Europe.

It’s 50’s pinup girls in cars week, as recommended by The REAL Three Bees, who you should follow on Twitter.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 17, 2016 – 9:56 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America, with a bit of snow in the forecast. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. American Power discusses the terrorists freed by Obama
  2. Blazing Cat Fur covers Hillary having a hard time describing why she wants to be President
  3. Creeping Sharia notes women in Denmark being groped by refugees
  4. Datechguy has Cruz vs Trump
  5. Doug Ross @ Journal notes Trump pushing amnesty
  6. Fire Andrea Mitchell isn’t impressed by Glenn Beck
  7. Gay Patriot notes Swedish news no longer allowed to describe national origin of rapists
  8. Jammie Wearing Fools covers Muslims stoning transgenders in Germany
  9. Lady Liberty 1885 notes you will be made to care
  10. Legal Insurrection wonders when anti-Israel becomes anti-Semitic
  11. Neo-neocon wonders why Carly Fiorina hasn’t caught fire
  12. Powerline has dueling temperature charts
  13. Protein Wisdom discusses subprime 2.0
  14. The Daley Gator notes his BS meter about Trump being correct
  15. And last, but not least, The Gateway Pundit notes the NYC values of masturbation booths on the streets

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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Iran To See $100 Billion Immediately As Implementation Day Hits

By William Teach January 17, 2016 – 8:11 am

Just a few short days ago, Americans were treated to the view of American Navy members forced to kneel at gun point while their boats were boarded and seized by Iran, and the lone female member was forced to comply with Sharia and wear a hijab. Today, the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism is being rewarded

(The Hill) The United States on Saturday lifted sanctions against Iran and announced that four Americans held prisoner in the country will be returning home, in a whirlwind day of diplomacy that cements President Obama’s engagement with Iran as a pillar of his legacy.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog certified Iran has fulfilled its promises to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon, after decades of tensions, years of negotiations and months of work to implement the international nuclear deal reached six months ago.

The State Department confirmed moments later that the nuclear deal is now implemented, thereby lifting a slate of sanctions.

In Vienna, Secretary of State John Kerry touted the step as a vindication of diplomacy in the face of doubters.

“I think we have also proven once again why diplomacy must be our first choice and war a last resort,” Kerry said.

Again with the strawman argument that we either go to war with Iran or have peace. Of course, said peace breaks down to Iran pinky swearing to not work on developing nuclear weapons for somewhere in the range of 8 to 10 years, at which point they are pretty much free to do whatever they want, leaving a future president to deal with the mess, all while Iran is flush with cash from selling oil, and flush with even more influence over the Middle East. How does this future president reign in Iran at that point? Would they have any standing to get Europe and the United Nations on board when it’s learned that Iran is once again developing nuclear weapons?

Marco Rubio makes a few salient points

As our men and women in uniform were being used as propaganda props by the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism, President Obama was preparing to provide their hostage takers with upwards of $100 billion in sanctions relief and endorse an Iranian nuclear capability.

That relief will begin today, the so-called “Implementation Day” of President Obama’s deeply flawed deal with Iran.  Iran will receive much-needed funds to expand its regional aggression and its support to terrorist groups like Hezbollah.

By channeling this money to Tehran and giving the mullahs international legitimacy, the Obama administration is fueling the greatest growth in Iranian power since the Islamic Republic was established in 1979. What’s worse, for months Iran has telegraphed in word and deed how it plans to utilize this newfound power—namely, to dominate the Middle East and threaten American security.

When President Obama announced the nuclear deal last July, he expressed hope for a new era of cooperation with Iran. Ever since, Tehran has mocked him. Missiles have been fired near a U.S. aircraft carrier.  Iran has violated an international prohibition on tests of ballistic missiles only to have the United States back away from imposing new sanctions for fear of upsetting Iran.  Iran continued to take innocent Americans hostage in an effort to eventually free criminals imprisoned in the U.S.

Fortunately, Iran found a willing partner in Mr. Obama, who was desperate to burnish his “legacy”, forgetting that historians will remember the outcomes of the deal, not just the deeply flawed deal itself.

A glorious victory! What, exactly, does the United States as a country get out of this deal? There are no “anytime, anywhere” inspections. The so-called snap-back sanctions will never happen. Iran gets a lot of money. They see sanctions removed. They are free to continue to spread terror and influence throughout the region. Their economy will grow. What does America get? Searching the Internet, it appears the answer is “nothing”. Even Team Obama cannot say what America gets out of the deal.

(The Atlantic) According to The New York Times, in the final days of talks, a television anchor on a hardline Iranian channel said, “The fact is, Obama needs this deal much more than we do.” She went on: “The American president needs a victory, and only a deal with Iran can give him that. They have retreated on several issues and compromised on their own red lines.” Whether or not this perception is fair, it’s a perception nonetheless, and perceptions drive behavior.

It won’t create peace: in fact, just the opposite. Shouldn’t a deal give something to both parties?

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Warmists New Excuse For Great Pause: The Satellites Are Lying

By William Teach January 16, 2016 – 2:05 pm

There are now so many excuses for the Pause that Skeptics stopped keeping track. Here’s yet another, and it’s a doozy, via James Delingpole

The climate alarmists have come up with a brilliant new excuse to explain why there has been no “global warming” for nearly 19 years.

Turns out the satellite data is lying.

And to prove it they’ve come up with a glossy new video starring such entirely trustworthy and not at all biased climate experts as Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann , Kevin “Travesty” Trenberth and Ben Santer. (All of these paragons of scientific rectitude feature heavily in the Climategate emails)

The same people who are involved with altering ground level temperature data to conform to their Warmist talking points.

This (satellite) accuracy was acknowledged 25 years ago by NASA, which said that “satellite analysis of the upper atmosphere is more accurate, and should be adopted as the standard way to monitor temperature change.”

But, they are very upset over the satellites refusing to cooperate with their computer models of warming doom

More recently, though, climate alarmists have grown increasingly resentful of the satellite temperature record because of its pesky refusal to show the warming trend they’d like it to show. Instead of warming, the RSS and UAH satellite data shows that the earth’s temperatures have remained flat for over 18 years – the so-called “Pause.”

Hence the alarmists’ preference for the land- and sea-based temperature datasets whichdo show a warming trend – especially after the raw data has been adjusted in the right direction. Climate realists, however, counter that these records have all the integrity of Enron’s accounting system or of Hillary’s word on what really happened in Benghazi.

Unfortunately for the Cult of Climastrology members, the balloon atmosphere data agrees with the satellite data. Bummer. And, as John Christy points out

I’m impressed someone went to so much trouble and expense.  The “satellite data” must be a real problem for someone. Do we know who financed this video?

Yes, they do. A smattering of the typical far, far left Progressive (nice fascist) people and groups. The video is about pushing political policy, not science.

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