White House Is Surprised By Increased Border Crossings

By William Teach September 22, 2015 – 7:18 am

If you tell everyone to come and get free stuff from your business, should you be surprised when lots of people show up?

(The Hill) The United States saw a spike last month in the number of unaccompanied minors and families illegally crossing the southern border, the White House said Monday.

“We have seen, just in the last month, in the month of August, a surprising uptick,” press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.

While this is certainly less than last year’s massive influx, August is supposed to be a slower month, due to the heat. But, hey, when you have an administration and a political Party constantly pushing to legalize illegals, promising them all sorts of things (at the expense of the American taxpayer), refusing to enforce existing laws, more and more will continue to come and attempt to cross the border. They know that the majority will never be sent back. How many of last years inflow were deported? How many have simply disappeared into the country after being told to appear in court? Heck, how many are still receiving government assistance?

Czechoslovakia built a fence to stop the flow of “refugees” in two days. Granted, a much smaller border. Yet, the U.S. doesn’t seem capable of finishing the border wall over decades. And the worst thing is the promise from Democrats, some Republicans, and the President to help all the illegals who make it here out, providing them education, medical care, driver’s licenses, etc, and looking to legalize them quickly.

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Hillary Has Plan For Prescription Drugs, Called Big Big Government Mandates

By William Teach September 22, 2015 – 7:01 am

Ask a Democrat for a plan on anything and the answer is always “More Government!” Witness

(USA Today) Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will roll out a plan to rein in prescription drug costs by forcing pharmaceutical companies to reinvest their profits into research and allowing for more generic and imported drugs.

This seems based due to

Greedy, or just a company that refuses to lose money anymore?

Regardless, there are lots of reasons why drugs in the U.S. cost so much. For one thing, it can cost a lot of money, in the billions sometimes, to develop a drug, do all the research and testing, get it through clinical trials and the FDA, then get it to market. Oh, and Government intervention also increases costs. Sure, some companies are “greedy”, but most are reasonable.

The last thing we need is more government intervention, especially as pushed by a greedy presidential candidate who makes hundreds of thousands on short speaking engagements, along with all the other money raked in through her “foundation”. Big Pharma certainly reinvests a portion into more R&D. The other portion goes to things like paying people, including shareholders. They probably reinvest more than the Clinton Foundation does.

One part of her bullet point plan doesn’t seem Big Governmenty, though it is

Allow Americans to import drugs from abroad. Countries in Europe with similar safety standards often pay half of what American pay for the same drugs, according to the campaign.

There are reasons why many of those drugs cost less: refer to link above in “Government intervention”. Democrats have voted against this notion many, many times. Then we get

Encourage the production of generic drugs including lowering the amount of time companies can exclusively produce new treatments.

In other words, Government would pull the patents quicker after companies have spent billions for their work. This is exactly the wrong way to do it, since many pharmaceutical companies try to recoup their costs quicker due to an already short period of patent time.

Oh, and Bored Grandma will announce plans on dealing with out-of-pocket expenses Wednesday. Who wants to bet they revolve around More Big Government?

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Surprise: Carbon Scheme Pricing And Taxes Are Just Too Darned Low

By William Teach September 21, 2015 – 3:53 pm

One of the things members of the Cult Of Climastrology, including elected officials, media outlets, and low hanging Warmists, constantly push for is a “carbon tax”, usually in a manner that they think will only effect Other People. And they always tell us that this artificial construct would be the free market in action. For instance, here’s one I ran across at the Miami Herald in a letter to the editor from Walt Minnick, cofounder of the Partnership for Responsible Growth, a hardcore Progressive group out of D.C. pushing for all sorts of climate change schemes. Here’s what he calls “innovative solutions”

(1) Rely on the free market instead of more EPA regulation. If Congress approves a fee on carbon emissions, business will become more energy-efficient, and consumers will buy less carbon-based fuel.

(2) Use half of the revenue generated to reduce our corporate tax rate, the highest in the industrialized world, to 25 percent and return the balance to low- and low-middle-income families to offset their slightly higher energy costs;

See? Free market! And an acknowledgement that these schemes will increase costs. Returning (tiny amounts) of money back to low and middle class families makes them even more reliant on Government. Anyhow, free market!

Carbon pricing schemes double since 2012 in climate fight: World Bank

The number of carbon pricing schemes worldwide has almost doubled since 2012 but most taxes or markets have prices too low to prevent damaging global warming, the World Bank said on Sunday.

Carbon pricing, including emissions trading schemes from California to China, now covers about 12 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in a sign of momentum before a U.N. summit on climate change in Paris in December, it said. (snip)

The study showed that prices, meant to shift investments from fossil fuels toward cleaner energies such as wind or solar power, ranged from less than a dollar a tonne of carbon dioxide in Mexico to $130 a tonne in Sweden.

In more than 85 percent of cases the price was less than $10, “considerably lower”, the report said, than levels needed to help limit temperature rises to a U.N. goal of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

So, once Government has instituted these schemes, the Free Market has determined that the values are not worth much, and Warmists want them artificially increased. In fact, many of these schemes have been deemed as “worse than junk bonds“.

The free market also dictates that companies will move away from areas that have these carbon tax schemes, or work hard to avoid paying them. There is a lot of fraud occurring. They increase costs to the consumers and reduce jobs. Governmental intervention in the free market hasn’t worked out so well.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning into desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on yet another infrastructure attack in California.

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We’re Saved: People Wore Green Ribbons At Emmys For “Climate Change”!

By William Teach September 21, 2015 – 10:29 am

Let’s see: making a TV show uses vast amounts of energy and fossil fuels. You can bet that there are lots and lots of plastic water bottles present. Putting on the Emmys certainly uses vast amounts of energy and fossil fuels. Then you have all the fossil fuels used to transport all the stars, attendees, and media to the Emmys. But, hey, green ribbons!

Green Ribbons at the 2015 Emmys Draw Attention to Climate Change

The most notable accessory on the red carpet at the 2015 Emmys on Sunday night wasn’t a diamond necklace or stack of shiny bracelets. Instead, several stars sported green ribbons to call attention to climate change.

As tweeted by the National Resources Defense Council, the green ribbons worn by celebrities like Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor were part of the #DemandClimateAction campaign, which calls on world leaders to directly address climate change, including “a new universal legal agreement” between countries committing to a “low-carbon future.”

Green ribbons have previously been worn to highlight mental illness, but these had small white letters spelling out the hashtag #DemandClimateAction. Love how they’re pinning them to dresses and suits that cost thousands of dollars, pimping an issue for which the solutions would harm the poor and middle class.

You also have to love that the Cult of Climastrology is still pimping awareness after all these years, rather than changing their own lives to accord with their talking points.

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Iran Takes Samples At Parchin Military Site Without IAEA Present

By William Teach September 21, 2015 – 8:22 am

Hey, remember when Liberal supporters of the Iran deal were scoffing at the notion of a secret side deal between Iran and the IAEA which would allow Iran to do their own inspection of their Parchin facility, even going so far as to refer to those who believed the AP report as “Parchin Truthers”?

Remember when Obama said “Iran will face strict limitations on its program, and Iran has also agreed to the most robust and intrusive inspections and transparency regime ever negotiated for any nuclear program in history. So this deal is not based on trust, it’s based on unprecedented verification.”?

This is the “unprecedented verification, I suppose

(Reuters) Iranian nuclear experts have taken environmental samples from the military base at Parchin without United Nations inspectors being present, the spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy agency was quoted as saying on Monday.

The procedure for taking the samples, which could shed light on whether Iran’s nuclear program ever had a military dimension, has been under intense discussion since Tehran reached a nuclear deal with world powers in July.

Western diplomats told Reuters earlier this month inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, would observe samples being taken.

“Iranian experts took samples from specific locations in Parchin facilities this week without IAEA’s inspectors being present,” Behruz Kamalvandi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.

Well, now, this means that the side deal is real, or that Iran is blowing off the requirement to allow inspectors, and just doing the work themselves.

Anyone want to place a bet on the samples being perfectly clean? Will Iran even submit the required videos and pictures that the side deal demanded?

So much for anytime anywhere verifiable inspections. I guess we’re just going to have to go with “trust“. Of the Iranian regime.

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Obama Administration To Accept 200,000 “Refugees” Through 2017

By William Teach September 21, 2015 – 7:53 am

Fantastic! Nothing like bringing tons more people from war torn countries with a history of Islamic extremism, who will mostly not speak our language, won’t share even the most basic of American values, and will immediately demand government assistance, over the needs of American citizens

(NY Times) The Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the United States accepts each year to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday.

“This step that I am announcing today, I believe, is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Mr. Kerry said, adding that it “will be accompanied by additional financial contributions” for the relief effort.

The American move, announced after Mr. Kerry held talks in Berlin with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, still falls far short of the global demand for resettlement from people who continue to flee turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.

A goodly majority of these refugees/migrants are fighting age men. By all reports, only one-half to one-third are women and children. You look at all the pictures, and see barely any women and children. A good chunk of European countries are shutting down their borders, especially the prosperous northern EU nations.

What skills do they bring? What of their culture? How many are part of the Islamic extremist movement? How many are violent? We’ve seen more than enough rioting in European countries that have seen these folks stream in. Why are they not streaming into other Middle Eastern countries and Africa? Why only prosperous Western nations? Why are we responsible for them?

Who are they?

(UK Daily Mail) Only one in every five migrants claiming asylum in Europe is from Syria.

The EU logged 213,000 arrivals in April, May and June but only 44,000 of them were fleeing the Syrian civil war.

Campaigners and left-wing MPs have suggested the vast majority of migrants are from the war-torn state, accusing the Government of doing too little to help them.

‘This exposes the lie peddled in some quarters that vast numbers of those reaching Europe are from Syria,’ said David Davies, Tory MP for Monmouth. ‘Most people who are escaping the war will go to camps in Lebanon or Jordan.

The stream of these “economic refugees/migrants” exploded when some leading politicians in Europe said they would accept Syrian refugees. Now, some 80% are coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Albania, Libya, and other nations not called Syria. Reports show this could cost Germany 25 billion Euros, the equivalent of $28.13 billion US. Why are we responsible for taking in those escaping from their own hell-hole for economic reasons, at the expense of our own citizens?

How will will make sure that those coming are not part of extremist Islam? We aren’t talking about people escaping Europe, who brought similar and compatible values. We aren’t talking about other refugees who joined the great melting pot and raised families.

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Newest Published Pause Excuse: It Never Happened!

By William Teach September 20, 2015 – 3:31 pm

This is not a new excuse: it’s number 5 on the list of global warming pause excuses. This is just a new attempt to explain the Pause away

(Takepart) It has been a bad week for global warming skeptics.

On top of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations’ announcement that 2015 will almost certainly beat 2014 as the hottest year on record (not to mention the U.K. Met’s projectiont hat 2016 will smash heat records),…

Interesting. They’re already telling us what they plan to do prior to actually having data. Science! And it still wouldn’t prove anthropogenic causation.

….new research out of Stanford University is trashing climate skeptics’ “hiatus” theory, which claims there was a 15-year lull in rising global temperatures between 1998 and 2013.

The paper, published Thursday in in the journal Climatic Change, looked at a comprehensive set of papers, statistics and historical records to see if temperatures really stopped rising around 1998, for about 15 years—what many have dubbed the climate change “pause” or “hiatus.”

Turns out it was just a statistical error, said Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford and coauthor of the study.

The “statistical error” thing isn’t new, either.

First, the data points were misleading. In a study released in June, NOAA officials reexamined their ocean temperature points from buoy measurements. They found that for the past couple of decades, their buoys had been returning cooler temperature readings than the measurements gathered by ships in the same are. When they reworked the data, they found that the rate of warming (about .116 degrees Celsius per decade) was nearly identical to the past five decades.

To cover their bases, lead researcher Bala Rajaratnam, an assistant professor of statistics and Earth system science at Stanford, said the team combined NOAA’s old and corrected measurements to see if a climate pause could be detected.

In other words, they didn’t like the actual raw data, so they changed it. They also went on to use a “statistical” method, whereby they manufacture out of nothing, er, extrapolate, data in areas that have no measurements.

It’s cute how the Cult of Climastrology works so darned hard to protect their cult. At the end of the day, even this fails to disprove the utter failure of their computer models, which predicted fast rising temperatures. Even if we are to believe that 2014 was the Hottest Evah!!!!!, it was by hundreds of a degree. And that data had issues, to the point where they admitted there was only a 38% chance they were right. But, it would still be below the original models.

Keep trying, Warmists. And give up your own fossil fuels usage.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 20, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful grassy field that should be full of solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Disney doing away with “gender specific” costumes.

It’s redheads week, as proposed by Dana.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 20, 2015 – 9:46 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in The Once And Future America. There’s a little nip of Fall in the air. Not sure who did this pinup, which received the typical wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline notes Carly! Fiorina up over Trump in New Hampshire
  2. Vox Popoli says to never apologize to SJWs
  3. Theodore’s World notes Islamists calling for the end of Oktoberfest in Germany
  4. The Conservative Treehouse notes the pearl-clutching media on Trump
  5. The Hayride is puking rainbows for Doritos
  6. The First Street Journal says Carly! isn’t running for a VP slot
  7. The Daley Gator covers Dems voting against a born alive bill
  8. Patterico’s Pontifications notes Trump refusing to give in to Public Shaming
  9. Director Blue has 20 photos of Syrian refugees you won’t see in the media
  10. Moonbattery covers threats of jail for petitioning for free speech on campus
  11. Legal Insurrection has a snapshot of Hillary’s accomplishments
  12. Jihad Watch answers why refugees have refused Denmark asylum
  13. Fire Andrea Mitchell wonders if there will be a revolt in the House this week
  14. Don Surber covers misogynism at the NY Times
  15. And last, but not least, Barking Moonbat EWS covers illegals detained in Britain complaining about the food

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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