Author: William Teach

Danish Paper Posits About A Possible Cooling Period

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As I’ve noted many times, I’ll believe it when it happens. No matter which way you look, cool, warm, stagnant, it is all guess-work at this time. But, looking towards the Sun for guidance is a lot more scientific than thinking Someone Else’s usage of fossil fuels will cause the planet to boil. This comes […]

 

Obama: “GOP Wants To Deny Health Insurance To 30 Million”

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Alas, I did not hear or watch Obama’s press conference, because I was doing something American’s in growing numbers aren’t, thanks to Obama’s policies, including ObamaCare: working a full time job (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama took his budget-crisis rhetoric out for a drive Friday, rolling right over the much-publicized call by three GOP Senators […]

 

Report States Keystone KL Will Have No Impact On Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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So far, every environmental and global warming study has found Keystone XL to be not an issue. Here’s another one (The Hill) The Keystone XL oil sands pipeline “will not have any impact” on greenhouse gas emissions, a report released by prominent energy industry consulting group IHS CERA said Thursday. The report said that’s because […]

 

Obama To Hold Rare Press Conference Friday Afternoon

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Where he’ll pull his typical schtick and bloviate on questions for 5-10 minutes without actually answering any tough questions (ABC News) The news conference scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT also comes a day before Obama leaves Washington for a nine-day vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. First question: “why were you so late to your own […]

 

Tom Harkin Proclaims Some Unknown Southern Senator Called Obama “Exotic”

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Harkin’s apparently attempting to earn his race card, despite being whiter than 2 week old floater (if that’s too gross, just think whiter than cotton), along with pumping up the liberal base (Des Moines Register) U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin provided some behind-the-scenes insight into the partisan animosity that continues to follow Barack Obama in his […]

 

WalMart Applauds The Nation For Finally Paying Its Interns The Minimum Wage

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The far left leaning magazine The Nation has been a long time WalMart opposing group (like so many liberals), and has been calling WalMart out saying they need to pay their employees more. Because people who ring things up at a register somehow deserve the same wage as someone filing legal briefs. WalMart states that […]

 

Surprise: Obamacare Way Behind In Testing IT Security

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The trainwreck continues (Reuters) The federal government is months behind in testing data security for the main pillar of Obamacare: allowing Americans to buy health insurance on state exchanges due to open by October 1 The missed deadlines have pushed the government’s decision on whether information technology security is up to snuff to exactly one […]

 

Obama Tells Leno “There Is No Domestic Spying Program”

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Sadly, there are more than enough low information voters who’ll believe this tripe, as (NMP) Obama goes on Leno, which is apparently part of spending every waking minute working on the economy or something (The Hill) President Obama on Tuesday defended the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs in a wide-ranging interview on “The Tonight […]

 

Ezra Klein Wonders If Test Tube Meat Could Save Planet From Hotcoldwetdry

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I mentioned the test tube burger yesterday, with a hint about it supposedly being part of the fight against “climate change”. Here’s what it looks like I’ve seen worse at the supermarket. Usually with a “manager’s sale” sticker on it covering up the “sell by” date. Anyhow, here’s climahysteric Ezra Klein The most expensive burger […]

 

Virginia: Gun Crime Drops As Gun Sales Soar

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Well, who could have seen this coming. (Fox News) Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing. Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates […]

 

Warmist: Hey, Maybe We Need The Same Type Of Sacrifice To Stop Bad Weather The Incas Used

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Funny thing is, the downfall of the Incas occurred around the same time the Little Ice Age got going (Guardian) Although their empire existed for a scant 100 years before being cut short in 1533 by the arrival of the Spaniards, the Incas managed to create 26,000 miles of roads, ruled an empire of 10 […]

 

Municipalities Look To Get Their Unionized Employees Of Cadillac Plans And Into Obamacare

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Remember the days when Obamacare was meant to be a way for the 30-45 million Americans with no health insurance to obtain health insurance? Good times, good times (NY Times) Cities and towns across the country are pushing municipal unions to accept cheaper health benefits in anticipation of a component of the Affordable Care Act […]

 

Surprise! $500 Million In “Green” Training Money Wasted

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I know, you’re pretty darned surprised. Who would have thought that so much money would be wasted on “green” projects by the Obama/Democrat Stimulus plan? (Fox News) A federal audit shows that nearly a half-billion dollars in government funds was spent on training workers for so-called “green jobs.” The only problem is that not enough […]

 

And Now For The Delusional World Of Nancy Pelosi

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She says Obama is the practically the most non-partisan person ever (Daily Caller) Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that President Obama is “one of the most practically non-partisan presidents” that she has ever seen in her career and that he “really is working” to forge a budget agreement. “Here’s the thing – the […]

 

Obama Surveillance State: FBI Putting Pressure On Internet Providers To Install Metadata Software

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Eh, this is probably just one of those “phony scandals” we keep hearing about (CNET) The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies’ internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts. FBI officials have been sparring with carriers, a process that has on occasion included threats of contempt of court, […]

 

“With The Recovery Entering Its Fifth Year…”

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We certainly should recall that “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report and it is informative to consider each report in the context of other data that are becoming available.” (Bloomberg) Employers added fewer workers than anticipated in July even as the U.S. jobless rate dropped to 7.4 percent, […]

 

Bummer: A Warmer World Will Destroy Biodiversity Through Infectious Disease

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It must have been really warm as the Black Death rolled through Europe and Asia…oh, wait, it was cooler and wetter during that time period. Anyhow, here’s super-Warmist Bryan Walsh at Time (via Tom Nelson) The venerable Science magazine has a special issue out today on climate change. Some of the content is free, and […]

 

Congress Gets Their Own Obamacare Exemption

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Some are calling this a waiver: it’s not. Senators, Representatives, and their aides and staff will still have to get their insurance through the Exchange (Politico) Lawmakers and staff can breathe easy – their health care tab is not going to soar next year. The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill, […]

 

Interior Department Head: No “Climate Change” Deniers Allowed

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The Department of the Interior has joined the Ministry Of Truth (via Junk Science) (E&E News) Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today challenged her employees to take an active role in the “moral imperative” to address climate change. “I hope there are no climate change deniers in the Department of Interior,” she said. If there are […]

 

White House Won’t Comment On Weiner, Filner

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Spokesweasel Jay Carney refuses to take a stand on the Democrat War On Women, because, you know, the White House and the President never comment on local issues, and their too busy to be distracted from issues not regarding the economy or something (Daily Caller) White House spokesman Jay Carney Wednesday ducked, dodged and dived […]

 

How To Talk To A Liberal About “Climate Change”

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In a word Don’t Especially if they are Progressives. They are all rigid, myopic ideologues bound by talking points without critical adult thinking. It’s exceedingly rare that any will ever change their minds, as most are close-minded and interested in political advantage and instituting their far left dogma of big fascistic government (for Other People), […]

 

Appeals Court Rules Nanny Bloomberg’s Big Sugary Drink Ban Unconstitutional

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Could this be the first domino in rolling back Nanny State laws and regulations thanks to judicial precedent, or is that a bit of wishful thinking? (Reuters) New York City’s plan to ban large sugary drinks from restaurants and other eateries was an illegal overreach of executive power, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday, […]

 

WRAL Declares McCrory Broke Abortion Promise

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WRAL also highlights that they are a station of abortion fanatics McCrory signs abortion, gun rights changes into law Gov. Pat McCrory signed 18 bills Monday, including two of the more controversial of the recently ended legislative session — those dealing with gun rights and abortion clinics. Supporters of Senate Bill 353, including the governor, […]

 

It’s Kinda Hard For The House To Vote On Senate Amnesty Bill When Harry Reid Won’t Send It Over

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I wonder why? (Washington Times) The immigration bill passed the Senate more than a month ago but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is refusing to send the bill to the House – just one of the hurdles that has sapped momentum and dimmed the chances for an immigration deal this year. The White House on […]

 

Natural Gas Is A Gangplank To Boiling The Earth Or Something

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Obviously, this means that all production of natural gas, especially when it requires hydraulic fracturing, should be stopped immediately Gangplank to a Warm Future It should be noted that Mankind has done best in warmer climates. Heck, one of the previous cool period was called “The Dark Ages”. MANY concerned about climate change, including President […]

 

Organizing For Action Declares Obama’s Economic Pivot Over

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Not that this pivot, the 19th during his 4 1/2 years in office, really went far in the first place. A couple speeches, a weaselly Weekly Address, an interview with the NY Times, none of which did more than offer the same tired campaign rhetoric of Blamestorming, division, and failed (and even contradictory – he […]

 

Obama Will Evaluate Keystone XL Solely On Its “Climate Change” Effects

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In a long, boring interview with the NY Times, in which (NMP) Obama dishes forth the same old failed policies, engages in lots and lots of Blamestorming as if this wasn’t his second term in office, patronizes, and offers little in the way of new policies, we find this bit on page 5 (via Tom […]

 

Liberals Having Fits Over NC Gov. McCrory Stating He Will Sign Bills They Hate

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Elections have consequences. Obama got his failed and wasteful Stimulus, along with the heavily unpopular Obamacare. NC Senator Richard Burr and Tom Coburn are right, shutting down government to defund Obamacare is the wrong way to go about it. Whether we like it or not, Obamacare is the law: it needs to repealed by Congress, […]

 

Mother Of Sean Smith Wants Obama To Answer How Her Son Being Dead Is A “Phony Scandal”

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There were only two things that came out of Obama’s latest “pivot” to the economy: 1st, all he has is stale, failed ideas and blamestorming. 2nd, his calling scandals, like the intentional targeting of Tea Party groups by the IRS and what happened in Benghazi, “phony” and “fake”. Why don’t we ask the mother of […]