The Scariest Thing You’ll See All Day

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 7:21 pm

They used to know what scary costumes were. Now it seems like the idea is to be as sleazy as possible

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Defunct Obama “Green” Company Leaves Toxic Mess

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 3:24 pm

What happens when all these supposedly “green” companies that received taxpayer “loans” from Obama’s Stimulus collapse?

(Fox News) A Colorado-based solar company that got hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loan guarantees before going belly-up didn’t just empty taxpayers’ wallets – it left behind a toxic mess of carcinogens, broken glass and contaminated water, according to a new report.

The Abound Solar plant, which got $400 million in federal loan guarantees in 2010, when the Obama administration sought to use stimulus funds to promote green energy, filed for bankruptcy two years later. Now its Longmont, Colo., facility sits unoccupied, its 37,000 square feet littered with hazardous waste, broken glass and contaminated water. The Northern Colorado Business Report estimates it will cost up to $3.7 million to clean and repair the building so it can again be leased.

In fact, the site is so contaminated that the owner tried to get the bankruptcy trustee to clean the site, but it would “place humans at imminent and significant health risk”, according to the report, particularly from the cancer causing element cadmium, used in solar panels.

When Solyndra went bust, they also left a huge toxic mess. Because creating solar panels can leave serious amounts of toxic sludge and other environmental un-friendly messes. My definition of “green” seems vastly different from Obama and all the Warmists who push these projects.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…are evil plastic cups* killing Gaia with Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Villainous Company, with an Obamacare teachable moment.

*Plastic cups aren’t the best for real environmental issues. Please recycle. Yes, I’m serious.

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Tales From Oregon: 150K To Lose Their Plans, No Obamacare Signups As Of Yet

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 11:02 am

If you like your plan, well, tough guano

(KGW Portland) Officials said about 150,000 Oregonians enrolled in individual health care plans will see their plans canceled by the end of the year because they don’t provide the minimum level of coverage required under the new health care law.

State Insurance Division spokeswoman Cheryl Martinis said Wednesday that those facing cancellations could see a break in coverage if they don’t enroll in a new plan on the state’s problem-plagued online exchange by Dec. 15.

A month in, the state has not enrolled a single person. It has received 4,260 paper applications and its website still can’t tell people what subsidies they are eligible for.

The website is, shockingly, a mess. But, wait, it gets even better!

While Oregon has an estimated 600,000 uninsured, the situation is most dire for about 11,000 Oregonians who are part of the state’s high-risk insurance pool – a program for those rejected by private insurance carriers because of pre-existing conditions such as cancer, diabetes, or severe heart conditions.

Those in the high risk pool will see it dissolved. Super, isn’t it? Oregon tries to find a way to deal with high risk people, and now Obamacare tells them “nope, buh bye!” Now they have to attempt to join Cover Oregon, which, um, doesn’t work.

Ed Morrissey notes that 140,000 in Minnesota are also being dumped.

So, let’s see, so far we have

  • 300,000 from Florida Blue
  • 160,00 from California’s Kaiser Permanente
  • 119,00 from California’s Blue Shield
  • Some reports say over 700,000 in California will lose their plans
  • From Pennsylvania, Insurance Highmark in Pittsburgh and Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia plan to cancel 20 percent and 45 percent of their total plans
  • 800,000 New Jersey residents will see their plans go away
  • We know Colorado residents are losing their plans, since Michelle Malkin was a recipient of a cancellation notice.
  • We know folks in States like North Carolina are losing their plans, we just don’t know how many. Yet.

And let’s not forget that at some point companies will have to comply in the same way. How many of them will have to change their plans?

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Bummer: Fenway Park Could Be Victim Of “Climate Change”

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 9:57 am

Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for winning the World Series. Your park is dooooooooomed!

(Environmental News Service) Boston’s 101-year-old Fenway Park – where the World Series was won by the Boston Red Sox tonight for the first time since 1918 – is at increased risk of flooding due to climate change, warns the National Wildlife Federation.

Calling the baseball diamond “a diamond in the marsh,” the environmental group points out that low-lying Fenway Park took its name from The Fens, the saltwater marshland around the Muddy River on which it was built.

Parts of the neighborhood, like much of downtown Boston, were built on filled-in marshy areas, blogs the NWF’s Miles Grant. (snip)

The environmental group wants to remind Bostonians before the upcoming mayoral election on November 5, that climate change is making flooding more likely due to “heavier rainfalls and climate change-fueled sea level rise.”

The fable includes this picture, done by the Environmental League Of Massachusetts

More unhinged and unscientific photos from the ELM are available here.

Fenway is 20 feet about sea level. The left field wall, The Green Monster, is 304-308 feet tall (depending on the measurement). That picture would seem to depict a sea rise of at least 170 feet. In reality

So, it would take over 17,000 years to see up to half of the Green Monster covered by rising seas. And Warmists call this “science”.

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Possible New Liberal Talking Point: Those Insurance Cancellations Aren’t Real Cancellations

By William Teach October 31, 2013 – 9:17 am

Democrats are desperately looking for a way to minimize the impact of the millions of health insurance cancellations in the face of (NMP) Obama’s constant “promises” regarding the ability to keep your insurance. The LA Times’ Jon Healy notes

One of the arguments made for the 2010 healthcare law was that it attacked the problem of underinsurance — the threadbare policies that offered such poor coverage, they allowed millions of Americans to be bankrupted by medical bills. Now, however, Democrats are confronting the fact that the law they wrote is forcing thousands of people to lose their current insurance plans because the coverage doesn’t meet the new standards. It’s a perfect example of the road to political hell being paved by good intentions.

When this whole thing started, one could infer good intentions. Democrats wanted to make sure that the 30-45 million Americans without health insurance, as their talking points went, were able to obtain affordable, quality health insurance. From there we ended up with the monstrosity of the “Affordable” Care Act. And people losing their plans. Along comes The NY Times’s David Firestone

A true cancellation is when someone gets a letter saying that she’s losing her insurance and cannot renew. That was common practice in the individual market for people with expensive conditions. Under the new law, no one will ever get a letter like that again. They cannot be turned down for insurance.

The so-called cancellation letters waved around at yesterday’s hearing were simply notices that policies would have to be upgraded or changed. Some of those old policies were so full of holes that they didn’t include hospitalization, or maternity care, or coverage of other serious conditions.

Is your head spinning? How does that stack up to “if you like you’re plan, you can keep it. Period”? For the millions who are receiving cancellation notices, they’re pretty sure that the policy is cancelled, and now they have to get a new one. Period. We can add this to the one about “you can keep your plan if it’s good”. Also, Democrats are Blaming the insurance carriers.For following the law Democrats passed.

Obama is blaming “bad apples” for the cancellations. Like most issues, he doesn’t seem to have much in the way of information. Or, he’s just plain lying. Probably a bit of both. Well, a lot of both. Expect lots of campaign style speeches in the coming months like last nights.

BTW, we haven’t even gotten to the point where people can’t keep their doctor.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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“You Can Keep Your Plan If It’s Good”

By William Teach October 30, 2013 – 4:05 pm

I’ve mentioned the emerging DemoRat talking point a few times, including the post on the “Affordable” Care Act earlier today. Here’s another example

(Weekly Standard) According to Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Democrats had only promised that Americans could keep their insurance if it was “good insurance.”

“We said when we passed that, ‘If you had insurance that was good insurance that you wanted to keep it, you could keep it,’” Landrieu said.

Anyone else remember that talking point even before the “A”CA was passed? Furthermore, who defines “good”? Oh, that’s right, the Government is now going to fully decide for you.

“You should talk to the insurance companies if they’re dropping people,” said Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. “The idea here is to have affordable insurance to people that don’t have it.”

There’s another one, whereby the insurance companies are being blamed. You know, for complying with the rules passed by HHS, an arm of the Executive Branch under some guy named Obama. Who is ripped to shreds by Dana over at The First Street Journal.

This comes via The Lonely Conservative, who also notes

The measure is a bill introduced by Senator Ron Johnson called “If You Like Your Plan You Can Keep It Act,” which almost sounds absurd, but that’s the reality we’re living in these days, a tragically absurd reality.

I’m not quite sure I’m for this. It will make great politics if Democrats vote against it, particularly in the Senate. On the other hand, if it passes, this gives Democrats an out, whereby they will demand that Republicans join in in passing more fixes to the ACA. Republicans should, if anything, force the full weight of Obamacare to be implemented immediately. No waivers, not delay of the employer mandate. Make people feel the pain of their votes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 30, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible natural gas fueled fireplace, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on massive security hole in Obamacare.

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Report: Hotcoldwetdry May Pose Threat To Economic Growth

By William Teach October 30, 2013 – 11:10 am

Late morning coffee snorters edition, where that pesky word “may” crops up again

(CNN) Nearly a third of the world’s economic output will come from countries facing “high” to “extreme” risks from the impacts of climate change within 12 years, according to a new report.

The Climate Change Vulnerability Index, an annual report produced by UK-based risk analysis firm Maplecroft, found that climate change “may pose a serious obstacle to sustainable economic growth in the world’s most commercially important cities.”

When Warmists start throwing around the word “may” (or might, could, etc), you know you’re in for a whopper of a fable. In this case, saying Bad Weather from “climate change” may cause Bad Things to happen, especially within the economies of 3rd World Shitholes developing nations which never seem to develop.

It said the combined GDP of the 67 countries classed as facing “high” or “extreme” risks was projected to nearly triple from $15 trillion to $44 trillion by 2025 — meaning nearly a third of the global economy would be coming under increasing threat from extreme climate-related events. It projected the population of those countries — currently estimated at more than 4.5 billion — could exceed 5 billion by 2025.

So, wait, GDP is supposed to “nearly triple” during “climate change” while also being threatened? I’ll admit, I’m kinda bad about editing posts prior to posting (especially headlines), but, then, I don’t get paid for this. People who write for, say, CNN, do. And typically have an editor who reads the article first.

Notice at the and of that paragraph that the writer seems a bit upset about population growth in these countries. Kinda racists, wouldn’t you say?

The greatest growth in economic activity, technology, health, and so many other things has occurred during the Modern Warm Period. Also, during previous warm periods, which were typically warmer than today, Mankind did a whole lot better than during cool periods, one of which was called The Dark Ages. In fact, things are so great that Warmists are able to whine about Bad Weather and “climate change” and stuff instead of scrambling just to survive.

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What Blogs Would You Recommend?

By William Teach October 30, 2013 – 10:27 am

I’m looking to add a few more blogs to my feedreader, increasing the pool for the If All You See.. posts and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup. Over time, many that I’ve followed for a long time have drifted away from blogging. Who would you recommend?

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