Hillary Tells Illegal Demanding Stuff That She’s Brave

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 1:38 pm

When I write and say that it’s not our immigration system that’s broken, but our politicians and political system that are broken, the following is what I mean. That, and that illegals might be better accepted if they weren’t all demanding

(Daily Mail) A 19-year-old college student announced for the first time Thursday that she was an undocumented immigrant while addressing Hillary Clinton at an event in New York City.

Nova Bajamonti was picked to ask the former Secretary of State a question at a ‘No Ceilings’ event at the Lower Eastside Girls Club on Thursday.

‘For the first time publicly, I want to say that I am an undocumented immigrant,’ Ms Bajamonti said before tearing up.

She went on to explain that she moved to the United States when she was just 5 years old from Split, Serbia and that her status as an illegal immigrant keeps her from achieving many of her dreams.

‘I don’t have the documentation I need to get a job, to vote, which is essential to women’s representation, to buy an apartment, to take out a loan to go to college, so I couldn’t even go to my dream college because of that,’ she said. According to her Facebook profile, Ms Bajamonti attends Brooklyn College.

She was crying, and the audience was crying and cheering, and Hillary said

Here’s the thing: you’re here illegally. I can’t sympathize or empathize because you Should Not Be Here. We have this thing calked The Rule Of Law. Try going to most nations around the world and see how they would treat illegals. Mexico would throw you in jail.

Citizens might have some sympathy if you said you came to America because you love the nation, because you want to be part of America, you want to help America. That you’ll pay fines and back taxes and do it the way those who come legally do it.

Instead, you’re sitting there whining and Demanding!!!!! that America give you stuff, let you vote, pay your schooling, give you a job.

Get the hell out of here before I call INS.

Oh, wait, what she actually said

The former first lady and presidential hopeful, then took the microphone and praised Ms Bajamonti for her act of courage.

‘That was incredibly brave, and I thank you for doing that because it is important to put ourselves in other people’s shoes,’ Clinton said.

No, it’s important to uphold the law. Sadly, what Hillary said is something that elected politicians and both sides would say.

(Note: headline fixed, something went goofy, they got merged)

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle causing the seas to rise and cover the entire East coast, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on anti-unionization at Media Matters.

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LOL: Ikea Plans “Green” Meatballs To Fight Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 10:30 am

No, seriously. The same company which uses lots of wood, obtained by cutting down carbon pollution sucking trees, and has lots of plastic bowls, dishes, cups, etc, is uber concern trolling

(Telegraph) Ikea is developing a new ‘green’ version of its famous Swedish meatballs in order to cut carbon emissions and help tackle climate change, the retailer has revealed.

The flat-pack furniture giant sells an estimated 150 million meatballs, made from beef and pork, in its cafes each year.

But the popular snack is also the least environmentally-friendly item on the Ikea menu, because of high carbon dioxide emissions involved in the farming process and high methane gas emissions from cattle.

Ikea is so concerned about the contribution to global warming from the meatballs that it is now developing “vegetarian meatballs” as an eco-friendly alternative.

Obviously, they’re going to stop selling the Evil Carbon Polluting meatballs, right?

Ikea later insisted it would “continue to sell the regular meatballs” but confirmed it was planning to “introduce lower carbon alternatives”.

“A chicken meatball and a veggie ball are under development and will complement our meatball offer next year,” a spokesman for the company said.

So, um, no. They’re really just going to cater to some Warmist nutjobs. Wise of them to make some extra cash off the Warmistology practitioners, who are Very Concerned over rising temperatures

WoodForTrees. What you see is a spike going back to 1980. That spike goes to 1995. From 1996 to current there is statistically insignificant warming, per RSS. From 1997 forward there is statistically insignificant cooling. You can’t go back further than 1979, when the data first started rolling in.

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What TV Shows Do You Watch?

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 8:56 am

Something non-political, not “climate changey”, for discussion.

For me, there are few shows I watch. There are none on network TV, which includes ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and the CW, other than sports like golf, football, baseball, and hockey. The last show I watched regularly was Stephen King’s Under The Dome, which turned into a horrible mess. I will not watch the second season. Seriously, how did all the inner city ruffians end up in a very rural Maine town? Makes zero sense.

I had watched Lost and Fringe. There’s nothing else that holds my attention. I find most shows to be boring, silly (and not in a good way), preachy, foolish, and cringe inducing. I find all the shows to be lame.

I watch Continuum, Haven, and Defiance on the SciFi channel. Excellent shows.

And then there’s USA Network, which has the best show on TV, Suits. Though the number of episodes can be short. Seriously, they came back with 6, and now we have to wait till June. Of course, that seems to be the pattern for most shows.

USA also has Graceland. Looking forward to its return. I’ll be interested to see what USA comes out with to replace Psych and Burn Notice.

I love the stuff on all the nature and science channels. Shows I watch on a consistent basis are Animal Planet’s Tanked and Treehouse Masters. I’ll watch How The Universe Works, The Universe, and other similar programs. Aerial America on the Smithsonian Channel is an awesome program. If you’ve never seen it, they use helicopters and planes to fly over the landscape of the states, providing a birds-eye view along with some history and facts. Though the NY edition was pretty lame. Too much time spent on NYC. I think we have a good idea what it looks like. Little time spent on the rest of a big, and beautiful, state.

A couple that have recently caught my attention are Buying Alaska, Buying The Bayou, and Buying Hawaii on Destination America. I find it fascinating to see the properties and landscapes. Though I do think some of the programs are ginned up to create excitement. If I had certain requirements and the real estate agent was showing me some of the homes I’d fire him/her. Seeing things like electrified wire stretched around homes to ward off bears. Expensive homes in Hawaii with no “city water/power”. Space for growing food in Hawaii is extremely important, due to costs being around double what they are on the mainland. Living in the middle of nowhere. It’s pretty cool.

Those are the only things I watch on a constant basis. Movies, sports, and news, of course. What do you watch? Any good programs?

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DOE Plans On Wasting Another $4 Billion On Renewable Project Loans

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 8:19 am

Providing loans for renewable/alternative energy programs would, in a sane world, be a good idea. Unfortunately, as we saw with the previous loans, they were politically motivated and were wasteful

(Reuters) The U.S. Energy Department on Wednesday unveiled a plan for up to $4 billion in loan aid for renewable energy companies to help rejuvenate a program that faced harsh political attacks over past failures of federally subsidized projects.

The Obama administration’s draft plan would provide loan guarantees for innovative projects that limit or avoid greenhouse gas emissions.

It will specifically focus on advanced electric grid technology and storage, biofuels for conventional vehicles, energy from waste products and energy efficiency.

Again, research and development into these types of programs should be a good thing, regardless of the reason behind it. The endpoint would help all Americans.

“We’re back in business,” Peter Davidson, executive director of the department’s loan programs office, told Reuters. “We really want to go back to … doing very valuable work for our economy going forward.”

How’d their business work last time? 33 companies backed by the DOE failed, and that list was just through 2012, accounting for at least $10 billion. Many, like Solyndra, left vast environmental messes. And there have been more failures since, such as Fisker. The jobs created and the power supplied have been low, and, in many cases, the lands have been despoiled.

And 80% of the loans went to Obama backers.

These programs might be worthwhile if previous efforts didn’t show that the loans were quite often worthless, wasteful, and politically motivated. And, if the programs are so darned great, the private sector would be investing their own money heavily, hoping to make some serious money. Kinda says something when the private sector wants little to nothing to do with these programs, at least using their own money.

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During Ocare “Victory Lap”, Obama Recommends Dems Run On Other Things

By William Teach April 18, 2014 – 7:46 am

Obama did his passive/aggressive schtick Thursday, yammering on about the “Affordable” Care Act, alternately insulting and denigrating Republicans/Conservatives then lamenting the loss of civility. What he wouldn’t do is recommend Democrats run on Ocare for the mid-terms

(The Hill) A defiant President Obama on Thursday announced that 8 million people have enrolled in ObamaCare plans while exhorting Democrats to “be proud” of what they’ve achieved.

Holding an unscheduled press conference at the White House, Obama took a victory lap on the healthcare law and assailed Republicans as refusing “to admit that the Affordable Care Act is working.”

“They said nobody would sign up. They were wrong about that. They said it would be unaffordable for the country. They were wrong about that,” Obama said.

So, Democrats, and Democrats alone, passed legislation that heavily mucks around with 1/6th of the US economy, a sector which affects every citizen’s life on a constant basis….now 100% since citizens are Required to carry health insurance…in order to see a net addition of 2 million private plans.(?) 6 million lost their plans thanks to Obama’s Lie Of The Year. Is it working that people with the new insurance are seeing their out of pocket costs spike to unaffordable levels? That their plans no longer cover the services they need? That they cannot afford the deductibles and co-pays?

I wonder who “they” are who “said nobody would sign up”? Personally, I’m surprised so few have signed up, when there were supposedly 30-45 million Americans without health insurance.

But Obama stopped short of advocating that Democrats run on the healthcare law in the midterm elections. He said lawmakers “need to move on and focus on the things that are really important to the American people right now,” principally the economy and jobs.

I love that talking point about focusing on things that are important to the American people: it exposes the reality of just how poorly Obamacare has been received, and is an attempt to deflect from the coming electoral box pain. Should we focus on how many more people will lose their health insurance plans come Fall 2014? How about the 93 million Americans slated to lose their employer sponsored plans, which is the mid-range estimate from Team Obama. How about those who are getting free condoms and birth control pills but have seen their cancer medication costs spike? Perhaps we can talk about the large number who are not completely reliant on the Federal Government for their health care, via Medicaid?

Don’t expect Dems to run on the economy nor jobs, considering how poorly the overall conditions are. Expect lots of charges of raaaaacism and a resurgence of the war on women talking points. Alas, people actually care about the damage wrought by Obamacare and worthless Dem economic policies.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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Climate Change Is Like The New Slavery Or Something

By William Teach April 17, 2014 – 9:56 pm

What was that thing I noted earlier today regarding Bloomberg News saying Warmists should just stop it with all the scary stories? Apparently, Grist’s Gillen D’Arcy Wood didn’t listen

Is climate change the new slavery?

Are Warmists smoking that new super marijuana? Anyhow, climablah climablah climablah

The last global climate crisis for which we have substantial historical records began 199 years ago this month, in April 1815, when the eruption of Mt. Tambora in Indonesia cooled the Earth and triggered drastic disruptions of major weather systems worldwide. Extreme volcanic weather — droughts, floods, storms — gripped the globe for three full years after the eruption.

Interesting: she’s using what happens when the temperatures severely dip as her reference. Certainly, things seem to be much worse for humans than during warm periods. Hence the reason human society tends to make great strides during Holocene warm periods.

Across what was then the Dutch East Indies, the rice crop failed for multiple years following Tambora’s eruption. In response, the common people did what they always did when faced with starvation: They sold themselves into slavery, by the tens of thousands. In faraway China, desperate parents likewise sold their children in pop-up slave markets.

So we should make sure we continue to keep the climate warm. Heck, if Skeptics are correct and the current warm period is mostly/solely natural, we should add anthropogenic forces in a manner to make sure we don’t slip back into a cool period.

To invent a language for climate change (WT-hey, they’re inventing everything else regarding “climate change”), we might start with the historical analogy of slavery, which flourished during the Tambora climate emergency two centuries ago. Like our future under climate change, slavery was a human-designed global tragedy that lasted centuries, displaced tens of millions of people, and reorganized the wealth and demographics of the planet. Like climate change, slavery institutionalized the suffering of millions of people from the global south so that folks in Europe and North America (and China) might lead more comfortable, fulfilling lives. And like climate change, few people at the time saw slavery as a serious problem. Even those who did believed nothing could be done without bringing about global economic ruin. That exact argument is used today to defend the continuation of our fossil-fuelled societies.

Really, where do you nutters get this bat guano crazy stuff? I can’t stress enough that you need to read the entire thing for the full wackadoodleness.

BTW, have I mentioned that there has been no statistically significant warming in 17 years 8 months, and no warming, even some statistically insignificant cooling, so far this century?

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Bummer: Fish To Lose Fear Cause “Climate Change”

By William Teach April 17, 2014 – 3:16 pm

Yet another horror/scifi fable brought to you by Warmists who refuse to give up their own big carbon lifestyles

(Climate Progress) Add “losing fear of predators” to the long list of impacts acidifying oceans could have on fish and other marine life.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found that elevated CO2 levels in marine waters make reef fish attracted to the smell of their predators, rather than being repelled. Researchers looked at multiple species of reef fish living near natural volcanic CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea, an environment the study says is acidified to levels comparable to projections of what the entire ocean’s acid content will be in the next 100 years. They compared the behavior of the fish living in the acidified environment to fish in nearby, less acidified reefs, and found that, while fish in the nearby control reefs avoided water streams that contained predator odor, fish from the acidified reef spent 90 percent of their time in water streams that smelled of their predators.

I have to wonder: what did fish do during the majority of history when ocean temps and CO2 levels were higher than today? But, you know, the Warmists have to continue their hysteria in order to push their cult.

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If All You See…

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

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle which should be restricted for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the latest rantings of the Goreacle

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Poll: Majority Think Obama Is A Liar

By William Teach April 17, 2014 – 10:31 am

On one hand, this could describe most politicians, though it might be better to describe it as them pegging the bullshit meter. It is not a good thing when the POTUS is found to be a liar

(Fox News) About six in ten American voters think Barack Obama lies to the country on important matters some or most of the time, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.

Thirty-seven percent think Obama lies “most of the time,” while another 24 percent say he lies “some of the time.” Twenty percent of voters say “only now and then” and 15 percent “never.”

Question: should a POTUS even lie “only now and then”?

The number of voters saying Obama lies “most of the time” includes 13 percent of Democrats.  It also includes 12 percent of blacks, 16 percent of liberals, 31 percent of unmarried women and 34 percent of those under age 30 — all key Obama constituencies.

The poll actually has a pretty good political identification sampling, with a Dem/Republican/Independent sample of 39/38/20. Only 8% of Independents say Obama never lies. 4% of Republicans say Obama never lies. 31% of Dems say he never lies (note: some of the numbers do not add up to 100% for all groups).

Again, there is a vast difference between political bullshit and straight up lying.

  • “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
  • “My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”

Those are two major whoppers. Here’s a list of 21 lies. And a list of 20 lies. And 252 lies. Are they all lies? No. Some are political BS, such as

“I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president
 of the United States of America.”

At what point does political BS cross the line to an outright lie? Thing is, Obama provides so much political BS on a constant basis that it is hard to see it as political BS and not a straight out lie.

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