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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If All You See…

By William Teach September 17, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…extreme rain causing flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post noting that African deserts are getting greener.

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Why, Yes, The Sun Is A Major Driver Of The Climate

By William Teach September 17, 2015 – 10:13 am

Cult of Climastrology members think the primary, heck, in some cases, the only, driver of climate. At lest during the current warm period. Reality and science say different. This comes via NoTricksZone

The sun drives the climate: Proof of the 90 and 200-year cycles in the earth’s climate history

By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated/edited by P Gosselin)

Solar activity fluctuates very much in cycles, among them the Gleissberg Cycle over 90 years, plus or minus 30 years. In March 2015 a study by Orgutsov et al. appeared in the journal Advances in Space Research which discovered the solar Gleissberg Cycle during the growth period of the northern hemisphere over the past 450 years. The authors suspected a solar impact on temperatures on plant growth. The abstract:

Evidence for the Gleissberg solar cycle at the high-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere
Time evolution of growing season temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere was analyzed using both wavelet and Fourier approaches. A century-scale (60–140 year) cyclicity was found in the summer temperature reconstruction from the Taymir peninsula (∼72° N, ∼105° E) and other high-latitude (60–70° N) regions during the time interval AD 1576–1970. This periodicity is significant and consists of two oscillation modes, 60–70 year and 120–140 year variations. In the summer temperatures from the Yamal peninsula (∼70° N, ∼67° E) only a shorter-term (60–70 year) variation is present. A comparison of the secular variation in the Northern Hemisphere temperature proxies with the corresponding variations in sunspot numbers and the fluxes of cosmogenic 10Be in Greenland ice shows that a probable cause of this variability is the modulation of temperature by the century-scale solar cycle of Gleissberg. This is consistent with the results obtained previously for Northern Fennoscandia (67°–70° N, 19°–33° E). Thus, evidence for a connection between century-long variations in solar activity and climate was obtained for the entire boreal zone of the Northern Hemisphere.”

A year earlier Ogurtsov and a Finnish colleague had already published another paper on the Gleissberg cycles in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Back then they reported a solar Gleissberg Cycle in the nitrate concentrations in polar ice cores:

Head on over and read the rest.

We also know that the 11 year solar cycle has an undeniable impact on climate. And there are 23 major papers this year alone on the complex topic of the sun and climate.

Warmists are more than willing to admit that the Sun was one of the major drivers of climate, along with other natural processes, in past warm and cool periods. But, now, they will barely admit that the sun and other natural drivers have any effect. It couldn’t possibly be because they have a political agenda, could it?

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Did Hillary Sign The “Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement”?

By William Teach September 17, 2015 – 8:27 am

No one really seems to know if Hillary signed any of the required forms

(Daily Caller) Amid the many unanswered questions in the Hillary Clinton email scandal is whether the former secretary of state signed an official document acknowledging that she turned over all of the classified information in her possession to the State Department when she left office in Feb. 2013.

The “Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement” — Special Form 312 — also requires incoming government officials to acknowledge that classified information can be either “marked” or “unmarked” as such.

But finding out whether Clinton signed the document has been difficult.

The State Department declined to say whether she signed the form. The Daily Caller has also learned that the agency has not turned SF-312s for Clinton and several of her top aides over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which requested them on Aug. 5.

Let me just note that the start of this article is a little confusing. The first paragraph is actually referring to Form 109, something all outgoing employees must sign, specifying that they have turned over all official records. State cannot say whether she signed it. In other words, they know she didn’t, and are stonewalling. Low ranking employees who have failed to sign it could have their pensions withheld.

Special Form 312 was something all government employees and contractors, licensees, and grantees must sign per Executive Order 13292 in 2003, building on an Order by Bill Clinton, later replaced by Obama with Executive Order 13292. So, it was a requirement for Hillary to sign it.

It also states that all employees must turn in all classified material upon separation from State.

The form presents a dilemma of sort. If Clinton did sign it when she took office, she acknowledged that there is no distinction between “marked” and “unmarked” classified information. If Clinton did not sign the document, then allowing her access to classified information would have violated federal regulations.

The form requires officials to attest that they understanding that classified information which they have access to “will remain the property of, or under the control of the United States Government unless and until otherwise determined by an authorized official or final ruling of a court of law.”

If she did sign it, failure to comply could lead to criminal prosecution and loss of security clearance. If she didn’t, this would once again show her complete lack of regard for following the rules.

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White House Invites Kid Arrested For Making Homemade Clock: What Of Kate Steinle’s Parents?

By William Teach September 17, 2015 – 8:02 am

Imagine that. Obama even called the clock “cool” in a tweet, though it’s doubtful the Secret Service would approve

(Bloomberg) Ahmed Mohamed thought he was building a clock, but it turned out to be a magnet for fear and misunderstanding. Now he’s got an invitation to tell his story at the White House.

President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited the 14-year-old high school freshman to attend Astronomy Night at the White House on Oct. 19. That came a day after police in Irving, Texas, arrested him after mistaking his engineering project for a bomb.

Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire founder of the social networking giant Facebook Inc., also invited Mohamed to visit his company’s headquarters.

There’s no doubt Ahmed’s arrest was utterly ridiculous and beyond over the top. It said more about the hyper-vigilance and bat guano insanity of schools these days more than any sort of Islamophobia. Remember all the kids busted for making guns with fingers and pop-tarts? Those busted for having water pistols and Nerf guns? For simply drawing a gun?

Speaking of all those kids, where’s their invite to the White House? Heck, even a tweet from B.O.?

Where’s the invite to the family of Kate Steinle, killed by a 5 time deported illegal alien? How about a tweet of support or a phone call? They received none. The White House even scoffed at “Kate’s Law”, which would restrict federal funds from Sanctuary cities. The White House refused to even discuss the issue.

You know who else gets an invite from the White House?

In a stunning show of political indecorum, Obama has invited a series of individuals who publicly flout Catholic teaching, including a pro-abortion religious sister, a transgender woman and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, along with at least two Catholic gay activists.

What of the all the people and families affected by violent, and non-violent, crime committed by illegal aliens? All those who were raped (including children), assaulted, and killed by illegals? Why no invite or mention from the White House and, specifically, Mr. Obama?

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8.3 Earthquake In Chile, So, Yeah, Climate Change

By William Teach September 16, 2015 – 8:57 pm

A big one

(AP) A powerful magnitude-8.3 earthquake hit off Chile’s northern coast Wednesday night, causing buildings to sway in Santiago and other cities and sending people running into the streets.

At least three aftershocks above magnitude-6 and other strong shakes rattled the region as tsunami alarms sounded in the port of Valparaiso in the first major quake since a powerful quake and tsunami killed hundreds in 2010 and leveled part of a southern Chilean city.

Earthquakes, including big ones, are nothing new to Chile. It lies along a plate boundary. Magnitude 8’s are not unusual. They had an 8.8 in 2010. The largest ever recorded (in modern history) happened in 1960, a 9.5. Compare to the Japan earthquake in 2011, measured at a 9.0, a 9.5 is 16.5 times more powerful (going up 10 on the scale is 33 times stronger). Regardless, once you get that strong, destruction is big, and prayers go out to all affected.

Of course, you knew this had to be coming, right?

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Warmists: Carbon Pollution Will Totally Doom Us In 20k Years

By William Teach September 16, 2015 – 2:40 pm

If we don’t leave all fossil fuels in the ground starting now…wait, I thought other Cult of Climastrology members were saying that no one was saying that?

(Takepart) Keep it in the ground. That’s the rallying cry of environmentalists who warn that burning the world’s remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash catastrophic climate change.

That’s good advice, according to scientists who in a new study found that the carbon emissions from exhausting coal, oil, and natural gas reserves would melt the entire Antarctic ice sheet, triggering a seal level rise of 160 to 200 feet.

Doom!

The new findings are in line with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sea-level-rise estimates, which predict a two- to three-foot sea-level rise by 2100.

But Caldeira said that the new findings show that after 2100, sea levels would increase about 10 feet over the following 100 years. That’s nearly 10 times faster than the current rate. (Snip)

Caldeira said the team took estimates under circumstances ranging from zero carbon emissions to a “burn it all” scenario—in which all 10,000 gigatons of coal, natural gas, and oil are extracted and burned over the course of 10,000 years. That worst-case scenario would lead to a global average temperature nearly 9 degrees Celsius (about 16 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than today’s temperature and much higher than the increase of 2 degrees Celsius scientists have warned we need to stay below to avoid catastrophic climate change.

The article does claim that just 6 to 8 percent could make Antarctica unstable, according to computer models. Insert snicker here.

Anyhow, 10 feet by the end of this century (not happening at current reality ) the 10 feet more per century gives us just under 20k years. Worst. Scary. Movie. Ever.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 16, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on nutritional myths.

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A View Inside The Crazy Mind Of A Warmist

By William Teach September 16, 2015 – 11:18 am

Ever wonder what a Warmist is really thinking? Here’s The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer

Not Doomed Yet: A New Newsletter About Climate Change

I remember the first time I learned about climate change. I was sitting at a fancy restaurant with my parents, reading a science magazine under the table. (I think it was Kids Discover, which—with its full-page photos, friendly writing, and cartoonish illustrations—ranked up there with the Klutz books as ’90s edutainment par excellence.) In the bottom half of a page, there was an info box: Scientists had identified something called the greenhouse effect, which could make disastrously extreme weather more common and the planet too hot to inhabit. I remember looking around the table, anxiously, before stammering out a question to my parents: Did they know about this? Humanity breaking the planet, and adults were doing nothing about it?

I have lost count of the number of people who have identified climate as “the political issue of the 21st century.” It ranks up there for me. Food, water, protection from the elements: It feels insufficient to say that climate touches everything, because it in fact permeates us. Physically, materially, existentially, the climate determines what it feels like to have a human body in this biosphere. And that means that every consideration of the future—of security personal, economic, and international—winds back to climate.

Here we go

When I consider whether to have children, I think about climate change. When I consider where I want to live, I think about climate change. When I stand on the beach and play catch with my younger brothers and wonder what their young adulthood will be like, I think of refugees and resource wars—and, thus, climate change.

Even my current career, as a technology reporter, was inflected by the climate: When I first got into technology in the mid-2000s, I was partly drawn to it because I thought all that new wealth—and all that new expertise in handling data—might flow toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change, a phenomenon without a mind, is engrained in every texture of my every ordinary day.

I think the specific psychological term for this is “Wackadoodle”.

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