We Totally Need A Climate Change Anonymous Or Something

By William Teach January 30, 2016 – 7:45 am

Climate change rhetoric and scaremongering has turned Warmists into mental and physical wrecks, so much that one hasn’t taken a bath over a shower in weeks! (first world problems)

This is why we need a CCA: Climate Change Anonymous
My name’s Sara and I’m scared about global warming. It’s been three weeks since I had a bath instead of a shower

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Weather is getting biblical. Across the globe, lakes are turning to desert, villages to rivers. El Niño and La Niña aren’t cute Spanish twins from a CBeebies show but weather systems growing in power and intensity. We’re all gradually beginning to feel a little uneasy about climate change, and talking about the weather now has a sinister undercurrent to it. I’m secretly acknowledging to myself that things are changing for the worse (but not out loud, in case it makes it come true quicker).

We need a CCA: Climate Change Anonymous. “My name’s Sara and I’m scared about global warming. It’s been three weeks since I had a bath instead of a shower.”

This is the 10-year anniversary of Al Gore’s global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which we watched and thought “Cripes, jolly serious stuff” – and then carried on with our lives as though it were a science-fiction film about an imaginary planet, not a documentary about our own. We conveniently shelved the information in the “too big to deal with” cabinet of our brains.

And 10 years since Gore declared we’d be experiencing planetary doom. Does anyone actually see doom?

Gore must now be sitting on his ark sadly watching this big political, global bird come home to roost.

Gore’s sitting around in his palatial homes, sitting on huge wealth made by pushing this issue to clueless and easily brainwashed fools. Well, sitting around when he’s not take long fossil fueled trips to give speeches for large sums.

Unfortunately, with my green efforts I take one step forward and two huge strides back, leaving a massive smudgy carbon footprint with my “mumtruck”. It’s a tank, and as much as I try to justify it – three children and a dog!

She still flies a bit, too, but, hey, she washes out jars to recycle and “I reuse tin foil and wash drinking straws (much to the annoyance of my husband), but I know it’s not enough.” No, not by a longshot, according to Warmist dogma, but, hey, she has school to bring the little carbon footprint kids to, and all sorts of stuff to do!

It’s so hard to know where to start, but we’re going to have to soon – if we’re not already too late.

Notice the use of “we”. This is Warmist world in a nutshell: they refuse to make more than token changes in their own lives, yet demand that Everyone Else get involved and have massive changes forced on their lives. I guess this is all her point about “Climate Change Anonymous”: Warmists refuse to act like it’s a crisis.

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Hillary Emails Deemed Too Sensitive To Release

By William Teach January 30, 2016 – 7:27 am

Things just keep getting worse and worse for Hillary

(Fox News) The intelligence community has deemed some of Hillary Clinton’s emails “too damaging” to national security to release under any circumstances, according to a U.S. government official close to the ongoing review. A second source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, backed up the finding.

The determination was first reported by Fox News, hours before the State Department formally announced Friday that seven email chains, found in 22 documents, will be withheld “in full” because they, in fact, contain “Top Secret” information.

The State Department, when first contacted by Fox News about withholding such emails Friday morning, did not dispute the reporting – but did not comment in detail. After a version of this report was first published, the Obama administration confirmed to the Associated Press that the seven email chains would be withheld. The department has since confirmed those details publicly.

The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide even a partial release with redactions, further undercuts claims by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit Clinton’s personal server.

Fortunately, we have uber-leftist Vox attempting to cloud the issue by wondering if the emails were classified after they appeared on the server, but, alas, for Clinton supporters and liberals in general, the chance of this occurring is extraordinarily low. Information that is so classified as to make the State Dept refuse to release any part of them, after consultation with the intelligence community was surely classified to begin with. And, really, regardless of classification to start with, using an insecure home-brew server was fool-hardy, not too mention against government regulations to start with. Mrs. Clinton would surely have known, and been constantly reminded, that using this server would open government communications to outside hackers. She would surely have known that communications for her job, the State Dept one, not the raising money for the Clinton Foundation one, would have constantly included sensitive information.

Let’s not forget, she would have known this from her time as First Lady, and when she was in the US Senate, where she would have signed security agreements and documents about how to handle even secure and privileged communications and documents, and those agreements never end. She surely signed them at the State Dept. She cannot claim innocence, and, what’s the old saying, ignorance of the law is no excuse?

If Hillary was so clueless as to think she could do US government business, including emailing sensitive and secret information all the way up to the highest classification, then she’s too foolish and reckless to be President.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Wind: Idiot Power

By William Teach January 29, 2016 – 5:21 pm

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Via Dana’s Twitter machine. Dana also writes

Shouldn’t the people who are meeting to try to find ways that the countries of the world can agree on reducing carbon emissions be the first ones to try to limit their own carbon emissions?

The conclusion? Warmists love their taxpayer funded working vacations to great vacations spots too much.

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If All You See….

By William Teach January 29, 2016 – 1:58 pm

…is rising waters from snow melting because someone drove a fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on 2015’s miserable economic growth.

Photobucket is down at moment, so had to find a Tweet to sorta fit.

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Are State Investigations Aimed At Skeptics Unconstitutional?

By William Teach January 29, 2016 – 11:55 am

In a word, yes

State Attorney General Climate Change Investigations Are Unconstitutional

Should government officials be able to cut off donations to groups because they employ people disparaged as “climate change deniers,” even if the group in question is a think tank that studies a wide range of topics, only a few of which relate to climate change at all, and the “denial” in question includes telling politically inconvenient truths about the cost of proposed climate change legislation? Only a single-issue zealot with ideological blinders and a contempt for the First Amendment would think so.

Of course, Warmists are Zealots, and utterly intolerant to the point of wanting, at a minimum, to shut public discourse down. The piece itself is regarding the investigations of ExxonMobil by multiple Democratic Party AGs, and very much serves as a reminder about the abusive power of government.

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Fox News GOP Debate Starts Off With Attempt To Bash Trump

By William Teach January 29, 2016 – 7:17 am

Once again, let me state quite clearly that I do not support Trump. If he’s the eventual GOP presidential nominee, I’ll vote for him while holding my nose. He’s still better than anyone the Democrats might nominate, but, I trust him about as much as I trust Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, meaning, not much. That said, we know that Trump got in a spat with Fox News about having Megyn Kelly as a moderator, and decided to take his ball and go home for the night. So, how did Kelly respond? Well, right out of the box we get this

KELLY: So let’s get started.

Senator Cruz, before we get to the issues, let’s address the elephant not in the room tonight.

(LAUGHTER)

Donald Trump has chosen not to attend this evening’s presidential debate. What message do you think that sends to the voters of Iowa?

You stay classy, Megyn. The other candidates have a chance to debate topics other than Donald Trump, topics of serious concern, yet, she decides to attempt to make this personal. Pathetic. And she continued on

KELLY: The divide between you and Mr. Trump has turned into one of the biggest stories in the country. And for six months that — your campaign, during this campaign, you praised Mr. Trump as somebody who you thought was an effective voice against the Washington cartel. You said you were glad that he was running as a Republican.

But when he started to criticize you, your message changed, and you suddenly started to portray him as the voice of the Washington cartel, and suggested he would do the Democrats’ bidding. Which is it?

Looks like Trump is living rent free in her head.

Much of the rest of the debate was an attempt by Kelly, Brett Baier, and Chris Wallace to create a food fight, rather than a substantive debate. Politico notes 10 moments, and many of them revolve around creating a fight between the candidates, and even John Kasich taking shots at Governor Rick Snyder.

Later, Cruz grumbled that Wallace seemed to be goading the other candidates on stage to attack him. “It is a debate” Wallace responded.

Then Cruz took an underhanded shot at the absent Trump. “If you guys ask one more mean question, I might have to leave the stage,” he joked.

This is serious business, and yet the moderators were attempting to create the Jerry Springer Show.

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Sanders Fires Back At Washington Post For Editorial Hit Job

By William Teach January 29, 2016 – 7:01 am

Yesterday I noted the Washington Post Editorial Board taking shots at Bernie Sanders, essentially calling him a liar. He decided to fight back, as noted in the Washington Post news section

Bernie Sanders unloads on The Washington Post

Wait, isn’t that a rather gun-centric and violence laden headline? Anyhow

The first volley was the editorial, posted late Wednesday online and in Thursday’s print edition, headlined: “A campaign full of fiction.” The print edition sub-headline contended, “Sen. Sanders is not a brave truth-teller. He’s just telling progressives what they want to hear.”

At a breakfast with reporters here Thursday that was hosted by Bloomberg Politics, Sanders fired back — again and again and again.

“That’s not a new argument. We’ve been hearing that months and months, and that’s in a sense what this campaign is about,” Sanders said in response to a request for his reaction to the editorial. “People are telling us, whether it’s the Washington Post editorial board or anybody else, our ideas are too ambitious — can’t happen. Too bold — really? Well, here’s something which is really bold. In the last 30 years, there has been a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class and working families of this country. The middle class has become poorer and trillions of dollars have been transferred to the top one-tenth of 1 percent.”

And he went on and on and on in his attacks on the WPEB, and even took a few shots at the New York Times over an article that claimed his campaign discussed going negative on Hillary. It’s quite clear that the Washington Post, both in the newsroom and on the opinion pages, is in the bag for Hillary.

Obviously, this doesn’t mean I support Mr. Sanders for any office. While his concerns are valid, his solutions are, at a minimum, problematic. There is a concern over the disappearing middle class, and there is a concern over the “transfer of wealth” to the richest of the rich. Democrats like Sanders tend to think that the money pie is just one size, and that the rich are taking more and more of that pie. They are wrong: that pie has always grown bigger and bigger. Just because the rich get richer doesn’t mean that the other 99% can’t get ahead. But, thanks to liberal policies, often surrounding the use of taxpayer money to reward campaign contributors, along with many others, that pie has stagnated. Democratic policies have reduced the ability of the middle class to continue to expand. Government is not the answer, it is a hindrance. When it plays referee, things are fine. When it actively becomes involved, often choosing winners and losers, makes this regulation and that rule, it tends to harm those in the middle and lower classes, while enriching the very high end earners.

The Washington Post Editorial Board decided to fire back at Bernie, with a new editorial entitled Bernie Sanders’ Ideas are not too bold. They are too facile. By which they mean simplistic, shallow, and naive. Well, I guess Sanders’ plans aren’t quite on par with Hillary’s complicated plan to use an insecure private server for government business, all to avoid oversight and freedom of information requests, but, hey, sometimes simple works best.

One has to wonder where the attacks on Mrs. Clinton are: her plans are no more detailed than Sanders’ are.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

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

…is a world so warm that it creates snow from all that moisture, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fire Andrea Mitchell, with a post on Megyn Kelly bringing on Michael Moore to bash Trump.

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Pssst: FBI Is Not Letting Up On Its Probe Into Hillary

By William Teach January 28, 2016 – 12:30 pm

The Hill’s Jullian Hattem notes that this problem is not going away, no matter how Hillary and her surrogates spin it

Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server shows no signs of slowing down.

Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual and speculated that a decision on whether to file charges against Clinton or her top aides could come later this year, during the heat of the general election campaign.

“I don’t know that there’s any magical cutoff date,” said Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director of the criminal investigative division and a 30-year veteran of the bureau.

There’s no possible way the FBI doesn’t recommend convening a Grand Jury, and no way that a GJ doesn’t recommend indictment on numerous charges, not unless the Obama administration spikes the whole thing, which is doubtful. There is way more of a downside for Team Obama to help Hillary out. If that did happen, you can bet there would be immediate calls for a special prosecutor, which Democrats would then call “political’. The question at that point would be whether the GOP would hold strong and offer real rebuttals. Remember, there was a special prosecutor for the Valerie Plame issue, who investigated the issue long, long after it was already known who leaked Plame’s name.

The State Department and Clinton’s campaign contend that none of the information in the emails was classified when it was originally sent, and they have portrayed the matter as an interagency dispute.

Regardless, there are rules and laws that must be followed, and Hillary and her staff would have been well aware of those rules, having to sign numerous documents about record keeping, transmitting material, from the sensitive to secret, and a host of other things. Certainly, using an unsecured server outside of the control of the US Department Of State and government overall would be something that would be considered illegal, especially when transmitting State Dept communications. Go ahead and try using an email system outside of your corporate one and see if Los Federales will by OK with that, especially when you delete 50% of them.

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton writes

There is already more than enough evidence to nail Hillary Clinton. They are dragging this out to dot their i’s and cross their t’s… to bring down someone like Clinton, you have to have all your ducks in a row. Hillary’s foot soldiers, Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin or Jake Sullivan, have the most to worry about here as they are on the front line. Hillary will in the end feed them to the dogs if she thinks it will save her worthless hide.

Most people would already be indicted and convicted of the numerous charges that will certainly be leveled at Hillary. Keeping classified documents in an unsecured location, concealing documents from government computers, and even perjury, at a minimum. Military members have been charged under the Espionage Act for doing things like sending selfies that showed computer screens from their submarines. And, Clinton Inc will not hesitate to throw her underlings under the bus, which could see some turn against her for testimony.

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‘Climate Change” Could Bring Biblical Plagues Or Something

By William Teach January 28, 2016 – 10:17 am

All because the members of the Cult of Climastrology refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral

Climate Change Makes Biblical Plagues a More Regular Threat to Farmers

A swarm of locusts that covers the land and the skies, devours crops, and leaves cattle without grass for grazing is a plague worthy of the Bible. In Argentina, where farmers have reported locust clouds “four miles long and nearly two miles high,” according to the New York Times, the threat is all too real.

The country is facing the worst infestation of locusts in 60 years and most believe there is no stopping the swarm at this point, only a possibility of lessening its effects….

While Argentina is facing a very clear and present danger, there’s a looming threat of a swarm for other countries too—a threat that may be growing. “Locust are becoming even more dangerous in the context of exceptional weather events associated to climate change,” according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which notes that the high incidence of drought in the 21st century has also worsened the impact of locusts in Africa…

See? It’s horrible! Locusts! And it will get worse because of ‘climate change’! It’s the worst in 60 years…wait, this happened before? Remember 1874, “The year of the locust“? Or when the skies turned black in 1875? The ancient Egyptians had carvings of locust infestations. China has had them as far back as 311AD, and had a big problem in the 9th century. India has had them, prior to the Modern Warm Period. Swarms of locusts are nothing new for Mother Nature, but, this time, Warmists simply have to link it to anthropogenic climate change. Nor is this the first time they’ve tried to make the link. Of course, they say that the swarms in the past were from natural warming, while this time it is because of mankind’s “carbon pollution.”

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