Warmist Plane Of Future: San Fran To Phoenix In 18 Hours

By William Teach May 8, 2013 – 4:07 pm

As Tom Nelson puts it “hooray?”

(Reuters) A solar-powered airplane that developers hope eventually to pilot around the world landed safely in Phoenix on the first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States using only the sun’s energy, project organizers said.

The plane, dubbed the Solar Impulse, took 18 hours and 18 minutes to reach Phoenix on the slow-speed flight, completing the first of five legs with planned stops in Dallas, St. Louis and Washington on the way to a final stop in New York.

According to Google Maps, it can take as little as 10 hours and 57 minutes to drive from Phoenix to San Fran. A plane doesn’t have to deal with pesky traffic, stop lights, and the other issue involving ground travel. Let’s see some of the other low-lights for this single seat wonder

The lightweight design and wingspan allow the plane to conserve energy, but make it vulnerable. It cannot fly in strong wind, fog, rain or clouds.

The plane can climb to 28,000 feet and flies at an average of 43 miles per hour (69 km per hour).

The project began in 2003 with a 10-year budget of 90 million euros ($112 million) and has involved engineers from Swiss escalator maker Schindler and research aid from Belgian chemicals group Solvay.

They expect the upcoming trip cross country to take 2 months. It took 47 days for a ship to sail from SF to NY, going around Cape Horn. The cross country cycling record is 8 days, 9 hours, 47 minutes.

Now, will Al Gore, Michael Mann, and all the other Warmists give up their fossil fueled flights for this wonder of the future?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 8, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea rising up to tip islands over, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Director Blue, with a post on Obama blaming Bush on Syria.

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The Future Of Climate Change In Australia Looks Super Duper Horrible!!!!!!!

By William Teach May 8, 2013 – 11:07 am

All because of CO2

(Daily Telegraph) A COMBINATION of the state’s dry summer, lack of moisture in the soil and Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions could be the reasons behind Adelaide experiencing an unusually warm May. (snip)

Climate Institute chief executive officer John Connor said he believed the world’s carbon dioxide emissions omitted from coal, oil and gas were the scientific reason behind our hot and cold weather extremes.

“Events are being made worse by climate change… because we have been driving extra heat and energy into the climate system,” he said.

Mr Connor predicted an unpleasant future if Australia – and the world – did not put a price and limit on carbon.

“We are changing the climate and we are loading the dice for more weather extremes,” he said.

Hmm, hotcoldwetdry. And here’s how bad Aussies are effected

She looks extremely miserable, eh? Well, no wonder, because she has an evil dog, which is killing Gaia. She should just go ahead and eat the dog.

Via Tom Nelson. We’ll consider this a precursor to today’s If All You See…, and name The First Street Journal as a blog of the day, with a post on a louse or a loon.

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Will Benghazi Hearing Expose Cover Up?

By William Teach May 8, 2013 – 7:13 am

That’s the question that might get answered today. Perhaps we’ll also get an answer to “why did the Obama administration engage in a cover up?” I think we all know there was a cover up, an attempt to deflect what really happened in Benghazi initially, till Team O decided, 2 weeks after the 9/11 attack, that, yes, it was terrorism, after weeks of proclaiming it was a spontaneous film review, which even included Obama saying just that during his United Nations campaign speech. Also, what happened during the attacks, and beforehand in the months leading up to the attack? What did Team O do? What did Hilary do? Where was Obama during the attack?

(Fox News) Republican lawmakers hounding the Obama administration for months over unanswered questions on the Benghazi attack will have their moment, on Wednesday, to demonstrate whether the internal response amounted to a cover-up — as whistle-blowers give long-awaited testimony expected to challenge the White House’s version of events.

Two of the whistle-blowers’ opening statements were obtained by Fox News, and in the statements they affirm their credentials and credibility in testifying about what happened last Sept. 11 in Libya.

Republicans should also subpoena many of the high ranking military officers who would have been involved in the region.

The administration has parried Republican allegations lately by arguing that the attack is old news, that the State Department already has investigated it and that Republicans are engaged in a political witch hunt.

Which is funny, because Team O still Blames Bush for everything.

“The question is, where’s the accountability for lying to the American people?” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox News. “The American people were lied to.”

Another question is, why have most of the American media ignored Benghazi? Here is a story tailor made for investigation by a group that used to act like sharks in bloody water. Had this happened with a Republican in office, they would have investigated deeply. How many front page and TV news leading stories did we get on Abu Ghraib? No one died. No one was really hurt. It was certainly improper action which violated the UCMJ, but the media linked the action by a few low ranking military members all the way directly to Rumsfeld and Bush.

There are lots and lots of questions still surrounding what happened before, during, and after. Here’s one that should be asked: did anyone bother to ask the provisional government of Libya for help, and for permission to bring US military units into Benghazi, or at least to inform them we were going to do that? That’s the first step in international diplomacy for an incident like this.

Expect lots and lots of spin and silliness from Democrats on the panel, who prefer to do their protect Obama schtick rather than care about 4 dead Americans.

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Politico: Those Wacky TEA Partiers Now An Ally To Immigration Reform

By William Teach May 8, 2013 – 6:47 am

Well, this is a fine how-do-ya-do for a hump day morning

Immigration’s new ally: Tea partiers

Did your BS detector just ping?

Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers.

Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to discuss immigration reform, including a list of what they support – and don’t.

In a draft of their seven principles, obtained by POLITICO, the groups make no calls for a ban on “amnesty” – a longtime rallying cry of conservatives grassroots groups.

It’d be nice to see that draft, available nowhere on Politico. Usually they, like most on-line, would tell us what it is or have a draft. My cynicism meter just pegged to 8.

Tea Party Express, TheTeaParty.Net and Revive America leaders as well as Americans For Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist are expected to be among the more than two dozen grassroots conservative leaders huddling with the Florida Republican. Most of the groups in the meeting support immigration reform.

Yes, but not with mass amnesty. Border control, revamping the system to deal with temporary workers, visitors, students, etc, so they do not become illegal aliens, slapping companies around who employ illegals, stopping the use of US government programs by illegals, and, OK, perhaps a pathway for a very small few. That’s what we support, in general. None of those groups have shown any support for a pathway, or any of the other measures, included in Rubio’s naive Gang Of 8 plan, which is obviously extremely pro-Democrat, since Dems are not complaining at all about the bill.

Some tea party groups moved quickly to distance themselves from supporting the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration package just hours after the meeting with Rubio was reported.

“We were invited by Sen. Rubio’s office to discuss the current legislation on immigration, and importantly, to offer our views on how we think it can be fixed,” said Niger Innis, national outreach director of TheTeaParty.net. Innis said that they have not agreed to support the Gang of Eight’s legislation.

OK, so 1 of 4 groups mentioned is explicitly not supporting the legislation. Grover Norquist, yes, I can see him supporting it. We can’t trust him on Islamic radicals, and we can’t necessarily support him on this. But Norquist’s group is not a TEA Party group.

Other key conservative groups like Freedom Works and Club for Growth — two that supporters have tried to get to step up support for immigration reform — have maintained their silence on the issue.

Neither group has offered their support for Rubio’s plan, and neither group tends to get involved much in this issue, so it is no wonder they have maintained their silence. That should not be taken as tacit support.

Essentially, all that’s happening here is that a bunch of conservative groups will meet with Rubio and tell him his plan sucks worse than the 2008 Detroit Lions (0-16) and that he is a naive fool for thinking that Democrats will wait 13 years to naturalize the illegals, that they won’t get government services, that the border will be secure, etc and so on. Rubio is the new McCain.

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Anti-Religion Zealots Threaten To Sue Union County Over Prayer

By William Teach May 7, 2013 – 3:12 pm

More of Left wing tolerance for others

(News And Observer) Another Charlotte-area county is staring at a possible lawsuit because county commissioners frequently invoke Jesus’ name during prayers that open public meetings.

On Friday afternoon, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation emailed a letter to Union County renewing objections to what it called unconstitutional sectarian prayers, and urged the board to remove prayers from its meetings.

Unsurprisingly, FRF is threatening lawsuits if they don’t get their way, which essentially denies the free practice of religion so that one “local resident” doesn’t have to be subjected to 30 seconds or less of religious prayer, which might make said person’s head implode or something. Because only certain people can’t be offended. When it’s people who believe in Jesus Christ, well, leftists do not care if they are offended. And, of course, a couple fools are trotting out the “Separation of Church And State” in the article comments, one capitalizing the words as if it actually appears in the Constitution.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 7, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…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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Warmists Find Yet Another New Way To Say Warmth Is Being Hidden

By William Teach May 7, 2013 – 11:11 am

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.

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Gang Of 8 Immigration Bill Could Protect Those With Rap Sheets

By William Teach May 7, 2013 – 8:15 am

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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NC House Votes To Return Many Gun Rights To Citizens

By William Teach May 7, 2013 – 7:22 am

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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