Earth Hour: Do Nothing And Feel Good About It

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 7:15 pm

Alas, that’s not me writing it, but, rather, Katie Herzog at Grist

Earth Hour: Do almost nothing and feel great about it

It’s that time of year again: On Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 p.m. local time, each and every one of us are called upon to do our part, to sacrifice for the planet, to raise awareness about climate change by turning off our lights for ONE ENTIRE HOUR. It’s time … for EARTH HOUR.

Literally doing virtually nothing, just like the other 8764 hours. It’s just that for this one hour, Cult Of Climastrology members can feel good, instead of their daily angst about their massive carbon footprints, driving a fossil fueled vehicle, the failure of government to force Other People to comply.

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Mississippi Dems Find Creative Way To Complain About School Vouchers For Special Needs Kids

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 1:54 pm

Mississippi is looking to help out kids with special needs

(Fox News) Parents with special-needs kids in Mississippi could soon use taxpayer dollars to send them to faith-based schools, under a new bill approved by the state Legislature on Thursday.

The legislation would allow parents with disabled children to take them out of public school and put them into a religious academic institution, with the help of government vouchers. The bill, which already passed the House, cleared the Senate on Thursday and now heads to Gov. Phil Bryant — who is expected to sign it.

Mississippi Department of Education spokesperson Patrice Guilfoyle said there are more than 66,000 students identified with disabilities in Mississippi, ranging from ages 3-21, as of November 2014.

The bill provides vouchers worth about $6,000 for 500 students per year,for five years. The graduation rate for special-needs students in the state is about 23 percent — compared with nearly 75 percent for students without special needs.

Who could possibly be against giving special needs kids a chance in a learning environment that would benefit them greatly?

Critics, however, say Senate Bill 2695 — The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act — is unconstitutional because it conflicts with the separation between church and state.

“I personally don’t think it’s constitutional,” said Mississippi state Rep. Jeramey Anderson, a Democrat. “You’re taking public money and putting it into the hands of citizens. You’re really allowing private schools to dip into a public fund.”

The National Education Association –which is the largest labor union in the country with nearly 3,000,000 members– is against school voucher programs because they “tend to be a means of circumventing the Constitutional prohibitions against subsidizing religious practice and instruction,” according to their website.

How cute. A bunch of mularky, but cute. Liberals will invent any excuse to keep the power within their liberal education system, even to the detriment of children.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful field that would be perfect for a giant solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the death of free speech, decency, and common sense.

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“Climate Change” Is Totally Immoral, Says Head Of US Episcopal Church

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 10:16 am

Here we go again (via Twitchy)

Lying to people about “climate change” is against the 10 Commandments: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”. This goes to Proverbs 6:16-19

There are six things that the LORD strongly dislikes, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

The Bible says quite a bit more about lying.

(UK Guardian The highest ranking woman in the Anglican communion has said climate denial is a “blind” and immoral position which rejects God’s gift of knowledge.

Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church and one of the most powerful women in Christianity, said that climate change was a moral imperative akin to that of the civil rights movement. She said it was already a threat to the livelihoods and survival of people in the developing world.

“It is in that sense much like the civil rights movement in this country where we are attending to the rights of all people and the rights of the earth to continue to be a flourishing place,” Bishop Jefferts Schori said in an interview with the Guardian. “It is certainly a moral issue in terms of the impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable around the world already.”

In the same context, Jefferts Schori attached moral implications to climate denial, suggesting those who reject the underlying science of climate change were turning their backs on God’s gift of knowledge.)

Perhaps she should spend more time teaching the Bible, rather than politics. And, you know I despise religion getting suckered in to the “climate change” movement, forgoing their actual religion for the Cult of Climastrology. There are actually several posts that I’ve never gotten around to posting in the hopper.

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U.S. Caves To Iran On Nuclear Demands

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 7:16 am

Surprise?

(Washington Free Beacon) The Obama administration is giving in to Iranian demands about the scope of its nuclear program as negotiators work to finalize a framework agreement in the coming days, according to sources familiar with the administration’s position in the negotiations.

U.S. negotiators are said to have given up ground on demands that Iran be forced to disclose the full range of its nuclear activities at the outset of a nuclear deal, a concession experts say would gut the verification the Obama administration has vowed would stand as the crux of a deal with Iran.

Until recently, the Obama administration had maintained that it would guarantee oversight on Tehran’s program well into the future, and that it would take the necessary steps to ensure that oversight would be effective. The issue has now emerged as a key sticking point in the talks.

Concern from sources familiar with U.S. concessions in the talks comes amid reports that Iran could be permitted to continue running nuclear centrifuges at an underground site once suspected of housing illicit activities.

This is what we end up with (though the AP would later scrub the nuclear part)

(AP) The United States is considering letting Tehran run hundreds of centrifuges at a once-secret, fortified underground bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites, officials have told The Associated Press.

The trade-off would allow Iran to run several hundred of the devices at its Fordo facility, although the Iranians would not be allowed to do work that could lead to an atomic bomb and the site would be subject to international inspections, according to Western officials familiar with details of negotiations now underway. In return, Iran would be required to scale back the number of centrifuges it runs at its Natanz facility and accept other restrictions on nuclear-related work.

And we all know that Iran has been oh so trustworthy, and we can trust them to stick to the terms of the agreement, right? Here’s where this horror show of terrible foreign policy, designed to say “we got a deal!!!!!” no matter what it is, takes a strange turn

(Reuters) In a rare direct exchange between Paris and Tehran, French President Francois Hollande said Iran had a right to civilian nuclear power but insisted on a “lasting, robust and verifiable Iranian nuclear program that guarantees Iran will not get an atomic weapon”, a statement from the French presidency said.

Last week officials close to the negotiations said France was demanding more stringent conditions than its Western allies for any future agreement.

It’s rather sad that France seems to recognize the threat, and is demanding tougher terms, than the U.S., eh?

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Does Scott Walker Support A Pathway To Citizenship?

By William Teach March 27, 2015 – 6:59 am

Scott Walker, like most politicians (and, really, most people), has his good points and bad points vis a vis political beliefs. As Allahpundit notes, he’s pretty much always been an amnesty shill, so it would be rather difficult for him to “shift his stance”, at least his true one, as the Wall Street Journal writes, as Walker goes down the road of Establishment Republican amnesty belief

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a private dinner of New Hampshire Republicans this month that he backed the idea of allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the country and to eventually become eligible for citizenship, a position at odds with his previous public statements on the matter…

But during the March 13 New Hampshire dinner, organized by New Hampshire Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Horn at the Copper Door Restaurant in Bedford, Mr. Walker said undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be deported, and he mocked 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s suggestion that they would “self-deport,” according to people who were there…

“He said no to citizenship now, but later they could get it,” said Bill Greiner, an owner of the Copper Door restaurant. Ken Merrifield, mayor of Franklin, N.H., who also attended, said Mr. Walker proposed that illegal immigrants should “get to the back of the line for citizenship” but not be deported.

Dan Riehl notes

Given the history here, it may now be impossible to know precisely where Walker stands, with supporters left to assume the worst — that he’s just another open borders Republican — becoming the default across the conservative grassroots whose support he needs to win.

Team Walker put out a statement, though

“We strongly dispute this account. Governor Walker has been very clear that he does not support amnesty and believes that border security must be established and the rule of law must be followed. His position has not changed, he does not support citizenship for illegal immigrants, and this story line is false,” she announced in an email to journalists Thursday afternoon.

Team Walker might want to consider sending that email to leading Conservative bloggers and news outlets, the people who can make or break Walker during the primaries.

The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin, a big Establishment Republican herself, continues on

There are three aspects to this flap. First, Walker would do well to spell out what he is for, not simply what he is against. He said that this president’s conduct changed his mind on the issue. How it changed and what he now believes are topics he should address forthrightly. Second, he should be wary of chasing voters drawn to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) who inveigh against immigration and toss around economically suspect claims. Walker remains a figure who can unify the party and appeal to non-Republicans in a general election. There is no need to marginalize himself as Mitt Romney did went he introduced “self-deportation” to the 2012 presidential race. Third, for all the huffing and puffing about Bush, immigration reform critics ignore the similarities among the views of Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), former Texas governor Rick Perry and others who emphasize border security first. None of them favor “open borders” or “amnesty.” Rubio, for example, favors border security and measures to counter visa overstay and then an arduous road to citizenship for those here illegally (with fines, payment of back taxes, etc.) and repair of our legal immigration system. It’s not going to please the talk radio show anti-immigration crowd, but let’s remember that they are not representative of the GOP electorate as a whole. Whatever route Walker chooses, he should be clear and unapologetic.

Very much the Establishment POV, though Walker would do well to spell out his actual policy prescriptions. As for the other points, those have been discussed to death, but let’s note that the Establishment immigration plan tends to be smoke and mirrors, allowing legalization without really securing the border, nor making the illegals go down any “arduous road”. The Difference between Democrats and Establishment Republicans is simply in talking points, not end results.

Let me just note once again: deporting the tens of millions of illegals is not impossible, but extremely difficult. And there may just be some who actually want to be part of the American dream. Secure the border, and institute significant civil and criminal penalties on those who hire illegals without doing their due diligence. Make those who provide jobs for visa holders, as well as colleges that accept foreigners, in charge of keeping track of immigration status. Those who want to stay should show they can speak English and have value to America. No social safety net programs for any of them. Period. Let them wait in line like all those who’ve done it the right way. Create conditions where illegals will no longer jump the border nor overstay their visas.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Ted Cruz Must Read Pirate’s Cove On “Climate Change”

By William Teach March 26, 2015 – 4:11 pm

No, really. Or, perhaps on Twitter. Because, really, almost no blogging Skeptics that I’ve seen bring up the line at the end

(Washington Post)  In an interview with The Texas Tribune, Cruz talked about climate change. Specifically, he said this, as transcribed by the Huffington Post’s Kate Sheppard:

On the global warming alarmists, anyone who actually points to the evidence that disproves their apocalyptical claims, they don’t engage in reasoned debate. What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

That line about “flat-Earthers” has sent Warmists into apoplexy, apparent at the Washington Post, the Huffington Post linke, Joe Romm’s George Soros funded Climate Progress, MSNBC, and so many more.

If you look at global warming alarmists, they don’t like to look at the actual facts and the data. The satellite data demonstrate that there has been no significant warming whatsoever for 17 years. Now that’s a real problem for the global warming alarmists. Because all those computer models on which this whole issue is based predicted significant warming, and yet the satellite data show it ain’t happening.

I read this morning a Newsweek article from the 1970s talking about global cooling. And it said the science is clear, it is overwhelming, we are in a major cooling period, and it’s going to cause enormous problems worldwide. … Now, the data proved to be not backing up that theory. So then all the advocates of global cooling suddenly shifted to global warming, and they advocated it’s warming, and the solution interestingly enough was the exact same solution — government control of the energy sector and every aspect of our lives.

Now, how many times have you seen me write something similar, usually along the lines of “Warmists want the Central government to have control over our lives, our private entities, and the economy”? Thanks for reading PC, Ted. A shout out would be nice. 

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 26, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bike which Everyone Else should be forced to use rather than carbon pollution vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Israel Matzav, with a post on Obama’s revenge against Israel continuing.

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Hillary Supporters Give Marching Orders To Media On What Language Is “Sexist”

By William Teach March 26, 2015 – 10:57 am

You can bet the majority of the media will listen

(Daily Caller)  Do you work in the media and have the gall to think that the entire Webster’s dictionary is at your disposal? Think again, you sexist.

When it comes to reporting on Hillary Clinton, George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” have turned into “Twelve Words You Can Never Say About a Powerful Politician.”

“We will be watching, reading, listening and protesting coded sexism,” the pro-Hillary group HRC Super Volunteers warned The New York Times’ Amy Chozick Wednesday.

The words/phrase are:

https://twitter.com/amychozick/status/580822978331561985

https://twitter.com/amychozick/status/580823323677978624

Secretive is cute, considering her email scandal.

Her next tweet is

https://twitter.com/amychozick/status/580823990090014720

The liberal left, Progressives, who Jonah Goldberg referred to as “nice fascists”, have two main weapons in their arsenal: fear and shame. They start with shame, and they make sure that shame is public. And the shaming will continue to escalate. They balance this with risk/reward. The risk is that they will continue to come after you, will attempt to destroy your personal and work life, which creates fear. The reward is that you might get a pat on the head for staying with Approved Progressive Doctrine, but the fear is always hiding around the corner. Because it doesn’t matter if your were right: there are no apologies in Liberal World, and you are always on notice. Shame is a powerful motivator, especially when backed by Fear.

In this case, they are attempting to shame Ms. Chozick, who they know will share the information (and I’d bet quite a few other reporters and media outlets received the same email), into compliance, using fear as their backstop. There’s a saying that “he who controls the language controls the debate”. There’s another that goes “he who controls the language controls the masses.” That’s Saul Alinsky. Language is controlled to elicit shame and fear, whether it be racism, Islamophia, you name it. In this case, dog whistle language for “sexism.” Because Hillary Must Not Be Questioned.

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Pirate’s Cove Makes Newsmax Top 50 Blogs

By William Teach March 26, 2015 – 8:17 am

Along with some good blog friends, thanks to Theodore Kettle

Newsmax’s Top 50 Conservative Blogs of 2015

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Conservative blogs have electrified our 223-year old First Amendment like nothing the Founding Fathers could ever have foreseen. Here are the top 50 conservative blogs:

27. Pirate’s Cove – Blogmeister “William Teach” uses pinup photos to lure readers in, and there’s no shortage of amusement here, like his long “Things I do not understand” list, beginning with “Women” and “Putting a turn signal on after using the brakes.” But it’s mostly daily doses of concerned commentary about government mischief, especially on global warming. Teach recently made fun of Al Roker telling Larry King, “You can’t point to any one event” after blaming “climate change” for Boston’s recent mega-blizzard. Warmists use every occasion to say “Mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the changes, all while refusing to give up their big ‘carbon footprints,’” Teach complains.

Also include are Sister Toldjah, Fausta’s Blog, House of Eratosthenes, Protein Wisdom, Maggie’s Farm, Jihad Watch, Legal Insurrection, The Other McCain, The Jawa Report, sites I frequently link to, along with many others. Unsurprisingly, Instapundit is #1.

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