Big Government Really Concerned About School Bake Sales

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 2:35 pm

When Conservatives discuss the federal government being too big and too powerful, too nannying and a continued overreach, this is a perfect example

At Chapman School in Nebraska, resourceful students hawk pizza and cookie dough to raise money for school supplies, field trips and an eighth-grade excursion to Washington. They peddle chocolate bars to help fund the yearbook.

But the sales won’t be so sweet starting this fall. Campus bake sales—a mainstay of school fundraisers—are going on a diet. A federal law that aims to curb childhood obesity means that, in dozens of states, bake sales must adhere to nutrition requirements that could replace cupcakes and brownies with fruit cups and granola bars.

The restrictions that took effect in July stem from the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act championed by first lady Michelle Obama and her “Let’s Move!” campaign. The law overhauled nutrition standards affecting more than 30 million children. Among the changes: fatty french fries were out, while baked sweet potato fries were deemed to be fine.

The law also required the U.S. Department of Agriculture to set standards for all food and beverages sold during the school day, which includes vending machines, snack carts and daytime fundraisers. It allowed for “infrequent” fundraisers, and states were allowed to decide how many bake sales they would have that didn’t meet nutrition standards. (snip)

Each state can mandate the number of daytime fundraisers held each year that buck the nutrition requirements. But so far, 32 states have opted to stay strictly in the healthy zone, according to a draft report from the School Nutrition Association, which said the final number could change before the school year begins.

It’s just too much of a pain for States to give the waivers. Not all of them are Blue states, either. Some Red states have decided it’s too much trouble.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a golf course that uses too much water, which means climate change problems, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Black & Right, with a post on what some military members were ordered to do during Ramadan.

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Physicians Say New EPA Rules Target The Poor

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 10:44 am

Oh, come on, this shouldn’t matter, cause we’re trying to save the earth!!!!!!

Physicians For Civil Defense – New Climate Rules Unfairly Target The Poor

Last week’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearings in Atlanta on rules intended to “dramatically cut emissions” from coal-fired electricity generating stations were as contentious as expected.

The new rules are claimed to try prevent long-term climate change, including hotter summers and more intense storms – but the US has already done that, American energy sector CO2 emissions are back at early 1990s levels and coal is at early 1980s level. Yet global emissions have not gone down because China, India and Mexico, all exempt from climate treaty efforts, offset the reduction in the U.S.

The most dramatic cuts from the new rules will come from shutting plants down because they cannot pay the enormous cost of meeting the new rules. It will be impossible for many plants to comply at all which makes the Obama administration’s solar power agenda more economically, though primarily by causing its competitors to skyrocket in cost. That hurts poor people the most.

“Environmentalist demonstrators will go home,” stated Jane Orient, M.D., president of Physicians for Civil Defense. “They will do nothing to help poor people in Georgia cope with their lowered standard of living.”

Coal generates about 39% of electricity nationwide—and more than 60% in Georgia. The Climate Reality Project, which favors any rules that hurt existing energy, offered free Ben and Jerry’s ice cream to demonstrators.

“Poor and unemployed people won’t be eating ice cream when their power gets cut off,” stated Jane Orient, M.D., president of Physicians for Civil Defense. “And when the price of energy goes up, the price of everything goes up.”

It won’t be just the poor, but the middle class which will suffer. The only people who won’t suffer are the very rich people who are heavily pushing Hotcoldwetdry. Warmists will tell you that the poor will suffer if Hotcoldwetdry occurs, but their very policy prescriptions will be the most damaging. Especially when we have an almost 18 year pause in warming.

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Dem: Attack On Nancy Pelosi Was “Sexist”

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 8:08 am

You know Democrats are in the wrong when they start throwing out words like racist, bigot, homophobe, sexist, and others

(The Hill) Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is calling the attack during the immigration debate on House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “sexist.”

On MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” late Monday, Schakowsky was asked to react to Rep. Tom Marino’s (R-Pa.) comments toward Pelosi in which he suggested she bore some of the blame for the border crisis.

“I would say that it’s sexist and that it was patronizing. ‘Do the research, Madam Leader.’ And he got exactly what he deserved. And then for him to claim, ‘I was the tough guy. I’m a street fighter.’ Really? On the floor of the House?” she said.

First of all, it wasn’t an “attack”: it was a legitimate policy debate, with Pelosi have a snit fit, going apoplectic, and breaking House rules to force a confrontation. Second, Pelosi didn’t do the research. Remember, this was the same lady who said we had to pass the bill (Ocare) to find out what is in it.

Pelosi has some pretty thin skin for someone who has been in politics for such a long time. Furthermore, Nancy Pelosi has shown a mean streak many, many times, along with being out in La La Land. Hey, remember the time she said she thought it was unAmerican to enforce immigration law? Or accused ICE of terrorizing illegal aliens? She’s the one who said that 500 million jobs would be lost if the Stimulus wasn’t passed. She and her party have referred to Republicans as jihadists, terrorists, and arsonists. She and her party attack Conservative women willy nilly. A Democrat strategist just attacked Mitch McConnell’s wife

A Democratic operative deleted her Twitter account Monday following a series of what some called racist remarks about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao.

Chao, former U.S. Labor Secretary under President George W. Bush, is Asian.

Kathy Groob, who describes herself as an “advocate for women in politics,” sent a series of tweets related to Chao at a political event Saturday.

According to WKMS, Groob sent the tweets in response to comments McConnell made at the event, in which he referred to his wife as “the only Kentucky woman who served in a president’s cabinet.”

Was it racists? No. Sexist? Possibly. Was it a typical Democrat blankhole comment, intolerant? You betcha.

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Poll: Americans Support Israel Actions 42% To 38%

By William Teach August 5, 2014 – 7:23 am

What does this mean? That 38% are Israel haters

(Politico) A slim plurality of Americans believe Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, a new poll says.

According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 42 percent of Americans say Israel’s actions against Hamas are justified, compared with 38 percent who say they are unjustified. (WT note: 21% have no opinion)

By contrast, only 14 percent of Americans believe that Hamas’ actions against Israel are justified, with 66 percent saying they are unjustified.

U.S. public opinion on the matter has barely moved from when Gallup last tracked the question 10 days ago.

So, 38% are idiots. I wonder how they would feel if it was, say, Canada lobbing missiles into the U.S. or people sneaking across the southern border….oh, right, these people already support that kind of lawless action. But, it’s no wonder so many feel Israel is unjustified in protecting itself when major (left leaning) media outlets print Palestinian/Hamas propaganda like this

(NY Times) In the eyes of an occupying power, the humanity of those under its thumb depends on the degree of their submission to, or collaboration with, the occupation. If the occupied population chooses to stand in the way of the occupier’s goals, then they are demonized, which allows the occupier the supposed moral excuse of confronting them with all possible means, no matter how harsh.

The Israeli occupation of Palestine is one of the only remaining settler-colonial occupations in the world today.

And it is not limited to East Jerusalem and the West Bank: Although Israel withdrew its settlers and army from Gaza in 2005, it is still recognized by the United Nations as an occupying power, due to its complete control of Gaza’s airspace, sea access and of almost all of its land borders. (snip)

There is now an extremist, racist ideological current in Israel that not only justifies the recent onslaught on the Gaza Strip, but actually encourages the use of enormous and disproportionate violence against civilians, which has led to the extermination of entire families. (snip)

If Israel wants to continue its occupation and hinder Palestinians’ path to freedom and independence, then it should be aware that the Palestinian people will continue to resist with all the means at their disposal. If Israel intends to end the occupation, then it will find that the Palestinians are more than ready for an agreement.

That op-ed was written by Ali Jarbawi, a political scientist at Birzeit University and a former minister of the Palestinian Authority. The Times even went so far as to translate it. Not once does it mention the violence and threats from groups like Hamas. No mention of the tunnels nor rocket fire. No mention of the violent terrorist attacks. This is much of what the American public sees, blame of Israel, little blame on Hamas.

At the Washington Post, David Ignatius attempts to put all the burden on Netanyahu for a long term peace, virtually excusing Hamas. While there have certainly been a few articles and opinion pieces in favor of Israel, most tend to slam Israel, to put the burden for peace on Israel, and excuse Hamas.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Special Feminist Snowflakes Really Psyched Over Unshaven Armpits

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 6:34 pm

To go with other unshaven body parts

(London Evening Standard) It’s time for the arm-bush ambush. Summer is a time when most women unquestioningly invest a lot of time, money and pain in hair removal, but many of London’s young feminists are becoming part of a growing revival. While this year has been declared “the year of the bush” for our lower regions, many women think that particular forest is old territory. Recently, outspoken trendsetting ladies (and uh… Madonna) have started cultivating their underarm gardens.

Many will recoil in horror at the thought of a woman’s unshaven pit. However, at a time when the most admired female faces are unashamedly bold, such as Cara Delevingne’s, it isn’t surprising that it’s increasingly cool for women to do something different.

I stopped shaving my armpits last year after my friend Alexis Calvas, 22, who hadn’t shaved for months, told me she was forced to remove her underarm hair or be fired from a dance-teaching job. It made me wonder why I mindlessly conformed to this fabricated part of feeling feminine. After a few months of shyly growing, I began to realise that we weren’t the only women binning our razors.

Uh huh

The underground armpit hair trend is sprouting all over London, where carefree young women are proudly presenting natural fuzz, often (less naturally) dyed in all colours of the rainbow. This is partly thanks to social media, which has allowed women to share images and stories about their bodies. But armpit hair is even growing within the fashion industry.

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Oops: Fossil Fuels Hating Natue Conservancy Makes Oodles Of Money Off Fossil Fuels

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 1:38 pm

Well, hey, they have no choice!

(NY Times) The nation’s largest environmental group is earning money from an oil well on land it controls in Texas, despite pledging a decade ago not to permit new oil and gas drilling on land supposedly set aside for conservation.

That revelation is contained in a forthcoming book about climate change by the writer and activist Naomi Klein, and the essential facts of the case were confirmed last week by the Nature Conservancy, the environmental group in question.

The Nature Conservancy — which says it helps protect about 20 million acres in the United States — argues that it has had no choice in the case of the well. Under the terms of a lease it signed years ago with an oil and gas company and later came to regret, the group says it had to permit the drilling of the well in 2007.

They could have sold the permit. They could have done terminated the lease. But, like so many “environmental” groups, they need the cold hard cash for their operations. Their investment policy makes it clear that they won’t invest in any company

  • That derive 5 percent or more of their revenue from the production of coal or oil sands (the highest emitting fossil fuels); or
  • That approve new coal-fired electric generating capacity, unless equipped with carbon capture and storage technology to mitigate CO2 emissions.

They say they will be divested of all that do not meet the criteria by 2014. But, as Klein noted in May 2013

What we know:
-Refused to answer any questions or to provide any details about its holdings or policies
-Financial statements reveal it has at least $22.8 million invested in the energy
sector
-Has relationships with fossil fuel companies including: BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell
Considering divestment?
-No comment

I can’t find one article that shows that the Nature Conservatory has divested. Of course, since they pretty much keep their holdings secret, it is hard to check.

This is not to say they are bad organization. They’ve done great work regarding real environmental issues. At the end of the day, though, the Nature Conservancy, like most environmental groups, are hypocrites when it comes to fossil fuels.

 

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible titanium golf club which can cause wildfires, made worse by climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on who we can trust regarding gun laws.

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New Pause Excuse? Pacific Trade Winds Blamed For Stalling Global Warming

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 10:33 am

Is this a new excuse, or a miss-mash of previous Excuseifying?

(phys.org) Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed over the past 13 years.

New research published today in the journal Nature Climate Change indicates that the dramatic acceleration in winds has invigorated the circulation of the Pacific Ocean, causing more heat to be taken out of the atmosphere and transferred into the subsurface , while bringing cooler waters to the surface.

“Scientists have long suspected that extra ocean heat uptake has slowed the rise of global , but the mechanism behind the hiatus remained unclear” said Professor Matthew England, lead author of the study and a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

Good news, though

“But the heat uptake is by no means permanent: when the trade wind strength returns to normal – as it inevitably will – our research suggests heat will quickly accumulate in the atmosphere. So global temperatures look set to rise rapidly out of the hiatus, returning to the levels projected within as little as a decade.”

This is all very cute: they’ve managed to blame Mankind for increasing the temperature of the Atlantic, which super-charges the Pacific trade winds, causing the surface warmth to hide in the deep oceans (snicker), and this leads to fewer El Nino events, so, man is messing with natural events. But, hey, nature will eventually reassert itself, and we’ll all of a sudden have massive warming. Which is supposedly still caused by Mankind, ya know!

Cult.

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President Kumbaya “Wants To Pit White House Against Mean Congress”

By William Teach August 4, 2014 – 8:57 am

Nice to see that The Hill is about 5 years late on this notion

The White House’s emerging strategy for the midterm elections is to run against a “mean” Congress.

President Obama has made that tack known more than ever in recent days.

In the last week, he’s accused Republicans of getting into disagreements with themselves over the border supplemental and for not being able to pass “plain vanilla” legislation.

He asked them to “stop hating” and “being mad all the time.” And he mocked House Republicans for suing him and added, “And I said to Speaker Boehner, tell your caucus the best way to avoid me acting on my own is work with me to actually do something. Then you don’t have to worry about it.”

Just as important as Obama’s words are his gestures and style.

The president is in his wheelhouse when he’s in campaign mode, and during the Kansas City address he was frequently joking and smiling with the crowds.

This has been Obama’s strategy pretty much from Day 1. He’s never left the campaign trail. Where is his proposed legislation? We need more than a couple brief ideas placed on sticky notes. The only fully developed plans he’s offered over the past few years, things that could be voted on, have been his budgets, which have been so bad that Democrat call it a political stunt when Republicans have forced votes on those budgets.

Obama should be very careful in his inflammatory rhetoric, as citizens might actually see that it is Senate Democrats who are the problem

Republicans say a do-nothing Senate and Obama are the reasons for Washington’s inaction.

“The reality is, there are 330 bills sitting in the Democrat-controlled Senate waiting for the Democrats to act,” Kukowski said.

Actually, let Obama not be careful, that way citizens will hear Obama complaining followed by the GOP messaging of Senate Democrats refusing to allow votes on House passed legislation. The Obama whines will not help vulnerable Democrats in 2014, but, really, by all appearances, Obama doesn’t care. He sees everything as being about himself. He’s a petty man, with pathetic leadership skills, and his agenda and work ethic are pathetic. If the GOP regains control of the Senate, he doesn’t care, as this will allow himself to be the Nasty Man he likes to be. So much for “changing the way Washington works” and creating a “post-partisans Washington”. So much for bringing people together. He’s divided the country beyond belief.

If he’s running against a “mean Congress”, it makes him sound like an angst ridden Emo teenager rejected by his schoolmates and always picked last for every activity.

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