Things Named After Robert Byrd Are Instruments Of Racial Terror

By William Teach July 25, 2015 – 7:36 am

And this is all thanks to Democrats. So says the Brent Staples in a NY Times op-ed

Confederate Memorials as Instruments of Racial Terror

The Confederate-flag-waving white supremacist charged with murdering nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church in June demolished the fiction that the flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern pride.” This barbaric act made it impossible for politicians to hide from the fact that the Confederate banner has been a rallying symbol embraced by racists, night riders and white supremacy groups dating back to the 19th century.

This long-denied truth applies as well to Confederate memorials that occupy public space all over the South. Most were erected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the Southern states were eagerly dismantling the rights and liberties that African-Americans had enjoyed just after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. These states unleashed a racialized reign of terror and shored up white supremacy by rewriting their Constitutions to disqualify African-Americans from full citizenship.

Interestingly, there have been few complaints about these monuments and such over the previous decades. Most just choose to ignore them. Heck, most probably did not even notice them. Double heck, thanks to our wonderful public education system, most probably had no idea who the people were. But, hey, terrifying! Dead people as well as symbols from a movement long defeated, one which was backed and run mostly by members of the Democratic Party.

Why is there no concern over the racial overtones in the name “Democratic Party”, a political party based on systematized racism?

Not all monuments warrant that kind of challenge. But those honoring the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest deserve the backlash they have generated. Forrest presided over the 1864 massacre of Union soldiers, many of them black, at Fort Pillow in Tennessee. He was also a prominent slave trader and served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Apologists argue that his involvement with the Klan was unimportant because he later adopted more enlightened views. But as the Forrest biographer Jack Hurst writes, by lending his name to the K.K.K. even temporarily, the general accelerated its development. “As the Klan’s first national leader,” Mr. Hurst writes, “he became the Lost Cause’s avenging angel, galvanizing a loose collection of boyish secret social clubs into a reactionary instrument of terror still feared today.”

Interesting. Sounds rather similar to Robert Byrd, a high ranking member in and recruiter for the KKK, who voted numerous times against civil rights legislation, and made many, many racist pronouncements, eh? Is it not high time to remove his terrifying name from all the buildings that bear his name? Should his name be on several federal buildings? On roads and bridges? Does his name not cause terror to those whose ancestors bore the brunt of slavery and racial segregation? Those who suffered under the brutal hand of the KKK? No, this is not being sarcastic or hyperbolic. The man was a racist and high ranking member of the KKK, who recruited people to join the KKK. And was fully embraced by the Democratic Party. Both should be expunged. If statues and monuments to people long dead are terrifying, so should be anything linked to the Democratic Party and Robert Byrd.

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The Link Between Climate Change And ISIS Is Totes Real, You Guys!

By William Teach July 24, 2015 – 5:03 pm

Obviously, there is zero link between the rise of ISIS and Islam. Because that would be silly

(Think Progress) Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley linked climate change to the rise of ISIS earlier this week. Conservatives pounced. Score this round for O’Malley.

For three years now, leading security and climate experts — and Syrians themselves — have made the connection between climate change and the Syrian civil war. Indeed, when a major peer-reviewed study came out on in March making this very case, Retired Navy Rear Admiral David Titley said it identifies “a pretty convincing climate fingerprint” for the Syrian drought.

That last part should make John happy.

Anyhow, nowhere within the the long, boring, repetitive article do they even mention the word Islam, except as part of ISIS’s name.

Nor do they recommend that Warmists stop using so much fossil fuel and go carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

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

…is a sea rising from evil carbon pollution, like from beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on the far screwing reach of Dodd-Frank.

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Bummer: Arctic Climate Expedition Blocked By Heavy Ice

By William Teach July 24, 2015 – 10:42 am

So sad….oh, wait, right, heavy ice is now also caused by man-induced climate change (via Newsbusters)

(CBC) A carefully planned, 115-day scientific expedition on board the floating research vessel, the CCGS Amundsen, has been derailed as the icebreaker was called to help resupply ships navigate heavy ice in Hudson Bay.

“Obviously it has a large impact on us,” says Martin Fortier, executive director of ArcticNet, which coordinates research on the vessel. “It’s a frustrating situation.”

During the summer, the Amundsen operates as a floating research centre with experiments running 24 hours a day. This year it was scheduled to reach North Baffin Bay.

But the icebreaker has been rerouted to escort commercial ships en route to resupply communities in Northern Quebec on the eastern side of Hudson Bay.

Johnny Leclair, assistant commissioner for the Coast Guard, said Tuesday conditions in the area are the worst he’s seen in 20 years.

As Newsbusters P.J. Gladnick points out that the article forgot to actually point out what said expedition was about, because, you know, that would be rather embarrassing

So exactly WHAT was the purpose of that 115-day scientific expedition in which the CCGS Amundsen was supposed to act as research vessel? CBC News is apparently too embarrassed to tell us so let us check in with Kossack MarineChemist, the screen name of Jay T. Cullen who when not posting on that far left site is Associate Professor of marine chemistry at the University of Victoria in British Columbia:

From July 10 to August 20 I will be aboard the CCGS Amundsen working with a group of scientists to better understand how climate change in the Arctic is affecting important physical, biological and chemical processes and conditions in the marine environment.

…From time to time I will update on our progress and share a little about life and work on a science icebreaker.

Oops.

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Man Surrounded By People Carrying Guns Bummed He Can’t Take Guns Away From Law Abiding Citizens

By William Teach July 24, 2015 – 7:41 am

It’s his biggest frustration

Obama admits US gun laws are his ‘biggest frustration

President Barack Obama has admitted that his failure to pass “common sense gun safety laws” in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said it was “distressing” not to have made progress on the issue “even in the face of repeated mass killings”.

He vowed to keep trying, but the BBC’s North America editor Jon Sopel said the president did not sound very confident.

His problem is that the legislation he wants would mostly restrict law abiding citizens from purchasing guns. It would really not make a dent in the number of people who have guns illegally and use them. He, like other Democrats, wants to deny citizens the use of firearms for protection, even as he surrounds himself with a large number of armed people for his protection.

Most of the legislative proposals from Obama and Democrats will simply harm the law abiding citizens who purchase firearms, and wouldn’t affect the criminal elements running around the streets of liberal cities in the least.

However, Mr Obama said race relations had improved during his presidency.

Except, most polls, including a just released poll, say the opposite.

But with just 18 months left in power, he said gun control was the area where he has been “most frustrated and most stymied” since coming to power in 2009.

“If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands,” Mr Obama said.

By percentage, the major portion occurs in Democrat cities, and amongst the Black population. Murder and firing a gun at another person is already illegal. Will these criminals suddenly decide to follow the law? Of course not. But, Dem gun control pushes would disarm the people who need the guns for protection from the rampant criminality in Liberal cities.

Of course, Obama doesn’t seem too concerned with the tens of thousands of criminal illegal aliens that ICE has released back on to the streets, rather than deporting them. He wasn’t concerned enough to pick up the phone to call the family of Kathryn Steinle, killed by an illegal alien with an illegal gun. Nor is he concerned about Iran getting nuclear weapons at the end of his short term deal. Nor Iran increasing it’s support for terrorists once it becomes flush with cash from the removal of sanctions.

Hey, remember how Obama became so upset after Operation Fast And Furious came to light, where people who work for him ran guns into Mexico, lost track of them, never bothered informing the Mexican government, and hundreds have been killed and wounded, including children? Oh, right, he was upset that Republicans wanted F&F investigated, and did all he could to stonewall investigations.

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Democrats Remove Jefferson, Jackson From Fundraising Name

By William Teach July 24, 2015 – 6:54 am

This is how silly Democrats are getting….yes, I know, Democrats are always silly

(ctpost) Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are history in Connecticut.

Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.

Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night in Hartford to rename the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting of nine worshipers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.

The decision is believed to be unprecedented and could prompt Democrats in other states with similarly named events to follow suit.

No word if Democrats are going to demand that everything that bears the name of Robert Byrd, a Democratic icon who was a high ranking member in the KKK, be changed.

Balletto said blacks and Native Americans are a major constituency of the Democratic Party.

“When something offends someone, it’s beyond being politically correct,” Balletto said.

“It just causes a need for change.”

When will Democrats change the name of their political Party? It’s offensive. It is steeped in a history of racism, segregation, the KKK, bigotry, and Jim Crow. It’s a party that likes to keep blacks in modern day plantations of despair, like Detroit, Baltimore, and Birmingham, all while patronizing them, treating them simply as a voting block rather than people, and thinking that Blacks are “theirs”. Democrats need to change their name.

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Salon Offers “Terrifying” News On Sea Rise

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 4:35 pm

No, really. This is a bit of a follow up to the previous post on sea rise. Which is terrifying!

The scientist who put global warming on the map has terrifying news about sea level rise
A new study from James Hansen warns we could see up to 10 feet of sea level rise by the end of this century

Terrifying!!!!!!! Of course, if you search that word, it returns 296,000 hits. There are two posts on the front page, including this one, that have “terrifying” in the headline, and a 3rd in the sidebar. Everything is terrifying in Salon World. Or equally bombastic. Especially when it comes to Hotcoldwetdry.

If the world fails to get its act together and commit to severe cuts in greenhouse gas emissions — enough to limit global warming to the agreed-upon and, some say,doomed to fail,target of 2 degrees Celsius — we could be looking at sea level rise on the order of 10 feet by the end of this century.

That’s the frankly terrifying assessment put forth in a new paper from a team of 17 leading climate researchers published Monday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. By taking into account feedback loops that could cause the polar ice sheets to melt more quickly than anticipated, it goes much further than previous studies: the admittedly conservative IPCC report, for example, anticipated that we’d see about 3 feet by 2100. That alone would be a potential catastrophe for coastal cities and island nations.

Wait, I thought it was 20 feet? The same writer, Lindsay Abrams, just told us it was going to be 20 feet. Oh, OK, she’s prognosticating even more centuries out. At least she didn’t call it terrifying. Just other words like “doomed” and “apocalyptic”.

Yet, for all the hyper-ventilating, Warmists like Lindsay will pretty much refuse to give up fossil fuels and their own big carbon footprint, not advise other Cult of Climastrology members to do the same.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution infused beer causing desertification, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Capitalism Is Freedom, with a post on hipsters running around having sex in public, ruining summer vacations spots.

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Cult Of Climastrology Predicts 10 Feet Of Sea Rise In 50 Years

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 10:18 am

Doooooom!

Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
Could the oceans really rise 10 feet in the next 50 years?

In what may prove to be a turning point for political action on climate change, a breathtaking new study casts extreme doubt about the near-term stability of global sea levels.

The study—written by James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, and 16 co-authors, many of whom are considered among the top in their fields—concludes that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will melt 10 times faster than previous consensus estimates, resulting in sea level rise of at least 10 feet in as little as 50 years. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, brings new importance to a feedback loop in the ocean near Antarctica that results in cooler freshwater from melting glaciers forcing warmer, saltier water underneath the ice sheets, speeding up the melting rate. Hansen, who is known for being alarmist and also right, acknowledges that his study implies change far beyond previous consensus estimates. In a conference call with reporters, he said he hoped the new findings would be “substantially more persuasive than anything previously published.” I certainly find them to be.

Two points. First, this is all about scaring politicians and those who really don’t pay attention beyond the superficial to Do Something. Second, if this came to pass, it would in no way prove anthropogenic causation. Because it has happened before.

Actually, there’s a third. This is beyond nutty. Even during much warmer Holocene warm periods the sea rise was less. All we saw during the 20th Century was 7 inches. To think that there will be well over twenty times this amount in the next 50 years is bat-guano insane. And plain scare-mongering.

And only a portion of Antarctica is actually melting, and Science says that it is primarily from underneath the ice, from the Earth’s natural heat, mainly volcanic activity.

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Democrats Want Planned Parent Investigation…Of Group Who Shot Videos

By William Teach July 23, 2015 – 8:08 am

Anything to protect the Democratic sacrament of abortion on demand

(The Hill) Several House Democrats are calling for a federal investigation into the anti-abortion group targeting Planned Parenthood with dozens of hours of hidden camera footage.

A group of Democrats, led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), sent a letter Wednesday to the Department of Justice arguing the undercover videos from The Center for Medical Progress may have broken federal and state laws.

The Center for Medical Progress, which is going after Planned Parenthood because of its abortion services, created a fake company to gain access to its facilities and meetings with its high-level officials. (snip)

“This elaborate scheme raises serious questions about whether any federal or state laws were violated in securing the LLC or the personal identification that were part of its execution,” the Democrats wrote to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Additionally, the Democrats said the secretly recorded video may be illegal under California law, as it was filmed without the consent of the Planned Parenthood doctor.

The letter was also signed by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.).

This is what’s important in Liberal World: going after those who uncover wrongdoing by abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

David Daleiden, executive director of Center for Medical Progress, accused the Democrats of trying to distract from the videos.

“They will attack me and my organization all day long, but that does not change the facts about what our investigation has uncovered and what the American people now know — that Planned Parenthood is engaged in an enterprise-wide operation that traffics and sells baby body parts,” he wrote in a statement.

Democrats are working hard to lie, obfuscate, and distract from this issue. Jim Treacher notes

The Democrats can’t make the Planned Parenthood disaster go away. They can’t rebut the facts. They can’t convince people that the evidence of their own senses is a hoax. So they’re trying to use their political power to protect their investment and maintain their control.

Hey, they have the NY Times available to whitewash just how bad this is.

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