Mother Is Upset After Raising Eco-fascist Who Berates Her

By William Teach September 14, 2015 – 9:45 am

The words “hoist” and “petard” run through my brain. This comes via Darleen Click who notes “The second one is what is glaringly absent from this whole hot mess”

Bidding My College-Bound Son Good Riddance
I have raised a sweet, thoughtful, environmentally conscious monster—and soon I will be free.

My son, Cory, will leave our Northern California home to start college back East in the fall, prompting other mothers to offer condolences about my soon-to-be-empty nest. Though they expect me to break into tears, my overriding emotion when my youngest departs will be relief. I will finally be freed from the constant scrutiny of the ever-vigilant eco-warrior I raised.

Remember that part about college (Brown U in Rhode Island, to be exact) for later

I can do nothing right in my teenage son’s eyes. He grills me about the distance traveled of each piece of fruit and every vegetable I purchase. He interrogates me about the provenance of all the meat, poultry, and fish I serve. He questions my every move—from how I choose a car (why not electric?) and a couch (why synthetic fill?) to how I tend the garden (why waste water on flowers?)—an unremitting interrogation of my impact on our desecrated environment. While other parents hide alcohol and pharmaceuticals from their teens, I hide plastic containers and paper towels.

I feel like I’ve become the adolescent, sneaking around to avoid my offspring’s scrutiny and lectures. Only when Cory leaves the house do I dare clean the refrigerator of foul-smelling evidence of my careless waste—wilted greens, rotten avocados, moldy leftovers. When he goes out to dinner, I smuggle in a piece of halibut or sturgeon, fish the stocks of which, he tells me, are dangerously depleted. Even worse, I sometimes prepare beef—a drain on precious water, my son assures me, and a heavy contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Although I did not mean to raise a Mr. Sustainability, it must be admitted that I set him on the path. I tried to instill the imperative of tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repairing the world.” When Cory was eight, we served the homeless in a local soup kitchen. In middle school, he played guitar for retirement-home residents. In high school, he spent a June morning pulling weeds from a riverbed and all summer nursing a poison oak rash covering his arms and legs—an irritant not unlike the imprecations of an environmentally zealous son.

I admit that when he displayed a propensity for science, I could not suppress the Jewish mother in me and tried to convince my boy that he could best help people by becoming a doctor. But I never meant to guilt-trip him into thinking he had to save the whole entire planet—and certainly not from people like me.

This keeps going on and on and on, as Ronnie Cohn describes how she raised him from an early age to be hyper-eco conscious. You really, really have to read the whole thing for full effect. It can’t be described fully with excerpts.

I knew Cory had met his match when the BFF came for dinner (vegetarian, naturally), emerged from the bathroom with his hands dripping, and declined a towel. Neither paper nor cloth would be necessary, he insisted, while I watched the water from his hands trickle onto my hardwood floor. Like an untrained puppy, he appeared blind to the puddles he left in his wake as I followed behind him mopping at his heels.

How about kicking the little eco-fascist out of your home? Who’s the adult here? She allowed her son to forgo the use of paper towels, heck, any towels, so, drippings from oranges (organic, locally grown, of course) to hit the floor, and her son would wipe his hands on his clothes and chairs and couches. So, she no longer buys oranges.

Darleen wonders where are all the men? No husband, no father to the kid around? Someone who “would have pulled this little asswipe aside and told him to knock-off the totalitarian nonsense or get knocked into next week — “Don’t ever, ever let me catch you treating your mom this way again.””

Mom was afraid to buy water bottles, worried that her crazy son would get arrested for his “activism”, had a battle over “peeponics” (you have to read it), battles over out of season asparagus, etc

It’s no surprise Cory feels the weight of the planet’s future on his shoulders. He answered the call from Raffi, the Lorax, and his grandmother. Now he is calling on me and my generation—Baby Boomers who thought we could fix the mess we helped create by doing little more than buying a Prius‚ to seriously examine the way we live.

As he goes off to college to learn how best to contribute to turning around climate change, I am proud of him, worried about him, and, in so many ways, I am going to miss him.

So, let me ask: how is this insufferable eco-prick getting to Brown? Walk or bike cross country? Or, a fossil fueled flight? Strange how everything else should be all local, except for the college he wants to attend ($47k a year). And the multiple trips back and forth each year.

Definitely 1st World Problems. It’s easy to be a Social Justice Warrior and eco-fascist till it interferes with your own life, eh?

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Surprise: Only 10% Think Iran Won’t Break Agreement

By William Teach September 14, 2015 – 9:05 am

Heck of a job there, Barry and John!

(CNN) President Barack Obama’s big policy win this week — preventing Congress from blocking the nuclear agreement with Iran — may do little to improve his sagging approval ratings.

Apparently, shutting down debate is a “big policy win”, as is making sure your party is on the hook for whatever Iran does. Let’s also make sure we thank Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his fecklessness.

A new CNN/ORC poll finds 59% disapprove of the way Obama is handling the U.S. relationship with Iran, and about half would have preferred Congress reject the deal. Few believe Iran will abide by its terms, and a growing number consider the country a serious threat to the U.S.

Most Americans think Iran will ultimately violate the terms of the agreement, with 37% calling that extremely likely and 23% saying very likely. Just 10% think it’s not at all likely that Iran would break the agreement. Republicans (83% likely) and independents (58% likely) are more apt to believe Iran would violate the agreement than are Democrats (44% likely).

Now, why would anyone possibly think Iran would break the agreement? Oh, right, Iran. Obama has 55% disapproval/42% approval rating on foreign affairs overall. And now that the Iran deal is supposedly a done deal, 49% see Iran as a “serious threat”. The last time we saw a number that high was back in 2012, with the number dropping. Only 11% see Iran as just a slight threat. Add that 33% see Iran as a “moderately serious threat”, and we have a heck of a meme! That #IranDeal is wonderful!

Russia is rising fast as a “very serious threat”. Reset button time!

Only 38% of Independents approve of the way Obama is handling Iran, and 37% of Democrats disapprove.

If Iran did violate the deal, 64% of all adults say the United States should respond with military action, including majorities across party lines (57% of Democrats, 64% of independents and 72% of Republicans). About a third, 34%, say the United States should not take military action if the deal is broken.

Sure, go ahead and invade the Sudetenland.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 13, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is changes to the human physiology due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Science, with a post on Antarctic temperature fraud.

This is Rachel Nichols week, due to the last season of Continuum having started Friday.

BTW, my favorite shows, excluding things on networks like Smithsonian, Cooking, Food, Travel, History, etc, are Continuum, Defiance (hoping for renewal), Killjoys, Dark Matter (last two renewed), Suits, and Graceland.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 13, 2015 – 9:51 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in America, with Halloween right around the corner…wait, it isn’t? Huh. Why all the stuff in stores? Anyhow, this is supposedly by Ted Withers, supposedly because is a bit different from his other stuff, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. No Frakking Consensus discusses climate rhetoric becoming threadbare
  2. Director Blue says McConnell and Corker should run for the hills after the first Iranian terror strike
  3. Vox Popoli says the ladies should relax and enjoy all the diversity of violent refugees
  4. This ain’t Hell… has a few Sunday morning feel good stories
  5. Wild Thing covers Carly! Fiorina discussing Trump’s non-presidential persona
  6. The Powers That Be features the Pantsuit Choir
  7. The Daley Gator notes the entirely predictable consequences of leftist economic intervention
  8. Public Secrets notes that 2015 is the new 1938
  9. Pamela Geller covers Yale establishing a Sharia law school
  10. Moonbattery wonders why there are so few women and children among the refugees invading Europe
  11. Legal Insurrection covers Hillary’s server not being wiped
  12. Jihad Watch provides an interesting Iranian quote on the deal
  13. House Of Eratosthenes discusses graft and equality
  14. Fire Andrea Mitchell notes how many Syrian “refugees” Democrats want to accept
  15. And last, but not least, Chicks On The Right highlights hipsters opinions on the Iran deal

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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NY Times: Climate Deniers Have “an intellectual stance that is uncomfortably close to Hitler’s”

By William Teach September 13, 2015 – 8:27 am

Have we finally reached Peak Warmist, where the Cult of Climastrology has utterly and completely jumped the shark? Well, now that you ask, no. In most other parts of life, the answer would be a resounding “yes”, but, we are talking about the CoC, and there will always be something nuttier and/or more offensive around the corner. Here’s Timothy Snyder in the Sunday Review

The Next Genocide

BEFORE he fired the shot, the Einsatzgruppe commander lifted the Jewish child in the air and said, “You must die so that we can live.” As the killing proceeded, other Germans rationalized the murder of Jewish children in the same way: them or us.

Today we think of the Nazi Final Solution as some dark apex of high technology. It was in fact the killing of human beings at close range during a war for resources. The war that brought Jews under German control was fought because Hitler believed that Germany needed more land and food to survive and maintain its standard of living — and that Jews, and their ideas, posed a threat to his violent expansionist program.

Two things. High technology? Not quite what I think of in the extermination of 6 million Jews, not too mention all the other groups slaughtered by Hitler and his minions. Nor do most people.

Second, resources? A very weird rewrite of history. Only in Warmist World would we get that disgusting and off-base (did I mention disgusting?) rationale, but, that’s because it is meant to fit into a Narrative

The Holocaust may seem a distant horror whose lessons have already been learned. But sadly, the anxieties of our own era could once again give rise to scapegoats and imagined enemies, while contemporary environmental stresses could encourage new variations on Hitler’s ideas, especially in countries anxious about feeding their growing populations or maintaining a rising standard of living.

This is all caused by “climate change”, of course!

The quest for German domination was premised on the denial of science. Hitler’s alternative to science was the idea of Lebensraum. Germany needed an Eastern European empire because only conquest, and not agricultural technology, offered the hope of feeding the German people. In Hitler’s “Second Book,” which was composed in 1928 and not published until after his death, he insisted that hunger would outstrip crop improvements and that all “the scientific methods of land management” had already failed.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, that does sure seem like notions that have been pushed for quite some time by wacko enviroweenies and the Cult of Climastrology, do they not?

Climate change threatens to provoke a new ecological panic. So far, poor people in Africa and the Middle East have borne the brunt of the suffering.

The mass murder of at least 500,000 Rwandans in 1994 followed a decline in agricultural production for several years before. Hutus killed Tutsis not only out of ethnic hatred, but to take their land, as many genocidaires later admitted.

Again, another rewrite of history, attempting to link it to climate change causing agricultural problems. The UN Human Rights Commission, along with everyone not bat guano insane, disagrees.

The risk is that a developed country able to project military power could, like Hitler’s Germany, fall into ecological panic, and take drastic steps to protect its existing standard of living.

Huh. If that happened, it would be Left wing Warmists taking those drastic steps.

And here we go

Hitler spread ecological panic by claiming that only land would bring Germany security and by denying the science that promised alternatives to war. By polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the United States has done more than any other nation to bring about the next ecological panic, yet it is the only country where climate science is still resisted by certain political and business elites. These deniers tend to present the empirical findings of scientists as a conspiracy and question the validity of science — an intellectual stance that is uncomfortably close to Hitler’s.

And there you have it: if you follow the Scientific Method, if you want scientists to be honest, if you want them to follow long established scientific principles, if you have a problem with falsified/adjusted data, if you want to see the raw data, well, hey, you are almost Hitler!

Even though Hitler shared most of the same views and political ideology as today’s Progressives.

Today we confront the same crucial choice between science and ideology that Germans once faced. Will we accept empirical evidence and support new energy technologies, or allow a wave of ecological panic to spread across the world?

Denying science imperils the future by summoning the ghosts of the past.

So, if you refuse to join the CoC, you’re the ghost of Hitler. This is all about shutting down debate, demonizing one’s opponents in the most horrific manner. Someone else did that back in the 1930’s and 1940’s. I wonder who?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 12, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous energy sucking stadium, which brings tens of thousands in fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on falling Ocare numbers.

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Bad News: GOP Plans To Attack Climate Change Pact

By William Teach September 12, 2015 – 12:19 pm

This should send shivers of defeat through the bodies of all Republicans

(Politico) Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive — including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office — to undermine President Barack Obama’s hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy.

The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama’s climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and challenging the legitimacy of the president’s attempts to craft a global agreement without submitting a treaty to the Senate.

A top policy aide to McConnell (R-Ky.) has had conversations with a select group of representatives from foreign embassies to make it clear that Republicans intend to fight Obama’s climate agenda at every turn, sources familiar with the efforts say.

This is the same McConnell who essentially surrendered to Obama on the Iran deal, rather than fighting on. This is the same McConnell who has consistently surrendered to Obama and the Democrats. I have zero confidence that he won’t do the same here.

McConnell himself warned foreign leaders last spring to “proceed with caution before entering into a binding, unattainable deal” with Obama, noting that “two-thirds of the U.S. federal government” — Congress and the Supreme Court — hasn’t signed off on the president’s plans.

McConnell has about the same credibility as Obama does on foreign policy: none. The majority of Americans are against the Iran deal, wanted the Senate to vote on it, and wanted the Senate to kill the deal. McConnell washed his hands of the whole affair. Why wouldn’t we think he would do the same with anything that comes out of the Paris “climate change” meetings?

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Reversed Science: Southern Seas Act As Big Carbon Sink Or Something

By William Teach September 12, 2015 – 7:32 am

Is this the latest excuse from the Cult of Climastrology? Or an acknowledgement that science can change when scientists do science things? Both?

Breathe in, breathe out, in, out… Like a giant lung, the Southern Ocean seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and releases it back later in the year. But on an annual average the seas surrounding Antarctica absorb significantly more CO2 than they release. Most importantly, these seas remove a large part of the CO2 that human activities emit into the atmosphere, thereby slowing down the growth of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, lessening the rate of climate change. Although the Southern Ocean represents no more than a quarter of the total surface of the world’s oceans, it accounts for 40 percent of the global oceanic uptake of that human-made CO2.

Well, that’s a heck of a thing

From the year 2005, however, scientists pointed out that the Southern Ocean carbon sink might have begun to “saturate.” Based on model results, they suggested that it had not increased since the late 1980s. This was unexpected as one had assumed that a direct relationship existed between the magnitude of the carbon sink and the concentration of atmospheric CO2: the higher the concentration of CO2 in the air, the greater the amount of CO2 absorbed by the sea.

Of course, we will soon be told that this will lead to total doom in one form or fashion. We’ll surely hear about how all the sea life WILL DIE as the Southern seas turn to battery acid from “carbon pollution.”

(Jo Nova) The Southern Ocean absorbs 40% of the global oceanic uptake in CO2. For most of the last ten years researchers thought it was weaker, or at “saturation” point and not able to absorb more CO2. Instead, it looks like it has been absorbing more again and by the year 2010 was back up to full power. This means there was a lot more natural variation than scientists (and their models) thought.The GCM’s are meant to be able to predict the oceans.

Back in 2007, New Scientist broadcast that the slowdown has “far reaching implications”, things were worse than the IPCC’s projections. Things were 20 years ahead of the IPCC’s schedule and it was “scary”. Instead the IPCC was 20 years behind real life, and the models were as bad as the skeptic projected. Will New Scientist tell the world?

No. No they won’t. And the 97% crowd won’t admit their mistakes, and that their computer models fail in the real world, either.

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Funny Story Of Day: Obama Wags Finger At Putin, Warns Against Russian Involvement In Syria

By William Teach September 12, 2015 – 7:10 am

Why not start Saturday off with a good chuckle?

(Fox News) President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday against doubling down on sending support for Syrian President Bashar Assad, casting recent buildup of Russian military equipment and personnel in Syria in an effort to help prop up the embattled leader.

“The strategy they’re pursuing right now of doubling down on Assad is a mistake,” Obama said during a town hall with U.S. military personnel.

I’m surprised we didn’t something about this being a 20th Century policy or something.

Russia denies it’s trying to build up Assad’s military and instead has claimed its increased military presence is part of an international effort to help defeat the Islamic State. Russian Foreign Miniser Sergey Lavrov called on world powers to join Russia in that pursuit, arguing that Syria’s army is the most efficient force to fight extremists in the Middle East.

You cannot defeat Islamic State with air strikes only,” Lavrov said, a clear dig at the White House’s strategy. “It’s necessary to cooperate with ground troops and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the IS.”

We all know that is somewhat BS, that this is all about supporting Assad, but, if the US and NATO allies were fighting ISIS more strongly, Russia would have no excuse. Had Obama and SoS Hillary Clinton took the side of those trying to push out Assad during the Arab Spring, rather than referring to Assad as a “reformer”, things might have been different.

Furthermore, Russia has invited the US to join them in cooperation, to make sure that there are no unintended military incidents, which, sadly, totally punks Obama and current SoS John Kerry.

Diplomats in Moscow say the Kremlin is happy for the West to believe it is building up its military in Syria, calculating that this will give it more bargaining power in any peace talks.

That’s what Reuters calls “bargaining power”. After all Russia has witness under the witless Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy, they may have it.

Obama can wag his finger and yammer all he wants: Russia, like most nations, sees weakness. They saw red lines set, then Obama doing nothing but attempting to shift the burden over to Congress. They see the weakness of the Iran deal. They saw weakness when Russia invaded Ukraine. They saw weakness when Obama refused the missile system in Poland. They see “leading from behind”. The list goes on an on. Any finger wagging was surely met with laughter in Russia and Syria. Which is bad for the United States, which has been weakened tremendously under Obama/Clinton/Kerry.

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“This Map Shows Who Owes the Most for Burning All That Coal” Or Something

By William Teach September 11, 2015 – 4:49 pm

Good news: Warmists now know exactly what they need to pay for their carbon sins

This Map Shows Who Owes the Most for Burning All That Coal

When it comes to climate change, humans can rightfully claim responsibility for most of the warming the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution.

But should all people be equally responsible for the damage done?

Not according to Concordia University researcher Damon Matthews, who calculated which countries contribute the most to climate change and which nations emit the least but nonetheless are paying the price of global warming.

Live in Australia or the United States? You owe $10,000 to $12,000 for your carbon sins. Hail from India or Brazil? You’ve got about $2,000 worth of climate credit coming your way.

Of course, what this is really about is finding a way to have countries tax citizens and redistribute the money to other nations, rather than telling Warmists they need to reduce their own evil carbon pollution footprints. It’s all about the politics and cash.

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