…is a flooded world turning humans into mermaids merpeople, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on crazy, but also evil.
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…is a flooded world turning humans into mermaids merpeople, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on crazy, but also evil.
Read: If All You See… »
Yesterday I wrote about civility, which was very much a post about provoking thought. Proof Positive has an excellent post regarding the same, entitled Civility And The Civilized Man.
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That’s what Miles King at the UK Guardian wants to know, though he puts it without snark
Should tackling climate change trump protecting nature?
Does the need to mitigate the effects of man-made climate change override the need to protect nature?
Climate change is with us, and is one of nine reasons why scientists are now concerned that the rate of environmental degradation is a threat to the future of human life on Earth. The loss of biodiversity, dubbed the Sixth Green Extinction by some, is another threat to humanity, with nearly half of the world’s amphibians and a fifth of its plants at risk of extinction.
We do not have the luxury of choosing which of these nine challenges to tackle; they are all critical to our survival.
Strange, since Warmists tend to pick their fake issue over real environmental concerns
Yet last week, here in West Dorset, the council unanimously approved the development of a 25MW solar farm on a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Rampisham Down was designated as a SSSI because it is nationally important for wildlife. There are 70ha of heathland and nature-rich grassland, known as lowland acid grassland at Rampisham. (snip)
The West Dorset planning committee met last weeky to decide whether to give the Solar Farm planning permission. They listened to the evidence against it from Natural England and Dorset Wildlife Trust, and for it, from the developers, their witnesses and local councillors. They discounted the nature value of the Down, viewed it as brownfield land which would benefit from being developed, and decided that the production of renewable energy and the small number of jobs the development would bring were of greater benefit to society than protecting the wildlife.
So, to hell with nature, let’s slap up tons of solar panels all over the countryside, despoiling nature, which will produce roughly 4 to 5 megawatts. Warmists don’t actually care about nature. They care about their politics.
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…is a horrible vacation spot which requires fossil fueled travel for other people causing the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on #BlackLivesMatter looking to hijack legacy of MLK, Jr.
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I actually have a bunch of “climate change” articles saved to Pocket, but this article, via Hot Air headlines, intrigued me
(UK Guardian) Four out of ten French people want the press to avoid publishing further cartoons that will upset the Muslim community, according to a poll published on Sunday.
While supporting the idea of freedom of expression, 42% of those quizzed in the Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche said cartoons that made Muslims feel injured or threatened should be avoided.
However, a majority – 57% of those asked – said magazines and papers should be free to continue publishing cartoons whatever the reaction.
Traditional media was treated slightly more favourably than new media by those asked: 50% said there should be limits put on the freedom of expression on the internet, while 49% said there should be no restrictions.
Here’s the thing: should media and other outlets avoid publishing material that upsets others? Not just Muslims, but the targeted group? We’re not talking about forced censorship, but personal censorship. Civility. Respect. Responsibility. In Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein wrote
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.â€
Regardless of it being a science fiction book, that always made quite a bit of sense to me. Too often people are willing to forgo civility. With free speech comes responsibility. Much of the world has forgotten this as an attitude that makes everything not just about “me me me”, but infused with an attitude that everyone else is simply an ant. What does that mean? Do you think about all the ants and bugs you step on? No. You almost never notice them. You’re just doing your own thing without regard to the bugs. This is the way so many people think today. When they’re driving along and cut people off, it’s more than just selfishness, it’s a complete lack of regard for what can happen to other people. The fender bender behind them is of no regard as they drive off without knowing they are responsible for causing that accident.
Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. Was it appropriate when cartoonists were penning cartoons portraying Condi Rice in a horribly racist manner, many which were published in major American newspapers, such as the Washington Post and NY Times. When we do, we should be responsible for doing, be it speech, actions, the pen. We may not be to blame, we we can bear responsibility.
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Back in 2007, the NYPD compiled a report regarding home grown Islamist terrorists, which was the blue print for monitoring mosques and Muslim groups to attempt to stop terrorist attacks and the home grown Islamists. This made Muslims very upset that law enforcement would dare to go where Muslims are radicalized, so they sued. Now the NY Post learns
In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques, the city is weighing a demand that it scrub from its Web site a report on Islamic terrorists, The Post has learned.
The groundbreaking, 92-page report, titled “Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat,†angers critics who say it promotes “religious profiling†and discrimination against Muslims. But law-enforcement sources say removing the report now would come at the worst time — after mounting terror attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris, Boston, Sydney and Ottawa.
That is one of the main sticking points in settling the lawsuit with the Muslims.
“The harm is that it sends the message that the NYPD is Âgoing to back down on its counterterrorism effort in the name of political correctness,†said a former NYPD official. “Shame on the NYPD if they do.â€
If the NYPD was doing this to Whites, Christians, and/or Conservative groups, no one would be batting an eye. However, in our PC world, certain groups must never be surveilled. What’s more disturbing than removing the report is this next bit
Also on the table are demands that the NYPD halt any ongoing surveillance in the Muslim community and that records of prior monitoring be expunged, sources said.
It’s not like a homegrown jihadi attacked NYPD officers with a hatchet last April. Sadly, Mosques and Islamic schools are some of the prime recruiting grounds around the world for Muslim radicalization. No, most will not become jihadis. They won’t engage in violence. But, if you have a profile of a suspect, you use that profile to look for the suspect. But, in today’s PC world, certain groups are off-limits.
Liberals will, of course, throw out the word “Islamophobia”. Well, yeah. Phobias are often called “irrational”. Yet, spiders can harm you. So can snakes. So can falling. Surely, not all Muslims are radicalized. Yet, where are they? So few refuse to speak up. Few get involved in things like the Paris march last week. Why? Well, one reason is that they’re afraid of being attacked by the radicals. Think on that.
(The DiploMad 2.0) Let’s look around the world, and ask “Who is not an Islamophobe?” The world is full to the rafters with Islamophobes. I wonder if the people slaughtered at Charlie Hebdo and in the kosher market had a bout of Islamophobia just before the AK rounds put an end to those thoughts? What about the people in the Westgate Mall in Nairobi or in the villages of Nigeria? Guess what? Huge numbers of Islamophobes live lives of utter misery and horror in the Islamic world. I lived for years in Muslim countries, and met countless Muslims terrified of Islam, especially women and budding intellectuals. Let us not forget that in the long and bloody history of the Religion of Peace, the greatest number, by far, of Islam’s victims have come from the ranks of Muslims. Nobody massacres Muslims as frequently and as copiously as do other Muslims following the dictates of Islam.
Liberals are more than happy to equate every action by a Christian, Jew, Conservative, White, with the group as a whole, even when the perpetrator is performing actions/saying things that are completely contradictory to the belief set of the group. Yet, in Liberal World, the same never applies when an Islamist does something while claiming it is the name of Mohammed and/or Allah.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
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