If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful planet healing bike posing in front of awesome carbon sucking trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on teenage sex in the news.

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Schoolkids Won’t Know What Open Liquor Stores Look Like

By William Teach February 9, 2013 – 12:27 pm

Won’t someone please think of the children?

Gov. Maggie Hassan is leaving it up to New Hampshire agencies whether they should close early due to the storm.

But one thing is certain: The state-run liquor stores are shutting down at 6 p.m. Friday to encourage people to get off the roads by 7 p.m. – the time when the storm is supposed to intensify in New Hampshire.

It’s apocalyptic!

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Leading Warmists: All Weather Events Can Be Blamed On Man-Induced Climate Change

By William Teach February 9, 2013 – 7:48 am

Here we go, two of the leading climate astrologers in the world, Joe Romm and Kevin Trenberth opine

(Climate Progress) An epic blizzard is bearing down on New England — fed in part by relatively warm coastal waters.

I asked Dr. Kevin Trenberth, former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to comment on the role climate change has on this storm. He explained:

He explained that it’s the fault of you, dear reader, for failing to sell your fossil fueled vehicle and purchase a bicycle.

Like a baseball player on steroids, our climate system is breaking records at an unnatural pace. And like a baseball player on steroids, it’s the wrong question to ask whether a given home run is “caused” by steroids. As Trenberth wrote in his must-read analaysis, “How To Relate Climate Extremes to Climate Change,” the “answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.”

So hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, not windy, snowy, not snowy, icy, sleet, hurricanes, no hurricanes, you name it, Mankind is responsible. Interestingly, Joe Romm goes on to whine about lots of precipitation events, but then Warmists like Joe also blame drought on “climate change.” So, everything.

And let’s not forget this fun email from Trenberth (this one is pretty stomach churning, too)

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

Oh, and then there is this quote by Trenberth, which shows that AGW pushers shouldn’t have to prove their “science”

Given that global warming is “unequivocal”, to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence [on the climate].

And Warmists like Romm and Trenberth have worked hard to build a cult whereby nothing can disprove their beliefs.

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California Dems Show That What They Really Want To Do Is Grab Guns

By William Teach February 9, 2013 – 7:21 am

Along with making sure that it is really, really difficult for law abiding citizens to have the means to protect themselves and their families with any sort of gun (via The Blaze and Weasel Zippers)

(Mercury News) All semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines would be banned, all guns would be registered and no ammunition could be bought without a special permit in California under a sweeping list of bills rolled out Thursday by state Senate Democrats.

The 10-bill package constitutes the single largest gun control push in decades in the Golden State, which already boasts some of the nation’s strictest gun laws. It joins equally controversial proposals from Assembly Democrats that would regulate and tax ammunition sales and consider taking the state’s 166,000 registered assault weapons from their owners.

This would allow Government to actually take the rifles away from their citizens, and surely create a massive hassle for law abiding citizens whom want to purchase ammunition.

“We respect the Second Amendment right of law-abiding citizens to have guns for hunting, for sport, for protecting their homes and families. But loopholes in California’s tough gun laws have been exploited long enough,” state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said Thursday.

I wasn’t aware that there were loopholes in the Constitution.

“We can save lives by curbing the proliferation of guns designed to be fired and reloaded rapidly,” he said. “We can save lives by getting guns and ammunition out of the hands of the wrong people. We can save lives if every gun owner knows how to safely handle those guns. And if we can save lives, we must act to do so.”

We could save lives by banning the use of automobiles in California. And allowing people to swim at the beach. And sunbathe, which can cause skin cancer. And by controlling the purchase of food with high calories. And from bathtubs. Stairs. So many things. We need to ban them now.

Hancock’s bill would ban possession — not just manufacture and sale — of large-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds.

There seems to be no grandfathering, either, which would mean that quite a few handguns would be “banned” since they came with magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

Yih-Chau Chang, spokesman for the gun rights group Responsible Citizens of California, said it’s all “par for the course.”

“The violent criminals are simply not going to be affected by any of these proposals,” Chang said. “Following the law is the last thing they’re going to do, so it’s only going to affect law-abiding citizens.”

But of course. Why would Dems do anything about criminals? They haven’t been too concerned with controlling their border with Mexico, despite the heavy population of gangs, such as the Mexican Mafia, MS-13, Nortenos, and Nuestra Familia. The first and last are prison gangs (with associations to gangs outside of prison and in Mexico), and we should note that approximately 1/3rd of prisoners in California state prisons are illegal aliens. But, hey, let’s grab guns and cause problems for law abiding citizens.

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Here We Go: Even More Climate Astrology In The Face Of Blizzard

By William Teach February 8, 2013 – 5:03 pm

There is no F***ing way in hell I am referring to it as N**o, as those crazy people at the Weather Channel do, and a few other fools. Anyhow, here’s the NY Times

A re-examination of the interrelationships between weather patterns like Friday’s impending blizzard in the Northeast, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. [Union of Concerned Scientists]

The very fact that fact that they use a completely unscientific term, “climate change”, shows that this is not about science. The Huffington Post delves deeper into the UCS politicization of, well, can we really call this science?

The Union of Concerned Scientists has posted an informative breakdown on the connections between the winter storm bearing down on the Northeast and the planet’s changing climate.

“It’s Cold and My Car is Buried in Snow. Is Global Warming Really Happening?,” notes that storms like this one — a classic Nor’easter — are well-known to residents along the nation’s North Atlantic coast. But shifts in the climate due in large part, most scientists say, to burning fossil fuels, are likely to make such storms even more fierce and frequent.

So, according to Warmist doctrine, when the ice age was here it never snowed.

Newsbusters catches another unhinged Warmist blaming “climate change”

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If All You See…

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

…is a wonderful bike along with some evil fossil fueled boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on a gun owner pwning a scumbag with a knife.

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Hooray! Obama To Focus On Jobs During SOTU 2013

By William Teach February 8, 2013 – 11:55 am

In case you’re wondering, this is a repeat of the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 SOTUs, not too mention every once in awhile during his kingship and during the campaign now and then, where he “pivots” with a “laser like focus” till squirrel!!!

(UPI) U.S. President Barack Obama told House Democrats Thursday his State of the Union address will focus on job creation, education and energy independence.

Speaking at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Leesburg, Va., the president repeated a theme from his 2012 re-election campaign, that “our economy succeeds and our economy grows when everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody is getting a fair shake and everybody is playing by the same rules.”

“Because I believe that is a growth agenda — not just an equity agenda, not just a fairness agenda — that is a growth agenda,” he said.

“And that means that what you’ll hear from me next week, I’m going to be talking about making sure that we’re focused on job creation here in the United States of America,” Obama said.

He can focus through yammering all he wants. What he can’t do is actually create jobs. This is what you voted for, America. Own it.

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Climate Kooks Blame “Climate Change” For Coming Northeast Snowstorm

By William Teach February 8, 2013 – 9:34 am

You knew it was coming, you just didn’t know whom it would be. Many news outlets are using the term “extreme weather” as a way of pushing their unhinged cult beliefs rather than “global warming” or the more popular “climate change”, meant to denote that mankind’s release of greenhouse gases can cause hot, cold, wet, dry, snow, no snow, you name it, it causes it. They’ve also, if you remember, created a fantasy a few years ago that states that warmth from AGW is causing the atmosphere to hold more water which now means that instead of snow being a thing of the past we’ll now get giant snows.

Anthony Watts catches climate astrologers Brad Johnson and Bill McKibben subtly pushing the meme that it is abnormally warm ocean water that is fueling this snow storm. Alas, Anthony points out that the sea temperature anomoly graphic used by the Warmists is a representation of the Gulf Stream, which always looks like that, and “It’s also a model reanalysis of anomaly, not the actual sea surface temperatures.” When we look at the actual sea temps, things change quite a bit from what the Warmists were pushing.

Anyhow, I think I’ve found the first Climate Astrologer to actually blame “climate change”, Andrew Freedman at Climate Central, a website that is interested in, surprise!, one point of view on climate

Life-Threatening Blizzard Poised to Strike New England

A life-threatening and historic blizzard that could rank among the top 10 snowstorms on record in southern New England is poised to plaster the region this weekend with snow that will be measured in feet rather than inches. The storm could also cause major coastal flooding and produce hurricane-force wind gusts, forecasters said.

Freedman also attempts to use a graphic showing the sea temp anomaly, yet, again, it is a reconstruction which highlights the Gulf Stream, not the actual water temps. Facts be damned, their is a cult to push!

Heavy precipitation events in the Northeast, including both rain and snowstorms, have been increasing in the past few decades, in a trend that a new federal climate report links to manmade global climate change. As the world has warmed, more moisture has been added to the atmosphere, giving storms additional energy to work with, and making precipitation extremes more common in many places. The last major snowstorm to strike southern New England was the unusual Halloween snowstorm in 2011.

See, there you go: heavy snowstorms are because you, dear reader, refused to give up your fossil fueled vehicle and purchased a bicycle to go to work. As for “climate change”, there world wide temp has gone up a whopping .28F from 1990-2012. Scary stuff!!!!!!1!!!

Something to mull on for you climate astrologers

(NIU Today) Finally, I don’t like the moniker, “climate change.” It assumes our climate has been steady in the past. Utter nonsense. It’s always changing, it always has and it always will be.

Thanks to technology, we are recording history much better than we did just 30 years ago. Also, I am reminded that modern weather tracking technology has only been around for 50 years, not even close to enough time to truly figure out what is extreme and what isn’t in many cases.

Let’s stop blaming all really bad weather on man-made global warming. Instead, let’s prepare ourselves before the next drought, flood or tornado happens – because they will. We can always expect them to occur.

And while the averages do tell things about our climate, I’ve learned that in studying current and past weather, a lot of times, there’s just no such thing as normal.

But, if you Warmists are so concerned, you could give up your fossil fueled vehicles and make your lives carbon neutral. I triple dog dare you.

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Panetta Claims Obama Absent Night Of Benghazi Attacks

By William Teach February 8, 2013 – 9:04 am

Just to be clear, the absence is from Panetta’s point of view. Which was, you know, the POV of the Secretary of Defense

(Weekly Standard) Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:

Panetta said, though he did meet with Obama at a 5 o’clock prescheduled gathering, the president left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, “up to us.”

In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that night. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.

Gee, one would think that the POTUS and the SecDef would actually communicate now and then regarding what measures could be taken to rescue Americans who were under assault from violent Islamists, alas, apparently not. Yet, Obama took time during the crisis to call Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu over a non-critical issue. Furthermore

And both Panetta and Dempsey admitted in today’s hearing that they were not in touch with Clinton at all the evening of 9/11. “[W]e never received a request for support from the State Department,” Dempsey said, explaining why the American military had not made any attempt to save the endangered Americans.

Panetta did what he could to try to shield Obama, but overall the transcript shows that Obama was absent regarding contact with the SecDef. And Panetta said the same thing while being questioned by Kelly Ayotte, as well. Panetta ordered the deployment of some forces to areas around the Mediterranean, but was never asked to use those forces. Because POTUS Obama was MIA while our citizens were being assaulted.

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Republicans Block Dem Call For Hotcoldwetdry Hearings

By William Teach February 7, 2013 – 2:53 pm

I actually think this was a bad move. I’ll get to why in a bit

(The Hill) House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans have rebuffed Democrats’ bid to require the high-profile panel to hold hearings on links between climate change, extreme weather and threats to coastal areas.

On Wednesday the Committee, along party lines, voted down Democratic amendments to its formal oversight plan for the 113th Congress.

Of course, Dems delved into Climate Astrology

One defeated amendment, from Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), would have required hearings on the role of climate change in drought, heat waves, wildfires, reduced crop yields and other effects.

Rush knocked GOP climate skeptics. “Hurricane Sandy wasn’t a hoax. The droughts and the fires experienced by those in the Western states, those weren’t hoaxes, those are realities. There was pain suffering and loss of property,” he said.

A second defeated amendment, by Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), called for hearings on climate-related coastal threats including sea-level rise, more frequent and intense storms, and ocean acidification.

Two points: first, holding hearing would have allowed the GOP to bring up scientist interested in science who would have blown the Warmist’s arguments away, and exposed the agenda of the Warmists as one of Progressivism, also known as “soft fascism”.

Second, Republicans could have used my favorite tactic, asking what all these Warmists are doing in their lives to stop globull warming, exposing elected Democrats and their “scientists” and shills as hypocrites.

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