If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a desert created by Someone Else driving an SUV which would be great for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Atlas Shrugs, with a post on the possible next Rolling Stone cover.

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Don’t Forget, Dems Are Holding Their “Climate Change Is Here” Hearing Today

By William Teach July 18, 2013 – 11:22 am

Going on right now, if you want to watch it live as the panel of primarily big time Warmists blathers on about evil fossil fueled travel after taking fossil fueled travel to D.C.

Steven is live-tweeting the hearing, so follow him.

(Daily Caller) Senate Republicans have released a report undercutting catastrophic predictions made about global warming ahead of a hearing planned by Democrats on the issue.

“Over nearly four decades, numerous predictions have had adequate time to come to fruition, providing an opportunity to analyze and compare them to today’s statistics,” reads the report from Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The report examines the 15-year break from global warming, sea level rises, extreme weather, and the unilateral regulations proposed by the Obama administration.

Too much to excerpt, read the whole article. And then tweet Barbara Boxer and ask if she plans to walk or ride a bike back to California.

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India Demands Wind Farms Accurately Predict The Wind

By William Teach July 18, 2013 – 10:58 am

As Jo Nova points out “What the Nanny-State Goddess Giveth…”

(Bloomberg) India’s move to stabilize its power grid by asking wind farms to accurately predict their output a day in advance or face fines will deepen the slowdown in Asia’s second-biggest wind market, Tata Power Co. (TPWR) said.

A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day. Missing estimates by more than 30 percent will incur penalties.

“Forecasting at 15-minute intervals is very challenging,” and could cost a 100-megawatt farm an estimated 250 million rupees ($4.2 million) a year, Tata Power said in an e-mailed response to questions. “Developers will see this as a further handicap” and penalties will “jeopardize” the industry’s growth, the nation’s second-biggest developer said.

Let me get this straight: they think it’s very challenging to forecast the wind for the following day, but Warmists can tell us what The Weather will be 50-100 years out? Of course, it is difficult to forecast what the wind will do the next day, but the point of the directive is to know just how much power the wind farms will add, or, usually, not add, to the power grid. And the wind is inherently unreliable in most places.

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Vancouver Man Cites “The Biden Rule” Over Shooting

By William Teach July 18, 2013 – 8:31 am

As Obama once said “just words“, meaning that words can have a big impact

(KOIN) A Vancouver man who fired a shotgun to chase away alleged car prowlers pleaded not guilty Wednesday and cited Vice President Joe Biden as the reason he did this.

Jeffery Barton, 52, pleaded not guilty to one count of illegal aiming or discharging a firearm at his arraignment in Clark County Court. (snip)

Outside the courtroom Wednesday, Barton cited the vice president in defense of his actions.

“I did what Joe Biden told me to do,” Barton told KOIN. “I went outside and fired my shotgun in the air.”

Barton was referring to a question and answer session the vice president had in February.

“If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barreled shotgun,” Biden said at the time.

“I said ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here … put that double-barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house,’” Biden added.

Problem being, the law there doesn’t allow someone to just fire off a blast or two unless there is a self defense component while fearing for one’s life. Still, it’s a hell of a defense. “The VP told me to do this” to which he should add “the Pres told me words have meaning”.

Of course, as gotwww points out in the comments: “Any gun owner that takes advise from Biden SHOULD have his guns taken away.”

Bubba Zooka notes “I thought you were suppose to urinate on yourself. Oh, that’s rape. Never mind.” Well, one might as well do that, because by the time the police show up the car would be broken into and stuff stolen, or the vehicle would be stolen. Personally, I’m not really thrilled by the though of someone discharging a shotgun within a neighborhood to scare people off, could cause more problems depending on where the shots go, but a citizen should be allowed to protect his property, home, and family, and, Barton did not shoot at the perps. One person in the comments notes that he keeps a blank in the chamber. That has its good points and bad points, but perhaps within cities it’s not a bad idea, if you’re able to squeeze the trigger a second time if necessary quickly.

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Good News: POTUS Press Secretary Still A Clueless Fool

By William Teach July 18, 2013 – 8:05 am

Jay Carney makes Baghdad Bob look like an awesome spokesperson

(Daily Caller) White House Press Secretary Jay Carney dismissed a question Wednesday regarding the safety of George Zimmerman and his parents as “ridiculous.”

Asked by The Daily Caller during the daily press briefing whether the president intends to take any action to protect the Zimmermans — in light of the many death threats the family has received — Carney laughed and said, “Well, I think I would refer you to Florida authorities. I’m not aware of that story. But, you know, the president has called for echoing the statements of Trayvon Martin’s family — for calm and reflection in the wake of the verdict. And that continues to be his position. He certainly would oppose any violence.”

ABC News reported Monday that Zimmerman and his parents have remained in hiding since the verdict due to ”an enormous amount of death threats.” Despite the not guilty verdict, Obama released a statement on Sunday calling on the country to honor Trayvon Martin’s memory but made no mention of Zimmerman.

Asked to comment on how many children he has and their ages, Carney said he he didn’t have that knowledge and referred the question to his wife.

Of course, some liberals, like the Politico, are annoyed that the person who dared ask the questions is a high school student. Apparently underage kids are only allowed to get abortions without parental consent and/or notification, not ask tough questions of the Press Secretary before Jay Carney plays his typical cat and mouse game of releasing as little information as possible. So far, Carney hasn’t answered almost 9,500 questions. Perhaps someone, maybe the Daily Caller intern (who’s 16) can ask Jay about Obama’s commitment to transparency.

Mediaite has a series of Tweets of “real reporters” sneering at the kid, Gabe Finger, for daring to ask the questions. And here’s Tucker Carlson’s response

Some reporters in Washington are asking why The Daily Caller sent our intern Gabe Finger to the White House press briefing this afternoon. Talk about missing the point. The real question is, why did it take a 16-year-old intern to raise an obvious and important question that the White House press corps should have asked days ago? We don’t care how old Gabe Finger is. It doesn’t matter to us what his credentials are. All we care about is how well he does his job. Today he did it a lot better than most White House reporters.

Perhaps the media response should be “hey, how about a press secretary who actually answers questions?”

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Guess Who Benefits Most From “Stand Your Ground” Laws In Florida?

By William Teach July 17, 2013 – 3:47 pm

Here’s execrable AG Eric Holder

(Washington Post) Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. strongly condemned “stand your ground” laws Tuesday, saying the measures “senselessly expand the concept of self-defense” and may encourage “violent situations to escalate.”

Except “stand your ground” wasn’t part of the Zimmerman trial, mainly because stand your ground drops out of play when someone is actually beating the snot out of you in a “ground and pound” style. But, Holder would prefer that people instead just run away. I wonder if Holder will require all the law enforcement officials under his jurisdiction to run away if they feel threatened?

“These laws try to fix something that was never broken,” Holder told cheering delegates of the annual convention of the NAACP, which is pressing him to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman. “The list of resulting tragedies is long and, unfortunately, has victimized too many who are innocent.”

Really?

(Daily Caller) African Americans benefit from Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law at a rate far out of proportion to their presence in the state’s population, despite an assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder that repealing “Stand Your Ground” would help African Americans.

Black Floridians have made about a third of the state’s total “Stand Your Ground” claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of Florida’s population. The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites.

Let’s repeat that

But approximately one third of Florida “Stand Your Ground” claims in fatal cases have been made by black defendants, and they have used the defense successfully 55 percent of the time, at the same rate as the population at large and at a higher rate than white defendants, according to a Daily Caller analysis of a database maintained by the Tampa Bay Times.  Additionally, the majority of victims in Florida “Stand Your Ground” cases have been white.

Can we call Holder a racist for wanting to do away with State stand your ground laws? Of course, it’s easy for Holder to make the call: he has all sorts of protection by people who are armed. Strange that Holder hasn’t seemed too concerned about all the people who couldn’t stand their ground against the assault weapons his employees smuggled into Mexico.

I’d love to see a poll amongst Democrats asking the question “if someone is threatening you, should you be able to “Stand Your Ground” with a weapon?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2013 – 1:00 pm

… is a world killing puppy sucking up Gaia’s resources and causing islands to tip over, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on why David Dinkins lost to Rudy Giuliani

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Good Grief: Magician Needs Disaster Plan For Bunny

By William Teach July 17, 2013 – 11:18 am

When conservatives talk about the Nanny State, Big Brother, Big Government, the over-arching intrusion into our affairs, etc, this is what we mean

(Washington Post) This summer, Marty the Magician got a letter from the U.S. government. It began with six ominous words: “Dear Members of Our Regulated Community . ..”

Washington had questions about his rabbit. Again.

Marty has to have an official federal govt license to have rabbit, sue to old laws about regulating zoos and circuses. Seriously. Even for just one bunny who performs tricks

That was what the letter was about. The government had a new rule. To keep his rabbit license, Hahne needed to write a rabbit disaster plan.

“Fire. Flood. Tornado. Air conditioning going out. Ice storm. Power failures,” Hahne said, listing a few of the calamities for which he needed a plan to save the rabbit.

Yes, this is really in the Washington Post, not the Onion or a spoof site.

Or maybe not. Late Tuesday, after a Washington Post article on Hahne was posted online, the Agriculture Department announced that the disaster-plan rule would be reexamined.

I’m other words, they’ll pretend to Do Something because this looks really foolish. The WP writer, David A. Fahrenthold should check back with Mr. Hahne in a few months.

“Our country’s broke,” Hahne said. “And yet they have money and time to harass somebody about a rabbit.”

It’s what today’s “progressive” government lives for.

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Orange County Getting New 5 Megawatt Solar Plant

By William Teach July 17, 2013 – 7:39 am

And it only requires that 35 acres of trees be clear cut

(Raleigh N&O) Orange County, one of the most environmentally conscious areas of the state, is finally getting a major league solar farm of its own.

Except for the clear-cutting of 35 acres

A 5-megawatt solar project under construction in the rural community of White Cross will not only be that county’s biggest by far, but also the second-biggest in the Triangle.

Remember, the average capacity factor of solar is around 16%, meaning it will deliver around 160,000 watts. It will be sitting on half a square mile of clear cut land. A natural gas facility could easily deliver at least 1,500 megawatts on that same land.

The project, designed and overseen by Chapel Hill-based Strata Solar, will be constructed on an unused tract that had been previously zoned for a trailer park. The mobile homes were never developed and the unused land became grown over with trees.

Building the White Cross solar farm required clear-cutting 35 acres of woodland, which also provided the project with mounds of mulch to use for erosion control.

I thought Warmists like trees? I guess not. The spin is amazing

“We truly try to minimize it, but there are a lot of trees in North Carolina and sometimes it happens,” said Strata Solar spokesman Blair Schoof of the mass mulching. “We’d rather not cut them, but what we are doing, in terms of green energy generation and CO2 offsetting, is a reasonable justification for cutting trees on occasion.”

Hey, no biggie, there are lots of trees or something.

Orange County officials say the White Cross solar farm will displace 4,224 tons of carbon dioxide annually. That’s more than twice the carbon dioxide that would be stored by 35 acres of trees, based on a U.S. Forest Service formula.

Oh, hey, then let’s cut down all the trees and replace them with solar panels.

Fortunately, quite a bit of your tax dollars are going into the state and federal tax credits. Fortunately, they’re just going to sell the expensive power from the clear-cut land to Duke Energy, which will still have to keep their plant running, mostly the Shearon Harris nuclear plant, to deal with the times when it’s not sunny.

Did I mention the clear-cutting of land?

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DOJ: Hey, Email Us Tips Saying George Zimmerman Is a Racist

By William Teach July 17, 2013 – 7:00 am

The inability of the Obama/Holder DOJ to show a sense of propriety in the George Zimmerman case is astounding

(Orlando Sentinel) The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon appealed to civil rights groups and community leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said.

The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil rights investigation.

Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – who earlier in the day joined calls for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, said that later in the afternoon, she joined a U.S. Department of Justice conference call to discuss the prospects.

“They were calling on us to actively refer anyone who had any information,” that might build a case against Zimmerman for either a civil rights violation or a hate crime, Arnwine said. “They said they would very aggressively investigate this case.”

Arnwine said the call was convened at about 3:30 p.m. by Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and included representatives from the FBI, and several federal prosecutors, she said. DOJ officials also said they would open a public email address so people could send in tips on the case.

That email address, which is now in operation, is Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov.

This gives new meaning to the term “witch-hunt”. This is Big Brother at its worst. It also shows that those who work for Obama are freaking lazy. And, finally, it shows that the DOJ has absolutely no case and are spinning their wheels in an attempt to please the race hustlers (many of whom participated in the DOJ conference call, which seems wholly inappropriate), who, I’ll bet would be very upset if this was done to them or one of their members.

Powerline calls this “gangster government”. I call this a violation of Zimmerman’s 4th and 5th Amendment Rights, and exactly what we have come to expect from the fascistic Obama government. Oh, and I mentioned that other groups participated on the DOJ call

In addition to Arnwine’s group, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Laura Murphy, Washington Chapter head of the ACLU; and several national, Florida and Sanford-based “human relations” groups participated, Arnwine said.

As Jammie Wearing Fools notes of the lynch mob “Isn’t the ACLU purportedly in business to protect civil liberties?”

Phineas: Hey, you jerks like to ignore the Constitution, anyway, so why not just go for it with a Bill of Attainder? You know, just outlaw him and declare open season.

And, yeah, Twitter hijacked the meme with #ZimmermanTipLine.

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