Is The Left Taking Over Sports Coverage, Too?

By William Teach November 15, 2013 – 3:00 pm

That’s the question posed by The Daily Caller’s Matt K. Lewis

Are liberals taking over coverage, too? Increasingly, that’s the way it feels. And it’s not just because Keith Olbermann is back at ESPN.

In just the last year or so, sports has been dominated by stories about NBA player Jason Collins coming out as gay, the Miami Dolphins “bullying” scandal, debates over whether or not “Redskins” is a racial slur (with some outlets refusing to even use the name), and worries over the NFL’s “concussion crisis.” (snip)

The increased politicization of sports was probably the first sign. More and more, it seems, the behind-the-scenes soap opera has overshadowed what’s happening between the lines. (snip)

And if conservatives are upset about this, it may be because this is all they have left. Progressives have long owned Hollywood, and (except maybe for Nashville) most of the popular music industry. Sports were perhaps the bastion for conservative entertainment — the final refuge for the patriotic, beer-guzzling, macho male who just wants to forget about his day job and watch a game — without hearing a lecture. Those days may be over.

It would certainly make sense. The problem for Conservatives is that Progressives have already taken over Hollywood, TV, the Lawyers guild, doctors guild, the education system, the unions, the news media, and government bureaucracies. Sure, not everyone in those industries are lefties, but certainly the leadership, which drives the sectors, are far left people. This was not something that just happened overnight, but a long, sustained campaign. Now they want sports coverage. Next, sports.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 15, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonder field of what might be corn used for ethanol, and if it isn’t, well, out up solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day The Hockey Schtick, with a post on a new paper on corals not being bummed out by “climate change”.

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New Exciting Warmist Meme: Inequality Of Climate Change

By William Teach November 15, 2013 – 12:39 pm

Warmists have always dipped around the edges of inequality as they push “climate change”, which is really just another way to forced Progressive policies on the world. Much of what the UN has attempted to do is redistributive. Lately, though, Warmists have ramped up the push of “inequality”, running it up the flagpole to see if it gains traction

The Inequality of Climate Change

Typhoon Haiyan has left an estimated 10,000 dead (WT note: depending on the source, the death toll is somewhere between 3621 and 4400 as of this morning. While not good, the warmist hysteria about 10K is just that. Hysteria) and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines. And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the world’s poorest the hardest.

“No nation will be immune to the impacts of climate change,” said a major World Bank report on the issue last year. “However, the distribution of impacts is likely to be inherently unequal and tilted against many of the world’s poorest regions, which have the least economic, institutional, scientific and technical capacity to cope and adapt.”

What they’re pushing here is the typical leftist redistributive method, yet they themselves tend to be rather stingy with their own money. But by instituting these programs which would tax the hell out of Other People, it gives Government more power.

And many, many others. Then we have this at the Huffington Post: Here’s Proof That Climate Change Is Unfair, Doesn’t Care Who’s At Fault


Typhoon Haiyan Infographic

You can see the full sized graphic over at the HuffPo if you want, but, notice something it doesn’t do: prove anthropogenic causation. Therein lies the cruz of the argument. Warmists say that any change in the weather is Mankind’s fault, you people are big meanies, then they jump in their fossil fueled vehicles to go to a spreading awareness meeting. Climate Realists say changes in climate and weather are the result of mostly/solely natural forces (if they’re honest, they’ll recognize that Man does have a small effect on both the global climate and localized conditions). Warmists want to tax the hell out of Other People and see their lives controlled by Big Government, along with the private economy. Progressivism is an authoritarian political model most resembling fascism. But they won’t really make any changes in their own lives. Makes one wonder what their real endgame is.

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Syrian Rebels: Hey, Sorry For Beheading The Wrong Person, Our Bad!

By William Teach November 15, 2013 – 8:33 am

Yeah, these are the people which the Obama administration was supporting in Syria against Bashar Assad

(Telegraph) Syrian rebel fighters linked with Al Qaeda have asked for “understanding and forgiveness” after mistakenly beheading one of their allies and putting the head on display.

In a video posted online, members of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham were shown holding up the head of what they thought was a supporter of President Bashar Assad before a crowd in Aleppo, The Telegraph reported.

After the video was posted, the head was recognized as belonging to Mohammed Fares, a member of Ahrar al-Sham, a well-established rebel group that regularly fights alongside the Islamic State of Iraq, according to the report.

It was a case of mistaken identity when Fares yelled some names of Shiites revered figures. Most of the opponents of Assad are Sunni. So, they cut his head off and displayed it

(CNN) “He is an Iraqi Shiite volunteer fighter in Bashar al-Assad’s army,” a young man brandishing a knife in one hand and holding the decapitated head in another says in Arabic to a group of men all dressed in black.

“If they (al-Assad’s army) enter they will not distinguish between supporters and opponents. I swear they will rape the men before the woman,” another jihadi fighter continues in the amateur video.

Wow, these are surely the people that America wants to support, wouldn’t you say?

The Lonely Conservative: Don’t You Hate It When Terrorists Accidentally Behead Other Terrorists?

The Lid: Even The Best Terrorists Make Mistakes

The Jawa Report: Al Qaeda: “Oops, Our Bad. Next time we’ll make sure we’re beheading the right infidel”

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House To Vote On “Keep You Plan” Bill Today

By William Teach November 15, 2013 – 8:04 am

I think it was a Bad Idea to bring this legislation forward: the “Affordable” Care Act is bad legislation, the rules as written by the Obama controlled HHS made it much worse, and the sooner people feel the pain themselves, the sooner we can repeal and replace this fraud of a law pushed by a fraud of a president. And really, what Obama and the Dems pushed on the American people was fraud. Possibly criminal fraud. And intentional attempt to deceive the people of the USA. Anyhow, the Washington Post wonders if the vote will be a test of loyalty for Democrats

The political fallout from the botched launch of the health-care law is presenting congressional Democrats with one of their toughest tests of party loyalty in the five years of the Obama administration.

House Republicans are expected to pass a bill Friday that could dramatically undermine the law. And after years of trying to impale the initiative, GOP leaders are hopeful that the political turmoil over the rollout will provide them the support of a sizable bloc of Democrats.

After Obama’s little PC, for which he was at least 30 minutes late, O’s chief of staff, Denis McDon­ough, along with some “senior staff”, huddled with the Senate Democrats. Nope, Obama wasn’t present. He gave his speech, his work was done or something. Then they huddled with House Dems

In particular, they urged House Democrats to not support Friday’s GOP bill, which would allow people to keep their old health insurance by extending the “grandfather provisions” of the health-care law to include plans purchased after the law was adopted in 2010. Democrats worry that that would keep millions of people out of the exchanges and decimate the act.

Hmm, interesting that Democrats didn’t talk about needing tens of millions to see their insurance cancelled and forced into the health exchanges/Medicaid in order for the law to work.

A large number of such defections would be a policy blow to the law, but it would be an even more significant political gut punch to the president. The White House on Thursday night said the president would veto the GOP bill if it came to his desk.

Double interesting: it’s being positioned that it is more important to give loyalty to Obama, as if he is a king or something, rather than being elected representatives of The People of the USA.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Is Obama’s One Year “Fix” Unconstitutional?

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 7:03 pm

I’m gonna make this a quickie, gotta run soon. I’m sure you’ve read/heard about Barry’s Big Obamacare Fix

(WSJ) President Barack Obama said Thursday that insurers will be able to continue health-insurance coverage next year for current policyholders that otherwise would be canceled under the new health-care law.

The change marks a significant policy retreat by the president, one that he hopes will quell an intensifying protest over his faulty promise that Americans can keep their insurance plans under the new law.

This is only for one year. Doesn’t something happen in November next year? I personally think this is a Bad Idea for Obama and Dems, but, they’ve backed themselves into a corner. No one is really going to be able to get their plans back (Washington state has already said “we won’t comply” and insurance companies are saying this in unworkable), and those who haven’t been dropped will be dropped next fall, right in time for the 2014 mid-terms. It would have been better to take the pain now and hope for the best later. This just gives Republicans more talking points and attack points come 2014.

That said, one thing I noted over at Twitchy

Someone correct me of I’m wrong, but the ACA set out certain minimum coverages, but then left the actual details in the hands of the head of HHS. A lot of the cancellations are due to those rules. So it would seem Obama could do this.

So, Obama might actually have the power to do this, or, more correctly, his subordinate, HHS head Kathleen Sebelius. They would just need to change the rules, which they mostly set in the first place.

Today’s PC was all about Obama, and him thinking that he can fix everything with A Speech. He really couldn’t give a shit, excuse my language, if Dems are hurt nor if Americans are hurt. This is All About Obama.

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Oh, Noes, “Climate Change” Is Messing With Rain Distribution

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 3:43 pm

Obviously, weather patterns never changed before Man invented the fossil fueled combustion engine, and big rains never happened before CO2 crossed the safe threshold of 350ppm. Here’s Joe Romm’s George Soros funded Climate Progress

The redistribution of rainfall predicted by climate change modeling is playing out in real life, a new study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found.

The research, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first study to find the signal of climate change in global precipitation shifts across land and sea. According to The Australian, large-scale studies to date have overlooked the 77 percent of global rainfall that occurs over the oceans.

The initial change has resulted in wet areas, such as the tropics, becoming wetter, while drier regions such as deserts have become more arid. The effect is expected to worsen as climate change continues to worsen.

According to the study, greenhouse gasses affect the distribution of precipitation through two mechanisms. Increasing temperatures that are expected to make wet regions wetter and dry regions drier (thermodynamic changes) and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns will push storm tracks and subtropical dry zones toward the poles.

And, of course they Blame Mankind, with the lead author, Kate Marvel, claiming that the changes cannot be explained by natural variability alone, it must be you and your reliance on your fossil fueled vehicle. Cause nature never changed before. The Climate Creationists have spoken.

And, yes, this is a meme, with lots of news articles on the subject over the past 24 hours. If only Warmists would give up their own fossil fueled travel, unplug the fridge, turn off the AC, heat their homes with solar power, and give up the hairspray, Gaia would be saved.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a toilet that you hope is a low flow one, which would stop Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, which deconstructs the Warmist hype on Yolanda.

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Hmm, North Carolina Has Seen 160,000 Insurance Cancellations

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 10:42 am

Did you know that? I didn’t know that. I live in NC, and have looked for the numbers many times. I guess I missed them, since none of the local news outlets published this news, or made it easily available. I found out in context of how bad things are going for NC Senator Kay Hagan

Hagan hosted a conference call for reporters on Nov. 12 to discuss the problems with the health care law’s rollout, and the Q&A session was so painful that the senator should qualify for trauma coverage under the Affordable Care Act. (snip)

A reporter from the Greensboro News & Record asked why Hagan, like President Obama, had told people that if they liked their health plans they’d be able to keep their health plans.

There was a long pause before Hagan responded, then a deep intake of breath. “You know, Doug,” she responded, “the, um” – here she exhaled and paused again – “the way these, the – the regulations and the law, uh” – pause – “came forward recently, I think people were surprised that the, uh, the – the actual original plans would be, um, would be canceled.”

Another North Carolina reporter asked Hagan what she is telling constituents whose premiums have doubled or whose plans have been canceled.

Deep inhalation. “Well, a lot of people, I, I am encouraging everybody to go on the site, uh, uh, I – look through it, find out what the benefits are,” she began. She also said constituents could call her office, “and we will certainly, uh, do what we can to help those individuals and put them in contact, uh, with the right – with the right person.”

Sounds painful. And that pain will not go away unless O-care starts operating super duper crazy awesome by election time. No one will let her forget the cancellations, nor the huge increase in premium and deductible costs.

News reports about the law in Hagan’s home state have been brutal: businesses cutting workers’ hours, 160,000 people receiving cancellation notices, hardly anybody signing up for the health care exchange.

Those 160K apparently came from Blue Cross Blue Shield, as noted by the NC GOP. Interestingly, BCBS is one of only two carriers participating in the NC Exchange as run by Los Federales. I wonder how many cancellations nationwide correlate to carriers who participate in the Exchanges? But, then, mine does (Aetna), and while I haven’t seen a cancellation, I know it occurred for the company, as we have to pick something entirely new in December during open enrollment.

So: Alabama (87,000), Alaska (5,400), California (279,000), Florida (300,000), Kansas (20,000), Kentucky (280,000), Michigan (140,000), Minnesota (146,000), Montana (20,000), New Jersey (800,000), New York (100,000), Oregon (150,000), Wyoming and (2,600), Pennsylvania (64,000), Washington (266,000), Wisconsin (9,000 – Madison only), District of Columbia (76,000 – Washington D.C. metropolitan area, includes Maryland and Virginia), Colorado (250,000), North Carolina (160,000)

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Strange, Most Super Deadly Cyclones Occurred When CO2 Was At “Safe” Levels

By William Teach November 14, 2013 – 7:52 am

Who would have thought it?

(IBD) The United Nations climate chief blames the Philippines devastation on climate change, ignoring the historical record that 33 of the 35 most devastating storms occurred with CO2 below current levels.

One can appreciate the genuine grief felt by an emotional Naderev “Yeb” Sano as the delegate from a Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan spoke at the start of two-week talks in Warsaw where more than 190 countries will try to lay the groundwork for a new pact to fight global warming.

“We can fix this. We can stop this madness. Right now, right here,” Sano told delegates in Warsaw as he pleaded for action on climate change.

Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Blamed Haiyan/Yolanda on “climate change”, going down the same road as so many other Warmists. Depending on which one you listen to, and how they’re responding, they’ll tell us that the storm was caused by “climate change”, or was made worse by “climate change”. They’ll say this is what the new normal will be. But, of course, any big snow storms, cold snaps, early snow, are just storms, and mean nothing…well, then they’ll tell you that cold and snow is caused by “climate change”, so I guess that’s not the best example. Because “climate change” causes everything.

Anyhow

There have been 35 cyclones in the last 800 years that have killed more than 10,000 people. Thirty-three occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM. The deadliest one in 1970 was blamed on global cooling at the time, says Goddard. A chart at the website Real Science shows a pattern of storms unrelated to anything mankind has done.

Here’s that chart (remember, below 350ppm is supposed to be “safe”)

That one comes from Steven Goddard. IBD has a prettier one, but it is small. And before someone goes “eeewwwwww, Steven Goddard, icky skeptic!!!!”, the data comes from Weather Underground. Which probably obtained the data from NOAA or a similar agency.

The deadliest one in 1970 was blamed on global cooling at the time.

Interestingly, a goodly chunk occurred during cool periods. Nice try Warmists, but maybe you should try practicing science, rather than hysteria and soothsaying.

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