If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible windy world because Someone Else refused to buy local, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Power, with a post on how many illegals are actually “unaccompanied”

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Australia Axes The Carbon Tax

By William Teach July 17, 2014 – 10:00 am

Climate Depot gives this the “champagne glass cheer”

(SMH) Australia on Thursday became the first country in the world to abolish a price on carbon, with the Senate passing the government’s repeal bills 39 votes to 32. After two weeks of negotiations, and several false starts, the Abbott government achieved its long-held ambition to axe the tax, to applause from government senators.

The previous Labor led government was demolished, both in the 2012 Queensland elections and the 2013 full Australia elections, mainly due to the carbon tax legislation. Don’t fully rejoice, because Abbott is still kind a warmist

Speaking after the vote in the Senate, Mr Abbott rejoiced at the passage of the repeal bills, declaring “today the Parliament finally listened. Today the tax that you voted to get rid of is finally gone.”

Mr Abbott said he did not accept that with the carbon price now abolished, and legislation needed for Direct Action yet to pass the Senate, his government was leaving Australia without a mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“We are a government which absolutely appreciates that we have only got one planet and we should pass it on to our children and grandchildren in at least as good shape as we found it,” he said.

“So we are a conservationist government and we will do what we think is the sensible thing to try to bring emissions down.”

Mr Abbott expressed confidence the government could still find support for its plan to pay polluters to reduce their emissions, despite a hostile reception from Labor, the Greens and crossbenchers to Direct Action.

Bad ideas are still bad ideas, and Warmists will always look for new ones to make Other People pay for their beliefs.

Obviously, there was lots of caterwauling from Labor and the Green Party, who learned nothing from their defeats at the hands of the voters, and care little for the People fo Australia

(ABC Australia) (Mr. Abbott) says households will benefit on average by $550 a year from the repeal, with gas prices to fall by 7 per cent and electricity prices by 9 per cent.

Consumers are also going to see rebates from Energy Australia thanks to the repeal of the carbon tax, because, surprise, consumers were paying for the carbon tax within their bills. Other Aussie energy companies are taking the same action. And the government is going to monitor businesses to make sure that their prices comply with the removal of the carbon tax. This is also expected to boost consumer confidence.

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Obama: The World Is Complex And Challenging Or Something

By William Teach July 17, 2014 – 8:26 am

Mr. Obama apparently missed where his spokesweasel, Josh Earnest, said that Obama has made the world more tranquil. Obama is pretty depressing, according to the AP

Obama Sums Up The State Of The World In One Depressing Sentence

After President Barack Obama breathlessly addressed four different foreign-policy issues during a 10-minute statement, he summed up the state of a crisis-filled world in one sentence.

“We live in a complex world and at a challenging time,” Obama said.

Obama touched on the laundry list of global flashpoints situations during a statement from the White House on Wednesday — the disputed elections in Afghanistan, the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and, finally, the conflict in Ukraine.

We do live in a complex world. If only we had a President who was up to the job.

“None of these challenges lend themselves to quick or easy solutions, but all of them require American leadership,” Obama said. “I’m confident if we stay patient and determined that we will, in fact, meet these challenges.”

Yes, they do require American leadership. Hence the reason Obama hits the campaign trail and the golf course when something occurs. Truly great leaders don’t make excuses, they don’t Blamestorm, they don’t yammer constantly about “I”. They lead. They get things done. They get heavily involved. The job, and what’s happening in it, is entirely too complex for Mr. Obama. Joe Biden was exactly right, the White House does not lend itself to on the job training. That said, the world is only as complex as one makes it, and Obama turns easy issues into complex ones, because he’s in over his head, even after 5+ years on the job.

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White House Spokesweasel: Illegals Privacy Trumps American Right To Know

By William Teach July 17, 2014 – 7:56 am

Wonderful

(Daily Caller) The White House won’t reveal where it is housing thousands of Central American juvenile migrants because their privacy rights trump Americans’ right to know what‘s happening in their neighborhoods, press secretary Josh Earnest declared July 16.

“The public does have a right to know what’s happening… [but] at the same time, there are privacy rights that are included in the law that this administration is committed to enforcing and following,” Earnest told Ed Henry, Fox News’ White House correspondent.

“We are not surprised in the least to see the Obama administration imitate the smugglers,” William Gheen, founder of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, told The Daily Caller. “This is how smuggling operations work, this is what the smuggler-in-chief wants — secret planes and secret buses full of illegal immigrants.”

No one should be surprised by this. The Obama administration hasn’t seemed particularly concerned with the privacy rights of Americans, vis a vis the NSA spying scandal and the IRS scandal, among others, nor has the administration been particularly transparent on most things. They just don’t want the American people to know what is happening. Ed Henry also had another exchange with Earnest

(The Blaze) White House press secretary Josh Earnest refused to say whether or not the Obama administration thinks the border is secure, despite being repeatedly pressed on the question at Wednesday’s daily briefing.

“Is the border today secure?” asked Fox News’ Ed Henry.

“The issue we’re seeing today at the border—,” Earnest said before being interrupted by Henry.

“Is the border secure?” Henry pressed.

“Well, I will tell you there are more resources that are dedicated to this border right now, and securing it, than there ever have been,” Earnest replied. “The issue that we’re seeing right now is not individuals attempting to evade detection by Border Patrol, what we’re seeing right now are people coming to the border and turning themselves over to Border Patrol.”

Henry asked two more times, and did not get a straight answer. Par for the course for Team Obama.

On the bright side, Democrats are ramping up their rhetoric regarding opposition to illegal immigrants, claiming it’s all about hate. Here’s a good example, via Weasel Zippers

CAROL COUNTY – Maryland State Police have classified anti-immigration graffiti spray painted on the former Army Reserve Center in Westminster as a hate crime.

The graffiti was sprayed sometime Saturday night or early Sunday morning, according to Lt. Patrick McCrory, commander of the state police Westminster barracks. The graffiti said “NO ILLEAGLES [sic] HERE NO UNDOCUMENTED DEMOCRATS.” (snip)

McCrory said the graffiti was being considered a hate crime because of its racial message.

“This is definitely a racial, religious, ethnic incident,” McCrory said.

The idea is to criminalize Free Speech in order to shut it down. Typical of the fascist Left.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Man With World’s Largest Carbon Footprint Releases Climate Change Initiatives

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 2:42 pm

Obviously, none have to do with him taking a break from all that massive fossil fueled travel to campaign and play golf

(NY Times) President Obama will announce a series of climate change initiatives on Wednesday aimed at guarding the electricity supply; improving local planning for flooding, coastal erosion and storm surges; and better predicting landslide risks as sea levels rise and storms and droughts intensify.

The actions, involving a variety of federal agencies, were among the recommendations of the president’s State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness, a group of 26 officials who have worked since November to develop the proposals.

Good thing there are no other pressing concerns in the country and world, wouldn’t you say?

Anyhow, this is all about spending lots and lots of taxpayer money while giving The Central Government more and more power within states and local communities. For instance

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today launched a Green Infrastructure Collaborative among government agencies, NGOs, and other private sector entities to advance green stormwater infrastructure.  Green infrastructure, such as urban forests and rooftop gardens, can be used as an important tool for building resilience to climate change impacts such as increased precipitation and heat island effects. Federal agencies will provide funding assistance in at least 25 communities across the country for green infrastructure projects, technical assistance to create integrated green stormwater management and hazard mitigation plans, and recognition and awards programs for innovative green infrastructure projects. Agencies will also add guidance on green infrastructure to existing Department of Transportation (DOT) and Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) peer-to-peer exchange and training programs. The partnership will also provide a platform for conducting research on increasing affordability and effectiveness, sharing best practices, and developing actionable planning tools that decision-makers have been seeking.

Anyone think that this won’t create massive mission creep, as the EPA demands and requires certain actions? Then there’s this

Accounting for Climate Change in Hazard Mitigation Planning.  To ensure that States are preparing for the impacts of climate change, FEMA will release new guidance for State Hazard Mitigation Plans that calls upon States to consider climate variability as part of their requirement to address the probability of future events in state planning efforts.

Many states, such as North Carolina, refuse to play the Warmists game, and this would further encroach on the 10th Amendment rights, continuing to make states subservient and controlled by Los Federales.

Despite the pushback from coal country, Mr. Obama hopes to build political support for the plan by highlighting the local damage that climate change is expected to cause.

Good luck with that. First, Obama’s method of building support is to insult, denigrate, demean, and just generally be a jerk to those who do not agree with him. Second, few people care.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible windy world made worse because someone refused to turn their A/C up a few degrees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on who should actually be impeached.

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Could California Split Into Six States?

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 12:38 pm

That’s the plan

(Time) Supporters of a long-shot measure that would split California into six states plan to submit 1.3 million signatures to election officials on July 15. The quixotic effort, spearheaded by venture capitalist Tim Draper, needs officials to deem at least 807,615 of those signatures valid in order to qualify for the November 2016 election.

Why valid? John Conyers didn’t need valid signatures?

If every signature were valid, that would mean one in about every 30 Californians is ready to cleft America’s most populous state into sixths—or at least vote on the issue in two years. The borders would be established along county lines outlined in the proposal, creating the states of Jefferson, North California, Silicon Valley, Central California, West California and South California.

Why do this?

Draper, known for successful investments in companies such as Hotmail and Skype, told TIME about the inspiration behind his proposal in February:

The strongest argument for Six Californias is that we are not well-represented. The people down south are very concerned with things like immigration law and the people way up north are frustrated by taxation without representation. And the people in coastal California are frustrated because of water rights. And the people in Silicon Valley are frustrated because the government doesn’t keep up with technology. And in Los Angeles, their issues revolve around copyright law. Each region has its own interest, and I think California is ungovernable because they can’t balance all those interests. I’m looking at Six Californias as a way of giving California a refresh and allowing those states to both cooperate and compete with each other.

Those are some good points. This is actually well thought out (see the “in the proposal” link). Might this lead to similar measures in other states, even smaller ones?

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1%er Warmist Katrina vanden Heuvel Really Psyched Over Shutting Down Debate

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 11:22 am

Prick a Warmists and a fascist bleeds

The distorting reality of ‘false balance’ in the media

False equivalence in the media — giving equal weight to unsupported or even discredited claims for the sake of appearing impartial — is not unusual. But a major media organization taking meaningful steps to do something about it is.

Earlier this month, the BBC’s governing body issued a report assessing the BBC’s impartiality in covering scientific topics. When it comes to an issue like climate change, the report concluded, not all viewpoints share the same amount of scientific substance. Giving equal time and weight to a wide range of arguments without regard to their credibility risks creating a “false balance” in the public debate.

This is a lesson for all media on both sides of the Atlantic — and not just when it comes to science coverage. There are many sides to almost every story, but that doesn’t mean they are automatically equal.

The lesson is that dictators through the ages would be proud of this conduct. Of course, she yammers on about consensus, and ends with

Ultimately, forcing balance where there is none is not journalistically ethical. It’s not part of the proud and essential tradition of truth telling and evaluation, either. At best, it’s lazy. At worst, it’s an abdication of the media’s responsibility.

Rather than uncritically repeating talking points, isn’t it time for the media to take the BBC’s bold advice and exercise editorial judgment? Because if the scale tips in favor of the truth, that’s not imbalanced reporting. That’s journalism.

In other words, shut down the debate. Self censorship. It’s not enough that Skeptics are rarely allowed their say within the media to start with. Is there a counter opinion piece to Heuvel’s? No. She, like most Warmists, wants to institute their fascistic viewpoints, and stop the spread of anything that doesn’t fit in with their political cult.

From the comments

Is there anything more Orwellian than this. “False balance”, how about giving all the information and letting the reader make up his mind.

Say, when is Katrina going to give up her own Big Carbon Footprint lifestyle?

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Glenn Beck Is Sounding Quite A Bit Like Democrats

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 10:23 am

Don’t misunderstand: I like Glenn Beck, and will continue to listen in the a.m. Which I’ll do in about an hour when I head to the gym. His preaching does get a bit tiresome to me. This, though, is off the hook

I don’t think we’re going to be able to solve anything if we don’t stop yelling at each other and if we don’t stop accusing each other of hatred and racism. I really fear that we are on the edge of losing our country through this division if we don’t find ways to say, look, we all love the children, we all feel the same way…

There are a lot of people that are very upset because they think I’m going to be encouraging people to come here and that’s not true. It’s evil what’s happening to the children all the way around and then to have them being used for political purposes. I don’t care if it’s the left or the right that’s doing it. It is wrong, it is shameful, it’s un-American and it’s not the Christian thing to do.

Video of this is available at both the above link at Hot Air, where Allahpundit notes

One point I haven’t seen addressed in the hubbub over his charity effort is whether he’s planning the upcoming shipment of supplies as a one-time show of goodwill or as an ongoing mission of mercy to the border, with shipments at regular intervals. If it’s the latter, I hope he knows what he’s getting into. Anecdotal reports suggest there are a lot of kids who’ll soon be needing teddy bears and soccer balls.

Allahpundit notes what Ruben Navarrette has to say about the kids coming

My sources tell me that it is well-known that in the Rio Grande Valley, there are tens or even hundreds of thousands of people from Central America — mostly women and children — in northern Mexico right now, waiting for their chance to cross into the United States.

We should stop looking for an endpoint. This story has no end in sight.

Beck is entitled to his opinion, but to plat the un-American and un-Christian card is below pathetic. He has a good heart, and I applaud him for providing relief for the kids. It should also be noted that Beck has specifically stated multiple times (I’ve heard him say it live multiple times) that the kids should be repatriated, and we need to deal with the conditions that cause the children to come. The very fact is that this is a political issue, whether he wants it to be or not. It is not un-American nor un-Christian. But, it does sound much like something Democrats would say. A smattering of headlines

Beck is creating the same kind of guilt. Again, I applaud him for putting his conscience on the line, but he might be better served by no insulting people. Oh, and taking care of the illegals across the border as the tens of thousands line up in Mexico for a shot at being undocumented in America on their way to being entitled. Beck should consider that his smears are, in fact, political themselves. And people who throw stones…

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Democrats: We Aren’t Interested In Changing 2008 Immigration Law

By William Teach July 16, 2014 – 9:47 am

Remember this, less than half a month ago?

As part of an effort to stem the flood of children caught trying to cross the nation’s southwest border, President Obama is trying to change a 2008 law that dictates how the federal government handles those immigrant children in order to speed up their deportations.

Obama made a vague request for changes to federal law in a letter he wrote to congressional leaders on Monday. But a White House official confirmed on Wednesday that the administration is considering changes to the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, known as the TVPRA, to fast-track deportation decisions.

We already know that Senator Harry Reid (Democrat) opposes any changes. And lives in a fantasy world where he thinks the border is secure. What about the rest? Are they on a different page from Obama?

(The Hill) Democrats in the House and Senate said Tuesday they would oppose any changes to a 2008 human trafficking law Republicans have blamed for the wave of child immigrants crossing the border.

The opposition sets up a standoff and raises serious doubts about whether Congress will be able to act before its summer recess in response to what both parties argue is a humanitarian crisis.

Not all Democrats oppose changes. The legislation was written by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas). Some Democrats are willing to listen to what the legislation states. Many aren’t willing.

Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.), the highest-ranking Hispanic member of Congress, stopped short of saying he would oppose an entire funding bill if it amended the 2008 law. But he said Democrats aren’t interested in changing the law to expedite processing at the border.

“If it’s just change for the sake of returning kids, then what they’re essentially saying is, we’re trying to diminish the rights and protections we afford to children,” he said.

Perhaps he should tell that to Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Democrat, who said he doesn’t want them in his state. Perhaps he should tell that to the American People, but, then, so many care more about the Rule Of Man rather than the Rule Of Law.

The bill itself would simply speed up the hearing process, to see which kids are covered by the law. Democrats aren’t interested in that. They would prefer that the illegals, many of them gang members and/or imbued with disease(s), disappear into America so Democrats can push for amnesty.

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