If All You See…

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

…is the destruction of the works of man from a rising sea, you might just be a Warmist

The Blog of the day is Just One Minute, with a post on Obama accommodating our enemies.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 15, 2013 – 7:59 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. Pinups have been a bit tame as of late, needed something that really pops today. Why? Why not? Not a clue who this pinup is by.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Zilla notes that DC was just the start for the bikers for freedom
  2. The Lonely Conservative notes what other data the feds want
  3. The People’s Cube has the god of thunder
  4. The Last Tradition notes Obama’s humiliation
  5. This ain’t Hell… notes that the White House peace vigil of 30 years is no more
  6. Wake Up America notes the delivery of weapons to al Qaeda in Syria
  7. The Gateway Pundit notes a security fail at TSA (surprise!)
  8. The Daley Gator notes the religious intolerance in America
  9. The Camp Of The Saints has an interesting Friday the 13th story
  10. Public Secrets has some good news on gun rights
  11. Nice Deb covers grief stricken Christian women in Syria
  12. Neo-neocon discusses Obama the world leader
  13. Jihad Watch catches CAIR in a (typical) freakout
  14. Gay Patriot has Putin vs Obama
  15. And last, but not least, Sunshine Hours has some interesting data on August “warmth”

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 outwhat I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Note: I’m on the road today, left early, so only including links up by 10pm Saturday night. Anything with an asterisk or a “last week’s” is last week’s. In some cases, I guessed what the Sunday URL might be. I’ll try and update in the evening. Otherwise, click the link and then head to the home page and poke around. PS: other posts you see during the day were written last night.

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.

The posts do take a long time, so, if you want to send me your links for Rule 5 babeage or links, use ye olde email in the header bar (remove the NOSPAM part). Preferably, create the html link so I can copy and paste how you want it to read.

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Are You Psyched For Obama Speaking On The 5th Anniversary Of The Financial Crisis?

By William Teach September 15, 2013 – 7:35 am

If you thought his speech on Syria was bad, wait till you hear this one

(The Hill) President Obama will speak Monday from the White House Rose Garden to mark the five-year anniversary of the financial crisis and highlight his administration’s response to it.

In other words, he’ll try and fist bump himself, and perhaps pivot to the economy for the 20th time. He’ll probably talk about all the super duper great programs and initiatives he and Democrats rammed through.

In Monday’s speech, Obama is expected to pressure Congress to take greater steps to boost the middle class amid a lingering unemployment crisis. Democrats have promoted legislation they say will address the issue – including bills to hike infrastructure spending, increase taxes on companies that outsource and raise the minimum wage – but most of those are non-starters with GOP leaders in the House.

The GOP has passed dozens of pieces of legislation regarding the economy, which are languishing without a committee hearing nor a floor vote in the Democrat controlled Senate. Obama and the Democrats want more of the same that has so far failed. The Guardian noted 10 reasons why the US economy is stuck

  1. wages are falling
  2. the middle class is losing ground and getting hollowed out
  3. McJobs are taking over
  4. capital is hammering labor
  5. unemployment is twice what they say
  6. America is going part-time – and not for fun
  7. workers aren’t working
  8. union wages are harder to come by. Much
  9. the cost of college is skyrocketing
  10. inequality is getting worse

And those are from a heavily left leaning paper. Zero Hedge offer 40 frightening facts on the economy. Interestingly, most forget to mention “Obama” as a major reason why this is the worst recession recovery since the Great Depression. It’s not just his pitiful policies which might make sense in a college bull session, but fail in the real world. It’s what he threatens. All of this “I’ll take action unilaterally” stuff, the threats to raise taxes, the threats from him and his EPA to “do something” about “carbon pollution”, etc and so on, they all create a negative business environment, an environment where confidence has gone out the window. There’s always at least a bit of uncertainty in the private sector, but they do not need government turning it up to 11.

But, it’ll be interesting to watch Obama chest thump himself Monday. Fortunately, he’ll have plenty of people sitting at home, having given up on the jobs market in despair, available to watch his speech, which will also surely be long on self congratulation and Blamestorming others.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Good News: CFPB Will Only Monitor 80% Of Credit Card Transactions

By William Teach September 14, 2013 – 4:46 pm

Seriously, folks, what could possibly go wrong?

(Washington Examiner) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau officials are seeking to monitor four out of every five U.S. consumer credit card transactions this year — up to 42 billion transactions – through a controversial data-mining program, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

A CFPB strategic planning document for fiscal years 2013-17 describes the “markets monitoring” program through which officials aim to monitor 80 percent of all credit card transactions in 2013.

This apparently severely violates the scope of what is allowed under Dodd-Frank which created the CFPB, not too mention the possibility for all sorts of issues, depending on how much data they collect. Will they see the CC numbers, expiration data, and CV code? Will they track what people are purchasing? What will they do with the data?

But the hearing was dominated by charges of an agency operating beyond its legal authority, rife with conflicts of interest, and mismanagement.

Hensarling opened the hearing by noting that CFPB “is designed to operate outside the usual system of checks and balances that applies to every other government agency.”

Wait, a government agency acting in this manner? Who woulda thunk it? Don’t you feel better about your CC info in their hands?

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If All You See…

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

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle that is even worse because it is old, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on Democrats destroying a 9/11 memorial.

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Having Solved Their Murder Problem, Chicago Takes On Big Energy Users

By William Teach September 14, 2013 – 12:37 pm

Guest Post by William Teach of Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach.

There have been over 300 murders in Chicago this year, which doesn’t count all the attempted murders and other violence in the Windy City, and kids are scared to go to school as they pass through gang wars in safe passage areas, but, hey, priorities

(The Blaze) Building managers in Chicago are complaining they will be put through “public shaming” after the city council voted to require them to publicly disclose their energy use in the city’s bid to cut it by 30 percent by 2020, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Beginning next year, Chicago buildings will submit annual reports regarding their energy efficiency and could be compared to their peers.

Only buildings larger than 50,000 square feet will be required to report data to a program the Tribune compared to TurboTax run through the EPA, called Energy Star Portfolio Manager. (snip)

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel doesn’t see a problem with this.

“Do you check the mileage before you purchase a car? Do you check the energy-efficiency of a utility before you purchase it? Do you do comparative? What is wrong with providing people information?” Emanuel said, according to the Tribune.

Sure, there’s absolutely no problem with a dictatorial government forcing their beliefs on citizens and private entities and publicly shaming them, which could cause a loss in revenue and customers all while publishing private data which is none of Government’s business, and probably for the Cult Of Gore.

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Lomborg: “Don’t blame climate change for extreme weather”

By William Teach September 14, 2013 – 7:09 am

I’m shocked that the Washington Post has allowed this op-ed to be published, which blows away so many of the myths of extreme weather and “climate change”, many of which have been exposed time and again by many Climate Realists

One of the most persistent claims in the climate debate is that global warming leads to more extreme weather. Green groups and even such respectable outlets as Scientific American declare that “extreme weather is a product of climate change.”

And the meme seems irresistible as a political shortcut to action. President Obama has explicitly linked a warming climate to “more extreme droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes.” The White House warned this summer of “increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events that come with climate change.”

Yet this is not supported by science. “General statements about extremes are almost nowhere to be found in the literature but seem to abound in the popular media,” climate scientist Gavin Smith of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said last month. “It’s this popular perception that global warming means all extremes have to increase all the time, even though if anyone thinks about that for 10 seconds they realize that’s nonsense.”

Global warming is real. It is partly man-made. It will make some things worse and some things better. Overall, the long-run impact will be negative. But some of the most prominent examples of extreme weather are misleading, and some weather events are becoming less extreme.

Lomborg isn’t exactly a “denier”. His take on anthropogenic causation is somewhat stronger than most who are on the Climate Realist side (as I’ve written many times, I figure Man takes a 10-15% responsibility, mostly through agriculture, landfills, and the UHI). Notice he thinks the long term impact will be negative. Is that true? Depends who you ask. Modern society grew during a certain range of temperatures, and warmer (and much cooler) weather could have negative impacts. Yes, we do need to adapt.

Global warming, in general, will mean higher temperatures. This causes more heat waves — more extreme weather. But it also causes fewer cold waves — less extreme weather. Many more people die from excessive cold than excessive heat, so fewer people will die from cold and heat in the future. By mid-century, researchers estimated in 2006, that means about 1.4 million fewer deaths per year. In the continental United States, heat waves in the past decade exceeded the norm by 10 percent, but the number of cold waves fell 75 percent.

Global warming will also cause more heavy rain; this is clearly more extreme. But warming will also help alleviate water scarcity — less extreme. About 1.2 billion fewer people are expected to live with water scarcity by the end of the century because of increased precipitation.

So he’s saying there is good and bad in AGW. He even takes the Warmist position that there will be fewer hurricanes but that they’ll be stronger. The fact is, climate has always changed (climate being the long term averages), and weather can change from year to year based on mostly natural conditions. Colorado flooding? We were told just a few years ago that there would be a permanent drought. Things change. When the climate eventually flips to a cool period the weather will do different things. Such is life on Earth.

Make sure to read the whole thing.

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Washington Post: Obama Isn’t A Catasrophic Mess, This Is All Standard Negotiation On Syria

By William Teach September 14, 2013 – 6:41 am

Here’s one of those articles I promised would be forthcoming which would show that no, Obama’s not a screwup, that he’s not getting played and owned by Putin and Assad, in fact, he’s super awesome and things are going according to plan

(Washington Post) Watching the maneuvering between the United States, Russia and Syria over the plan to remove Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons, it can look like a catastrophic mess. No one seems to be on remotely the same page, everyone is making crazy demands and it looks functionally impossible that everyone could actually reach an agreement.

Here’s the thing to understand: Everything that happens now between these three countries is a negotiation. Everything. The United States wants to see Assad’s chemical weapons removed as surely and as quickly as possible. Russia wants to protect Assad from Western military strikes and, if possible, from Western meddling of any form. Assad wants to keep the West uninvolved in his war.

Almost every single thing you’re seeing these three countries do right now, no matter how crazy it looks, is about getting as close to their desired outcome as possible. But these are high-stakes negotiations, which means they’re starting from maximalist positions, making crazy, unfulfillable demands, trying to game the process. That’s actually all normal. It’s just part of the game.

Put Max Fisher in the Obama Fan Boy Club, a club that is devoid of any sense of reality. He goes on to discuss Putin’s op-ed in the NY Times and how, no, it’s not giving Obama a massive wedgie followed by flushing his head in the toilet, it’s just an “act of public diplomacy”. How Russia supposedly backed off their own plan to get some horse-trading done (why would they do that when Obama seems perfectly willing to give Putin what he wants? Heck, he blew off Poland over the missile shield in a heartbeat). Then there’s Assad, who said he’d give up the chemical weapons if the US stopped arming the rebels (mostly made of Islamists). That’s not standard negotiation, that’s rubbing Obama’s face in the fact that Obama has made America very weak. No little pissant should be able to dictate terms to the USA.

And then there’s going to the United Nations, which Obama may or may not do, which Fisher finds to be Brilliant!!! And Obama is sorta keeping the potential for military strikes on (between rounds of golf) to pressure Assad.

The fact is, US Obama foreign policy is a mess, with contradictory messages from Obama and Secretary of State Kerry, and they’re always trying to play catch-up. They’re getting played by Putin and Assad. This is not standard negotiation. When Reagan gave his “tear down this wall” speech, that was not standard negotiation: that was a strong-arm tactic, blindsiding Gorbachev. Putin is not negotiating, he’s playing Obama while attempting to turn Russia into a powerhouse and diminishing America thanks to Obama’s weakness.

While a deal will probably get done (there’s a breaking news banner at Fox about the US and Russia reaching a deal on a framework), only a complete Obama zombie would think this is standard negotiation, and that Obama doesn’t come off looking weak and a fool internationally.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Heat Pumps, Insulation Now Considered Bad For “Climate Change”, And Must Be Regulated By Government

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 2:55 pm

You’ve probably read about air conditioning being deemed Bad for Hotcoldwetdry, at least in how it applies to Other People who live in 3rd World Shitholes Developing Nations wanting it. I’ve probably mentioned at some point that refrigerators are also Bad, but mostly I note that the ice maker in your fridge is Bad, just for the silliness factor. But, it gets even funnier, as now even insulation and heat pumps (often used with air conditioning, fridges, and pools) are Bad For “Climate Change”

Explained in 90 seconds: Your fridge is accelerating climate change — but it doesn’t have to

The outward statecraft of the recent G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, was dominated by disagreements over Syria. But behind the scenes, leaders were busy agreeing on something they rarely find common ground on: climate change. Thirty-five nations and the European Union decided to curb hydrofluorocarbons, a set of powerful heat-trapping gases used in refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps, and insulation. This follows a deal earlier this year between China and the United States, in which President Obama and President Xi agreed to limit these greenhouse gases.

Warmists/Enviroweenies have already managed to get CFCs banned because of the supposed damage to the ozone layer, now they want HFCs banned, without any real replacement, other than living like it’s 1492, to stop the global temperature from virtually flatlining for over 15 years rising dozens of degrees by 2100.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 13, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sun that feels brighter because someone used hairspray, but still doesn’t drive climate, you might just be a New Climate Denier

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Putin schooling Obama.

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