…is a world turned into a desert because Someone Else refused to take public transit, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Capitalist Preservation, with a post on getting over this “democratically elected” claptrap.
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Oh, wait, no, that’s not what Warmist Scott Vrooman wants. Instead, he provides some handy dandy tips on how all the snowflakes can talk to their parents about “climate change”
I don’t expect public opinion on climate change will be swayed by columnists and pundits preaching to their choirs. Those who want to ignore the vast scientific evidence on the subject have likely already skipped to the comment section below to try to convince you that since I’m not shouting these things naked from a wooden hut in the middle of a bog, I’m a hypocrite and deserve to be ignored.
Um, well, yeah. If you’re not, you’re a hypocrite. But, then, 99.9% of Warmists are hypocrites.
For those still reading, I have a suggestion. Most of us don’t have millions of dollars to go toe-to-toe with the disinformation campaign being waged by the oil and gas industry. But most of us do have living parents. So let’s talk to them about climate change. Because if we can’t convince the people who love us more than anything in the world to take action on climate, who can we convince?
No, Warmists have the backing of governments with deeper pockets along with all sorts of Liberal groups and donors. But, that’s a cute strawman you’ve built. Anyhow, here’s Scott’s ideas
This is similar to the 1st World Problem of parents talking to their kids about hotcoldwetdry. Fortunately, an entire generation will soon graduate having experienced no statistically significant warming.
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I’ll never understand how abortion became one of the sacraments for Liberals, how they push for unfettered abortion access with no regulations. This is the same group which wants more and more restrictions on gun ownership, despite there actually being a Constitutional Amendment in support of gun rights. Back during the debate post Sandy Hook I asked if Liberals would support any common sense restrictions on abortion: the answer, as we see, is “no”. I offered a reasonable compromise, Democrats would not support it. North Carolina has passed some common sense legislation that is meant to protect women, yet liberals are against something simple like abortion clinics having to be treated as outpatient centers…it’s not like “doctors” are yanking a fetus out of a woman or something.
Anyhow, here’s Beth Merfish, who seems super-duper proud that her mother had an abortion
My mother chose to abort her first pregnancy, in 1972. She and my father, who celebrated 40 years of marriage on Jan. 6 this year, met as undergraduates at the University of Texas, Austin. They got engaged. Then my mother became pregnant. She was 20, and he was 21.
They knew they were thoroughly unprepared to be parents, but abortion was illegal in Texas at the time (unless a woman’s life was at risk). This was the year before the United States Supreme Court, in Roe v. Wade, a case originating in Texas, affirmed a woman’s right to have an abortion until the fetus was viable.
So the baby had to pay for the failure of Beth’s parents to practice responsible, protected sex, leading to a pregnancy that was apparently “inconvenient” for her parent’s lifestyle.
Until recently, fear of shame has kept her quiet about her experience, even as she passionately, publicly supported reproductive freedom. This is the first time we’ve discussed her abortion in public.
Beth discusses the abortion as if it was something to be proud of. Liberals really are sick, demented people.
What the movement for reproductive rights needs is for the faces of freedom to emerge from the captivity of shame. To my mother’s generation, I ask: Speak openly about the choices you have made. To all women: ask your mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, aunts, sisters, daughters and partners about their reproductive histories. Show that abortion has myriad faces: those of women we love, respect and cherish. You have the power to cement in the minds of your communities and families the importance of reproductive freedom. You have made decisions that are private, even anguishing, but the weight of this political moment demands that you shed light on those decisions.
These people are shameless. Having an abortion is nothing to be proud of, and should be kept private. Having an abortion (except in cases of rape or incest) shows that the mother engaged in reckless sexual conduct and now one of God’s children has to pay the price.
The opposition is frightening, as more states try to restrict abortion, but there is tremendous power and safety in numbers. You are part of a society of women who have been incredibly courageous; I ask humbly for yet another show of that bravery.
What’s frightening is that these abortion supporters will not accept any measures. They won’t allow restrictions on late term abortions, abortions after 20 weeks, parental notification, heck, even requiring that a sonogram be taken and having a miniscule 24 hour cool down period is too much for abortion supporters. Requiring women to pay for their own abortions and disallowing federal funding? To hear abortion supporters, this is like chaining women to the stove.
Having an abortion is not courageous: it shows that these women (and the men who support abortion on demand) should be treated like the mental children they are. They do not have the mental makeup to be allowed within adult society, they have no adult responsibility. It is not courageous to kill the unborn. How did it come to thinking that having an abortion and talking about it like one would mention removing a cyst is courageous and brave? These people are sick and disgusting.
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Rarely a day goes by without one of the big news sites complaining in some form or fashion about the coming hike in the student loan percentage. It could be an elected politician, a student group, or Obama, or simply the news outlet. Like today in The Politico
Congress returns to Washington this week groping for a way to retroactively fix a high-profile doubling of some federal student loan rates.
The rate for new subsidized loans shot up from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1 after divisions among Senate Democrats made finding a solution untenable. Now with the bright lights of the immigration bill off the upper chamber, student loan rates take center stage.
In the days since the missed deadline, Washington’s political apparatus has been a muddle of messaging. House Republicans are blasting Senate Democrats for not passing a bill as the lower chamber has done, albeit one that President Barack Obama has threatened to veto. And lawmakers from both parties are now using the #DontDoubleMyRate hashtag on Twitter, first popularized by Obama at the height of last year’s presidential campaign.
Democrats in the Senate are angling for a 1 year extension of the 3.4% rate. Why not a permanent extension? Remember this?
So, here we are — with a majority of Americans feeling distinctly un-American as a partisan takeover of health care was engineered last weekend. But do Americans realize that Congress just took over student loans as well? Unlikely.
Now, not only will government increasingly be making decisions about individuals’ health care, but students will also have to deal exclusively with the government to get the financing they need for college. The government will be in charge of the delivery of $1 trillion in federal student loans over the next 10 years. That means 19 million students will have no where to call but to 1-800-DEPT-OF-ED. — I’m sure the calls will be handled in the order in which they were received. Good luck with that. Competition and choice have been taken away in the student loan market. Â Let’s face it, this experiment can only end badly.
Government money has been mostly backing student loans since the 1960’s, but Obamacare went and removed the private sector in terms of payouts and funding (some claim that it completely disallows private education loans). Oh, and then there’s this
Two years ago, Obamacare was passed. As part of the unconstitutional monstrosity, the Democrats introduced a nationalization of the college student loan program which was used to boost the phony revenues the federal government will supposedly realize through Obamacare; in other words, it was a gimmick to make it look like Obamacare would reduce the deficit (long since debunked). (There’s more; read this 2010 piece by Tim Carney.)
Obamacare increased the interest percent to 6.8% in the first place as a way of increasing revenue to fund Obamacare and help the CBO score. Then, in order to patronize students with elections coming up, the rate was lowered (the gov borrows the money at 2.8% and then lends it at 3.4%? In what world does that make sense?) So the 6.8% rate was not a bug, but a necessary feature. If students want to blame anyone, they can blame Obama and the Democrats, who supported Obamacare, voted for it, signed it into law, and never bothered to read it.
As a sidebar, let’s note that The Government doesn’t restrict loans in other sectors. These same students can pay up to 24.99% in interest in North Carolina (in some small cases, 27.50%). Credit cards can be much higher than the student loan rates. Motorcycles, small business loans, etc can be at higher rates. Why are student loans treated differently? These are folks with no income and there is no guarantee that the loans will be paid back. And the taxpayer is left on the hook so that students can get a degree and in the Obamaeconomy perhaps get a low paying part time job, again thanks to Obamacare.
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
Read: As People Complain About Student Loans, Don’t Forget: Obamacare »
Happy Books! Last Sunday I mentioned I had started The Icarus Void by CK Burch. Made it about half way through, and it just became dull. The plot plodded along. So, moved on to Ravage: An Apocalyptic Horror Story by Ian Rob Wright, a follow up to Sea Sick. A good book with an ending somewhat similar to the 2004 version of Dawn of the Dead, from a British point of view.
Started on The Shores Of The Dead Book One, and quickly gave it up. Misspellings and, worse, improperly placed punctuation. Lord knows, I’m not perfect when it comes to either, but when reading a story it makes it difficult to go with the flow. I can deal with some poor grammer, but commas in the wrong place stop the flow.
Took up The Final Winter by Ian Rob Wright. What if it started snowing? And wasn’t stopping? And was happening all over the world? And it was becoming colder and colder? And what if there was something out there in the snow? Enjoying the hell out of it.
Also, as I’ve mentioned for the past few weeks, I’ve also been slowly reading The Mad, Mad, Mad World Of Climatism. I finally finished it, and will provide a longer review/synopsis on my next day off, so as not to rush it, but, let me say that this should be the one book that every Warmist, and those on the fences, should read. Heck, even if you do not buy into “climate changeâ€, you should read it. The facts and figures, along with the history, of “climate change†is put in an excellent format that anyone can easily understand. I should finish it this week, not that much left. You should buy it. Still haven’t gotten around to reviewing it. My Bad.
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The original article actually comes from Dana Nuccitelli, who is an environmental scientist and climate blogger for Skeptical Science and The Guardian, at Skeptical Science. I found this over at George Soros funded Climate Progress, both of which claim that “Media Overlooking 90% of Global Warming”. The Climate Progress article starts out with this chart
So, from decade of the 1880’s thru the 2000’s the global temperature has risen…..0.79C. Why is this in any way scary? Cause for unhinged alarm? Cause to spend trillions on whatever pet cause Progressives have that is supposed to reduce Bad Weather? Cause to institute a cap and trade system? Destroy the global economy? Destroy the US economy? Restrict people in 3rd world nations from having the same power and lives that 1st Worlders have? The Earth has gone through many warm periods, preceded and followed by cool periods. If we’re looking at the Holocene, the Modern Warm Period is more akin to eating mild hot wings: much ado over nothing.
Then we get to
JR: The Washington Post insists on publishing un-fact-checked anti-science columnists like Charles Krauthammer. And so while 2010 was the hottest year on record and the 2000s the hottest decade on record, we are subject to nonsense like “Global temperatures have been flat for 16 years.†Never mind that ocean warming, Arctic ice loss, and sea level rise have accelerated.
That’s far left Progressive Joe Romm deciding that Free Speech and a Free Press are Bad Things. As far as “anti-science” goes, hot doesn’t equate to anthropogenic causation. Global temps have been statistically insignificant for 15+ years. Oceans are barely warming, despite the out of control yammering by Warmists. Oceans rise has not accelerated. The Arctic is actually doing quite well this year.
The thrust of the article by Nuccitelli is that the warmth is disappearing into the oceans, including the deep oceans. This is simply an extension of the Warmist attempt to protect their cult as the land temperatures have essentially flatlined despite CO2 continuing to rise, instead of them saying “hey, um, yeah, we were wrong about the whole anthropogenic thing”. The thing these never-met-science Warmists forget to point out is that if 90% of the warmth is going into the oceans (the actual figure they claim is 93.4%), then said oceans would be having a much, much, much bigger affect on land, since oceans provide one of the main drivers (along with the Sun, vulcanism, other natural processes) of climate. And if the oceans are warming, what is the most likely cause? More solar activity along with vulcanism? Or someone driving and SUV?
Read: First Amendment Hating Warmist Unintentionally Highlights That Global Warming Is Miniscule »
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…is a field (far from your home) that would look fantastic with a bunch of solar panels, you might just be a Warmsist
The blog of the day is Wizbang, with a post highlighting more proof that Democrats hate the Constitution.
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Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day out there to remember the once and future nation. This cute little sailor girl pinup is by Tom Rubalcava, with a wee bit of help.
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
BTW, I trying The Old Reader instead of Google Reader for this episode, to see how easy it is, what with GR shutting down (bastards). So far so good. I like how it gives standard URLs for those with Feedburner feeds.
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.
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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What could possibly go wrong?
(Washington Post) The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and health insurance status.
Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems in place.
First of all, this is another case where the Obama administration is ignoring the requirements of Obama’s signature legislation, to go with pushing off the initiation of the employer mandate till 2015, in violation of the text of the law. But, this is surprisingly unsurprising, what with all the other structural issues with the law. Who could possibly have thought that a 2000+ page Bill with over 20,000 pages of regulation could cause so many problems and be so unwieldy? Health and Human Services has already missed many, many deadlines. They’re having lots and lots of problems in setting up exchanges. And so many more.
The verification systems are meant to determine who qualifies for new benefits under the Affordable Care Act. The law includes tax subsidies to purchase health insurance for Americans who earn less than 400 percent of the poverty line, about $45,000 for an individual.
New regulations published Friday scaled back the federal government’s role in determining whether information submitted to new health marketplace is accurate.
After encountering “legislative and operational barriers,†the federal government will not require the District and the 16 states that are running their own marketplaces to verify a consumer’s statement that they do not receive health insurance from their employer.
The rule also scaled back states’ responsibilities to double-check the income levels that consumers report, which determine any tax subsidy they receive.
Essentially, they’ve put this off till 2015, relying on people to be honest (that’s asking quite a bit when it comes to Democrats) when reporting. As DrewM writes
Why no, this isn’t an invitation to fraud! Why would you say that other than because you hate poor people!
So in short, ObamaCare is impossible to implement, costs are out of control and there will be no oversight to avoid fraud.
Let’s also consider that this puts off all the IRS and HHS audits of those who report the income levels and health status till after the 2014 midterms, along with any other issues that would have cropped up from reporting.
As far as stronger verification methods from 2015 on, why should America citizens have to deal with them? Senate Democrats do not want strong verification methods for either border control nor those coming to America temporarily. This also goes to show that if we cannot trust Obama to implement his own signature law as written, and that it has so many substantive and structural problems, how could we possibly trust him regarding immigration reform?
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
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Has anyone told John Kerry?
(Science 2.0) Barnacles are a major problem for both small boats and large ships because they accumulate on the hulls and can reduce the fuel economy of a vessel by up to 40 per cent.
That means CO2 emissions rise accordingly.
The rest of the article, and the main thrust of it, revolves around the paints that are used on boats to attempt to keep barnacles off them, 90% of which are copper based, designed to release their miniscule poisons as the barnacles leach into the paint, versus older types that released the poisons into the oceans, which was a real environmental problem.
Yet, the article starts out with the silly notion about increased CO2 emissions and globull warming because barnacles can slow ships down. It’s no wonder we get things like (via Junk Science)
The battle between CNBC anchor Joe Kernen and environmentalists is escalating on Twitter and over the airwaves.
Kernen, co-host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,†on Friday bashed “enviro-socialists†who are criticizing him, and shortly afterward added, “It is a bona fide cult.â€
No matter what the issue, Warmists will add “climate change” into the mix.
Read: We Need To Fight Barnacles Cause, You Know, Global Warming »
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