Baltimore Mayor: We Totally Had Great Leadership Despite Rioting And Violence

By William Teach September 19, 2015 – 11:36 am

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has a hilarious opinion piece running at The Hill, showing serious hutzpah

Unrest happened despite good leadership

I’m wondering who wrote that headline: her or someone at The Hill? Because she’s the person who said “we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that”. And they did just that.

The message is clear when it comes to the need for broad police reforms.  High profile instances of police brutality and the use of excessive force have, over time, broken the trust that must exist between police officers and the communities which rely on them.

In a recent column in the Congress blog, authors Angela Glover Blackwell and Andrew Friedman were correct in their premise that mayors are uniquely positioned to spearhead the lasting change communities everywhere are crying out for.

Last time I checked, that “police brutality” was happening under her watch. And had happened under the watch of previous Democratic Party administrations.

However when it comes to Baltimore, the authors derived all the wrong lessons about what led to the unrest in my hometown.

Baltimore’s unrest didn’t occur because of a lack of proactive leadership – the outrage, burning and looting that followed the death of Freddie Gray occurred despite the proactive reforms that were already in place.  The real lesson from Baltimore is that no city is exempt, even when the local leadership confronts these challenges head on. We didn’t turn a blind eye.

If you read the rest, this is all about covering her own ass, even as she says she will not run for another term. So far, there have been 238 homicides in Mayor SRB’s Baltimore. That’s more than NYC, despite having around 13 times fewer citizens. Violent and property crimes are up in her Baltimore. Baltimore is known for its massive use of bulletproof glass in stores throughout, in order to protect the workers and merchandise.

This is the way it works in Liberal World: refuse to take ownership for all the problems they create, and then claim that they are super awesome.

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Fish Wrap: Refugees Are A Total Boon For Europe

By William Teach September 19, 2015 – 7:54 am

I would have ended that headline with “Or Something”, but I did that in the previous post. The NY Times Editorial Board does think all these refugees out of war-torn Syria are super awesome, though

Europe Should See Refugees as a Boon, Not a Burden

Many European leaders have described the refugees who are risking their lives to get to the Continent as a burden. But there is good reason to believe that these immigrants will contribute more to Europe economically than they will take from it.

Numerous studies have found that immigrants bolster growth by increasing the labor force and consumer demand. Rather than being a drain, immigrants generally pay more in taxes than they claim in government benefits. Even a large influx of immigrants does not mean fewer jobs for the existing population, since economies do not have a finite number of jobs. Immigrants often bring skills with them, and some start new businesses, creating jobs for others. The less skilled often take jobs that are hard to fill, like in child care, for example, which allows more parents to work.

The problem here, being, of course, that these immigrants are not high skilled. They barely speak the language, if speak it at all. Their culture is completely different from that of these European countries. And there must be jobs available for them to work and pay taxes. The actual history of migrants invading Europe over the past few decades from the Middle East, southern Asia, and Northern Africa has shown that assimilation is virtually non-existent. Heck, quite a few of these groups have demanded that the European countries change to accommodate the both legal and illegal migrants. Witness the Rotherham child exploitation case. Witness the high levels of violence and arson in France. Witness these Islamists taking over sections of Sweden, creating “no-go” zones of Muslim gangs, along with places where Sharia law rules (the UK has seen much of the same). Witness politicians telling law enforcement and others to leave the groups alone as they create separation from the host country.

One has to wonder why these same refugees haven’t streamed in other Middle Eastern nations and Africa. Those countries don’t want them and refuse to take them, for the most part. Instead, they head to Europe. And, for all the Times’ equivocation regarding “immigration”, they fail to mention the possibility of tons of hardcore Islamists being part of the crowds, both those who simply practice and push the hardcore brand of Islam, and those who act in violent ways while practicing the hardcore version of Islam. How many jihadists are amongst the refugees?

Of course, the EB takes the opportunity to bash Republicans for daring to stand in the way of an invasion of low skilled workers who refuse to assimilate, and ends with

Advocating a pro-immigration position has become politically difficult in the West, in large part because opponents have successfully cast newcomers as economic and social burdens. Their false arguments damage economies and the lives of millions of people trying to escape war and poverty.

The EB is confusing legal and illegal immigration. There are more than enough studies showing that illegal aliens tend to be a drain on society, deflating wages, using up social services, causing problems in hospital ER rooms overrun with illegals, increased crime, and demands that the invaded country kowtow to their demands.

The comments at the editorial are very interesting. Here’s my favorite by MCS

Would the NYT Editorial Board take on hundreds of new unskilled, uneducated journalists, and pay them a weekly salary, until one may, with some will and a lot of luck become a real attribute o the newspaper? That’s precisely what it is lecturing the E.U to do at a time when Globalism has decimated many economies of democracies in the west, countries that barely know how to keep their own citizens working, much less take on more.

What say, Times?

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Iranian President Says “Death To America” Chants Aren’t Really Meant To Be Personal Or Something

By William Teach September 19, 2015 – 7:23 am

It wouldn’t be a Friday in Iran if there wasn’t a rally where they’re chanting Death To America and Death To Israel. Well, that and hanging gays, stoning rape victims, and torturing others. But, hey, we aren’t supposed to take it personally!

Iranian crowds chanting ‘death to America’ don’t mean it personally, says president Hassan Rouhani

In an interview with 60 Minutes due to be broadcast on Sunday, Mr Rouhani said the famous Friday ritual is a reaction to previous Washington policy decisions that hurt Iran.

In April, US president Barack Obama’s administration signed a deal with Mr Rouhani’s government to release Iran from many of the sanctions harming its economy in return for tight controls on its nuclear program.

But many in the US are still convinced that Iran, which is ultimately led not by Mr Rouhani but by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remains bent on their country’s destruction.

In the fierce domestic American debate over the deal, opponents have often cited the regular appearance of chanting anti-American crowds as evidence of Tehran’s true intentions.

But Mr Rouhani, seen as a moderate reformer by the standards of the Islamic republic, attempted to reassure his CBS interviewer Steve Kroft and the wider audience.

“This slogan that is chanted is not a slogan against the American people. Our people respect the American people,” he insisted in an extract from the interview released by CBS.

Nothing says “respect” like chanting for those people’s deaths, am I right? By this same measure, it means all those #BlackLivesMatter folks really love the police, eh?

Many Iranians may respect the American people. More than enough, especially the hardliners who run the country, do not, and actually wish death on America and Israel. I wonder if Steve Kroft followed up regarding the chants of “death to Israel”. and how Iran has repeatedly stated that Israel would be wiped off the map?

But, this kind of yammering is surely meant to placate liberal supporters of the Iran deal, a deal which simply punts Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions down the road 8-15 years. These same liberal supporters, both American and foreign, are often the same people who despise America in the first place.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day 2015! (Sticky For Day)

By William Teach September 19, 2015 – 7:06 am

Talk Like A Pirate Day
Illustration by Ghergich & Co.

That’s right, mateys, it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Aaaaaar!

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NY Times Editorial Board Goes 9/11 Truther In Article About GOP “Crazy Talk”

By William Teach September 18, 2015 – 5:06 pm

Let’s not forget that more than half of Democrats believed that George Bush knew about the attacks, and let them happen/made them happen. There are many other similar polls. But, hey, yeah, we’re the crazy ones

Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate

And that, America, is frightening. Peel back the boasting and insults, the lies and exaggerations common to any presidential campaign. What remains is a collection of assertions so untrue, so bizarre, that they form a vision as surreal as the Ronald Reagan jet looming behind the candidates’ lecterns.

It felt at times as if the speakers were no longer living in a fact-based world where actions have consequences, programs take money and money has to come from somewhere. Where basic laws — like physics and the Constitution — constrain wishes. Where Congress and the public, allies and enemies, markets and militaries don’t just do what you want them to, just because you say they will.

They whine about immigration, then the Times’ editorial board says that illegal immigration isn’t even a problem. Perhaps we should ask all those who’ve had their identities stolen, those who’ve lost their jobs, and those who’ve seen depressed wages. Or the family of Kate Steinle.

Then they want to capitulate to Iran and Russia. Then

Jeb Bush spun a particularly repellent fantasy. Speaking reverently of his brother the president, he said, “He kept us safe,” and invoked the carnage of 9/11. Wait, what? Did he mean George W. Bush, who was warned about the threat that Al Qaeda would attack? Who then invaded a non sequitur country, Iraq, over a nonexistent threat?

There’s the August 6 PDB yammering, something the 9/11 Truth movement loves to trot out. A briefing with no actionable intelligence. Kinda like saying “hey, someone might break into your house.” If Bush had instituted any policies to attempt to stop this, such as profiling Muslim men entering the US, the same NY Times would have gone ballistic. Of course, most were already here, having trained in the US under the Clinton policies.

As for Iraq, nearly every single Democrat, foreign intelligence service, and, hey, even the NY Times thought Iraq was a threat. How soon these Truthers forget. Well, not really forget as much as rewrite history.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 18, 2015 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Raised on Hoecakes, with a post on whether capitalism is moral.

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Biden Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight To Say “Deniers” Would Deny Gravity

By William Teach September 18, 2015 – 10:00 am

Well, bless his heart

(US News) Taking aim at his potential political opponents, Vice President Joe Biden railed Wednesday against Republicans who “deny climate change” and want to shut down the federal government over funding for Planned Parenthood, and pleaded with them to “just get out of the way.”

Biden came to California, a national leader on clean energy, to tout solar technology and ramp up pressure on the U.S. and other nations as the Obama administration presses for a successful finish to global climate talks. Yet his visit was infused with 2016 overtones, and he playfully mocked Republicans who reject mainstream climate science that says humans are contributing to warmer temperatures.

“I think if you pushed them, they’d probably deny gravity as well,” Biden said.

He also whined about the Koch brothers. This all came after a long cross-country fossil fueled flight, followed, of course, by a convoy of fossil fueled vehicles to take him from the airport to the reception. Warmists are so cute when they’re hypocritical.

Speaking of hypocrites, David Letterman joins the CoC

The former late night host will travel to India for an episode of the National Geographic Channel’s Emmy-Award winning documentary series, Years of Living Dangerously, to address the issue of climate change.

Nothing like a fossil fueled flight to the other side of the world to make a (barely watched) show about Hotcoldwetdry.

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Warmists Call For RICO Investigation Of Skeptics In Letter To Obama And Attorney General

By William Teach September 18, 2015 – 7:05 am

Shockingly, Warmists get upset when I refer to them as Progressives, which were termed “nice fascists” by Jonah Goldberg in his book “Liberal Fascism”. The nice part refers to them doing things “for your own good”. Apparently, stifling dissent through hardcore federal investigations is now for your own good

(Politico) Twenty climate scientists called for RICO investigation in a letter to Obama and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The scientists argue that the systemic efforts to prevent the public from understanding climate change resembles the investigation undertaken against tobacco. They draw inspiration from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse who said on the Senate floor that there might be a similar conspiracy here, and a civil trial could provide the tools of discovery needed to find out. http://bit.ly/1F3bue2

That letter (at the link) states

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Lynch, and OSTP Director Holdren,

As you know, an overwhelming majority of climate scientists are convinced about the potentially serious adverse effects of human-induced climate change on human health, agriculture, and biodiversity. We applaud your efforts to regulate emissions and the other steps you are taking. Nonetheless, as climate scientists we are exceedingly concerned that America’s response to climate change – indeed, the world’s response to climate change – is insufficient. The risks posed by climate change, including increasing extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and increasing ocean acidity – and potential strategies for addressing them – are detailed in the Third National Climate Assessment (2014), Climate Change Impacts in the United States. The stability of the Earth’s climate over the past ten thousand years contributed to the growth of agriculture and therefore, a thriving human civilization. We are now at high risk of seriously destabilizing the Earth’s climate and irreparably harming people around the world, especially the world’s poorest people.

We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress. One additional tool – recently proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change. The actions of these organizations have been extensively documented in peerreviewed academic research (Brulle, 2013) and in recent books including: Doubt is their Product (Michaels, 2008), Climate Cover-Up (Hoggan & Littlemore, 2009), Merchants of Doubt (Oreskes & Conway, 2010), The Climate War (Pooley, 2010), and in The Climate Deception Dossiers (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2015). We strongly endorse Senator Whitehouse’s call for a RICO investigation.

The methods of these organizations are quite similar to those used earlier by the tobacco industry. A RICO investigation (1999 to 2006) played an important role in stopping the tobacco industry from continuing to deceive the American people about the dangers of smoking. If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth’s climate, before even more lasting damage is done.

You can see the list of fascist signatories at the link, or over at Climate Depot, where Marc Morano writes

Top UN scientist Dr. Kevin Trenberth and 19 other scientists have become so tired of debating global warming that they are now apparently seeking to jail those who disagree with them. One of the scientists who signed the letter was Alan Robock of Rutgers University. Robock has expressed very positive views of Cuba’s Fidel Castro after trips there in 2010 and 2011. See: Rutger’s Prof. Alan Robock drools over Castro and his VIP treatment in 2010 trip to Cuba robock@envsci.rutgers.edu – Robock’s enchanted meeting with Castro: I stayed at ‘nicest hotel…I went in a black Mercedes…I went to private meeting with Fidel & his family…we had photo taken together’

Yes, there are pictures.

https://twitter.com/RogerPielkeJr/status/644578705612763136

Science? This isn’t about science, Roger. It’s all about politics. Let’s not forget all the calls and yammerings to kill Skeptics, jail them, frogmarch them out in handcuffs, and criminalizing their beliefs.

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Dems Don’t Want To Watch Planned Parenthood Videos In House Hearing

By William Teach September 18, 2015 – 6:52 am

For all their caterwauling about the Planned Parenthood videos, for all their complaints, few will actually watch them. They do not want to be disabused of their notion that PP is super awesome

(Breitbart) The hearing in the House subcommittee on health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce was to consider proposals to expand protections for unborn children whosurvive an abortion and also the federal ban on partial birth abortion.

Reps. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Renee Elmers (R-NC) want the Congress to give states the right to withhold federal funding, especially Medicaid funding, if an abortion provider is even suspected to violating either the Infants Born Alive Protection Act or the Partial Birth Abortion Act.

Subcommittee chairman Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) opened the hearing by showing video of Holly O’Donnell, the StemExpress whistle-blower talking about how a Planned Parenthood staff member showed her starting a baby’s heart. Other footage shown by Pitts showed Planned Parenthood personnel talking about intact fetuses, leading some to believe the children were born alive.

In the committee hearing last week, witnesses said the Democrats refused even to look at them. This time some of them looked, others looked away and still others “panicked,” in the words of one observer. They huddled together and then tried to have sub-committee chairman Pitts stop them. He refused.

We shouldn’t be surprised in the least that Democrats spend most of the time attacking the videos (which they didn’t want to watch, and probably didn’t for the most part) and the group that took them. They claim there is no evidence PP did anything wrong, though they pretty much refuse to watch the videos to see the evidence.

One has to wonder why Democrats have such strong support of PP that they engage in these childish games. Obviously, abortion on demand is a main sacrament within their fascistic political cult. Is it that they cannot admit that people can do bad things within their favorite abortion providing operation? Or is it that they really like that PP provides abortions for Black women in so many black areas around the country? 78% of their clinics are in minority neighborhoods. PP founder Margaret Sanger was proud racist, loved eugenics, and though Blacks were a mongrel race, saying “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”

Is that why Democrats support PP to such an extreme? Are they simply showing their historical racism towards Blacks in a different manner?

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Hotcoldwetdry Will Cause Severe Psychological Problems Or Something

By William Teach September 17, 2015 – 4:29 pm

The latest unhinged scary fable, this one from Soros funded Think Progress

This Is Your Brain On Climate Change

We spend vast amounts of time and personal energy trying to calculate the most urgent threats posed by climate change. Washington, D.C. psychiatrist and climate activist Lise Van Susteren, however, says the most insidious danger may already be upon us. She’s not talking about heat, drought, floods, severe storms, or rising seas. She’s focused on the psychological risks posed by global warming.

Van Susteren has co-authored a report on the psychological effects of climate change that predicts Americans will suffer “depressive and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, substance abuse, suicides, and widespread outbreaks of violence,” in the face of rising temperatures, extreme weather, and scarce resources. Van Susteren and her co-author Kevin Coyle write that counselors and first responders “are not even close to being prepared to handle the scale and intensity of impacts that will arise from the harsher conditions and disasters that global warming will unleash.”

Strange. We had all those things prior to CO2 going above 350ppm. And, it’s not like all the doomy prognostications of future doom aren’t causing issues with Believers and kids now, as the Cult of Climastrology trots out their scary fables.

Those who do acknowledge the problem face a different set of issues, particularly those who work on the problem. Lisa Van Susteren coined the term “pre-traumatic stress disorder” to describe the grief, anger, and anxiety clinging to the scientists and advocates whose job it is to gaze into a future that can look increasingly bleak.

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