Virginia Rep Looks To Strip Ant-gun Governor Of Armed Security

By William Teach December 26, 2015 – 4:00 pm

Will he follow thru?

https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/680782162157637632

From the link

Senator Bill Carrico (R-VA) told the Herald-Courier on Tuesday  once the new session commences next month, he and other legislators will counter this move and other anti-gun measures brought forth by the McAuliffe administration.

“A lot of the governor’s power is deferred to the General Assembly at that point and I’ll be getting with my colleagues to circumvent everything this governor has done on this point,” he said to the paper.

Carrico added, “I have a budget amendment that I’m looking at to take away his executive protection unit. If he’s so afraid of guns, then I’m not going to surround him with armed state policemen.”

Of course, we can expect Liberals to whine about taking away protection from such a public figure. Because you little peons, who Democrats say they are there to protect, do not deserve the same protection.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 26, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is winter snow cause by climate change and melting because of climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on peak trans movement.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Santa Will Soon Lose His Arctic Home

By William Teach December 26, 2015 – 11:18 am

Another crazy Warmist taking advantage of a holiday to push his un-scientific dogma

(The Hill) Celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday issued a Christmas warning that climate change will soon rob Santa Claus of his home on the North Pole.

Tyson, who considers himself agnostic but is often championed by atheists, wrote on Twitter that “the Arctic’s most famous resident” will be a victim of global warming.

He wisely doesn’t make a prediction of when

Of course, Arctic ice has been rebounding over the last 5 or so years, despite the doomsy prognostications by Warmists. It has failed to be ice free during the summer months as predicted by multiple Warmists. Furthermore, it wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation in the first place, just typical warming during a Holocene warm period.

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Addressing ‘Climate Change’ Is Not Enough Or Something

By William Teach December 26, 2015 – 7:44 am

It’s never enough for these folks with the Progressive (nice fascism) leanings, as we learn at the Huffington post

Why Addressing Climate Change Is Not Enough

The celebratory mood accompanying the recent Paris Accord, in which the entire UN membership agreed to hold global temperature increases to no more than 2°C, is quickly dissipating. As the Accord itself acknowledges, there is a “significant gap” between countries’ climate change mitigation pledges and the 2°C goal (not to mention the more aspirational 1.5° C limit). This means that promised reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, even if realized, will be insufficient to stave off major consequences of climate change.

Yet bolder pledges alone will not prevent impending failure because the Paris Accord reproduces the flaws of the Kyoto Protocol. Although reporting is binding, countries face no penalties for missing their targets. Most of all, market-based schemes for emissions reductions enable wealthy countries and corporations to continue “business as usual” by paying low emitters for their pollution rights, ultimately stalling real and equitable progress. As we write, environmental groups across the world are gearing up to challenge these shortcomings.

Interestingly, what the authors discuss are real environmental issues, and do it in a manner which has always annoyed me, linking those real issues with their silly climate change push

Climate change both exacerbates environmental degradation, and results from a growth-at-all-costs economic system that makes certain groups — especially indigenous peoples and marginalized and low-income populations — particularly vulnerable to both climate change and resource scarcity and contamination. Recognizing this fact can help climate-related activism and policymaking do a better job of protecting the planet and all who depend on it.

What are those conditions?

  • Depletion, contamination, and unfair distribution of water (the last is more of the social justice warrior garbage)
  • Threats to air quality (they complain over the use of wood stoves, yet refuse to recognize that their “green energy” and ‘climate change’ pushes increase the use of burning biomass for heat and cooking)
  • Ongoing deforestation and contamination of ecosystems (these are real issues. Why do we need to include this under the bannder of Hotcoldwetdry? The increase in deforestation from the increase in the use of palm oil is a direct result of “green” initiatives)
  • Chemical contamination (again, a very real environmental and health concern. Why the need for putting it under the banner of Hotcoldwetdry? It should stand on its own)
  • Toxic waste disposal (see previous comment)

What do they want to do about it all?

Underpinning all of these problems is an unfair economic system that privileges profits over people’s lives, exploiting the environment and humans alike.

Those concerned about the long-term sustainability and health of humans and the planet need to look beyond reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and adapting to climate change impacts, and recognize the role of the extraction, production, and consumption processes that drive all aspects of environmental degradation and cause tremendous social injustice.

It’s a subtle way of saying that capitalism in any form needs to be eliminated, and replaced with a Progressive social justice system, a command economy driven from the top down, run wholly by Government.

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Obama Uses Christmas Speech To Pimp Bringing In Refugees

By William Teach December 26, 2015 – 7:31 am

He takes the subtle route, while also appearing to tell everyone to stop being (supposedly) mean to Islamists

(The Hill) President Obama urged Americans to follow Jesus Christ’s example of charity and compassion in his annual Christmas greeting.

“Today, like millions of Americans and Christians around the world, our family celebrates the birth of Jesus and the values He lived in his own life,” Obama said. “Treating one another with love and compassion. Caring for those on society’s margins: the sick and the hungry, the poor and the persecuted, the stranger in need of shelter — or simply an act of kindness.”

Obama’s holiday message appeared to be aimed at a public on edge after terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

The president has tried to counter inflammatory rhetoric from Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, pleading with Americans not to give into Islamophobia and remain open to welcoming refugees fleeing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Michelle Obama was featured in the Weekly Address, and noted prior to Barack’s schtick

And we’ve invited thousands of families here to the White House to enjoy the festivities – because there’s no holiday tradition more timeless than opening our doors to others.

In otherwords, the spirit of Christmas is not about the birth of the Son of God, but about letting in people who are really not able to be vetted properly. Funny thing is, for all of Obama’s yammering about treating each other with love and kindness, he himself constantly and consistently smears people who fail to share his political beliefs.

For all his supposed compassion, let’s consider

However, according to journalist Joseph Curl, who previously covered the White House, former President George W. Bush went on Christmas vacation in a way that stands in direct contrast to President Barack Obama.

“[H]ere’s the thing: In December, we never left Washington, D.C., until the day after Christmas. Never. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, would always depart the White House a few days before the holiday and hunker down at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland,” Curl wrote in a 2013 column that was republished Thursday.

Why did he do things this way? So all the staff could spend time with their families on Christmas. All the Secret Service members, the administration, the journalists who cover the White House, you name them. The Obama’s take off to Hawaii pre-Christmas, which means all the people who must travel with him cannot spend time with their families, all so Obama can hit some golf balls.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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There’s A Reason I Call It Hotcoldwetdry, Christmas Edition

By William Teach December 25, 2015 – 10:35 am

Let’s focus on the first two today, shall we?

https://twitter.com/gayla_leach/status/680120426438107136

https://twitter.com/Lunsfuhd/status/680115633028124672

Huh. Doom from ‘climate change’. Then there’s this

The past couple weeks have given climate change skeptics plenty of events that seem like reasons to dispute global warming.

An inundation of wintry weatheracross the country carried snowstorms and freezing temperatures everywhere from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast.

Using weather (i.e a few very cold days) as evidence against global warming (i.e a decade of hotter summers) is kind of like using one man’s early death to disprove the fact that, on average, life expectancies are increasing.

On one hand, they were trying to blame ‘climate change’ for the cold, much like Warmists did with the polar vortex. Then they try and say it well be doom from warmth. We also had Bette Midler, who blamed ‘climate change’ for this year’s warmth, saying something else last year

Remember, we had uber-Warmist John Cook writing

To claim that record snowfall is inconsistent with a warming world betrays a lack of understanding of the link between global warming and extreme precipitation. Global temperatures in the last few months of record snowfall are some of the hottest on record. Warming causes more moisture in the air which leads to more extreme precipitation events. This includes more heavy snowstorms in regions where snowfall conditions are favourable. Far from contradicting global warming, record snowfall is predicted by climate models and consistent with our expectation of more extreme precipitation events.

See? Record snowfall is totally consistent with a warming world.

So, what’s causing the warmth? Honest warmists will let you know that it is really due to the El Nino and what is a “normal weather pattern.” Christmas Eve in 1955 was generally much warmer on the East coast, and that was during a time period between 1940 and 1980 when global temperatures were flat and even going down.

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Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Clause

By William Teach December 25, 2015 – 7:53 am

Every Christmas, once everyone is up, Christmas greetings are made, hugs are exchanged, the presents are opened, and breakfast is being made, I read this first in the paper (ye olde parental units get an actual paper, and they live in NJ). It is a Christmas classic that has always touched my soul. While some people outside of the Tri-State area have heard of it, rarely do papers outside of the NY-NJ-Conn area see it in print, and I always direct them to read it online. I humbly bring it to you, and hope it touches you as much as it touches me:

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

And a Merry Christmas from deep down in my heart to all my friends and visitors out there.

If you would like to know the background on the letter, you can go to the 2004 posting of this.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

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That’s What Christmas Is All About, Charlie Brown

By William Teach December 24, 2015 – 9:02 pm

Luke 2:8-14 “And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'”

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 24, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will rise up and wipe out billions of people (which, on reflection, you find not too bad because people are bad for climate change), you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the surfing Santas!

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Congress Passes Microbeads Ban In Bipartisan Fashion

By William Teach December 24, 2015 – 10:30 am

Here’s a win for real environmental concerns

(Grist) The bill, called the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, was first introduced into the House back in March. It would ban companies from using microbeads — tiny bits of plastic often added to health and beauty products as an exfoliating agent — by July 2017 in order to prevent them from contaminating the oceans and water supply. The House passed the bill earlier this month, and one week later, the Senate passed it, too — in a unanimous vote.

The legislation was passed in the House on unanimous voice vote, as well. Now we’re just waiting for Obama to sign it, which he must do by the end of January 1st, otherwise it would constitute a “pocket veto”. I’m assuming he will sign it.

Why are microbeads bad?

Plastic microbeads are a source of plastic pollution in waterways. Manufacturers add tiny plastic beads to soaps, body washes, face washes and toothpaste, sometimes to increase exfoliation or for aesthetic reasons. But the tiny size of these beads makes them too small to be properly filtered out by municipal water treatment facilities, and the plastic inevitably ends up in rivers, lakes and the oceans.

They are an actual environmental hazard, getting into the food chain, and causing issues

A recent study found that zooplankton, a tiny ocean animal eaten by small predators like krill, shrimp, and fish, ingest microbeads. Ingested plastic could deprive animals of nutrients and get lodged in their stomachs, according to a 2013 study found in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. Moreover, these plastics can absorb polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, also known as PAHs, and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which have been associated with cancer in humans.

There’s a good video over at the Grist link on the subject, well worth the watch. The legislation also bans so-called biodegradable micro-beads,termed bioplastics. This legislation is not bad for business, and will not cause layoffs. Furthermore, the environmental benefits outway the use of microbeads. Many companies are already doing away with their usage or had planned to stop using them.

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