Celebrations For Victory Girls And Gator Doug!

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 12:24 pm

The ladies at Victory Girls are celebrating their 1st!

Gator Doug is cough mumble years old.

Stop by and say hello. In the meantime, pirate dance and grog for all!

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Rand Paul Wants John Roberts, All Federal Workers Enrolled In Obamacare

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 11:37 am

Let them live under the rules they seem to like so much

(Daily Caller) Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.

With some in Congress arguing lawmakers and their staff should not get subsidies to cover their health insurance as President Obama’s health care law goes into effect, the Republican senator from Kentucky told The Daily Caller on Sunday that he’s going to start pushing a constitutional amendment that goes even further.

Paul’s proposal — outlawing any special exemptions for government employees — would mean all federal workers would have to purchase health insurance on the new Obamacare exchanges instead of getting taxpayer-funded subsidies. Some critics say those subsidies amount to special treatment. The Obamacare health insurance exchange opens Oct 1.

He should go further with it and make sure that all White House workers, including the President, have to live under the same rules. This is both a good and bad idea. First, politically, it would force Democrats who love Obamacare to take a stand, either for or against living under the same rules established for the rest of the country. You can bet that Harry Reid will table the proposed Constitutional amendment, never allowing it to come up for a vote, which is damning in itself.

On the bad side, having all federal workers on Obamacare actually is part of the endgame, which is single payer. The more people on the government controlled exchanges the better.

I don’t understand why Paul would push this as a constitutional amendment, instead of a change in law. Sure, it would be a route with which Obama has no power to veto. There’s no way he gets a 2/3rds vote in the Senate, and could be tough in the GOP controlled House. Is it possible to get 2/3rds of the State legislatures to call for a Constitutional Convention? Twenty seven legislatures are controlled by Republicans. 17 Democrat. 5 split. 1 non-affiliated (Nebraska). He needs 33.

However, this is about optics. Sure, he would love this to pass. But this puts the notion that federal employees, including Congress, the POTUS, members of the Supreme Court, et all are exempt from Obamacare, a law that is still highly unpopular.

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Warmists Desperately Want Active End To Hurricane Season

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 8:45 am

Barring that, they’ll simply make up excuses for why landfalling hurricane activity has fallen like a stone since the start of the 2006 season

(NOLA) The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season was kicked off with dire warnings from the National Hurricane Center and Colorado State University climatologists Philip Klotzbach and William Gray that there would be an above average number of hurricanes and severe hurricanes.

With the season just over the Sept. 10 halfway point – often viewed as the most active period – the number of cyclones that have grown big enough to earn names is on track to meet the named-storm predictions. But the number of hurricanes and the number of intense hurricane activity days have lagged well behind, according to forecasters with National Hurricane Center.

So far, there have only been nine named storms, only 2 of which made it to minor hurricane status. The prediction was for 13-19 named storms, with 6-9 being hurricanes, 3-5 being major. Since 2008 there has only been one U.S. landfalling hurricane, and it can be argued that Issac was just below hurricane status at landfall. The last major hurricane was Wilma in 2005. Where nine days away from it being 3000 days since Wilma.

But Feltgen warned against thinking that this year’s Atlantic hurricane season is over.

“Think of the season as having just passed halftime,” he said. “A lot can happen in the second half, and be very different than the first half.”

Warmists really, really, really want to see some hurricanes in order to continue to push their cult, namely that hurricanes are now caused by you driving your fossil fueled vehicle. Let’s not forget that they were predicting that 2005 would be the “new normal”.

So what’s blocking the formation of hurricanes this year?

Feltgen said center forecasters blame an unusual weather pattern where dry, stable air, sometimes accompanied by dust from the Sahara region of Africa, has been sinking in the central and eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.

You can bet that Warmists are huddled together with cases of Red Bull attempting to come up with some way to blame this lack of activity to human induced “climate change”.

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Surprise: Obama Used Navy Yard Shooting Memorial For Partisan Anti-Gun Speech

By William Teach September 23, 2013 – 8:21 am

If you were betting that for once (NMP) Obama would keep it on topic and avoid sermonizing politically, sorry, the man can’t help continuing the Neverending Campaign at every turn

(Politico) The best way to memorialize the 12 killed at the Navy Yard massacre, President Barack Obama said Sunday, is by enacting the new gun control laws he seeks.

(picture reminding people Obama played golf again on Saturday)

Speaking at a memorial service at the Marine Barracks in Southeast D.C., Obama said Monday’s shootings, along with the other gun massacres during his presidency, “ought to lead to some sort of transformation” like those that have taken place in other nations that have restricted access to guns in the wake of mass shootings.

“Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough,” Obama said. “If we really want to honor these 12 men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work, go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence without so many lives being stolen with a bullet from a gun, then we’re going to have to change.”

And then he explained how these anti-gun policies have worked wonders on the streets of Chicago, where children are free to walk to school in specially designated “safe passage” zones, can play in parks, don’t have to worry about gangs, and there are no shootings at all!

“It ought to be a shock to all of us as a nation and as a people,” Obama said. “It ought to obsess us, it ought to lead to some sort of transformation — that’s what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies.”

What he’s referring to are countries like Australia and Britain, which banned most private gun ownership. Obama would love to do that here.

(Daily Caller) “What’s different in America is it’s easy to get your hands on gun — and a lot of us know this. …The politics are difficult,” he lamented.

“I cannot accept that,” said Obama, whose inauguration oath required him to swear that he would uphold the Constitution and laws.

What he can accept is 4 Americans murdered by guns in Benghazi.

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Bummer: No Way To Measure The Hiding Heat In Deep Oceans

By William Teach September 22, 2013 – 4:00 pm

Warmists are still beating the bandwagon about the heat doing a Where’s Waldo? in the deep oceans (say, why wasn’t it doing this before?), but, um, well, er (via Tom Nelson)

“The heat is still coming in, but it appears to have gone into the deep ocean and, frustratingly, we do not have the instruments to measure there,” said Professor Ted Shepherd of Reading University. “Global warming has certainly not gone away.”

How convenient. Warmists are desperately looking for some way to cover up the 15+ year pause, and 22 year statistically insignificant rise. More humor below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 22, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is wood that damned well better not be used for a beach bonfire, otherwise someone should be arrested, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post about what the NYPD is doing in response to the Kenyan bombings

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 22, 2013 – 9:48 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America, time to remember the once and future greatness. Not sure who did this pinup, but she’s a beauty.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. White House Dossier points out that Obama played golf yet again Saturday
  2. Weasel Zippers covers what CAIR has to say about Israel trying to help in Nairobi
  3. Wild Thing notes Obama’s special insider nickname
  4. The Lonely Conservative notes what the Illinois Gov wants to do to deal with Chicago violence
  5. The Gateway Pundit covers a very special school field trip
  6. Support Your Local Gunfighter notes the results of the end of NYC’s stop and frisk
  7. Sister Toldjah covers what NC liberal academics think of opposing viewpoints
  8. Shaw’s Blog notes Obama wants SCOTUS to take up the Obamacare Hobby Lobby case
  9. Powerline notes that Obamacare is more unpopular than the Iraq war
  10. protein wisdom highlights that Obamacare is designed to fail
  11. Moonbattery covers the ebonics of Common Core
  12. Maggie’s Notebook has Obama’s war on coal
  13. Legal Insurrection covers a typical lying Israel hater
  14. Gay Patriot has Obama in desperate denial
  15. And last, but not least, Flopping Aces has video of flying…from an eagle’s point of view
  16. And one to grow on: The Daley Gator has 16 stats that show how bad the economy is

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

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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UK Guardian Inadvertently Highlights That The “Climate Change” Movement Is All About Big Government

By William Teach September 22, 2013 – 8:25 am

The UK Guardian has recently spent quite a bit of time exposing the ever growing power of government interference in the lives of people via the National Security Agency and their ever-present spying. Now they have a big article on the upcoming UN IPCC AR5 “climate change” report, and let the cat out of the bag as to the purpose, in between the typical Alarmism Of Doom

Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming

(WT-Everyone should enjoy this photo of what the Guardian terms a thermal power plant with its massive amount of evil carbon pollution….what? A thermal power-plant turns water into steam, and that’s all steam, ie, water vapor? Hmph.)

Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming. In a report to be handed to political leaders in Stockholm on Monday, they will say that the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have now led to a warming of the entire globe, including land surfaces, oceans and the atmosphere.

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves and storms, have increased in many regions while ice sheets are dwindling at an alarming rate. In addition, sea levels are rising while the oceans are being acidified – a development that could see the planet’s coral reefs disappearing before the end of the century.

Writing in the Observer ahead of the report’s release, the economist and climate change expert Lord Stern calls on governments to end their dithering about fossil fuels and start working to create a global low-carbon economy to curtail global warming. Governments, he states, must decide what “kind of world we want to present to our children and grandchildren”.

And there you have it, the whole point. How many times have I and other climate realist bloggers written about this whole movement being a Fascistic/Statist (ie, Progressive) power grab, putting government in control of people, private entities, and economies? Science plays little to no part. If it did, Warmists might practice what they preach, but do you see them giving up their own fossil fueled lifestyles? This year’s COP19 is in Warsaw, Poland. How many fossil fueled flights and vehicle trips will be taken (granted, much better than in ends of the earth Durban, South Africa). Then there are all the meetings in between. Perhaps if Warmists, especially the “leaders”, would walk the talk, they might be credible. But they don’t even seem to believe their own yammering.

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Good Grief: Warmist Add People To Climate Change Map

By William Teach September 21, 2013 – 4:57 pm

This unhinged Warmist story brings to the forefront one of things I hate about Warmists

(CSMonitor) A new map adds a new variable to assessments of the regional impact of climate change: people.

In making the new map, published this week in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change, a team of scientists have factored humans’ modifications to their environment into a new calculation of the relative threats that climate change poses to the world’s different regions.

These alterations to the world’s landscapes – seen in burgeoning cities, industrial centers, and farmland – have already weakened certain regional ecosystems, putting them at a disadvantage as manmade changes to the global climate begin to tax the planet. In plotting which of the world’s ecosystems have already been pummeled with human development, the team says the map could help conservationists make difficult calls about where to funnel finite resources.

Let’s be real for a moment: Mankind does change the real environment, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes really bad. The ecosystems are something we should be concerned with (funny how Liberals love them some Big Cities, which aren’t exactly environmentally friendly, eh? There are certainly real environmental issues to be concerned with, yet these morons take the mostly fake issue of anthropogenic global warming, ie “climate change”, and overshadow those real environmental issues. I’m not concerned with the fate of, say, the Everglades because of “climate change”, but due to pollutants like pesticides, habitat destruction, destruction of wildlife. Warmists really do not care about the environment, they care about instituting far left Progressive policies.

Oh, and what do these morons want Mankind to do, demolish all our works and live like it’s 10,000 B.C.?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing bottle of water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Public Secrets, with a post on the day we almost nuked North Carolina.

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