The Perfect #JobsForJihadis

By William Teach February 20, 2015 – 10:34 am

Because, obviously, the best way to stop jihad is to create jobs for them. Now, we could get them jobs as pig farmers. Or, they could do the jobs that Americans won’t.

But what’s the best idea?

Garbage men. Think about it. They can come around and greet each can with a hearty “Alahu Ackbar!” as they grab it forcefully. Then, when their round is done, they head to the landfill, dump their days work, and blow it up.

People drop off their old TVs and computers and stuff, they can blow that up, too. Or hit it with a sword. Or shoot it. They can truly exercise their violent tendencies away while performing a valuable service for which they not only get paid, but receive generous government benefits.

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Warmists Continue Propagating Notion That Cold Is Caused By Heat

By William Teach February 20, 2015 – 10:01 am

There was a time when Science would have reached out and smacked down idiocy like this. Now it’s more like “science”

Climate change driving brutal winter?

Prolonged cold snaps on the East Coast, California drought and frozen mornings in the South all have something in common — the atmospheric jet stream that transports weather systems that’s taken to meandering all over North America.

Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis and colleagues link that wavy jet stream to a warming Arctic, where climate changes near the top of the world are happening faster than in Earth’s middle latitudes.

A new study from Francis and University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist Stephen Vavrus, published in IOPscience, backs up that theory, with evidence linking regional and seasonal conditions in the Arctic to deeper north-south jet stream waves that will lead to more extreme weather across the country.

“The real story is how persistent the pattern has been. It’s been this way nearly continually since December 2013…Warm in the west, cold in the east,” Francis said. “We think with the warming Arctic these types of very wavy patterns, although probably not in the same locations, will happen more often in the future.”

There’s always an excuse from these people, like 5 year olds caught standing next to a broken lamp. Their models weren’t cooperating, weather happens, some areas have been having brutal winters, and they had to find a way to blame weather, especially cold and snowy weather, on Mankind.

Fortunately for them, there are more than enough dupes, to put it nicely, who’ll immediately buy into this poppycock, and defend it.

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Straight Aide To Tammy Baldwin May Sue For Sexual Discrimination

By William Teach February 20, 2015 – 7:09 am

Get the popcorn ready

(Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel) A former top staffer to U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has rejected a proposed severance deal that would have required her to remain silent regarding what she knew about the problems at the troubled Tomah VA Medical Center.

Now Marquette Baylor, ex-deputy state director for Baldwin and chief of her Milwaukee office, has hired a team of attorneys to explore litigation for wrongful termination or sexual discrimination. A source said Baylor believes she was one of the highest ranking heterosexuals on Baldwin’s staff.

Baldwin is the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate.

No Quarter reported that Baldwin canned Baylor on Jan. 22 in response to the growing controversy at the troubled Tomah VA Medical Center. Baylor made $80,000 in 2014.

Baldwin was apparently sitting on information regarding a scandal at the Tomah facility, and perhaps made Baylor a scapegoat. The thing is, Baldwin’s office won’t even acknowledge that Baylor was canned. One has to wonder why a fired employee is being offered a severance package with a cash payout and a confidentiality agreement.

Anyway, Baldwin has all sorts of LGBT protections against improper treatment, firing for being LGBT, but, apparently not for being straight.

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Bummer: Illegal Aliens Whine About Feeling Stuck After Judge Blocks Obama’s Immigration Schtick

By William Teach February 20, 2015 – 6:47 am

Aww, poor little illegal aliens

Immigrants feel stuck after judge blocks Obama orders

Brenda Armendariz, her husband and their two Mexico-born children were hoping to resolve their constant fears of being deported after President Barack Obama issued his latest executive orders on immigration.

But now that a federal judge in Texas has blocked Obama’s efforts to protect four million more immigrants, her family is disillusioned and her children feel stuck as the president’s offer of temporary legal status moves frustratingly beyond their reach.

Should we go with a sarcastic, “aww, poor babies”, or a more realistic “Tough sh!t”?

About a third of the immigrants now living in the United States illegally would be eligible for temporary protection if Obama’s latest orders are upheld in court, either because they were brought to the U.S. as children or because their own children have legal status in the country.

But the advances and retreats on reform have been so frequent over the years that many thousands of immigrants who are already eligible for protection have given up for now — they aren’t applying for the work permits and Social Security numbers they are entitled to under Obama’s first executive order in 2012.

Good. They should not be here in the first place. It matters little how nice they are, what their aspirations and dreams are.

Armendariz and her husband came to Tucson a decade ago with a son and daughter, meaning to stay just long enough to earn some cash and head home to the Mexican state of Sonora. Instead, they overstayed their visas and settled down. Those children are now 21 and 13, joined by two American citizen siblings: a 3-year-old boy and a one-month-old girl.

So, they voluntarily overstayed their visas, meaning they were intentionally breaking the law. Yet, we’re supposed to feel sorry for them? And reward them? If you voluntarily drive drunk and crash into someone’s car, you aren’t going to get a pat on the head and a gift of $22,000.

Aguirre Armendariz had to drop out of community college her freshman year because her family couldn’t afford the out-of-state tuition that immigrants lacking legal status must pay in Arizona. She was studying engineering and wants to go back to school, but is stuck helping her mom make and sell tortillas and bread.

Sorry, no sympathy. There are lots of folks who pay out of state tuition. I did. And said illegals were soaking up taxpayer money used to fund those community colleges, which may have been used for legal citizens.

Armendariz’s 13-year-old boy is still in public school and had his hopes set on Disneyland, but those too were dashed; driving far from home remains too risky and expensive, she said.

Whose fault is that? The judges? The citizens who oppose any sort of amnesty? Or the parents who willing broke the law, and now demand that the U.S. cowtow to them? Perhaps there might not be so much opposition if illegals were humble about their plight, rather than demanding while throwing out sob stories.

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‘ISIS sets sights on Libya as gateway to eventual invasion of Europe’

By William Teach February 19, 2015 – 3:56 pm

Rather a bit heavy on the terrorism in the world today, rather than my normal Hotcoldwetdry schtick. Headline is directly from the Jerusalem Post

Islamic State has set its sights on taking over Libya as a bridgehead to eventually waging war all across southern Europe, the British Telegraph is reporting on Wednesday.

The newspaper cited letters written by ISIS supporters.

According to the report, ISIS jihadists plan to “flood Libya with militiamen from Syria and Iraq, who will then sail across the Mediterranean posing as migrants on people-trafficking vessels.”

ISIS “would then run amok in southern European cities and also try to attack maritime shipping,” the Telegraph reported.

Pretty big aspirations for the “JV team”, eh?

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 19, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is frigid rising seas caused by too much heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Fausta’s Blog, with a post on getting rid of the girl (which leads to Da Tech Guy)

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Citigroup To Waste $100 Billion On “Climate Change”

By William Teach February 19, 2015 – 10:45 am

No, I did not make a mistake and substitute a b for an m

(UK Guardian) Citigroup, the third largest US financial institution, on Wednesday said it will invest a whopping $100bn over the next decade to reduce the impacts of climate change. The bank said it will use the money the finance green initiatives and sustainable growth.

The global financial corporation’s CEO Michael Corbat made the announcement at a breakfast gathering of stakeholders, employees and partner organizations in New York.

The money will be used to finance large renewable-energy projects, for example, to aid greener affordable housing and to finance municipal infrastructure to reduce water waste and more, says Valerie Smith, director of corporate sustainability at Citigroup.

It will also be used to help Citigroup reduce the environmental impacts of its global operations and supply chain, and to help its clients address environmental risks, according to Corbat’s prepared statement.

Warmists, who are primarily Leftists, constantly complain about low wages. They’re out there agitating for a higher minimum wage, preferably $15 an hour. They have all sorts of economic complaints. Think about what $1 billion a year could do for lower wage employees of Citigroup, rather than pissing it away of Hotcoldwetdry measures. Consider what all the money pissed away by companies and governments for Hotcoldwetdry could do.

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NY Times: Say, That Obamacare Penalty Is Rather Burdensome

By William Teach February 19, 2015 – 7:42 am

The NY Times Editorial Board is rather upset about the Ocare penalty, and writes about “when one penalty is enough“, coming up with an solution quickly

Millions of Americans may be in for a shock when they file tax returns and learn that they have to pay a fine for failing to enroll in health insurance in 2014 and an even bigger fine for failing to enroll in 2015 before the enrollment period ended on Feb. 15. While there is nothing they can do to avoid the 2014 fine, which must be paid this year, they could avoid the 2015 fine, payable next year, if the Obama administration allowed them more time to enroll.

Oh, see, that’s so simple! Give people who aren’t planning on signing up more time to sign up!

The government should open a special enrollment period that lasts beyond April 15, the traditional filing time for most taxpayers. That would be fair to millions of consumers who remain uninformed about the health care law and ignorant about the subsidies it provides and the penalties for failing to enroll. And it would strengthen implementation of health care reform.

Did the NY Times just call many Americans stupid? Well, in all fairness, anyone who is unaware of Ocare is stupid.

The Affordable Care Act requires most Americans to obtain health insurance or, with some exceptions, pay a fine, which is assessed at the time they pay their income taxes. For individual adults who failed to enroll in 2014, the fine is $95 or 1 percent of applicable yearly income, whichever is higher. For individuals who failed to enroll in 2015, the fine will jump to $325 or 2 percent of applicable yearly income, to be paid when taxes are filed next year. That is a big jump that will hurt many people on modest incomes. The fines leap even higher the following year.

Here’s an idea: do away with the Mandate!

Here’s the problem: many people may be hit with Ocare penalties because they switched jobs. I left my job in August, started a new one in September. I had to be there 90 days before I was eligible to enroll in their health insurance plan. That means I was without (sadly) for over 3 months. And, since I said (blank) this place, I’m out (for several reasons), and resigned, obtaining a job at a company that wasn’t long on promises, short on delivery, and doesn’t have a manager who just barely skirted the legal definition of “hostile workplace”. Will I get hit with the penalty? Well, I have to fill out a big old form and submit it to find out.

Anyhow, one liberal commenter has an idea

If people don’t comply with the state’s wishes, the state should crush them like a bug.

Liberal World.

The NYTs celebrates big government tyranny. Succumb to an insipid wholly-partisan “law” that the president has unilaterally and unconstitutionally altered over 15 times…or else.

Of course they do. And the solution is apparently extend the signup period.

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Obama Cites A Strategic Logic For Avoidance In Using Islamic Labels Or Something

By William Teach February 19, 2015 – 7:21 am

It’s probably more like “strategic patience”, which is a phrase for a policy position more akin to “meh”. Like when you know you should really, really get your oil changed, but lying on the couch watching a TV show marathon is oh so comfy

(NY Times) President Obama chooses his words with particular care when he addresses the volatile connections between religion and terrorism. He and his aides have avoided labeling acts of brutal violence by Al Qaeda, the so-called Islamic State and their allies as “Muslim” terrorism or describing their ideology as “Islamic” or “jihadist.”

With remarkable consistency — including at a high-profile White House meeting this week, “Countering Violent Extremism” — they have favored bland, generic terms over anything that explicitly connects attacks or plots to Islam.

Obama aides say there is a strategic logic to his vocabulary: Labeling noxious beliefs and mass murder as “Islamic” would play right into the hands of terrorists who claim that the United States is at war with Islam itself. The last thing the president should do, they say, is imply that the United States lumps the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims with vicious terrorist groups.

Interesting. Obama and his team have absolutely no problem labeling Republicans, Tea Party members, Conservatives, Christians. Of course, we aren’t at war with the United States. As for Islamic extremists, they aren’t at war with the U.S. They’re at war with the world, at least the world that isn’t already Islamist.

Addressing the extremism conference on Wednesday, Mr. Obama acknowledged the complaints and took pains to try to explain his approach.

“Leading up to this summit, there’s been a fair amount of debate in the press and among pundits about the words we use to describe and frame this challenge, so I want to be very clear about how I see it,” the president said. “Al Qaeda and ISIL and groups like it are desperate for legitimacy. They try to portray themselves as religious leaders, holy warriors in defense of Islam.”

But Mr. Obama said that “we must never accept the premise that they put forward, because it is a lie.” The operatives of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, “are not religious leaders — they’re terrorists,” he said.

A false premise. First, they do not portray themselves as religious leaders: they portray themselves as Islamic religious believers. They aren’t defending Islam: they’re projecting a 7th century version of Islam.

The president’s comments suggest that the criticism has disturbed him. “You know your talking points are no longer working when you have to talk about your talking points,” said Peter D. Feaver, a political scientist at Duke who was deeply involved in shaping President George W. Bush’s language while he worked at the White House from 2005 to 2007.

Well, fortunately, Obama acknowledges that these “let’s not name them Islamists” terrorists have legitimate grievances

Governments that deny human rights play into the hands of extremists who claim that violence is the only way to achieve change. Efforts to counter violent extremism will only succeed if citizens can address legitimate grievances through the democratic process and express themselves through strong civil societies.

Um, what? As Katie Pavlich writes

What, exactly, does Obama mean when he says “legitimate grievances”? The grievances Al Qaeda and ISIS hold are against infidels and Muslims who don’t go far enough to wage jihad on the West. These “grievances” aren’t economic, despite what the State Department would like us to believe.

Exactly. They aren’t grievances about poverty, jobs, “climate change”, wanting a $15 minimum wage, or anything else: they are about people not practicing the 7th century version of Islam. Convert or die. Islamist groups like ISIS tend to kill more Muslims than non-Muslims. And really do not want democracy. More like Theocracy. I thought Lefties opposed Theocracies? Though, they might have a legitimate grievance about people who refuse to acknowledge that they are Islamic.

One has to wonder, though, if Obama was referring to Israel as a “legitimate grievance”?

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Apparently, One Static Photo Means Obama’s Really A Muslim

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 8:29 pm

If you’ve been here for a while, you know how I operate. Two posts early morning, one mid-morning, the If All You See… post at 1pm (yes, I set that up to post every day at 1pm, though I”ve been slightly late on a few days), and usually one in the afternoon. Perhaps even an evening one, but, usually, I am done with caring by about 6pm as to what is going on. I usually only drop an extra post on something really, really important, or something really, really whackadoodle. Though, I may often just roll my eyes and drop a Tweet. Usually, the whackadoodle is from a liberal, but, I have never had a problem opposing a Right leaning person, usually a squishy GOPer (or Ron Paul or a Paulite). In this case, whackadoodle is a conservative from American Thinker, namely, F.W. Burleigh

Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign

Is President Obama a Muslim? A lot has been written about this, but if photographs speak louder than words, then a photo taken at last August’s U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in Washington D.C. might shed considerable light.

It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates.

Here’s the proof or something

You’re more than welcome to hit the link to see the rest of the, well, I can’t really call it reasoning, and it is, quite frankly, dumber than a conspiracy theory. It’s just bat shit insane (and you know it is, at least to me, because I used shit instead of guano), and ends with more BSI

There is nothing in Obama’s head that is American.  He is an antithetical American, a polar opposite of its values that he is routinely undermining.  He is an unabashed member of the transtribal supertribe that Muhammad created 1,400 years ago; he is of the umma, not of America.  His finger in the air at the African Leaders’ Conference is unambiguous evidence.

And it is evidence that you have been had America.  God, have you ever been had.

Look, Obama may be a Muslim, for all we know. His father was. Personally, I doubt it. I think he’s just an out-there Christian who spent lots and lots of time in the pews of crazy Rev. Wright, listening to other out-there Christians, combined with his life experience, and that he seems to have a seriously narcissistic personality and he just believes what he believes. I do not believe he was throwing up the “Muslim shahada”. If there was video, I’d bet money that he was actually either wagging his finger at what someone said, in either a good or bad way, or just throwing out a greeting, one I’ve done without thinking an unknown number of times. It could also have been a gesture that ended with him pointing. I bet you’ve done all three more times than you could count. You may have done that today.

There are lots of negatives that can be said of Obama, lots of disagreements and such (like this), but, this is just stupid.

Darn, if only we had video….oh, well, damn, looky here, there is video! Well spank my bottom and call me Betty! Start at around 2:08, watch for the pleasant finger wag in response to someone saying something.

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