…is a flooded drought world, all because Someone Else refuses to stop using their dryer and instead dry clothes like it’s 1499, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Camp Of The Saints, with a post on National Offend a Feminist Week.
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While still managing to blame Mankind (via Climate Depot)
University of Manchester scientists, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, have shown that natural emissions and manmade pollutants can both have an unexpected cooling effect on the world’s climate by making clouds brighter.
Ah. Partly Mankind caused clouds reflecting more solar rays back into space because they are brighter, otherwise the planet would be boiling from fossil fuels usage!!!!!!!!!
We developed a model and made predictions of a substantially enhanced number of cloud droplets from an atmospherically reasonable amount of organic gases.
Soooooooooo, no actual data? Just a model? Let’s go to The k2p blog, which found this “study”
How is it that – for a settled science – all these new “cooling†mechanisms are suddenly being found? Could it have something to do with trying to rescue climate models which have failed to predict the slowdown in global warming? “Climate science†is now hunting for previously unidentified cooling effects to explain the warming that has not happened.
The cult is desperately searching for ways to validate their prognostications, and seeing as how what they’ve been predicting is mire in a 16+ year period of statistically insignificant warming…..yet another period since the end of the Little Ice Age….they have to simply make it up as the go along, and throw in that it must be Mankind’s fault.
Read: Warmists Find Yet Another New Way To Say Warmth Is Being Hidden »
It seems every day brings a new revelation regarding the Senate amnesty immigration bill, none of them good. Here’s another one
(Fox News) With more than 11 million illegal immigrants living in the so-called “shadows,” immigration reform supporters say legalizing the group will make America safer. But opponents of the current Senate bill claim a provision requiring background checks for those illegal immigrants is so weak that it would actually protect criminals and gang members.
Their concern is with a clause that would, during the background check process, prohibit immigration officials from forwarding criminal histories to law enforcement for deportation purposes.
“The idea is we are supposed to be weeding out the bad apples,” said Steven Camarota, of the Center for Immigration Studies. “But the big problem with the bill is it does not require those denied the amnesty to leave the country. In fact, a confidentiality provision in the bill prevents law enforcement from using information in the application to go find you.”
They won’t be eligible for naturalization nor even coming out of the shadows, but the authorities that find criminal issues, which can be as little as 3 misdemeanors, will not face deportation. And, really, said authorities might be able to ignore the criminal rap sheets of these illegals. Illegal alien supports are saying that those with minor crimes on their record (who really should have already been sent packing), old felonies, or gang affiliations should be allowed to apply for amnesty citizenship, because, well, just because.
Other controversial provisions allow some illegal immigrants already deported to come back, if they are a spouse, parent, or child of a U.S. citizen. The Senate bill also effectively halts deportations during the legalization process by allowing illegal aliens apprehended before or during the application process to be provided an opportunity to apply for provisional status. This means they cannot be removed until their application is adjudicated.
I really can’t figure out what Republicans like Marco Rubio and Jeff Flake are thinking. We expect this out of John McCain and Lindsay Graham, but Rubio is either a complete McCain/Graham squish or utterly naive. Everything in this bill is designed to provide amnesty to as many illegals as possible as quickly as possible, along with bringing up to 17 million family members to the US. Thirteen year waiting period? Good luck with that. They’ll be naturalized much quicker. Learn to speak English? Won’t be enforced, particularly once the amnesty proponents start crying “racism.” E-Verify? Won’t be enforced. The border? Lip service. Government benefits denied? That provision will be ignored. Mechanisms to make sure that the US doesn’t go through this again? Good luck with that. Much like Obamacare, where enormous power and discretion is left in the hands of the director of Health and Human Services, this bill puts enormous power and discretion in the hands of the director of Homeland Security.
This is all about making as many illegals new citizens who become Democrat Party voters as quickly as possible, while creating a situation where illegals continue to stream across the border and overstay their visas to become future Dem voters. Nothing else.
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This should drive Joe Biden nuts: instead of restricting the gun rights of North Carolina citizens, the NC House voted to extend them
(WRAL) State House lawmakers voted late Monday night to allow concealed weapons on college campuses, state property, greenways, bike trails, at sporting events and in businesses that serve alcohol.
Proponents of House Bill 937 says it protects and expands the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens while increasing punishment for those who use guns in the commission of crimes. It also requires more rapid reporting of mental health adjudications to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, in accordance with federal mandates.
Guns will not be allowed in classrooms. Local municipalities can no longer ban concealed carry or other gun restrictions, except on municipal property. The penalties for use of guns in crimes, including accidental discharge, have been increased, as have those for people who leave a gun in easy access to a child 12 and under. The owners and event holders at bars and venues are allowed to determine whether they will allow guns on property.
Obviously, Democrats and those in charge of the University of NC college system are having hissy fits, but
Sponsor Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, said recent reports of campus crime illustrate why students and faculty with concealed carry permits should be allowed to have firearms locked in their cars on campus.
“This doesn’t allow them to carry in the classroom,” Burr said. “Please tell me why in the world we would want to prevent law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves.”
Oh, come on, Justin, coeds on campus should be just fine with rape whistle, as well as urinating or vomiting on themselves.
But, he makes a good point, one which most liberal gun-grabbers won’t be able to answer in an adult, thoughtful manner.
Democrats submitted5 amendments which were all shot down. The legislation passed on party lines, and will now receive a final vote on Tuesday. It should pass easily, though I expect more histrionics from Democrats.
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Do you know someone who has helped you get a job? Family, friends, acquaintances? If you’re white, well, that means you’re a raaaaacist
How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment
It’s easy to believe the worst is over in the economic downturn (why, is Obama going to resign?). But for African-Americans, the pain continues — over 13 percent of black workers are unemployed, nearly twice the national average. And that’s not a new development: regardless of the economy, job prospects for African-Americans have long been significantly worse than for the country as a whole.
The most obvious explanation for this entrenched disparity is racial discrimination. But in my research I have found a somewhat different culprit: favoritism. Getting an inside edge by using help from family and friends is a powerful, hidden force driving inequality in the United States.
Such favoritism has a strong racial component. Through such seemingly innocuous networking, white Americans tend to help other whites, because social resources are concentrated among whites. If African-Americans are not part of the same networks, they will have a harder time finding decent jobs.
So, because Uncle Joe knows a guy working for a tech company, which offers you a position, that’s raaaaacist.
There’s no question that discrimination is still a problem in the American economy. But whites helping other whites is not the same as discrimination, and it is not illegal. Yet it may have a powerful effect on the access that African-Americans and other minorities have to good jobs, or even to the job market itself.
So, it’s not discrimination, and it’s not illegal. Interesting. The entire article was premised on obtaining a job based on who you know and them being the same race (primarily white) was deemed discrimination and racism.
…are wonderful trees sucking Gaia boiling CO2 out of the air, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with post on this year’s Offend A Feminist Week. I hope I do that every day with these IAYS posts!
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A story you’ve heard multiple times: Government says there’s a problem. They allocate a ton of money to Do Something. At the end, Government fails. Even if they managed to Do Something, the money was spent in a wasteful manner, getting the least bang for the buck possible. Sure, there are a few successes, usually when the Doing Something is farmed out to the private sector, but, when it comes to “climate change”, most projects are pure fail
(Montreal Gazette) Last month, Jean Charest painted a rosy picture of Quebec’s climate change efforts during his time as premier, but a new government report suggests the province is only a fraction of the way toward its goals, despite a $1.5-billion plan.
In 2006, Quebec had projected it would cut 14.5 megatonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions by the end of 2012, but in fact cut less than two megatonnes by March 2012, according to a progress report published with little fanfare last month on the Environment Department’s website.
That’s only 13 per cent of the goal Quebec set for itself back in June 2006, when Charest unveiled the province’s 2006-2012 climate change action plan.
To reach the target, Quebec said it would set up programs to improve energy efficiency, invest in public transit, require landfill sites to capture methane from decomposing organic material, have speed-limiting devices installed on trucks set to 105 kilometres per hour and help municipalities evaluate their greenhouse-gas emissions
Yeah, I know that you’re really surprised. Make sure to read the entire article for the mostly failure, along with the scorecard. Interestingly, the government hasn’t even spent the allocated money like it was supposed to.
Read: Surprise! Quebec Wasted $1.5B On Hotcoldwetdry Programs »
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The House hearings are going to be very, very interesting…well, not in most news outlets, which have decided that the deaths of 4 Americans, including an Ambassador, in an attack on September 11th, is no big deal, nothing to see here, not even worthy of front page coverage, at least not under a Democrat Administration
(Fox News) On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department’s own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a “whistle-blower” witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.
That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.
Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau — independently of Thompson — voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.
This seems to go more towards the cover-up, claiming that the attacks were a spontaneous film review gone awry
The counterterrorism officials, however, concluded that Clinton and Kennedy were immediately wary of the attacks being portrayed as acts of terrorism, and accordingly worked to prevent the counterterrorism bureau from having a role in the department’s early decision-making relating to them.
There are three parts to the Benghazi fiasco: before, during, and after. While I still maintain that finding out what figures in the administration did during the attack, and why no help was sent (some claim that no units were positioned to respond quickly. Well, they could have sent them just in case, yet didn’t), it’s looking more and more like what happened afterwards was an intentional coverup, an intentional attempt to mislead both the American people and Congress, for what reason we do no know, rather than an simply being an incompetent administration.
Furthermore, some folks could find themselves on the wrong end of a Contempt of Congress charge for lying to Congress. Under Title 18, Part i, Chapter 47, § 1001
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.
Hillary and Susan Rice would look fabulous in orange jumpsuits.
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Obama’s like the kid who constantly breaks windows playing ball too close to the house, does a crummy job mowing the grass, won’t clean his room, whines about wanting cookies before dinner, and then demands a raise in his allowance every few months. Heck, the USA Today writer can’t even find it in himself to write a full size article, just a few paragraphs, having seen this again and again
Obama to launch new jobs tours
President Obama is turning back to the jobs issue, launching a series of “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tours” starting Thursday with an appearance in Texas.
Obama will visit growing areas “to learn what has helped them become successful and use these models of growth to encourage Congress to act,” said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
On Thursday, the president opens the tour in Austin, Texas, where he will visit a high school, and speak with leaders of the city’s high-tech industries.
Well, at least he’s going somewhere that’s been successful, but, why go to a high school? That’s not really where the jobs have been created. As for the high-tech industries, I wonder how many of them moved from California? Perhaps Obama could learn something. Like, if one wants to accomplish something, one has to stick too it, continue working hard, and implement wise, real world policies that create success in business. Not talk about it then forget about it for a few months, talk and forget, lather, rinse, repeat. Obama’s last pivot was briefly during the 2013 State of the Union.
He’d be much better served talking to Gov. Rick Perry, and learn about the governmental policies that help stimulate economic growth. Obama would learn that these are the policies that the Republican held House has passed, so instead of excoriating Congressional Republicans, Obama should slap around Harry Reid and his Democrat controlled Senate to at least vote on those House bills.
Unsurprisingly, there are no other stops announced. It’s rather early in the week to be cynical, but, anyone who believes that Obama will attend at least one fund-raiser in Austin on Thursday night raise your hand. Or, perhaps this is just a brief stop before he heads to his ATM in California, meaning he can get the government to pick up most of the tab for the trip.
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
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It was kind of a tough week. I tried a multitude of books before finally settling on one and finishing it. EndRun started out so so, I might go back to it. Doubtful. Does seem to have a possible interesting Mars aspect, but if I restart, something better happen quickly.
Monsters looked interesting, started in on the sample, but too much explanation of how the world went to pot with no real interpersonal connection.
Also got pretty far into Simmer by Fiona MacCord (which is no longer available on Amazon, no idea why). Go start being about the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse, but bogged down into tedium, going nowhere.
Did finish Sedition. A Political Thriller. It was free, now 99 cents. I’d give it 3 1/2 stars, an interesting premise. POTUS keels over, but there is no VP. There was a nominee, but he hadn’t been confirmed yet. What happens? Especially when there is a group looking to affect “regime change” through violence? I mostly stay away from these types of thrillers/mystery that are highly political, unless they are really, really good or try and avoid serious partisan blame. Sedition avoided that type of blame. Political identity was avoided to a degree. The “domestic terrorists” blended TEA Party extremists/libertarianism with anti-war/BDS/Occupy.
BTW, if you do want a heavy political story with time travel wrapped in, check out In Due Time by J.K. Jones. Conservatives will love it. Liberals hate it. It is about the consequences of a New World Order as run by Progressives. It won’t seem hokey or outlandish. It is plausible and realistic, incorporating the kind of thinking and action that we see from the hard left. I read this one way before starting this Sunday meme on books. 5 starts.
Reading Endless Vacation at the moment. It’s OK. Nothing great, but enough to hold my attention 24% though (at the time of writing Saturday evening. I’ll probably be around 50% by time of posting)….and, edit before posting, kinda bogged down. One of the good things about Kindle is the ability to say “time to move to something else.” One of the bad things about Kindle is that one might abandon a book. In the past I might have just gone back to a well read book, such as a Heinlein or something. Now, I’ve moved on to Silas: A Supernatural Thriller, which so far has been very good. Only at 13%, though.
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