If All You See…

By William Teach November 13, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Reaganite Republican, with a post on our fake economy.

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Say, You Know How You Really Prevent Catastrophic “Climate Change”?

By William Teach November 13, 2014 – 12:36 pm

This one is a doozy

How to prevent catastrophic climate change

Communities affected by climate change were given a voice last week, at the four-day gathering of civil-society and social movements known as the Social Pre-COP. The event, held on Margarita Island in Venezuela, concluded on 7 November and was an important precursor to December’s UN climate talks in Lima, Peru (COP 20).

A diverse group of people from all over of the world attended – indigenous peoples, women and gender groups, youth, farmers, NGOs, grassroots groups – though representation from Africa and Asia was missing due to unfortunate logistical challenges. The Pre-COP gave space to affected communities to speak about their struggles, connect in solidarity and send a strong message of climate justice to world leaders.

Wait, wait, these people took fossil fueled travel from all over the world? Isn’t that bad for “climate change”? In their view, not so much, because the solutions are completely different

Participants warned against ‘false solutions’ like geoengineering, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), carbon markets, ‘climate-smart agriculture’, industrial agribusiness, mega-dams, fracking, nuclear energy and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology. Furthermore, they argued that it is necessary to use the framework of a global emissions budget to keep any global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

They stressed that an important way to achieve these goals is through better participation of civil-society and social movements in decision-making processes. They rejected the criminalization of social protests, and the overbearing influence of private transnational corporations on both the political process and people’s lives. Instead, they demanded that we hear the voices of communities most affected by climate change.

So, this is all Progressive (nice fascist) psychobabble from hypocrites searching for “social justice”, hating on transnational corporations (who just happened to be the ones who the Warmists used for their fossil fueled travel) while doing the very tired “spreading awareness” schtick.

Now, the main concern for ministers and negotiators should be how to raise ambition for climate action before 2020: close the gap on finance, technology transfer, mitigation and adaptation, guarantee significant amounts of new, predictable funds to the Green Climate Fund, create a global emissions budget to keep global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees, and establish a scheme for globally funded feed-in tariffs to catalyse the global energy revolution, which would allow developed countries to pay off their climate debt and give access to energy to the two billion without.

So, redistribution of wealth and other progressive solutions.

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Remember When Snow Was Just A Thing Of The Past? Yeah, About That

By William Teach November 13, 2014 – 9:49 am

Go back in time to March 20, 2000

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. (snip)

“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.

BTW, that last line is where the snarky “schoolkids won’t know what …. looks like” comes from, usually with something like school, roads, power, and so on, after a big snowfall. Like this one, where schoolkids won’t know what outside looks like. Anyhow, now we get

POLAR VORTEX WARNING: Latest winter weather models show UK faces MONTHS of heavy snow

Shocked forecasters warned tonight the latest high-tech weather models point to a CATASTROPHIC big freeze in late 2014 with THREE MONTHS of blizzards and Arctic gales.

They fear a lethal and unprecedented combination of low pressure, above-average rainfall and a freak Polar vortex will come together in a perfect storm of misery for Winter 2014.

Moist air from the Atlantic currently causing the mild, wet and windy weather threatens to collide with bitter Arctic winds.

It means a dramatic plunge in the current mild temperatures will turn torrential rain to blizzards capable of smothering the ENTIRE COUNTRY in feet-deep snowdrifts.

The big chill could arrive as early as this month although some models show the colder flow of air will be held at bay until the New Year.

However when it arrives, it threatens to rival the historic winter of 1947 which saw snow fall EVERY SINGLE DAY between January and March.

Of course, Warmists will blame this all on global warming, er, climate change, due to Mankind’s output of greenhouse gases, mostly from fossil fuels. In their world, it can’t ever be anything else.

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Obama To Soon Announce Executive Amnesty

By William Teach November 13, 2014 – 7:15 am

Fox News got ahold of exclusive documents

Source: Obama to announce 10-point immigration plan via exec action as early as next week

President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action — including suspending deportations for millions — as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News.

The president’s plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval. (snip)

https://twitter.com/Jenrstokes/status/532669735339442177

The plan contains 10 initiatives than span everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers.

But the most controversial pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as “deferred action.”

The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates.

Another portion that is sure to cause consternation among anti-“amnesty” lawmakers is a plan to expand deferred action for young people. In June 2012, Obama created such a program for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, entered before June 2007 and were under 31 as of June 2012. The change would expand that to cover anyone who entered before they were 16, and change the cut-off from June 2007 to Jan. 1, 2010. This is estimated to make nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants eligible.

This is what you get from a president who is tone deaf, at least to the American people. The only ones who want this are moneyed Democrats and Republicans, and illegal aliens. The American people don’t. It will harm the middle and lower class wage earners.

https://twitter.com/MelissaTweets/status/532686615098175488

Marsh Blackburn wrote Wednesday, prior to learning about the proposed amnesty

President Obama said in October that while he was not on the ballot, his policies were. The result was a historic rejection of his radical agenda. Perhaps more than any issue, voter disgust over the President’s amnesty for undocumented individuals dictated the outcome. The President is threatening to expand his unconstitutional amnesty in December, which represents a direct threat to the economic and national security of this country. (snip)

Given all of this, I watched in astonishment the day after the election as President Obama held a press conference and doubled down on his mission to grant mass amnesty by the end of the year. At a time when the work force participation rate stands at its lowest level since 1978 (62.7 percent) and we are trying to decimate ISIL, the last thing our country needs is to grant work permits to millions of undocumented individuals and advertise to enemies that our borders are not secure.

Obama doesn’t care.

The President is also creating a Constitutional crisis, which I spoke of on the House floor in July. I stated that Democrats had gone from “Yes We Can” to “Because We Can.” I asked if the President has the power to delay part of a law, can he delay an entire law? I asked if the President has the authority to allow illegal individuals to stay in the country, does he have the authority to tell legal citizens to leave? The point being, where does the President’s power begin and end if he is allowed to act beyond the scope of his authority in furtherance of a purported greater good? The law is not a suggestion.

It is for Democrats, particularly Obama.

What’s the answer to this? Come next year when the GOP takes over the Senate to go along with the House, they simply refuse to fund any of this.

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Third Gruber Video Surfaces, House Considers Having Him Testify

By William Teach November 13, 2014 – 7:01 am

If Jonathan Gruber, a main architect of Obamacare, simply spoke inappropriately and regrets those comments, how does he feel about the second, and now third, videos?

(Daily Caller) A third video has surfaced of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber bragging about pulling the wool over the eyes of the American public in order to help implement Obamacare.

“It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during a speech at the University of Rhode Island in November 2012.

He was discussing what is known as the Cadillac tax and how it came into being.

This is certainly not as bad as the previous videos, but it does paint him, and, quite frankly, those who where pushing to pass the Affordable Care Act, in a bad light, since it once again looks to treat Americans shabbily. And the House might want a word with Gruber

(Washington Post) Congressional Republicans seized Wednesday on controversial commentsmade by a former health-care consultant to the Obama administration, with one leading House conservative suggesting that hearings could be called in response as part of the GOP effort to dismantle the law in the next Congress and turn public opinion ahead of the 2016 election.

“We may want to have hearings on this,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview at the Capitol. “We shouldn’t be surprised they were misleading us.”

More importantly, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Al), who is slated to the be the chairman of the budget committee, is also interested in having Gruber testify, once the GOP takes over during the next session in 2015.

Meanwhile, Nation Journal’s Ron Fornier admits that Obamacare is based on a foundation of lies regarding Gruber. Not mentioned are the lies like

  • “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan”
  • “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”
  • no federal money will be spent on abortion
  • families will see a cost reduction of $2500
  • it won’t increase the deficit
  • it’ll create jobs (it’s caused lots of jobs to be moved to part time)

Those are just the big, well known ones. The entire thing is based on lies, misdirection, and treating the American people like fools, and passed despite it being unpopular. And it hasn’t gotten more popular over time.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Did You Know Kay Hagen Lost Due To Gerrymandering?

By William Teach November 12, 2014 – 5:40 pm

This ranks right up there with the dumbest excuses for Dems getting shellacked. Someone else tried this one,  I think it had to do with Wendy Davis losing the Texas gov race. Here’s the Raleigh News and Observer’s Rob Christensen

Christensen: Gerrymandered districts denied NC voters a real choice

Last week, North Carolina voters booted out Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in large part because she was tied to her party’s unpopular president.

That’s the first paragraph of the opinion piece. Much of it is whiny in regards to gerrymandering. Because Democrats never ever in their history did that. Especially when they where in primary control of the NC general assembly during the last 100 years, particularly during census years.

Anyhow,  perhaps Christensen didn’t mean anything by it,  however,  when your first paragraph is about a federally elected senator losing because of gerrymandering, well, that is just bat guano stupid.

He does actually have a few good points about gerrymandering,  and how it protects incumbents and the party in power. If you want a hoot, go look up what Dems did for Cynthia McKinney in Georgia. But,  let’s also remember that Dems do not complain when they are the recipients of gerrymandering.

Oh,  and Hagen did not lose because of it. Nowhere in the article did he say anything to make that clear.

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Say, About Those Ocare Death Panels…

By William Teach November 12, 2014 – 2:55 pm

What are “death panels”? It boils down to government bureaucrats making choices on health care, particularly for the elderly and infirm. These are the kinds of things we see in England, where these panels decide that a walking cane is a better use of funds than medication and/or joint replacement surgery. Rather than leaving the decisions in the hands of the patients and medical professionals (something Leftists yammer on about when it comes to leaving the decision for an abortion to a woman and the doctor she had previously never met at the abortion clinic, and government getting out of the way) , “death panels” make the decisions, usually just to save lots of money. Which is strange, because in most other cases Liberals have no problem spending oodles of taxpayer money

(Breitbart) But Obamacare’s shoddy implementation doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of its great evil. Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber quite correctly attributed the passage of Obamcare to “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter” – because it turns out that Obamacare will ration care, and that the most well-respected bodies in terms of health rationing have already recommended cutting off services.

The US Preventive Services Task Force is an independent body authorized by Congress to make “evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, or preventive medications.” And since the onset of Obamacare discussions, the Task Force recommendations for treatment and screening have become less and less generous. In November 2009, the Task Force recommended that mammography for women every other year between the ages of 50 and 74. They admit that they have insufficient information to suggest that it would be fruitless to screen after 74, and they say that case-by-case screenings should take place before 50.

The Mayo Clinic, by contrast, recommends annual mammograms for women above age 40; so too does the American Cancer Society. As Dr. Sandhya Pruthi of the Mayo Clinic writes, “Findings from a large study in Sweden of women in their 40s who underwent screening mammograms showed a decrease in breast cancer deaths by 29 percent.”

Then there are colonoscopies: the Task Force recommends against routine colonoscopies for adults 76 to 85 years of age, and recommends against screening at all beyond age 85. The American Cancer Society and American College of Gastroenterology, by contrast, do not give an age limit for colonoscopies. Medicare, coincidentally, happens not to cover CT colonography but fully covers colonoscopies. A great way to cut costs: tell doctors not to give colonoscopies.

Sure seems like government is attempting to make the decisions that affect our health, does it not?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 12, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is snow and cold that suddenly appears because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Rhymes With Right, with a post featuring interesting numbers on super PAC spending.

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Study Finds “Peak Warmth” Of Medieval Warm Period Warmer Than Current

By William Teach November 12, 2014 – 11:33 am

This is what the UN IPCC and other Warmist scientists used to say, before that became inconvenient. Via The Hockey Schtick, which provides this excerpt from the beginning of the study

Between the 10th and 14th centuries AD, earth’s average global temperature may have been warmer than it is today, according to the analyses of Lamb (1977, 1984, 1988) and Grove (1988). The existence of this Medieval Warm Period was initially deduced from historical weather records and proxy climate data from England and Northern Europe. Interestingly, the warmer conditions associated with this interval of time are also known to have had a largely beneficial impact on earth’s plant and animal life. In fact, the environmental conditions of this time period have been determined to have been so favorable that it was often referred to as the Little Climatic Optimum (Imbrie and Imbrie, 1979; Dean, 1994; Petersen, 1994; Serre-Bachet, 1994; Villalba, 1994)

At the end of the day, then, it would indeed appear that the peak warmth of the global Medieval Warm Period clearly exceeded that of the global Current Warm Period.

There is lots of information, bring lots and lots of studies together. We find out things like China being around 1.0C higher in temperature, the tree lines where higher and tree rings bigger in North America, suggesting higher temps. “Other data document vast glacial retreats during the MWP in parts of South America, Scandinavia, New Zealand and Alaska (Grove and Switsur, 1994; Villalba, 1994); and ocean-bed cores suggest that global sea surface temperatures were warmer then as well (Keigwin, 1996a, 1996b).” I hate pulling quotes from PDF’s, since they require massive reformatting, so I suggest you read it all. Just 23 pages long. I will pull two more, though.

In the area of human enterprise, the climatic conditions of the MWP proved providential. The Arctic ice pack, for example, substantially retreated, allowing the settlement of both Iceland and Greenland; while alpine passes normally blocked with snow and ice became traversable, opening trade routes between Italy and Germany (Crowley and North, 1991). Contemporaneously, on the northern Colorado Plate au in America, the Anasazi Indian civilization reached its climax, as warmer temperatures and better soil moisture conditions allowed them to farm a region twice as large as is presently possible (MacCracken et al ., 1990).

Huh.

In further discussing their findings, Perry and Hsu commented that “current global warming commonly is attributed to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.” However, as they continued, “geophysical, archaeological, and historical evidence is consistent with warming and cooling periods during the Holocene as indicated by the solar-output model.” And they thus concluded that the idea of “the modern temperature increase being caused solely by an increase in CO2 concentrations appears questionable.”

Of course, nothing will dissuade our Warmist brethren from their Beliefs, because this is a political issue for them, not a scientific one.

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Jonathan Gruber Totally Regrets Saying Americans Are Stupid …. In First Video

By William Teach November 12, 2014 – 8:25 am

That’s right, there are two videos

(Mediaite) Jonathan Gruber, MIT professor and so-called architect of Obamacare, is walking back year-old remarks that the health care system overhaul passed only because of a “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity of the American voter.”

On MSNBC Tuesday, Gruber told Ronan Farrowthat he “spoke inappropriately” when he made the comments, which surfaced this week in an online video.

“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” Gruber said. “I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments.”

He never actually apologizes nor says he’s sorry, he just regrets the comments. And was inappropriate. Probably because he got caught. Well, not probably. You know he meant it when he said it.

And then this happened

(Daily Caller) Fox News’ Megyn Kelly was the first to air the video on her program, “The Kelly File.” Kelly played the video of Gruber appearing on MSNBC’s “Ronan Farrow Daily” apologizing for his earlier remarks. “I was speaking off the cuff and I spoke inappropriately, and I regret making those comments,” he said.

“But now tonight,” Kelly reported, ” more video has surfaced showing this was not the first time Mr. Gruber called the American people stupid in an ‘off-the-cuff’ remark. In this next clip from also last year, Mr. Gruber explains how Democrats played with the language of the Obamacare law so that it achieved their goals, by again, fooling the stupid public.”

She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because “the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.”

Kelly didn’t say much about the background of the clip, but the video appears to be from a lecture Gruber gave at Washington University in St. Louis in October of last year, entitled “Cost of Health Care.” Indeed, Gruber’s remarks can be heard around the 31-minute mark of the University’s video of the event.

So, if the first was just an off-the-cuff remark, what is the second?

Protein Wisdom makes an interesting point

Each time the repeal bill is passed and Obama vetoes it, the leadership from both Houses should call press conferences highlighting Obama’s obstructionism in service to a law one of its architects boasted only passed thanks to the stupidity of American voters and a concerted effort by those who drafted it to keep it confusing and to make its redistributive attributes as non-transparent as they could. They should note that sweeping GOP gains in the House and a comfortable control of the Senate — along with changes in governorships and state asssemblies favoring the GOP — represents a mandate to repeal the unpopular and financially devastating law, with many of those who unseated Democrats having run on the repeal of ObamaCare. They should refer time and time again to the denigration of the American electorate by one of the law’s main architects (who also was an architect of RomneyCare, for those of you who are interested in such things), and reprising the key phrases Gruber used, first, about the “stupidity of the American voter” and second, how a “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage” when trying to fool the electorate.

Liberals really do think the rest of the American public is stupid, and that they Know What’s Best For Everyone Else. I suggest that the GOP call the repeal bills Democrats Think Americans Are Stupid Obamacare Repeal Act.

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