If All You See…

By William Teach March 21, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise up an cause islands to tip over, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Camp Of The Saints, with a post on the Daemon-in-Chief

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Rowan County Commissioners Tell ACLU To Go Fly A Kite

By William Teach March 21, 2013 – 11:10 am

Well, actually appears more as a big GFYS

(Charlotte Observer) Rowan County commissioners, facing the prospect of a long and costly legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union, held their ground Monday and opened their meeting with a prayer that included the words “personal Lord and Savior, Jesus.”

Later in the meeting, the board voted unanimously to hire legal defense for a battle against the ACLU.

Monday’s prayer opened a meeting that packed the chambers in the Rowan County Administration Building.

Yeah, as you can guess this is the standard ACLU mule fritters about “separation between church and state”, and you know what a pant load that argument is. No reason to rehash. Here’s what the NC Declaration of Rights has to say

All persons have a natural amd inalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences, and no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.

In other words, jackhole secularists who create their own Rights in their posteriors need to butt out of people’s religious real right to express those leanings, even if it involves government meetings. All the Rowan folks are doing is offering a prayer, which almost no one objects to. They aren’t instituting formal religious requirements for citizens.

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Warmist: We Need A New Democracy Where Gov’t Tells You How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

By William Teach March 21, 2013 – 7:58 am

Prick a Warmist and you’ll find a fascist. Here’s Warmist Helen Camakaris at Shaping Tomorrow’s World (via Tom Nelson)

Don’t trust your Stone Age brain: it’s unsustainable

Cognitive dissonance is that uncomfortable feeling we have when we know we should invest in solar panels but the 46″ wide screen TV wins out; we know we should catch the bus but we take the car anyway. It’s that sense of discord that arises when emotion and reason don’t get along. And unfortunately, it’s alive and well, sabotaging the climate change debate.

Yup, the stone age brains of Warmists who refuse to give up their own big carbon footprint lives. Heck, just look at this picture of Al Gore with 4 big computer models, tons of paper culled from trees, a leather chair, sitting in a nice climate controlled McMansion. Look at all the Warmists who take massive fossil fueled flights to the ends of the earth to exotic vacation spots to whine about CO2 from fossil fuels. Just ask any Warmist what type of vehicle they drive.

Unfortunately our emotional brain is encouraging us to pursue perceived self-interest even if that means trashing the planet. This leaves our rational brain to try to justify our actions, even while the walls come tumbling down and the temperatures keep rising.

True, Warmists do rationalize their own hypocritical behavior. But, there’s been a temperature rise pause for 17 years now, and a miniscule .28F rise in global temperatures since 1990. Not exactly doom worthy. Anyhow, here we go

We need to design a new kind of democracy where many government decisions are made cooperatively, with multi-party representation and the input of experts. Such think tanks must have strategies in place to promote critical self-analysis and to “frame” policy to reflect the long-term reality. The cost of climate change mitigation can then be shown to be minute compared to the cost of inaction.

Of course, this would mean only allowing certain people to have the Franchise, because in a Democracy people with different points of view are allowed to vote. The “experts” would be the ones with power, no one else would be allowed. By it’s very definition, democracy will never truly be about big decisions being made cooperatively, because of those different opinions. What she’s talking about is fascism, an authoritarian government, much like Saddam Hussein’s, Iran’s, or Hugo Chavez’s version of democracy.

Education must produce adults who can think critically and understand what’s at stake and why our judgement is flawed. To counter self-interest, the government should use incentives and disincentives to guide public behaviour. We need to encourage altruism by instituting reciprocal, incremental improvements, and by showing leadership.

By “think critically” she means brainwashed to listen to the “experts” and be good little drones, while empowering the government, run by these “experts”, to further reduce liberty to things that are only acceptable to these “experts”. Sounds very much like the regimes of Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot, eh?

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Epic Pro-2nd Amendment Testimony In Connecticut

By William Teach March 21, 2013 – 7:12 am

Just an ordinary, average citizen who realizes that yes, there is a Constitution, and yes, evil exists

(The Blaze) Meet Robert Steed, a resident of Vernon, Conn. who took three days straight off work to attend several gun control hearings in Connecticut. On March 14, Steed was more “aggravated” than usual with lawmakers and he let them know it in his fiery testimony, telling them that they were “coloring outside the lines of constitutional parameters.”

He went on: “I can’t for the life of me understand how this state can have as many gun laws on the books as it does and have members of its Legislature need to take firearms 101. And as far as what I felt were potshots taken at the NRA, they’ve done more for gun safety– they’ll do more for gun safety this weekend than this committee will do in your careers.”

Prior to Sandy Hook, Connecticut had some of the most draconian, restrictive gun laws in the nation.

“Adam Lanza commits a crime, and I’m here to gr0vel and plead for my rights and explain to you that my firearms are kept safely?” he asked rhetorically. “I keep hearing the word “solution”… you’re not going to find a solution, it doesn’t exist. You can’t find a broad brush solution to evil.”

An important point. People who want to kill will find a way. Who thought a bunch of Islamists would be able to hijack 4 planes with box cutters and do what they did? Lanza had his plan in the works for a long time. He had an intricate plan, including a 7 foot long score sheet based on the video games he played, to kill school children, because Sandy Hook was an easy target allowing the most carnage. Maybe draconian laws stop someone like Lanza from getting a gun legally. Unfortunately, he’s a criminal, and will get one elsewhere, or perhaps use a bomb. Fertilizer and diesel fuel are easy to obtain. After Tim McVeigh, were those products restricted?

In response to a Democrat saying that their jobs are difficult because the country is not a dictatorship, Steed stated

“The reason that your jobs are becoming so difficult is because you’re coloring outside the lines of constitutional parameters,” Steed shot back. “That’s the bottom line. You are trying to marriage up public safety with constitutional rights. The Constitution did not guarantee public safety, it guaranteed liberty. And sometimes what comes with liberty is tragedy, unfortunately.”

Democrats want to regulate away risk. Sugar, trans-fats, body spray, hugs, homemade cookies, lemonade stands, anything they catches their interest. Those are minor. You can’t do away with evil. Or even crime. But while they attempt to do that, they affect the law abiding citizen’s freedom, not the criminals.

Video at the link.

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“Two Reasons Why Hotcoldwetdry Is Not Like Other Environmental Problems”

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 2:57 pm

I’d guess because it is primarily natural and that the climate has always changed, and it has been much warmer during several warm periods during the Holocene. Silly me. Here’s Commander William Riker* David Roberts at Grist

One reason for the widespread misunderstanding is that climate change has been culturally coded as an “environmental problem.” This has been, in all sorts of ways, a disaster. Lots of pundits, especially brain-dead “centrist” pundits, have simply transferred their framing and conception of environmental problems to climate. They approach it as just another air pollution problem.

Hey, maybe he’s finally coming around. One of the things that has bothered me for a long time about ‘Climate Change’, beyond using that highly political term instead of anthropogenic global warming, is that the Warmists have folded every and any environmental issue under the banner of AGW, distracting from the real issue and shifting the focus, making it difficult to solve. It’s one of the reasons I moved from being a Warmist to a climate realist.

The first difference is that carbon dioxide is not like other pollutants.

He’s not saying it isn’t a pollutant, just that it’s different. CO2 is not a pollutant. Period. It’s a trace gas necessary for life.

The second difference is that climate change is irreversible.

True, because the climate will always change. Of course, we know that’s not what David means. In essence, he and other climate astrologers are saying that it is too late, so people have to be forced by Government to change their lives in manners that Warmists have so far refused for themselves in order to limit future temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

*go to the Grist link and look at the caricature of Roberts to understand the joke.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is frozen precipitation that can only occur because Mankind made it hot, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day, on this much cooler than average on this first day of spring, is Jihad Watch, with a post on the Islamists in Syria.

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Legal Insurrection: Know What’s Missing From The GOP Report?

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 10:56 am

William Jacobson notes something interesting

RNC Report — 100 pages and not a single word about bloggers

That’s right, nothing. The other day I noted, regarding the report, “seriously, how many bloggers, from big to small, were ever engaged by anyone in the GOP?”

For the RNC to produce a 100-page report and not have a single mention of the need to interact with and support the conservative blogosphere tells me that the RNC simply has rearranged the deck chairs on the HMS Consultant.

On the Left, the bloggers are routinely and constantly engaged. Though, it tends to be a way to spread the talking points and funnel money for those blogger’s support. But, surely the DNC and other high end Dem groups solicit ideas. From the GOP? Bupkiss. Nada.

The Other McCain on this story

The idea of “citizen-journalism” is quite nearly alien to the consultant class. The teamwork concept of voluntary collaboration mystifies people for whom politics is a paid gig. Take away their consulting fees, and these guys wouldn’t have anything to do with politics.

Now, we can’t say the GOP doesn’t try at all: I’ve been invited to numerous conference calls because of this little blog of mine (and because of posting at the much bigger Right Wing News), but they tend to be calls to share talking points, not engage and solicit. Look, it can be little things. One great thing Bush-Cheney 2004 did was offering web graphics with embed code. Copy and paste, no muss, no fuss. There were lots of other outreach programs, as well. For McCain and Romney that was nowhere to be found, though they did offer some basic graphics. Republicans at the national level need to reach out and engage Conservative bloggers. Doesn’t even have to involve money (though paying to put ads on our sites, just enough to cover costs, would be nice). Solicit ideas. Engage. Listen.

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Surprise: Aussie Carbon Tax Contributes To Business Insolvencies

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 8:37 am

One would think that Australia’s politicians would have gotten the hint that their “carbon tax” and cap and trade programs are really, really, really unpopular after the Queensland elections in early 2012, where the Labor Party, the major force behind all the legislation, was reduced from the the leader party to not having enough seats in Parliament to be considered a recognized political party. Alas, no, they want to continue down this stupid “green” path, which is contributing to companies going under

(Daily Caller) As U.S. lawmakers debate imposing a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, evidence is emerging that Australia’s carbon tax has hit businesses hard.

News Limited Network reported the country’s carbon tax was contributing to a record number of firms facing insolvency. Data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission showed that a record 10,632 businesses faced insolvency for the 12 months to December 31 2012 — up from 10,481 for 2011.

Australia’s largest manufacturing firms asked the central government to scrap the nation’s carbon tax as it disadvantages local companies that are attempting to compete on a global market.

Looks like the carbon tax will reduce CO2 output by helping companies go out of business, leaving manufacturing idle and Aussie’s sitting on the couch jobless and without the money to pay for electricity.

Origin Energy managing director Grant King said that the carbon tax as well as other green programs made up as much as 30 percent of small and medium sized businesses’ electric bills.

Warmists do not care, they are saving Gaia from a minor increase in global temperature, and rather than practicing what they preach, they force everyone else to suffer.

Australia’s tourism industry has also been impacted by carbon pricing. A study commissioned by Tourism Accommodation Australia says the carbon tax will add $115 million in costs to hotels and motels.

Those costs will go directly on the consumer. Well, in those cases where it’s allowed, since parts of the law make it illegal to pass on some costs to consumers. The companies have to eat the costs. All supposedly to stop the mostly natural cycle of being in a warm period.

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Obama Takes “Charm Offensive” To Israel

By William Teach March 20, 2013 – 8:12 am

The Neverending Campaign goes on the road, once again showing a POTUS who is bereft of leadership

(CBS NY) President Barack Obama left for the Middle East on Tuesday evening. He’s on a mission to charm the Israelis into making peace concessions and to find some way to peacefully stop Iran from building a bomb.

What he wants is Israel to give up land they won in wars, most launched against Israel by Arab nations. As for Iran, nothing has stopped them so far.

The president’s move came in a four-minute statement — with Persian subtitles — that attempted to go around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reach the Iranian people directly.

It’s the same strategy he wants to employ in Israel, an attempt to circumvent Netanyahu with a campaign-like speech to the Israeli people.

“This trip is a charm offensive to make Israelis like him,” said Jerusalem Post political correspondent Gil Hoffman.

Hoffman said Obama thinks he can win a Middle East peace settlement if Israelis pressure Netanyahu.

Obama confuses “people liking him” with leadership. He’s, for good or bad, the President of the USA, not a movie start, and as such this diminishes the office of the POTUS, consequently reducing the standing of the US. But that is immaterial to Obama, who prefers adulation over all else.

And, if Obama wants Israelis to like him, perhaps his administration shouldn’t erase parts of the nation from the map

(Washington Free Beacon)

The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.

The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.

Obama’s schedule simply shows him in “Jerusalem”, with not national name attacked, unlike with “Tel Aviv, Israel”. Remember, the Obama admin. has long been unwilling to name Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and has even called it “Al Quds”, the Palestinian name many times.

BTW, many Palestinians do not want him around, either, starting riots (surprise!) and burning pictures of Obama.

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Study: Katrina-like Hurricanes Every Two Years Way In The Future. Maybe. Possibly

By William Teach March 19, 2013 – 3:11 pm

More prognostication deep into the future by Warmists, with lots of hedge betting

(USA Today) Could the USA deal with a Hurricane Katrina every two years?

Such a scenario is possible by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Funny how they can’t tell us what will happen now.

The frequency of extreme storm surges — the deadly and devastating walls of water that roar ashore during hurricanes — is projected to increase by as much as 10 times in coming decades because of warming temperatures, the study finds. Global warming has already doubled the chance of storms like Katrina, according to the study, which was led by climate scientist Aslak Grinsted of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Except, the US has not been hit with a major hurricane (cat 3 and up) since Wilma in 2005. As of today, that is 2,703 days, which goes well beyond breaking the record for no Cat 3’s. Heck, there are barely any minor hurricane strikes. Since 2008 there has been one real hurricane. Irene was not a hurricane at landfall. Isaac was just barely a hurricane at landfall (and could be debated). Sandy was not a hurricane when she made landfall.

However, another expert finds fault with the study: “I find this paper to be very misleading,” says Georgia Tech climatologist Judith Curry, who says they used “a very incomplete data set:” It only considers tide gauge measurements at six locations (Atlantic City, Charleston S.C., Mayport, Fla.; Pensacola, Fla.; Key West, and Galveston, Texas.)

So, yet another dubious study designed to cause hysteria of something that may possibly kinda sorta happen in the future? Color me shocked.

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