If All You See…

By William Teach May 21, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is coffee that will be destroyed thanks to Hotcoldwetdry, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with few questions on cheating at golf.

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Warmists Psyched That North Korea Is Fighting “Climate Change”

By William Teach May 21, 2014 – 11:23 am

Obviously, we can forgive North Korea for being a repressive, lunatic, cult of personality, rogue nation if they’re fighting Hotcoldwetdry. Of course this has to come from the lunatic and super far left UK Guardian

North Korea: an unlikely champion in the fight against climate change

When we think of North Korea, we think of a nation determined to be an outsider in the international community. Whether it’s testing nuclear weapons or threatening London hairdressers, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is not usually associated with compliance.

But there is compelling evidence that the North Korean government is motivated by domestic power games to co-operate globally on climate change.

North Korea has a record of compliance with its obligations as a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The obvious question then is why the North Korean government would show such commitment to the international climate change regime, given its belligerent reputation in the strategic realm.

The most obvious link is between environmental degradation, the vulnerable agricultural system and the stability of governance in North Korea. The concept of climate change vulnerability is important there.

Climate change impacts – declining availability of food, water and energy, sea level rise, migration, and extreme weather events – pile more stress onto countries already at risk from internal instability and economic weakness.

Like many poor countries, North Korea, where such problems are endemic, is least able to cope with climate change impacts. These weaknesses include food insecurity, energy shortages, economic fragility and a rigid political system. So North Korea is using the UNFCCC as a vehicle for projects designed to increase agricultural output and build the resilience of the agricultural system to disasters.

This is so absurd it’s hard to fathom. NK doesn’t have a “food security” problem because of “climate change”: they have a food problem because of their insane government. This comes via Paul Homewood, who found the perfect comment prior to adding his own 3 cents

Ludicrous. Nowhere in the article do the words “communism”, “socialism” or “poverty” — three words that ought to be synonymous in the minds of anyone with a basic knowledge of 20th century history — appear, and the author goes on to ascribe North Korea’s food insecurity to climate change instead. The author simply cannot bring himself to go one step further and state the obvious: if the country were freer and more prosperous, not least by ending collectivist agriculture, it would be much more capable of dealing with the deleterious effects of climate change. North Korea’s ‘contribution’ to fighting climate change by keeping its people in penury while asking for handouts from the rest of the world is hardly a model of ‘progress’, no matter how cynical the author acknowledges its government’s motives to be. Beyond absurd.

Let’s not forget what Warmists want to make the world look like

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NC Really Concerned With Booger and Snot Graffiti

By William Teach May 21, 2014 – 10:01 am

Hey, they were asking for it

(Yahoo News) It will take more than tissues for police in a North Carolina town to take care of the mildly offending graffiti being spray-painted on businesses and signs.

Investigators say the words “snot” and “booger” have been painted on at least 20 different places this year in Cary.

Considering the state of education, I’m surprised they spelled them correctly. And, don’t blame me: I live completely on the other side of Raleigh from Cary.

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Hooray, President “I’m Madder Than Hell” Sends Political Aid To Investigate Phoenix VA

By William Teach May 21, 2014 – 7:07 am

If only Obama had some sort of law enforcement agency which is really, really good at investigating stuff at his beck and call

(Washington Post) One of President Obama’s top aides is being dispatched to Phoenix this week to investigate deaths allegedly connected to a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center there, part of the administration’s efforts to contain growing outrage over delays in treatment and accusations of rigged recordkeeping at veterans hospitals.

Rob Nabors, a White House deputy chief of staff, has been assigned to assist top VA officials in probing allegations of wrong­doing by staffers at the Phoenix facility and elsewhere, the White House said Tuesday. He will be meeting with Arizona hospital officials Thursday after gathering Wednesday with representatives from several veterans groups in Washington, officials said. (big snip)

Veterans Affairs’ inspector general is looking into allegations by a former Phoenix clinic director that up to 40 veterans died while waiting for treatment at a VA hospital while staffers disguised the wait times that patients faced. The inspector general told a Senate hearing last week that his initial probe has found no evidence that delays caused the deaths. Shinseki is conducting his own review with the help of Nabors.

So, we essentially have insiders and political employees investigating what may very well be criminal wrongdoing at the Phoenix VA. There are now (at least) nine VA clinics involved in this growing scandal. Destruction of evidence is a crime. Yet, we still haven’t heard directly from POTUS Obama. We’re told he’ll address it “soon”. For an administration whose campaign messaging was one of the best ever, how can their communications in office be so pitiful? Perhaps this goes back to the notion that Obama likes to Be president, not Do president. Citizens are outraged over this scandal, yet Obama is, as usual, mostly absent. Why not take forceful, meaningful action? This boggles the mind. Ron Christie wrote

What is most shocking to me about the VA tempest is that it repeats a pattern of conduct we’ve seen from the president and his administration. Obama ran for president and asked Americans to hire him for another term based on his leadership skills, temperament, and ability to produce results. Instead, we’ve seen the president and his team evade responsibility (and with a tiresome frequency) for areas in which they are directly responsible, parse words in an attempt to mislead, and otherwise duck long enough for the political storm of the moment to pass over for sunnier days ahead. (snip)

A real leader stands up, accepts responsibility, and moves swiftly to fix management problems. A coward blames others, fails to accept responsibility, and reveals himself as small and not up to the duty and obligation to those he was elected to serve. The American people will discover in short order whether the president steps up to lead our returning heroes in the military to ensure they receive the medical care they have earned or whether he cowers to serve his political ambitions rather than accept responsibility. If he does the former, he will be justly applauded—if he does the latter the American people will be madder than hell at him for failing our veterans when they needed him the most. If Obama’s past actions are any indication of what we can expect he’ll do to resolve the scandalous mismanagement at the VA, I believe his standing with the American people will continue to erode to due to his failure to lead decisively.

Even after watching the Obama admin, and Obama himself, over the past 5+ years, it’s hard to fathom what is going through his mind on this scandal. He could have easily gotten ahead of it, come out with a speech, announced a real investigation, gotten heavily involved, and resolved the issue. That would have earned him some serious brownie points and seen his approval ratings rise. Yet, virtually nothing. He sends a political appointee to investigate. His response, or, rather, lack thereof, just boggles the mind.

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FBI Considers Allowing Marijuana Use For Cyber-crime Recruits

By William Teach May 21, 2014 – 6:47 am

It’s not like the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the nations top law enforcement agency, charged with enforcing the law, and marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug, illegal per federal law. Heck, Los Federales have placed restrictions on people using federal waters to grow marijuana.

(WSJ) FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring those who like to smoke marijuana.

Congress has authorized the FBI to add 2,000 personnel to its rolls this year, and many of those new recruits will be assigned to tackle cyber crimes, a growing priority for the agency. And that’s a problem, Mr. Comey told the White Collar Crime Institute, an annual conference held at the New York City Bar Association in Manhattan. A lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.

“I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” Mr. Comey said.

Mr. Comey said that the agency was “grappling with the question right now” of how to amend the agency’s marijuana policies, which excludes from consideration anyone who has smoked marijuana in the previous three years, according to the FBI’s Web site. One conference goer asked Mr. Comey about a friend who had shied away from applying because of the policy. “He should go ahead and apply,” despite the marijuana use, Mr. Comey said.

There’s no indication whether this would apply to allowing those who are users of marijuana to continue using while employed, or simply changing the policy which states that anyone who has used it within the last 3 years should not bother applying for a job. I suspect Mr. Comey means to allow the hackers to continue using while working. But, hey, in the era of Obama, one shouldn’t really expect federal agencies to follow the law, should they?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Surprise: Warmists Tend To Have Much Bigger “Carbon Footprints”

By William Teach May 20, 2014 – 4:16 pm

So claims the guy who created a web app to track your carbon footprint

(Grist) Ian Monroe wants you to beat your Facebook friends at a new game: Who has the lowest carbon footprint?

Monroe is the CEO of Oroeco, a recently launched web app that tracks a user’s personal impact on climate change. The app not only helps you quantify your own footprint — based on your spending habits, made possible through linking up with Mint.com — but by logging in with Facebook it’ll allow you to compare your carbon sins with those of your virtual community. Ultimately, Monroe wants to motivate users to emit a little (or a lot) less greenhouse gas. In other words, go ahead and feel green – with envy, that is.

Grist’s Samantha Larson interviewed Mr. Monroe, and here’s the very first excerpt

Something that comes as a shock to a lot of our users: The average person who says they care about climate change actually has a substantially worse than average footprint. Generally that’s because they tend to have a bit more money, and they tend to be people who like to think of themselves as multicultural and like to get out and see the world. Which means that they’re flying around a lot, and all that flying generally outweighs any other green lifestyle choices that they’ve made. You have a lot of people who are using reusable bags and water bottles, driving a Prius, maybe eating a bit more of a veggie friendly diet. But then they’re flying to Bali or South Africa or something once a year. They end up having a larger carbon footprint than a conservative guy who drives an SUV in the suburbs of Atlanta but doesn’t fly anywhere.

Color me shocked!

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 20, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible assault rifle firing lead bullets which cause the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Liberal Land, our buddy Alan Colmes, with a post that is either disturbing or groan-worthy hilarious, regarding an ATM machine and sex.

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Will Godzilla Start A Revival Of Monster Movies?

By William Teach May 20, 2014 – 12:03 pm

And by a revival, we’re talking about remaking many of the old ones, from the start of film making through really about the early 1960’s. That’s the question that was discussed briefly on WTTK here in Raleigh.

The genre never really went away. There are certainly movies here and there. Some are remakes. Ho many vampire movies have there been? Werewolves? King Kong was remade for the 2nd time a few years ago. Personally, I like the one with Faye Dunnaway the best.
Can you remake those old ones for the theaters? Good question. Something like Tarantula might work. Others, like The Tingled, might not, even as a fun summer flick. Making them for a network like SciFi or Chiller might be better. Lord knows SciFi needs some quality movies, instead of the normal drek.

Could many be remade without being silly or modern preachy, hosed much like was done with Noah? And be interesting for modern movie goers, who would shell out quite a bit more than decades ago? Would the subject matter interest them? Here’s some to consider:

Creature from the Black Lagoon: I never really like the original. The concept was great, but rather schlocky.

Phantom of the Oprah? Hunchback of Notre Dame? Nosferatu, done properly, to really scare the crap out of people, give them a serious case of the willies, would be good.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Kinda have that with the Hulk. The Invisible Man? That could be tough, unless set in an earlier era. Need to see and feel the madness.

Black Cat and Black Sabbath might be good. How about a modern version of The Blob?

If Hollywood wants to reach in the bag for remakes, why not use good material? Sometimes people just want to see a fun film without a deep message, though, of course, so many of those 50’s movies were linked to the Cold War and nuclear weapons. Like Them. Would one want to remake Jaws? How about campy stuff like Blood Beach? They remade Piranha, which was silly, campy, lots of gratuitous nudity, and hearkened back the 70’s and early 80’s movies, attempting to be fun, along with scary and gory.

Mummies are kinda out at the moment. The one with Brendan Frasier was great. How about a proper Wolfman? The recent one was bad. Would The Skull or It Came From Beneath The Sea work? Hey, maybe an American version of The Host?

What do you think? Anything you’d like to see remade, if done well? What’s your favorite monster movie? Could Godzilla bring on a Renaissance?

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Hooray! You Can Fast To Stop Climate Change Typhoons!

By William Teach May 20, 2014 – 11:04 am

It’s all so simple

(Yahoo News) Could fasting once a month make a difference when it comes to climate change? That’s the question behind a growing global movement coalescing around the hashtag #fastfortheclimate.

Remember Typhoon Haiyan? The colossal superstorm, by some estimates the largest typhoon ever to make landfall, decimated parts of the Philippines last November. Although it left more than 6,000 dead and displaced millions, for a lot of us the tragedy passed like these things often do: A flurry of heartbreaking reports and terrible images for a few days, only to disappear from the headlines and slip into a kind of half-forgotten memory.

Is this reminding anyone of a pesudo-religion? Fasting, then linking a typhoon to the issue behind the reason to fast.

“In solidarity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back home, and with my brother, who has not had food for the last three days,” Sano went on, “I will now commence a voluntary fasting for the climate.”

That was Yeb Sano, the head of the Philippines delegation, who took a fossil fueled flight to Warsaw for the UN IPCC Conference On The Parties last year. Seriously, these people think they can change the climate by not eating for a day once a month (which most won’t do, even though they’ll flog the hashtag). Much like they hold their “Earth Hour” once a year, and turn a few lights off.

This is also one of those 1st World Problems. Those in 3rd world shitholes developing nations would be happy to take that food, as well as live half as well as those in even the Philippines live.

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Expectation Met: Obama Heard About VA Issues From News Reports

By William Teach May 20, 2014 – 7:19 am

The big question is, how does this administration have any credibility left? Can you imagine the response had any of Bush’s press secretaries tried this?

(Real Clear Politics) JIM ACOSTA, CNN: When was the president first made aware of these problems? Of these fraudulent lists that were being kept to hide the wait times, when was he first made aware of those problems? And when did other White House officials, top White House officials, become aware of these problems?

JAY CARNEY: When you say these problems, the fact that there have been bureaucracies —

ACOSTA: The delays have been known for some time.

CARNEY: You mean the specific allegations that I think were reported first by your news network out of Phoenix, I believe. We learned about them through the reports. I will double check if that is not the case.

But that is when we learned about them and that is when I understand Secretary Shinseki learned about them, and he immediately took the action that he has taken.

Of course, we know that this is a lie, unless Obama has horrible memory retention. Does anyone in the media have the cajones to call Carney and Obama out on this? As Allahpundit notes

Exit question: When Obama told veterans in 2007 that we need a “new sense of urgency” in making sure sick and injured vets are quickly seen, what else did he mean if not proactive investigation and resolution of the problem by the new president?

We also know that Obama was specifically told about this issue back during the transition in 2008.

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