If All You See…

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

…is a horrible sea that will rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on another strategy to fight Obama’s amnesty.

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Lilly White Starbucks Serving Up Discussion On Raaaaacism With Coffee

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 10:11 am

When I think of Starbucks, I think of stores that are about as diverse as the NY Times Editorial Board, Organizing For America, and all manners of typical liberal groups. In other words, not much

(Washington Post) In partnership with USA Today, Starbucks has launched a week-long campaign under the banner “Race Together” to get staff and customers talking about race. In a video message, Schultz urges “partners” to write the phrase on their paper cups “to facilitate a conversation between you and our customers.” A USA Today supplement, set to be published March 20, includes a number of “conversation starters,” including the fill-in-the-blank question: “In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.”

The idea for “Race Together” apparently came from employee forums Schultz launched last December. The first was impromptu, inspired by the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the conversations about racial inequality that surrounded them. It went so well, Schultz said, that the company organized similar events in five other cities.

“At the end of every open forum partners have come up to me and said ‘We must do more,’” Schultz said in his video. “… The fact that you have asked me, encouraged me, is why I have so much faith that this is the right decision for our company.”

I know Glenn Beck was talking about this on the radio (I saw the story earlier in the AM), telling people to go in to the stores. I’d suggest you ask why there are so few Starbucks in Black urban areas. But, hey, nothing like a discussion of race inside a lilly white coffee shop, eh? And getting nagged. No biggee for me, I stopped going to Starbucks and other premium coffee shops years ago, realizing how much money I was pissing away.

The Washington Post provides a few tweets for context

https://twitter.com/NewaHailu/status/577718920448086016

https://twitter.com/vidalwuu/status/577731504501055488

But, let’s remember that Starbucks is a private company, and can do what they want. They’ve already alienated legal gun owners and those who support traditional marriage. Of course, if Starbucks really wanted to talk about race they’d move their corporate headquarters from one of the Whitest cities in America to someplace like Detroit, Birmingham, or Baltimore. Or, hey, how about Ferguson!

Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection: Schultz’s efforts seem noble, but might be viewed as more legitimate were his reasons for entering the contentious race arena not predicated on blatant falsehoods and astroturfed race hustling.

Stephen Kruiser: They’re ruining sports for me. Now they’re ruining coffee. If Archer does a “very special episode” about global warming, I’m outta here.

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NC Fracking Rules Take Effect Today, State Doesn’t Explode

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 9:41 am

People who want to push their narrow and rigid cultish dogma and force Other People to pay more for energy protect the environment are Very Concerned

(Fayetteville Observer)  Rules governing the hydraulic fracturing method for drilling natural gas are expected to take effect today, creating the potential for drilling to start later in the year.

The set of 120 rules that govern issues including well construction, water testing and buffer zones was developed by the state Mining and Energy Commission over nearly two years and approved in December by a separate state panel.

With the fracking rules in place, companies interested in finding natural gas can begin applying for fracking permits. A member of the Mining and Energy Commission, James Womack, said a company interested in fracking would first have to acquire the mineral rights for several hundred acres to create what’s known as a drilling unit. (snip)

Opponents include the Southern Environmental Law Center, which filed a lawsuit arguing that the formation of the Mining and Energy Commission violated the state constitution. A panel of judges hasn’t been selected yet to hear the case, said Mary Maclean Asbill, one of the center’s lawyers.

“We hope that permits will not issue any time soon, as many of the rules are not protective of the environment or human health in North Carolina,” she said.

Well, as a Raleigh, NC resident, I can positively state that the land has not exploded, the rivers are not on fire, and everything is fine.

Funny that the SELC hasn’t filed suit against Obama and the EPA for their unconstitutional over-reaches, eh? It’s also funny that the nations with the most energy tend to have the best lives.

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Good News: Obama’s “Amnesty” Could Cost Up To $484 Million A Year

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 8:13 am

All to make sure that people who broke federal law, either by coming to the country illegally or overstaying their visas, can take jobs from Americans, soak up our “safety net” programs, and keep wages low, among others

(CNS News) If President Barack Obama’s immigration plan gets past a federal court injunction, and if 60 percent of illegals apply for deferred action protection under the plan, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency projects that it may have to hire an additional 3,100 employees, with a total program cost of up to $484 million a year.

I know, I know, Democrats/Liberals will proclaim that $484 million is a pittance, when compared to the federal budget. I know, I know, that is an absurd rationalization, especially considering that they say that people who make $250000 a year or more are “rich”.

In a detailed response to questions from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee about the cost of processing the illegals at a newly rented facility in Arlington, Va., the USCIS said “planning was based on the assumption that 60 percent of all individuals who may be considered for DACA or DAPA would elect to file a request.” (See Responses to Questions from Grassley-Johnson-Sessions 02.26.15 (3).pdf)

“Should that initial planning estimate hold true and the injunction were lifted, USCIS might ultimately need to increase its hiring plan up to a total of 3,100 new employees at an annual cost of $184.3 million, and total program costs of between $324 and $484 million per year,” said the agency in its response to Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).

All to help people who shouldn’t be in the country in the first place, and many do not seem like they actually want to be a part of America. Instead, they want to tell America to change to accommodate the illegals. It would cost almost nothing to pass a law that makes it a heavy criminal act, with jail time and heavy fines, to any company that knowingly hires illegals. That allows them to rent apartments and homes. That allows them to attend college. Stop all incentives to illegals (border jumpers and visa overstayers). Increase work visas, and make companies responsible for providing healthcare. Make all hiring companies and colleges responsible for keeping track of immigration status, under penalty of law. These are the things that happen in most other countries, including Mexico.

Of course, this being government, the reality of the cost will surely be much more than the high end of $484 million.

Blacks in poor communities, who support the Democrats at a 90% plus rate at the polls, should remember that the amnesty push is going to hurt them more. All to legalize people who were exported from their native countries, who tend to be the poorest, least educated, and most disgruntled.

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Obama Tells Young People They Should Worry Less About Marijuana Decriminalization

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 7:53 am

They should worry more about “climate change”, and things over which the Obama administration has shown their utter lack of competence

(Breitbart) President Obama discussed the legalization of marijuana during an interview with VICE News, but lectured young people, suggesting that they should be more worried about other problems in the world.

VICE CEO Shane Smith noted during the interview that if Obama legalized marijuana it would be the “biggest part of your legacy.”

“Well first of all, it shouldn’t be young people’s biggest priority,” Obama said sternly. “Let’s put it in perspective. Young people, I understand this is important to you but you should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace.”

“Maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana,” he said.

I find myself in agreement with Obama on this. Those are issues young people should be concerned with more than marijuana legalization. They should worry about being duped by the Cult of Climastrology (CoC), which looks to lower the standard of living for Everyone Else, while increasing government confiscation of money (taxation, fees) and control of individual lives and private entities. They should worry about being told that they must go to college, rack up lots of debt, and graduate into a poor jobs market that moves more and more into being about part time jobs, often to avoid Obamacare requirements. They should worry about the political party, Democratic, that the tend to support more than any other, which has a miserable track record when it comes to economic activity, and likes to spend willy nilly for no return.

War and peace? They should worry about the every growing threat from radical Islam. They should worry about Obama give the store away to Iran. They should worry about the crummy way Obama treats our allies.

Obama admitted that he was interested in “decriminalization” of the use of marijuana, pointing out that it had a terrible effect on communities of color by making people unemployable due to their criminal records.

Without being snarky, on this I agree, as well. If alcohol is going to be legal, why keep marijuana illegal as a felony, due to its federal status as a Schedule I drug? Alcohol is much worse, both physically and psychologically, than marijuana. That said, there certainly needs to be a concern over the ever increasing power of THC, a main component of What Makes Marijuana Fun. When it’s getting to the same power as typical hallucinogenics (LSD, blotters, micro-dots, ‘shrooms, etc), there needs to be a concern.

Overall, though, young folks should be much more concerned over the massive damage Democrats, and Obama, have done to this country’s well being. The massive increase in the debt, massive increase in economic woes, poor economic conditions, pushing for amnesty which would keep pay low, spying on Americans, and so much more.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Hotcoldwetdroid Brings “Disasters On Steroids” Or Something

By William Teach March 16, 2015 – 2:07 pm

This follows on the heels of the previous post on Cyclone Pam striking Vanuatu, but definitely deserved it’s own separate post regarding the Cult Of Climastrology (CoC)

Climate change brings disasters on steroids

Australia’s $5 million contribution to address the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pam is a much-needed and welcome act. But remedial responses like this are not enough. Governments must also develop more proactive tools to help mitigate the impacts of disasters in the first place, including the displacement of people from their homes.

Climate change-related displacement is happening now. It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu’s population has been displaced by Cyclone Pam (um, they live on islands that are frequently hit by strong storms, and have been for millions of years). More frequent and more intense extreme weather events are consistent with climate change: disasters become disasters on steroids. While history shows that many Pacific island communities are highly resourceful and resilient in the face of adversity, traditional coping mechanisms are being challenged by what the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator has called the “new normal”.

The CoC always finds a way to bring their cult into the discussion. Then we have this

Majority of natural disasters climate related – Laurent Fabius

A senior French political leader, foreign minister Laurent Fabius, has told an international conference on how to reduce the risk from natural disasters that 70% of them are now linked to climate change, twice as many as twenty years ago.

Fabius is the incoming president of this year’s round of negotiations by member states of the UN climate change convention, to take place in Paris in December.

He said disaster risk reduction and the struggle against climate change went hand in hand: “It is necessary to tackle these problems together and not separately.”

Nowhere in the article do they have a quote that matches the headline, but, hey, that is what the CoC is pushing. Now if only Fabius and hundreds of others, if not thousands, took fossil fueled flights to a conference in Japan which makes most natural disasters climate related.

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If All You See…

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

…is a desert created by climate change that could see flooding from climate change, you might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross, with a post on a better immigration plan.

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Surprise: Cyclone Pam Blamed On “Climate Change”

By William Teach March 16, 2015 – 9:50 am

Obviously, no one saw this coming, right?

Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu’s president blames climate change for extreme weather

The president of Vanuatu says climate change is contributing to more extreme weather conditions and cyclone seasons, after cyclone Pam ripped through the island nation.

The damage from the category five storm to the island nation has been extensive, and is still being assessed as aid workers scrambled to get to affected areas on Monday morning.

The official death toll remains at six, with many more injured, and is expected to rise as communication begins to be restored.

Vanuatu’s president, Baldwin Lonsdale, spoke at a United Nations world conference in Sendai, Japan, on Monday, and said the storm was a major setback for the people, virtually wiping out Vanuatu’s development.

“This is a very devastating cyclone … I term it a monster that has hit Vanuatu,” he said. “It is a setback for the government and for the people of Vanuatu … All the development that has taken place has been wiped out.”

Hmm, that’s interesting. Fossil fuels and development are Blamed for “climate change”, yet, Vanuatu’s president took a fossil fueled flight and the island is spending lots of money for development, including on an airport. So, they should blame themselves.

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Two Los Angeles Police Officers Shot In Targeted Attack

By William Teach March 16, 2015 – 7:14 am

Remember when Sarah Palin was blamed for the shooting of Gaby Giffords because of a “crosshairs” map for those she wanted to defeat politically? When will Democrats and the police haters take responsibility for the attacks on police officers?

(UK Daily Mail) A manhunt is underway after two plain-clothes police officers were shot and wounded while driving through a South Los Angeles neighborhood in what has been described as a ‘targeted’ attack.

The officers, who have not been identified, were reportedly fired at near the intersection of 65th Street and Broadway on Sunday evening as they drove in an unmarked car.

They subsequently returned fire, causing several suspects to scatter, police said. The officers were treated at the scene for minor gunshot wounds, while a number of people were detained by police.

Now, a search has been launched for two male suspects who were allegedly involved in the shooting and are on the run. Dozens of officers, including SWAT members, were at the scene Sunday night.

Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Detective Meghan Aguila said the officers are thought to have been specifically targeted in the attack, which occurred in the Florence area shortly before 5.45pm.

Does this have anything to do with the anti-police venom spewed by Liberals? Maybe. Maybe not. This could certainly have occurred due to violence and crime that happens daily in South LA. Perhaps gang, drug, or illegal alien related. But, hey, since there is no proof of any of that, why don’t we just go with the Typical Democrat Method and blame Democrats? Especially since this comes on the heals of the arrest of a Ferguson protester who supposedly admitted that he shot police officers.

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Clinton Camp Now Claims Every Email Was Reviewed

By William Teach March 16, 2015 – 6:53 am

Well, sure, why not. This is an attempt to satisfy those Democrat voters who have lost faith in the potential for Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic Party presidential candidate for 2016, rather than providing a real defense of her potentially lawless actions

(Fox News) Hillary Clinton’s camp late Sunday issued a significant clarification about the steps they say were taken to review thousands of personal emails before they were deleted, claiming her team individually read “every email” before discarding those deemed private.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill made the clarification in a written statement to Fox News. This comes after the former secretary of state’s office revealed last week that while more than 30,000 “work-related” emails were turned over to the State Department, nearly 32,000 were deemed “private” and deleted.

This admission raised questions over how her team decided to get rid of those messages. Merrill on Sunday clarified an earlier fact sheet that described some of those methods but did not say every email was read.

“We simply took for granted that reading every single email came across as the most important, fundamental and exhaustive step that was performed.  The fact sheet should have been clearer in stating that every email was read,” Merrill said.

Of course, perhaps they did, in fact, read every single email, and that is why 32000 were deleted. Not because they were of a personal nature, but because they hurt Hillary. If she was using that email address as her official State Department email address, she has no right to delete any emails, regardless of any sort of personal nature. And it looks as if there will be a House probe

(The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is poised to announce an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of State, ABC News reported Sunday, citing unidentified top House Republicans.

ABC said Boehner is expected to announce the investigation this week.

The next line is vastly amusing

The probe could signal that Republicans intend to make the issue a centerpiece of their attacks on Clinton as she moves to officially unveil her expected 2016 Democratic presidential bid.

Or, it could be that the House sees yet another case of lawlessness from a member of the Obama administration.

Anyhow, as you can guess, Democrats are unhappy about any potential investigation, and are rallying around Hillary, because laws, rules, and regulations apply to Other People.

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