Earth Hour Wackos Use North Korean Dictator As Model Warmist

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

We’re fast approaching yet another Earth Hour, where climate astrologers turn their lights out for a whopping 60 minutes (out of 525,949 a year), on March 23rd. These tend to be the same people who were freaking out over enforced earth hours after storms like Superstorm Sandy, the Derecho, and others. One would think they would be happy about reducing their “carbon footprint”.

Well, here’s some crazies who are supporting the World Wildlife Foundation’s (weird, they should spend time protecting animals, eh?) Earth Hour (via No Frakking Consensus)

(Do The Green Thing About Page) Do The Green Thing is an environmental charity that uses Creativity vs Climate Change to inspire people to be more sustainable.

In the five years since we launched, our films, posters, podcasts and products have reached over 11m people in 209 countries/territories and inspired our subscribers to save 2.5 times more CO2 than they otherwise would have.

How about if they simply went “carbon neutral”? Oh, wait, then they’d have to significantly reduce their own lifestyle.

Our latest campaign, in support of the WWF’s Earth Hour, involves creating 23 Posters with world-famous designers, artists and creatives, and publishing one a day from March 1st until Earth Hour on the 23rd.

Each poster inspires people to do one of the sustainable actions chosen by Do The Green Thing’s nine environmental advisors. And it does so using world-class creativity, which we believe is a brilliantly effective tool to seduce, provoke and persuade people to change their behavior for the better.

As Donna Laframboise at No Frakking Consensus points out

Changing other people’s behaviour. That’s what these folks are about. You and I are the unwashed, uninformed masses. We behave the way we do not because we’ve considered our options and have chosen the path that makes the most sense.

We aren’t intelligent beings making intelligent decisions. Rather, we’re eco-sinners. And the DoTheGreenThing folks are missionaries spreading the gospel.

In other words, these people are Progressives, ie, “nice fascists”, as Jonah Goldberg termed them in his book “Liberal Fascism“. They want Everyone Else to change their behavior, by the barrel of Government Law, Decree, and Regulation if necessary. But not their own. Websites aren’t exactly carbon neutral.

Anyhow, Donna tears apart the much of the Do The Green Thing talking points and posters. But, here’s one of the 23:

Evil by Joe Stephenson

Convincing people to turn things off properly was Joe Stephenson’s mission with this poster.

The Pentagram designer says, “The standby light embodies everything that’s wrong with the world: rather than walking two steps to turn the telly off properly, we just leave it on standby, sucking up electricity and driving up our energy bills. So I wanted to demonize those little red lights, by making everyone think of Kim Jong Il whenever they see one.”

It’s not the brutal dictator that’s evil, it’s refusing to unplug your appliances when not in use (vampire electricity). I understand his point, but, still, using Kim Jong Il is probably not the wisest, considering what North Korea looks like at night

Then again, that’s what Warmists want the world to look like at all hours….well, not their own residence, of course. Just everyone else’s. And Earth Hour is simply a means, per the WWF, to “signal concern” over hotcoldwetdry. But refuse to really do anything within their own lives.

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Democrats Mostly Against Any Obama Grand Bargain

By William Teach March 11, 2013 – 9:39 am

Unless it includes lots of tax increases and sharing the wealth policies (though none of them have been willing to send a check to the IRS themselves)

(Politico) President Barack Obama may be thinking about a “grand bargain” to address spending and the federal deficit, but there’s a key constituency he has to persuade to come along.

Democrats.

The talk of any deal with congressional Republicans — and for now, it’s just that: talk — has liberals worried the White House will give in to changes to safety net programs including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. (snip)

One hundred and seven of the 200 House Democrats signed a letter to Obama threatening to vote “against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security benefits — including raising the retirement age or cutting the cost of living adjustments that our constituents earned and need.”

Instead, they want the White House to “rely on economic growth and more fair revenue-raising policies to solve our fiscal problems,” like getting rid of subsidies for big businesses and raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

How are those Democrat/Obama policies on economic growth working so far? Even after dumping what will be over a trillion dollars (with the interest on the borrowed money) through the stimulus, all the small stimulus bill, all the pivots to jobs ever few months, the economy is in stagnation. It’s moribund. The US borrows 43 cents for every dollar it spends. Democrat policies are essentially against economic growth. And Dems aren’t willing to look at any entitlement reform, despite the $27-$180 trillion (no one really knows) in future unfunded liabilities.

A second letter, spearheaded by Reps. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) and Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and supported by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, simply states they pledge to vote against any proposal they see as a benefit cut.

The letter has been signed by 25 other members of the Democratic Caucus.

Many others are saying “no changes. Period.”And here’s Fauxahontas

“Chained CPI is just a fancy way to say, ‘Cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled and orphans,’” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told Salon. “Our Social Security system is critical to protecting middle-class families, and we cannot allow it to be dismantled inch by inch.”

And what happens when SS and other entitlement programs are insolvent? Because that is coming. Anyone who fails to acknowledge the structural and fiscal defects is a fool. We cannot tax and spend our way to prosperity.

Nor do many of the GOP plans make sense. Here’s what Paul Ryan had to say in Sunday’s interview with Chris Wallace

WALLACE: In your last budget, you cut spending about $5 trillion over 10 years. How much do you cut spending in this new budget?

RYAN: Basically the same, about $5 trillion. Instead of growing spending at 4.9 percent a year, which is the average under the current path we’re on, we grow spending at 3.4 percent, each year, over the next decade. That gets us on a path to balance, and results in about a $5 trillion spending cut.

WALLACE: So, when you talk about cuts, you’re talking about cuts in the rate of growth, not actual, absolute cuts?

RYAN: Exactly. Instead of spending $46 trillion over the next 10 years, we’ll spend $41 trillion. That’s means we’ll grow spending on average 3.4 percent a year instead of growing it an average 4.9 percent a year, which is the path we’re on, which takes us from ever balancing the budget which produces a debt crisis.

With all due offense, Paul, that’s mule fritters, bat guano insane. All this does is slow the growth of spending increases, not reduce what the federal government is spending now. Nor does it reform nor tackle discretionary spending, wasteful spending, and spending that the government should even be involved in. If even one of the staunchest fiscal conservatives in Congress isn’t willing to make the hard cuts in order to reduce spending, America has a problem. Dems want massive tax increases. Republicans only want to slow spending growth. America is doomed.

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Watcha Reading?

By William Teach March 10, 2013 – 8:50 pm

OK, since last Sunday I’ve finished Dark Legion (The Lockman Chronicles #2) by Rob Cornell, a nice follow up to Darker Things. Vampires! Werewolves! Ghosts! Mystery! Action! Can’t wait till the 3rd book this summer.

Also, Plague Zone by David Wellington. A different type of zombie book, not really zombies, but people who have caught a virus that turns their brains to mush causing them to attack and eat humans. Which turns many into these zombies, or, as they’re called, droolers, since they aren’t actually dead. It’s about one man’s quest to get home to Seattle and kill the drooler which got his wife and child, which he watched on TV while at a conference in Chicago. Rather an abrupt ending, though.

Now on to the newest Bob Moore book by Tom Andry, Hostile Territory. So far, as good as the other two.

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Uh Oh: Twitter Now Bad For Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 10, 2013 – 3:47 pm

And there’s even a website to figure out how much CO2 hashtags generate

(Grist) Want another reason to hate #RulesForFemales, #CutForBieber, #LessAmbitiousMovies, or whatever bullshit hashtag is trending right now? How about the fact that everything you do on Twitter is responsible for a certain amount of carbon emissions? OK, maybe not very much, but it adds up — and maybe it even adds up enough for you to shame participants into stopping.

For instance, it’s one thing to say you’re sick to the teeth of hearing about South by Southwest. It’s another thing to point to your #SXSW-obsessed friends and say “look, you assholes just farted out 827 grams of carbon about your dumb conference.”

The website is TweetFarts. Though it doesn’t actually seem to do anything whenever I check a hashtag. Well, whichever way you slice it, you keep using those hashtags, Conservatives/Realists!

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 10, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a planet boiling fridge (ice maker and coolants are Bad), you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with the latest on Susan Rice.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 10, 2013 – 8:43 am

Happy Sunday! Another day to celebrate the memory of the once of and future nation, the United States of America. This pinup is by, I believe, T.N. Thompson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. This ain’t Hell…. has the feel good story of the day
  2. The Lonely Conservative has your depressing chart of the day
  3. Scared Monkeys has your awesome gun legislation of the day
  4. Rhymes With Right has your “is it time to dump McCain” thought of the day
  5. protein wisdom has your bad gun laws of the day
  6. Powerline has your RoP burning Christian’s homes of the day
  7. Patterico has your lying Eric Holder moment of the day
  8. Doug Powers (Michelle Malkin) has your Obama named to Sports Illustrated list bat guano moment of the day
  9. Maggie’s Notebook has your RoP suicide bombing moment of the day
  10. Legal Insurrection has your liberals vs reality thought of the day
  11. Jihad Watch has your #MyJihad misunderstanding of the day
  12. Jammie Wearing Fools has your anti-1st Amendment moment of the day
  13. Gay Patriot has your “cheer up, the worst is yet to come” downer of the day
  14. Fire Andrea Mitchell has your gun hypocrite of the day
  15. And last, but not least, Fausta has the “Chavez by the numbers” post of the day

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 outwhat 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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Colorado Dems Pull Two Of The “War On Women” Gun Bills

By William Teach March 10, 2013 – 7:57 am

However, the rest of their anti-personal protection legislation passed in the Senate

(Daily Caller) But two of the most contentious bills — one which would ban concealed weapons on college campuses and one that would make owners, sellers and manufacturers of assault-style weapons liable for violent acts committed with the guns — died when their sponsors pulled them from the agenda after it became clear that at least three or more Democrats would vote against them.

Republicans and pundits spent quite a bit of time highlighting the notion that Democrats want to disarm women and make them more vulnerable to violence. Since Democrats were quite obliging with their talk of rape whistles and telling wome to ask rapists politely to not rape them. So the concealed carry bad on college campuses was pulled before debate

But the assault weapons liability bill — which opponents characterized as a de facto ban on such weapons — was easily the most controversial of the seven that were up for consideration on Friday. Senate president John Morse, who introduced the proposed legislation, railed against the gun lobby before he pulled it from the agenda, effectively killing it.

So Morse whined like a 3 year old told he couldn’t have a cookie before dinner.

“The gun lobby has actually argued we need more guns and managed to convince Coloradans that they will lose their guns if we impose even reasonable restrictions on firearms,” he said. The bill would have opened the door for owners, sellers and makers of AR-15s and similar weapons to lawsuits if they cause damage. Makers and sellers would be liable under the bill if it was shown that they negligently sold the weapons to people they should have know would have used them in a crime.

Well, gee, perhaps we should have laws that hold car manufacturers and sellers liable if they sell a vehicle to someone they should have know would drive drunk.

“We have experienced hatred and vitriol that I have only seen on the street as a police officer,” Morse said. “This has included wishing rape, torture and death on legislators and their families.”

Yet Democrat gun control laws, which are surely the first step towards even more gun control, mostly affect the ability of law abiding citizens to protect themselves from the criminals that Democrat justice system policies coddle. Very little of what they passed in the Senate would affect criminals. Because that is not the intention.

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25 Signs You’ve Grown Up

By William Teach March 9, 2013 – 3:11 pm

Your Saturday “Oh, dear Lord, noooooooo” moment

  1. Your potted plants are alive. And you can’t smoke a one of them.
  2. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd.
  3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
  4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.
  5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
  6. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.
  7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup.
  8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.
  9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as ‘dressed up.’
  10. You’re the one calling the police because those darn kids next door don’t know how to turn down the stereo.
  11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
  12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
  13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
  14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s.
  15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
  16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.
  17. Dinner and a movie = The whole date instead of the beginning of one.
  18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
  19. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits.
  20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer ‘pretty good stuff.’
  21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.
  22. “I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”
  23. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
  24. You don’t drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
  25. You read this entire list looking for one sign that doesn’t apply to you!

Via Ned Hardy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 9, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is snow created by massive heat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day The Jawa Report, with a post on funding Palestinian terrorists

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If You Don’t Believe In Hotcoldwetdry You Must Hate Women’s Equality

By William Teach March 9, 2013 – 12:08 pm

I bet you give the high sign of the he-man woman haters club and say the oath all the time

I… Stymie… Member in good standing of the He-Man Woman Haters Club… Do solemnly swear to be a he-man and hate women and not play with them or talk to them unless I have to. And especially: never fall in love, and if I do may I die slowly and painfully and suffer for hours – or until I scream bloody murder.

All because you don’t believe in “climate change”

Mary Robinson: Climate Change’s Gender Gap

On International Women’s Day, Ireland’s first female president looks at the challenges ahead, including why women will bear the brunt of global warming.

In honor of International Women’s Day, I recently sat down with Robinson in Washington, D.C. to talk about her book, her long history of fighting on behalf of women’s rights, and her latest efforts to bring climate justice into the international spotlight. Here are excerpts from the interview: (big snip)

I would love it if you could explain the idea of how climate change disproportionately affects women.

It’s so clear and obvious, when you undermine poor livelihoods, it is women who bear the brunt. First of all, and my focus in Africa because that’s my knowledge base, particularly, the farming in Africa is done mostly by women. Seventy to 80 percent of the farmers are women. So if the seasons are not cyclical, and they’re not anymore—there are long periods of drought and flash flooding—it’s women who have to adapt. Women on the whole don’t get agriculture training. And they’re having to learn now to diversify their crops, to have seeds that can survive in drought or survive in waterlogged [conditions], and so there’s a disconnect between even the donor community for this agricultural training, mainly focusing on men, and who’s [actually doing the farming]. Also, if there’s more drought and less water, the women have to go further for firewood and right across the board, it affects women more. And I learned a lot from a good friend of mine at this stage, because we met quite a bit, Constance Okellet of Uganda, as I mention in the book. She’s the mother of eight in Uganda who, when she was growing up, had seasons. And now they have this drought and flash flooding and a destroyed school. But what happened when you have this weather shock and the school was destroyed? There’s no insurance, there’s no Plan B—it’s the women. It was the women, because they knew how to form a women’s group, who pulled that village together. And she became a leader by necessity, and then Oxfam learned about her and she learned that it wasn’t that God was punishing the village, it was rich people.

Go that? Weather has changed, so women will suffer. In fact, the majority of the interview has nothing to do with hotcoldwetdry (granted, she does have her own “climate justice” foundation, for which she takes lots of fossil fueled trips around the world) but other issues about women’s struggles around the world, and especially 3rd world shitholes developing countries. Yet, the headline is about “climate change.”

Oh, and Mary doesn’t seem all that concerned about the plight of women under hardcore Islam. Sure, she mentions, briefly, her concerns about the plight of women in Afghanistan once the US leaves, but fails to discuss just how poorly women are treated in most Islamist nations. Because climate change or something.

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