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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Bill Nye: Call It “Climate Change” When It’s Cold Outside

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 3:18 pm

Because science or something

(Daily Caller)  Words are everything, even in the global warming debate. TV personality Bill Nye the “Science Guy” told MSNBC’s Joy Reid to use the phrase climate change, not global warming, when it’s so cold out.

“Let’s not confuse or interchange climate change with global warming,” Nye told Reid on Monday. “Global warming – The world is getting warmer. There is more carbon [dioxide] holding in more heat.”

“So when the climate changes, some places get colder,” Nye added. “And the thing that’s really consistent with climate change models is this variance where it’s cold, it’s warm, it’s cold, it’s warm… So what I would hope for, my dream, Joy, is that you all, you and the news business would just say the word climate change.”

Sounds rather like a hardcore cult.

MSNBC’s Reid was all too eager to join Nye in labelling winter weather as climate change.

“But when you see extremes of cold, when you’re breaking, I’m counting one, two, three, four, five records from Little Rock to Flint, Michigan, to Redding, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,” Reid said.

“We’re breaking 100-year-old records in cold. Is there not enough attention that people are paying to what we are doing to the planet and how it’s impacting our daily lives?” Reid added.

Ok, so, if I’m getting this correct, greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, which are “trapping” heat within the atmosphere, are making it cold and snowy.  Cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is icy water caused by the Arctic melting away, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Great Yoga Pants Panic Of 2015.

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NY Times Poll: People Say Climate Change Action Needed, As Long As They Don’t Have To Pay For It

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 10:30 am

A long running meme here at Pirate’s Cove is that Warmists, like most Progressives, always want action, as long as they do not have to bear the burden for those beliefs. This is known as “Someone Else Syndrome“. Someone Else, That Guy, Other People, they have to bear the burden, hence, Warmists refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives “carbon neutral”, which leads to this article by H. Sterling Burnett

(Breitbart) A poll conducted by The New York Times, Stanford University, and Resources for the Future sheds more heat than light on the public’s attitudes towards climate change.

The poll is being publicized because it found a sizable number of Republicans indicated they were concerned about climate change. Just one problem: Previous polls have shown the same thing. Nearly everyone, Democrat or Republican, is concerned about the possible effects of climate change. The important point is everyone has different evaluations of the danger it poses and the best responses to it.

After more than two decades of hearing nothing about climate change except radical environmental activists’ hype, fear-mongering, and misinformation parroted by a compliant media complex, it is little wonder most of the public believes the changing climate is due to human action and will be bad for future generations. Belief, however, doesn’t make claims true.

And, just because one is concerned by “climate change” doesn’t mean they believe that it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Hey, I’m mildly concerned, but, I also know there is little we can do about the long term changes in the weather, which is what climate is.

The New York Times’ poll isn’t completely worthless, however. Consistent with the results of other polls examining the public’s views on climate change, the Times’ poll found the public wants to fight climate change only if it can be done for free or very little cost. An overwhelming 74 percent of the public rejected tax increases on electricity use to encourage people to conserve to prevent climate change. Sixty-three percent also rejected higher gasoline taxes to fight climate change.

And that there is the point: few want to pony up if it harms their own lives. They want to still take their fossil fueled vehicle to work, take fossil fueled trips for the weekend and for vacations, want to use their hair dryers and ice makers, use a washer and dryer, take more than two minute showers, use more than two squares of TP, don’t want to unplug every appliance that’s not in use from the outlet, etc and so on. Nor do they want to give their own money to the government to spread around. They’re more than happy for Other People to pay the price, just not themselves.

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Can Someone Tell Obama That Even Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Finds That #ChristianLivesMatter?

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 8:05 am

Obama held a “anti-terrorism summit” this week, and words and phrases like “Islam”, “Muslim”, and “Islamic extremism” were off-limits. Obama and his team have done all they can to refuse to acknowledge that most terroristic acts in the name of religion are being performed in the name of Allah and Mohammed

Obama Alone In Ignoring Roots Of Islamist Terror

Monday’s White House statement on ISIS’ beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya, which failed to mention the victims’ faith as the reason for their murder, was practically unique among world leaders’ reactions for its omission.

By contrast, Pope Francis on Sunday exclaimed that “they were killed simply for the fact that they were Christians,” and that “their blood confesses Christ.”

Even the official Twitter account of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a series of messages with the hashtag #ChristianLivesMatter.

Huh, how about that? Even Khamenei.

Well, in all fairness, Christians aren’t treated exactly great in Iran, either. Though, they haven’t mass killed them, and he notes that many were martyred for Iran in the war against Iraq. And Khamenei attempts some equivocation in further tweets, even noting the Chapel Hill murders (and getting it as wrong as Obama did). But, at least he notes who was killed and why. His tweets show he is not a big fan of ISIS, nor that ultra-extremist version of Islam. He prefers the regular radical version practiced in Iran.

Leaders all over the world have acknowledged the threat from radical Islam, particularly ISIS, as those who perform these barbaric acts in the name of Islam. Except for Team Obama and Obama himself. One really has to wonder about the motivations that cause Team O to avoid linking Islamic extremism with Islam.

Cue the deflections, distractions, and strawmen from Islamist apologists.

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Strange: Man Stabs Two After “Discussion Of Religious Beliefs”

By William Teach February 18, 2015 – 7:44 am

Did you hear about this one? Probably not, because this textbook definition of a “hate crime” was barely covered outside of Detroit. The Washington Post came up with a very interesting headline

Police: Man stabs two after asking about religious beliefs

A Detroit man stabbed two people at a suburban bus stop after asking his victims whether or not they were Muslim, according to police. Federal authorities are now looking at the case as a potential hate crime, police said on Tuesday.

Both of the victims were standing at the bus stop outside of Detroit with the suspect on Saturday, Southfield Police Chief Eric Hawkins said. Several people there “engaged in conversation” until the suspect, identified by Hawkins as 39-year-old Terrence Lavaron Thomas, “asked some of the folks there if they were Muslims.”

Two of them answered, the chief told The Post on Tuesday: They were not Muslims.

So, he stabbed them. Because he is a Muslim.

He fled the scene, and was quickly caught by police (which is shocking in a city where it takes 58 minutes on average to answer an emergency call). The two people who were stabbed were treated and released from the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Michigan’s hate crimes law defines “ethnic intimidation,” a felony, as when a person acts “maliciously, and with specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person’s race, color, religion, gender, or national origin.”

Strange. I thought it was only White Males who committed hate crimes. The original headline of “Man stabs two at bus stop after asking them if they were Muslim” was obviously a bit too much for the Washington Post, as they surely didn’t want to highlight any violence from Muslims, in a city that is increasingly becoming more Muslim, particularly via conversions, in a city that is already ultra-violent.

I wonder when we will get a lecture from Obama about this. Will we get another “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like or how they worship”, like with the Chapel Hill attack? The Chapel Hill attack was apparently not over religion. This was. Perhaps we’ll get a lecture on ancient acts of Muslims in attempting to take over Spain.

BTW, Terrence Lavaron Thomas most likely voted for Obama and Democrats, if he voted at all, since Detroit voted for Obama over 70% in 2012, and Blacks voted over 90% for the same.

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