New Yorker: Hey, If Only We Could Change The Way The Media Talks About Cold Weather

By William Teach February 9, 2014 – 4:50 pm

Obviously, this is yet another attempt to frame cold weather as being all a part of “climate change”. Because greenhouse gases cause cold in Warmist World (via Tom Nelson)

How Cold Weather Makes You Forget About Global Warming

(snip all the way to the end)

A slight change in presentation, however, may shift attitudes in the direction of climate science and away from the vicissitudes of local weather. A study out this month, from the Cardiff University psychologists Stuart Capstick and Nicholas Pidgeon, found that periods of exceptionally cold weather in the United Kingdom had the opposite effect as they did in the United States: more people believed in the truth of climate change. The reason for the difference? The media had framed the weather within the context of climate change, emphasizing that it was unnatural, rather than simply cold. Perhaps if people here were told that it’s not just brutal out there, it’s unnaturally brutal, they, too, might jump to a different conclusion.

Because cold weather never happened before or something. And cold weather can never be caused by cold, it can only be caused by hot.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 9, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is snow which is going to be a thing of the past even as you note that heat is creating more, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Atlas Shrugs, with a post on the British jihadis fighting in Syrian making threats.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 9, 2014 – 8:38 am

Gil Elvgren Skiing pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the snow is falling, and the Olympics are going off with, well, lots and lots of hitches. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Yid With Lid offers up stupid media bias Olympic tricks
  2. Wizbang notes that the number of Americans renouncing citizenship has skyrocketed
  3. Wild Thing notes Obama’s crazy al Qaeda strategy
  4. Raised On Hoecakes notes the reality of the “97% consensus”
  5. The Lonely Conservative points out Obama’s still playing with his pen and phone
  6. The Other McCain has 3 realizations about Obamacare
  7. The Last Refuge has a racist attack we don’t hear about
  8. The Daley Gator discusses racists meals
  9. Sister Toldjah has a post on the Moral Monday idiocy
  10. Lady Liberty recaps the Moral Monday idiocy
  11. Public Secrets notes Iran testing the US maritime borders
  12. Political Realities wonders if global warming is supposed to look so white
  13. Maggie’s Farm has the history of pizza
  14. Jammie Wearing Fools notes Wendy Davis’ anti-gun stance
  15. And last, but not least, Director Blue notes the danger of open borders

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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NC Moral Monday Protest Organizers Tell Agitators To Bring Photo Id

By William Teach February 9, 2014 – 7:44 am

Hardcore Leftist agitators have been doing this cute little protest thing called “Moral Mondays” for months, whining about the Republican agenda. Hey, they’re welcome to do it, as long as it is peaceable. Republicans haven’t stopped them or attempted to put any kibosh on the idiocy, even though the MM folks have consistently put themselves in a position to be arrested. Now, they’ve taken their gripes and whines to weekend, with a big protest featuring lots and lots of bused in folks, many from out of state. And something amusing happened

(Daily Caller) North Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday.

The central claim among the protesters is that the  voter-ID laws disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population, particularly minority voters and poor voters.

According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.

Sister Toldjah tweeted this out

https://twitter.com/sistertoldjah/status/432162706784022528/photo/1

NC Republican Dave Lewis

“I find it extremely hypocritical that when nearly 70 percent of North Carolinians across all political spectrums support the idea that one present photo identification when going to the polls, the NC NAACP has filed suit in court to block this common-sense idea,” said Lewis in a statement to The Daily Caller.  “However, the NC NAACP requires their protesters to maintain valid photo identification on their person throughout the march. The idea that Chairman William Barber and his followers find it more important to carry their photo identification with them when marching than when electing the President of the United States is reprehensible.”

If it wasn’t for hypocrisy, Democrats wouldn’t have any morals.

Unsurprisingly, the Raleigh News and Observer fails to mention the blatant hypocrisy in their article. There are a few cute points, however

Susan Fariss of Mocksville drove three and a half hours to hold up a sign supporting the legalization of medical marijuana.

OoooooooK. Whatever floats your boat.

Holiday Clinkscale, 60, of Raleigh climbed atop a big potted plant on Fayetteville Street and twirled an American flag above his head. He wore a leather jacket decorated with red, white and blue stars and stripes. Clinkscale wore the regalia on behalf of “depressed” African-American men.

“Black men in Raleigh couldn’t wear red, white and blue after the Civil War when we were freed, or they would have been executed,” he said. “You see a lot of black men here today looking depressed.”

Interesting. No one stopped him from wearing red, white and blue. Which, during the Bush years, would have most likely have been upside down. And, considering we just came out of a period with a Dem governor, and the Democrats have controlled the General Assembly’s two houses for most of the last 100 years, why do you support Democrats if you’re depressed? And, remember, those policies about wearing the red, white, and blue were instituted by, that’s right, Democrats.

Hannah Osborne, a student at N.C. State University, said she came to the rally Saturday morning to “promote women’s rights and a woman’s right to choose.” She and her father, Dale Osborne, a pastor at Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, held purple signs that read “Stop the war on women.”

So a religious leader is pushing abortion? Perhaps he should read his Bible. It’s pretty explicit on the issue. If he doesn’t agree, perhaps he should quit.

Of course, the N&O editorial board terms the march as “mainstream, not fringe“. Yet, 75% of North Carolinians support voter ID. That’s the mainstream.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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NY Times: The End Of Snow?

By William Teach February 8, 2014 – 5:04 pm

Remember when the UK Independent pushed their hyperventilating article Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past? (The website is down, you can see a screengrab here). Well, the NY Times tries their hand at this

The End Of Snow?

Officials canceled two Olympic test events last February in Sochi after several days of temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit and a lack of snowfall had left ski trails bare and brown in spots. That situation led the climatologist Daniel Scott, a professor of global change and tourism at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, to analyze potential venues for future Winter Games. His thought was that with a rise in the average global temperature of more than 7 degrees Fahrenheit possible by 2100, there might not be that many snowy regions left in which to hold the Games. He concluded that of the 19 cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics, as few as 10 might be cold enough by midcentury to host them again. By 2100, that number shrinks to 6.

The planet has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1800s, and as a result, snow is melting. In the last 47 years, a million square miles of spring snow cover has disappeared from the Northern Hemisphere. Europe has lost half of its Alpine glacial ice since the 1850s, and if climate change is not reined in, two-thirds of European ski resorts will be likely to close by 2100.

The facts are straightforward: The planet is getting hotter. Snow melts above 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The Alps are warming two to three times faster than the worldwide average, possibly because of global circulation patterns. Since 1970, the rate of winter warming per decade in the United States has been triple the rate of the previous 75 years, with the strongest trends in the Northern regions of the country. Nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000, and this winter is already looking to be one of the driest on record — with California at just 12 percent of its average snowpack in January, and the Pacific Northwest at around 50 percent.

1.4F in 170 years isn’t exactly scary stuff. And we’ve seen a 17 year pause. And a good chunk of the glaciers melted before 1940, well before CO2 hit 350ppm. But, hey, something might happen 86 years from now. When no one will remember the prognostications of crazy Warmists.

Unshockingly, no comments are allowed on the article. Warmists do not like to be challenged. Because people might mention things like 4 out of the past 5 winters being brutal in much of the world, particularly Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This year looks to shape up as average in those areas, while America and Canada have seen brutal snow. There was snow in many parts of the Middle East which almost never see it, such as Cairo. Over two-thirds of the US has snow cover.

Sunshine Hours puts February snow in perspective, and notes that snow is doing just fine in the Northern hemisphere.

Wait, wait, I forgot, snow is also caused by rising temperatures. My Bad!

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 8, 2014 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid flooded world caused by keeping your heating above 60F, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Desperation Barbie.

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IMF Chief Says “Climate Change” Will Cause Future Generations To Be Roasted

By William Teach February 8, 2014 – 11:32 am

And not just roasted, but also “toasted, fried and grilled”, which are apparently the new scientific terms (via The Hockey Schtick)

(Globe and Mail) But the most startling statements came from the heads of those bastions of economic orthodoxy: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF and a former finance minister in the conservative government of Nicolas Sarkozy, pointed to critical pivot points for the economic future.

Her final pivot: “Increasing vulnerability from resource scarcity and climate change, with the potential for major social and economic disruption: This is the real wild card in the pack.” She went on to call climate change “the greatest economic challenge of the 21st century.” This from the head of the IMF.

Ms. Lagarde concluded with a call for a new kind of economic growth. “So we need growth, but we also need green growth that respects environmental sustainability. Good ecology is good economics. This is one reason why getting carbon pricing right and removing fossil fuel subsidies are so important.”

Which is interesting, considering that the “carbon” pricing is right. The market has dictated that carbon offsets are virtually valueless. Many of the markets have dropped to negligible values. Second, the fossil fuels statement is silly, considering the amount of fossil fuels used to get all these big wigs to and from Davos, as well as traveling around Davos.

In response to a question from the audience, she said: “Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.”

And then she took a fossil fueled flight home from cold and snowy Davos. The Hockey Schtick goes on to cite this press release from the Friends Of Science

Responding to hyperbolic rhetoric on climate change by Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, Friends of Science point out that her comments are not supported by the recent IPCC report, the exaggerated climate models’ failed predictions or the evidence of no global warming in 16+ years. Unrestrained terrifying statements are damaging the mental health of children and youth; in fact Friends of Science recent report on the alleged 97% consensus shows only 1-3% of scientists in 3 of 4 “consensus” surveys explicitly stated agreement with the IPCC declarations on global warming, and no agreement with a catastrophic view.

What should scare future generations is the pathetic state of world economies under these hardcore Progressives (nice fascists). Job prospects are poor, earnings are poor, unemployment is high, upward mobility is terrible. The future generations should also note the potential loss of individualism, growth of Government, and loss of freedom caused by the “climate change” movement.

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White House Tells Ocare Insurers To Let Consumers Change Plans

By William Teach February 8, 2014 – 7:49 am

Do you remember the old Simpsons episode where Troy McClure said “there’s The Truth, and then “the truth””? With Obamacare, there’s Deadlines, and then “deadlines”

(Washington Post) The Obama administration has quietly reworked rules and computer code for HealthCare.gov to try to stem an outpouring of discontent by some Americans who have discovered that the health plans they bought do not include their old doctors or allow them to add new babies or spouses.

Under changes that have not been disclosed to the public, the government will temporarily allow consumers who have gotten coverage through the new online insurance marketplace to switch health plans to a limited degree.

In a memo distributed Thursday night to insurers, federal health officials said that people may pick a different health plan before the end of March if they are dissatisfied with the one they chose, but only if they stay with the same insurer and generally the same level of coverage. The 14-page memo, obtained by The Washington Post, also says people will be given more freedom and a longer opportunity to get a new health plan if they can prove that HealthCare.gov, the Web site for the new marketplace, displayed inaccurate information about the benefits that a health plan offers.

The Most Transparent Administration Evah! Good luck proving that healthcare.fail displayed inaccurate information.

There’s even now a button that allows people to report life changes. Unsurprisingly, it is “not working reliably”. Nor is it actually live. They’re still working on it.

On the bright side, there’s finally a way to cancel a plan. And “looping”, where consumers where shuttled back and forth between the “private” insurance plans and Medicaid, and being told they were eligible for neither, has been fixed. These are all things that should have been in place before it was launched on October 1st.

Specifically, the new policy says consumers may make changes before March 31, the end of an open enrollment period that began in October, if they want to “move to a plan with a more inclusive provider network” or fit within “other isolated circumstances” according to the memo, which does not define what the other circumstances might be. People who switch must stay with the same insurer and tier of coverage.

So, if they’re forced to stay with the same insurer and tier of coverage when switching before March 1st, exactly what changes can be made? In some cases, there is only one plan by that provider in a tier. Not always. For instance, in North Carolina, if you have a Bronze level plan on the Exchange through Blue Cross, there are 6 different plans with varying premiums and deductibles. But two other providers only offer one plan. But, do the providers change? For Blue Cross, when you do a medical facility/doctor search they only tell Blue Advantage and Blue Value. There doesn’t seem to be any increase in medical providers.

Regardless, this is yet another example of Obama unilaterally changing The Law. Should we know call it “the law”?

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Obameconomy: Wages Almost Flatlining

By William Teach February 8, 2014 – 6:47 am

The jobs report released Friday was bad. “Unexpectedly”. We seem to see quite a few of these. Though the White House always tells us “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” But there was another little bomb within the report, and Nelson D. Schwartz at the NY Times performs a random act of journalism

For the more than 10 million Americans who are out of work, finding a job is hard. For the 145 million or so who are employed, getting a raise is even harder.

The government said on Friday that employers added 113,000 jobs in January, the second straight month of anemic growth, despite some signs of strength in the broader economy. The unemployment rate inched down in January to 6.6 percent, the lowest level since October 2008, from 6.7 percent in December.

But the report also made plain what many Americans feel in their bones: Wages are stuck, and barely rose at all in 2013. They were up 1.9 percent last year, or a mere 0.4 percent after accounting for inflation. Not only was that increase even smaller than the one recorded in 2012, it was half the normal rate of wage gains in the two decades before the last recession.

Don’t read too much into an anemic 0.4% after inflation for an entire year.

The stagnation helps explain why many people feel apprehensive even though the economy grew at a robust pace in the second half of 2013, corporate profits rose, the stock market boomed and the housing market continued to gain ground. The issue cuts across the American work force. In fact, white-collar workers did a bit worse than blue-collar workers last year in terms of wage growth.

Companies aren’t confident enough to spend, expand, create growth, which affects wages. The profits and stock market are outliers, but aren’t indicitive of the overall economy. This is the Obama economy.

This must be Bush’s fault, right? Even though he hasn’t been president since 1/20/2009, and the current pResident has even won a second term

“People are running in place in terms of their living standards,” said Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “There’s almost no growth in spending power.” As recently as 2008, when the economy sank deeper into recession and Lehman Brothers collapsed, wages still managed to rise by 3.5 percent, before inflation. But the combination of a backlog of workers left behind in the recession’s wake, as well as productivity gains resulting from new technologies, means salaries may not rebound anytime soon.

Of course, none of this could possibly be the fault of the Democrat in the White House nor the Democrats who control the Senate, none of who are interested in passing legislation that stimulates hiring and market based wage increases. Most in the White House, including Mr. Obama, have no idea what running a company feels like in the real world. They’ve never done it. Furthermore, their rules and regulations are stifling business, which will affect wages. Welcome to the “new normal”.

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NRCC Creates Fake Dem Websites Ahead Of Midterms

By William Teach February 7, 2014 – 3:29 pm

Democrats will call this a dirty trick. I call this brilliant. Might Republicans have finally realized that there is this Internet thingy?

(Daily Caller) The National Republican Congressional Committee is using a little internet espionage ahead of the 2014 mid-term elections by creating websites named for Democratic candidates to highlight the less-favorable aspects of their campaigns.

The committee is responsible for at least 15 websites mimicking Democrats’ campaign sites for Congress, and the NRCC isn’t denying it – the committee is publicly endorsing it.

“The idea is people who are looking for information on the candidate, one of the places we all go now is online and so this is a way for folks to find out more about the candidates and information they may not find on the candidate’s own site,” NRCC press secretary Daniel Scarpinato told CNN.

They should do this for every competitive House and Senate race. Individual Republicans, at both the federal and state levels, should do this for their opponents.

JohnLewis4congress.com, the Republican alternate of the Montana Democrat’s montanansforlewis.com, is one of hundreds of URL’s using the names of Democratic candidates considered weak in the upcoming election as part of a plan the NRCC will continue advancing throughout the year.

The NRCC, Republican campaigns, and even individual Conservative groups can invest a couple hundred bucks, tops, to purchase multiple domain names, and have them all direct to one website which explains the real positions of Democrat candidates. Make sure they are constantly updated, use SEO, and, hey, even create a fake Twitter persona that tweets at least a few times a day. Make sure people know what Democrats really stand for.

If Democrats start whining, which they will invariably do, point out that politics is a rough business, and to stop whining like a 5 year old who wants a cookie before dinner.

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