If All You See…

By William Teach April 25, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid plastic water bottle causing droughtflood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Nice Deb, with post on a guy freaked out be an Obamacare letter.

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NC GOP Senatorial Candidates Laugh About “Climate Change”

By William Teach April 25, 2014 – 12:57 pm

I actually caught this the other day in the local media, but no one had embedable video. Now we do, via Eco Watch and Buzzfeed, which are having free range kittens (remember, cats are bad for “climate change”) over this

In fact, a warming planet, extreme weather, droughts and potential resource battles are all pretty funny concepts to candidates Thom Tillis, Greg Brannon, Mark Harris and Heather Grant.

They’re so funny that a primary debate moderator could barely get those two words out of his mouth before the candidates begin chuckling.

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Warmist Joe Barry: Over-Population Is The Real Cause Of Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 25, 2014 – 10:47 am

Wanting to reduce population is not necessarily a mainstream Warmist tenant, but it does dovetail into the greater enviroweenie notion of a “population bomb” and the top end Progressive notion of eugenics, abortion, and limiting population. The extremists, well, the extreme extremists (kinda like the difference between a Nazi party member and a member of the SS. Or, your average Bin Laden supporter and a member of the Taliban), actually discuss it in terms of killing off humans

(Independent.ie) The remarkable thing is that the real cause of global warming is rarely mentioned. It is the elephant in the room. Everyone can see it but no one wants to speak about it, presumably because this subject is a contentious one and challenges the core beliefs of many religions.

The undeniable fact is that we, the human race, are the cause of our own difficulties and unless we reduce our numbers, we will self-destruct.

But, of course, even the extreme extremist Warmists usually couch who they want to kill off subtly

The highest population growth currently occurs in nations with the greatest poverty. In peasant societies, large families are seen as a form of wealth and an insurance against poverty and starvation in old age.

Interestingly, the nations with high standards of living have in general, low or zero rates of population growth.

We send money to poor nations to help sink wells and buy livestock but do little or nothing about helping them control their rate of reproduction, which in turn creates further famines.

Assistance and education in introducing birth control would surely provide a more lasting solution.

Again, this dovetails nicely into the Progressive notion of eugenics, wanting to limit the number of “minorities”. It is a tenant based on racism and bigotry, on hatred for others.

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Treacher: Is It OK To Not Give A Hoot About Cliven Bundy?

By William Teach April 25, 2014 – 7:22 am

Good question

(Daily Caller) I haven’t been following the Cliven Bundy case because, believe it or not, southwestern grazing disputes have never been among my interests. I know the Daily Caller has done stories about him because I’ve seen the headlines, but I haven’t followed the whole thing. I haven’t written a word about him before today. I don’t care.

Notice: I haven’t written anything about him or the situation, either. The only references are in link posts.

But now that this Bundy fellow has publicly said things that have offended a lot of black people, suddenly, he represents everybody to the right of Karl Marx. Suddenly I’m obliged to have an opinion about him.

If you want to know what I think about some rancher in Nevada, I tend to agree with the always delightful and perceptive Kira Davis. Be warned: I’m told she isn’t a proper African-American because she’s a conservative. Be that as it may, here she’s 100% correct.

That’s a hell of a good point. Jim goes on to note

Like Kira said, it’s not about one guy. It’s about the media abusing their power to stifle dissent against government control. Just ask anybody who’s been raked over the coals for daring to complain about their health insurance. Ask Joe the Plumber. Ask Ben Carson. Ask Carrie Prejean. Ask anybody who inconveniences the left.

It’s also about The Government sending tons of agents, armed with automatic weapons and sniper rifles, dressed like storm troopers, to a ranch, taking his cattle, and even killing his cattle.

Bundy doesn’t represent me. He doesn’t represent most of us. Why did he say what he said? I don’t know. Is he a racist? I don’t know. I don’t know him. I’ve ignored most of the news on this issue. The only article I read was this one from Powerline. Of course, every lefty is attempting to say that Bundy is the ultimate representative of Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Party members, etc.

Does Bundy have hate in his heart, hating Black people? I don’t know. Has anyone asked him? Or is he just a normal guy who speaks his mind in an inarticulate manner? I do not know. Not everyone speaks politispeak. What Bundy said was idiotic, foolish, and perhaps bigoted. He did have a point, though: how are Blacks doing? Many of them are stuck in poverty, living in government housing, with little in the way of job prospects (Blacks have a higher than average unemployment rate, especially amongst Black youths). So many are reliant on government, while being surrounded by crime, violence, gangs, sexual assault. Are they better off than under slavery? Of course! No one can sell them, or beat them legally, or split them up. Now the families are split up by gangs and prison and violence. Does it make Bundy a racist for saying what he said? We’d have to look into his heart to see if he hates Blacks, or just said something incredible stupid.

Anyhow, this will surely be my one and only post on the subject. Because this is not something I care enough to write about. RS McCain wrote

One of the joys of being an independent blogger is that you don’t have to pay attention to anything that doesn’t interest you, or about which you have nothing helpful to say. At least 90% of what Fox News and talk radio spend their time blabbering about falls into that category for me. It’s not that those stories aren’t important. Rather the question is, what’s the point in me becoming the 143rd blogger to add my two cents on a particular story, unless I have something to say that hasn’t already been said better by someone else?

This “value-added” approach to blogging explains why I haven’t had anything to say about the Cliven Bundy BLM confrontation. There were a couple of times in recent days when I almost blogged about it, but then something else would catch my eye  – who can resist a LESBIAN POLYGAMY headline? — and I’d forget about it. But so what? Everybody was blogging about the Bundy story, and the value of my two cents would have been negligible anyway.

Boom. Bundy doesn’t represent me. But, when The Government comes for you, maybe because you changed the pond out back, or bought a house in the wilderness and The Government doesn’t like you using ATVs to get there, you’ll remember the bigger point.

More: The Lonely Conservative notes, regarding Bundy being the top story on Memeorandum (and everywhere else)

The current governor of Illinois tweeted a link to an article comparing black Republicans to Jewish Nazis and not much was made of his endorsement of such sentiments. Despite some outrage in the Jewish community, Governor Quinn is still the guest of honor at an event honoring victims of the holocaust and the last time I checked he still hasn’t apologized.

Strange how little news coverage that’s getting. Make sure to read the rest.

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Phew! Congress Looks To Regulate Photoshopped Ads

By William Teach April 25, 2014 – 6:54 am

Having solved all of America’s problems, it’s easy to do things like this. It’s for the kids, ya know

(Yahoo) Could the beautiful and perfect airbrushed images we often see in advertisements become a thing of the past? Yes — if a bill proposed by Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and California Congresswoman Lois Capps becomes law, that is.

The federal bill, dubbed the “Truth in Advertising Act of 2014,” was introduced by Ros-Lehtinen on March 27. But it’s the brainchild of Los Angeles father-of-two Seth Matlins, founder of Feel More Better, a female-empowerment website, who was inspired to move into the political realm by British Parliament member Jo Swinson’s successful 2011 push to remove unrealistic ads in the UK. He authored the proposed legislation with the following goals: to convince the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the impact such images have on culture, particularly young girls, and to provide recommendations for how advertisers can operate with a social conscious — just as it does with cigarette and alcohol ads. Matlins has also created a Change.org petition in support of the bill, which as of Wednesday, had more than 16,000 signatures and many passionate comments, including, “My daughter has a eating disorder that we have been fighting for a few years. She has almost taken her life several times. This is a real and very deadly problem!”

See? It’s for the kids. But, don’t worry, it’s totally not censorship

Are You Trying to Censor Advertising?
No. We are trying to stop the deception and public health damages linked to ads that materially change the appearance of the people in them.

Because Government knows better.

Is the TIAA trying to Stop All Use of Photoshop in All Ads?
No. The bill does not ask for specific solutions. It simply asks the FTC to take 18 months, bring together all the stakeholders (consumer groups, health groups, women’s, girls and media activists, eating disorders groups and the advertising community) to figure out how it can protect consumers from this type of advertising moving forward. Then, the FTC will report back to Congress with their recommendations, remedies, and regulatory framework.

So, the Bill doesn’t actually do anything? Just a time and money waster to spread awareness and bully advertisers?

Here’s the problem: using the power of The Federal Government to enforce a set of complaints against private entities. The Constitution certainly provides a means to petition for redress of grievance. That said, the grievance is supposed to be against Government, not other private entities.

Fortunately, there are only three Representatives pushing this. Two Dems, one Republican. Seriously, they’re worried about photoshopped images that create unrealistic body standards. Well, there are tons of non-shopped images that do the same. This is just Big Government for Big Government’s sake. If the group pushing this, The Brave Girls Alliance, was really brave, they’d go to the companies themselves, rather than just using Government Force.

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Warmists Attempting To Kill Ikea Store In California

By William Teach April 24, 2014 – 1:42 pm

Warmists contend that “climate change” is going to destroy economic activity unless we Do Something. They’re kinda right, although it’s not weather that destroys the economic activity, but the Warmists themselves (via Climate Depot)

(LA Business Journal) An L.A. environmental group is seeking to halt a planned Ikea in Burbank that would be the nation’s largest, alleging that the massive project did not undergo a proper review to assess and reduce its impact on global warming.

The group, Citizens Advocating Rational Development, alleges in a lawsuit filed April 14 in L.A. County Superior Court that the city approved the 470,000-square-foot project at 805 S. San Fernando Road despite an environmental impact report that did not meet the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act.

The lawsuit names both Ikea Property Inc., and the city, which approved the development on March 11, as defendants. The EIR was prepared by Meridian Consultants LLC, a Westlake Village firm that was not named as a defendant.

The lawsuit claims that the report failed to discuss ways to reduce energy usage. It also claims the report did not properly assess the project’s water supplies since the store will generate emissions that will exacerbate global warming, which has changed rainfall and snowpack.

The building itself will have solar panels and all sorts of energy saving methods, yet that isn’t enough for Warmists. An Ikea spokesman proclaimed that they won’t let the lawsuit stand in the way of the store opening. Being California, that might not happen.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 24, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…are suburbs which are bad for climate change, and everyone who lives there should be forced into a big city, you just might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post noting that a political study needs conservative input. Hit the link, then take the poll.

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The Nation: Hey, Why Not Take Fossil Fuels Companies To Court To Stop “Climate Change”

By William Teach April 24, 2014 – 10:15 am

Well, you know what my recommendation is: Warmists should give up their own fossil fuels usage if they’re so upset. Of course, that would interfere with their lifestyles, and do things like driving and flying to “climate change” protests, like all the ones they held Tuesday, which was Earth Day. Typical climahypocrisy. Anyhow

Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court

Big Carbon is where Big Tobacco was, before it started losing.

Funny thing is, Warmists would be some of the first to complain when the price of everything, not just fuel, spikes.

In November 2013, American climate scientist Richard Heede, of the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute, published a paper with a revolutionary thesis. After nine years of researching the energy industry in dozens of countries, he concluded that nearly two-thirds of the world’s carbon dioxide and methane emissions dating back to the dawn of the industrial era were the responsibility of just ninety companies. Heede called them the “carbon majors.” (snip)

One well-established environmental lawyer is in the preliminary stages of putting together a lawsuit employing Heede’s statistics. Other attorneys were quick to praise the study, but cautioned that no one has yet hit upon a legal theory that can use Heede’s work to force the carbon majors to cough up some of the astronomical sums that experts believe must be spent worldwide to adapt to rising seas, heat waves, droughts and other extreme-weather events caused by climate change—not to mention help pay for the damage already caused.

In other words, they really, really want to sue, but have no legal basis other than climahysteria. In reality, the majority of lawsuits involving “climate change” have lost in court. The climaplaintiffs always prefer that these get settled before going to trial, because the actual facts needed in a court of law are not available.

“The anti-tobacco guys lost and lost and lost in court for decades—until they won,” says Kert Davies, who worked on the breakthrough case on behalf of Oakland, Boulder and other cities while a researcher at Greenpeace. “That’s point number one. Plus, advocates like me can say that we don’t care if we win as long as we make a point.

“We want to influence the court of public opinion,” Davies continues. “We have to educate people about the truth after all this industry disinformation. So let the lawsuits produce documents and testimony and all sorts of information for the public. That’s one of their functions. That’s where the tobacco wars were won. Even [Representative Henry] Waxman’s famous tobacco hearings in Congress—the tobacco execs never admitted anything. You didn’t need to get to that. By the time they left the hearing room, they were already pariahs. We’d seen through them.”

The flip side is that Warmists have to produce their own documents and testimony, and Warmists tend to get beaten like Walter Mondale in 1984 when they have to argue their facts and positions (hence the reason most do not like to debate). It’s not enough to prove warming: most of us will stipulate 1.4F increase since 1850. Having to prove that it is mostly/solely mankind’s fault is the rub. Which Warmists can only do with skewed and falsified data, failed computer models, reading crystal balls, and hysteria.

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Surprise: FDA To Propose New Regs On E-cigs, Require ID For Purchase

By William Teach April 24, 2014 – 7:55 am

Whoa, whoa, whoa, isn’t that racist?

(NY Times) The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a multibillion-dollar business with virtually no federal oversight or protections for American consumers.

The regulatory blueprint, with broad implications for public health, the tobacco industry and the nation’s 42 million smokers, would also cover pipe tobacco and cigars, tobacco products that have long slid under the regulatory radar and whose use has risen sharply in recent years. The new regulations would ban the sale of e-cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco to Americans under 18, and would require that people buying them show photo identification to prove their age, measures already mandated in a number of states.

I proclaim the FDA to be a racist organization for requiring ID!

Once finalized, the regulations will establish oversight of what has been a market free-for-all of products, including vials of liquid nicotine of varying quality and unknown provenance. It has taken the agency four years since Congress passed a major tobacco-control law in 2009 to get to this stage, and federal officials and advocates say it will take at least another year for the rules to take effect — and possibly significantly longer if affected companies sue to block them.

Manufacturers will have to get FDA approval for all e-liquids and e-cigs. The latter is silly: there is really very little to an e-cig. I can almost see making sure that e-liquid has some oversight to make sure it doesn’t contain dangerous material. Basic standards.

Perhaps the biggest proposed change would require producers of cigars and e-cigarettes to register with the F.D.A., provide the agency with a detailed accounting of their products’ ingredients and disclose their manufacturing processes and scientific data. Producers would also be subject to F.D.A. inspections.

I don’t have a problem with that. That is a proper role of Government.

But the new blueprint was also notable for what it did not contain: any proposal to ban flavors in e-cigarettes and cigars, like bubble gum and grape, that public health experts say lure children to use the products, or any move to restrict the marketing of e-cigarettes, as is done for traditional cigarettes, which are banned from television, for example.

But

F.D.A. officials said the new regulations were the first major step toward asserting the agency’s authority and eventually being able to regulate flavors and marketing. But doing so will require further federal rulemaking, they said.

The question is, how far does the FDA go? If they use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket, everything is good. That’s what they should do, especially in the absence of scientific data. If they take a heavy approach, which will stifle innovation and destroy small businesses, while favoring deep pocketed big companies, there’ll be a problem..

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Rolling Stone Reports Obama Plans To Kill Keystone XL

By William Teach April 24, 2014 – 7:35 am

This comes via Yid With Lid, who notes that the only question left is the timing of the announcement

(Rolling Stone) At the same time, the president is likely to announce his decision on the northern leg of the Keystone XL, the hugely controversial 1,179-mile-long pipeline that would bring tar-sands oil down from Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries. Although no final decision has been made, two high-level sources in the Obama administration told me recently that the president has all but decided to deny the permit for the pipeline – a dramatic move that would light up Democratic voters and donors while further provoking the wrath of Big Oil.

I’m always leery of anonymous sources, so we’ll have to see how this shakes out. Yid goes on to note that White House spokesman Matt Lehrich took to Twitter to say that no one knows what the president is thinking, but didn’t fully rebut the story.

Of course, this would all be about “climate change” and looking good to the unhinged Progressive base, regardless as to what it does to the economy. Keystone XL has become a silly rallying cry for the Warmists, despite there being many other pipeline projects, some bigger than KXL, being built.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post editorial board wrote that the continued delay is absurd.

IF FOOT-DRAGGING were a competitive sport, President Obama and his administration would be world champions for their performance in delaying the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. (snip to the end)

The administration’s latest decision is not responsible; it is embarrassing. The United States continues to insult its Canadian allies by holding up what should have been a routine permitting decision amid a funhouse-mirror environmental debate that got way out of hand. The president should end this national psychodrama now, bow to reason, approve the pipeline and go do something more productive for the climate.

In between the two paragraphs the WP notes that the reviews have been done, KXL will have a negligible impact on both the environment and “climate change”, and that it should be built.

Rasmussen has a new poll that shows 61% of likely voters favor building the pipeline, up 4 points since the last poll in January. 62% think it will be good for the economy.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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