…is a wonderful low carbon bike offseting the horrible cow produced ice cream, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on a Virginia bill aimed at law enforcement face coverings.
It’s bike week
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Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. A nice winter chill in the air, I don’t have to watch the Giants play today which wastes hours, and we’re almost in Christmas season. I think this was actually created by AI, cannot quite read the signature nor find it anywhere else. If AI, it really captures that old pinup spirit
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). 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 out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader
Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!
Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?
Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
Legitimately, Trump could simply put out an EO listing all the EOs that Biden made that he wants to cancel. Will this be something more flashy?
Trump ‘cancelling’ Biden executive orders signed by autopen
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was canceling executive orders signed using President Joe Biden’s autopen.
Like other presidents, including Trump, Biden used an autopen to sign certain official documents. Republicans have claimed the autopen was used by the people around Biden to circumvent a mentally declining president.
“Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect,” he wrote on Truth Social. “I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally.”
Biden’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the former president has rejected these claims in the past, saying in June: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.”
“I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations,” he said at the time. “Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”
Surely there is video of Biden being involved in all the EOs, right? Biden had 162, and, really, a lot have died out, like those for Wuhan Flu. The thing is, Trump has already modified and/or rescinded many of Biden’s EOs, which every president has done. Biden did it with Trump EOs. That’s the nature of the business. Like dumping Executive Order 14020, which was really about pushing transgender garbage.
So, which ones get toasted? That’s the question. If not already done, everything on the climate scam and immigration should be killed off. There are many that should be kept, though, Trump could kill them and issue a new EO. I’ll be honest, I just do not get this. If it’s a way to make Biden look bad, just move on. Focus on the economy.
Well, perhaps all the Warmists in the big cities should have stopped using fossil fuels, gave up meat for bugs, and stopped using so much electricity. Still your fault
Massive climate-induced earthquakes are brewing beneath our biggest cities. Are we prepared?
Astonishingly, earthquakes shake the US state of California around 10,000 times a year, on average – that’s about once every hour.
California’s official nickname is the Golden State, harking back to the mid-19th-century gold rush that saw its population explode in just four years, from 14,000 to a quarter of a million.
But if you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit and felt the ground move beneath your feet, you’ll probably agree that ‘the Earthquake State’ is a far better fit.
None of this should be a surprise given that it hosts the San Andreas Fault, where two of the world’s great tectonic plates – the North American plate to the east and the Pacific plate to the west – meet.
So, the People’s Republic Of California is an earthquake zone, right? Totally natural
When we think about climate change, it’s usually in terms of how the atmosphere and oceans are heating up. The idea that it can also affect the ground beneath our feet seems almost laughable. Nonetheless, it’s true.
For decades, I’ve been researching how the climate can drive deadly geological phenomena, like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, and the evidence is absolutely clear. (snip)
As global heating continues to drive longer and more intense heatwaves, meltwater sourced by accelerated glacier melting and the thawing of permafrost can be expected to increase seismic activity across the world’s high mountain ranges, and the great tracts of permafrost in Canada and Siberia.
As well as raising concerns among those who live in the Mont Blanc region, the Swiss research also holds lessons for any town or city on geological faults that have spawned big quakes in the past; think Tokyo in Japan, and San Francisco and Los Angeles in California. (snip)
The big worry isn’t, as in the Alps, that water will trigger swarms of little quakes, but that the infiltration of water into a fault that’s teetering on the edge of rupturing will set off the ‘big one’.
A seismologist colleague of mine is fond of warning that all that’s needed to trigger a major earthquake at a fault that’s ‘locked and loaded’ is the pressure of a handshake.
Good grief. Earthquakes happen, always have. Was the big 1906 earthquake Your Fault? How much “melting glacier” water is leaking into the San Andreas, which really runs not close to the mountains in California? This is pretty much doomsday cultists manufacturing the end point and then creating “data” to prove it, the very reverse of science. It’s basically “how do we blame earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on ‘climate change’? We’ll say Mankind is at fault then create the data to back it up.”
Read: Your Fault: Massive Climate Earthquakes Brewing Beneath Big Cities »
…are horrible Thanksgiving meat leftovers spiking the temperature of the world, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on bad risk management.
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This has never happened in a Socialist Paradise, right?
(AP) Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government’s promise to import 50 million rolls.
After years of economic dysfunction, the country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has caused unusual alarm.
Oh, wait, sorry, that was Venezuela from 10 years ago
(11Alive) Farmer Luis Garcia has coped with many of the shortages that plague his economically distressed nation: toilet paper, shampoo, sugar. But the latest scarcity is more than Garcia can swallow. Beer.
Oops, also from Socialist Venezuela in 2016
Bolivia’s bread shortage highlights subsidy reform challenge
Shortages of Bolivia’s state-subsidized marraqueta bread roll are creating an early test for newly elected President Rodrigo Paz, as dwindling wheat ?supplies and rising costs squeeze bakers and frustrate consumers.
The frustration from bakers and buyers highlights the political ?risks for Paz, who aims to unwind the subsidy-heavy economic model of his socialist predecessors without angering a population accustomed to ?state support.
Bakers said delays in government-imported flour and other shortages make it difficult to meet demand for the iconic roll, whose price has been fixed for 17 years under the previous socialist government.
Bolivia imports about three-quarters of its wheat, mainly from Argentina.
Customers also complained that the marraqueta, which sells for the equivalent ?of 8 U.S. cents, ?has shrunk to 60 grams (2 ounces), down from 100 grams two years ago. Some shoppers queue for hours.
NYC should be fun under Mamdani, which imports pretty much everything, right? The bread lines should be illuminating.
Years of state-led policies and nationalization under the previous leftist government deterred ?foreign investment and strained public finances in Bolivia, a major producer of natural gas and grains, and the country is now facing one of its worst economic crises in decades.
State-run food agency EMAPA halted flour supplies in September because the government could not pay suppliers on time.
On the flip side, Bolivia is attempting to make moves away from their Socialist (hungry) Paradise, we’ll see if it makes a difference. It’s hard to do when your citizens have become dependent on the government for everything. Might have to simply tear that bandage, which has seen fibers become embedded in the wound (I had that happen with a bad knee scrape one time), right off.
Read: Surprise: Socialism In Bolivia Causes Bread Shortage »
I’m not sure how I feel about this case being adjudicated at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Asked To Upend Pollution Rules
California’s sweeping new climate-disclosure mandates have triggered an escalating legal battle now arriving at the U.S. Supreme Court, with business groups asking to temporarily halt two state laws—Senate Bill 253 and Senate Bill 261—that require large companies operating in California to report their greenhouse-gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.
The emergency appeal argues that forcing companies to issue these disclosures violates the First Amendment, setting up a high-stakes dispute over the boundary between state transparency rules and protections against compelled speech.
California’s first-in-the-nation climate disclosure laws have triggered a high-stakes Supreme Court battle that could reshape the reach of state climate policy and the scope of corporate First Amendment rights.
At issue is whether companies can be required to publicly report their emissions and climate-related financial risks, or whether such mandates amount to unconstitutional compelled speech.
The outcome could determine how much climate information businesses must reveal to the public, whether states retain authority to demand transparency on environmental and financial risks, and how far corporations can go in using free-speech claims to block regulatory oversight—setting a precedent with sweeping implications for climate accountability nationwide.
I’m not really buying the 1st Amendment thing, this is really not about free speech or religion or anything else in there. Or in California’s version in their Constitution. But
Opponents argue these disclosures are not mere factual reporting requirements but compelled ideological speech.
The filing further characterizes the laws as part of “California’s open campaign to force companies into the public debate on climate issues and pressure them to alter their behavior.”
The Chamber and its partners assert that the mandates go beyond standard corporate reporting practices.
They argue that the laws require businesses to adopt California’s preferred framing of climate responsibility.
Still doesn’t seem like a free speech issue, but, it sure seems as if the PRC is requiring specific conduct from companies. But, let’s be honest, Government requires many things from companies. Hell, remember that government requires the use of Everify. Does that violate the free speech rights of hard left companies that support illegal aliens?
It should be interesting how this comes out. I gotta say, though, if the companies do not like the intrusive, waste of time cult rules they should leave the PRC in the same way I say fossil fuels companies should get out.
Read: Supreme Court To Hear Lawsuit Against PRC Over Climate (scam) Disclosure Rules »
They say legal, but, what they mean are illegal/fake asylum seekers in the People’s Republik Of Oregon
Oregon sues feds, saying USDA’s new SNAP guidance cuts legal immigrants
Oregon is suing the Trump administration over changes to the nation’s food assistance program, arguing that new federal guidance unlawfully blocks certain groups of legal immigrants from accessing food aid.
Twenty-one other states joined Oregon in filing the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Eugene, arguing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture overstepped its authority when it issued an Oct. 31 memo telling states to cut off benefits for people who have long been eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
The dispute centers on changes Congress made in July through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which limited SNAP eligibility for certain noncitizens in temporary immigration categories.
In the lawsuit, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and the other Democratic attorneys general said the USDA memo goes further than what Congress approved and effectively blocks many lawful permanent residents from the SNAP program even though they qualify under the law.
Those include refugees, asylum seekers and people admitted under humanitarian programs once they obtain a green card and meet the program’s income and residency rules.
So, now we’re supposed to feed every person who streams into the US and makes claims? People who do it the right way when apply for citizenship or a work visa must show that they can take care of themselves and are ineligible for government assistance. That’s the terms.
Remember, most of those claiming asylum are, in fact, illegal aliens.
Get an EV, they said, you’ll save the planet and save money they said. Then, reality intrudes
Electric vehicle owners to face pay-per-mile tax
A new tax for electric and hybrid vehicles has been announced by the chancellor in the Budget.
From April 2028, electric car drivers will pay a road charge of 3p per mile, while plug-in hybrid drivers will pay 1.5p per mile, with the rates going up each year with inflation.
The new tax is about “half the fuel duty rate paid by drivers of petrol cars”, according to the government’s independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
Drivers will pay the charge based on how many miles they drive from April 2028.
Motorists will have their mileage checked annually, typically during their MOT as is already the case, or for new cars, around their first and second registration anniversary, the Treasury said.
Payment will be integrated into the existing Vehicle Excise Duty system that is administrated by DVLA.
Under the measures, an electric car driver clocking up 8,500 miles in the 2028-29 financial year is expected to pay about £255 – about half the cost per mile that petrol and diesel drivers pay in fuel tax.
So, you should be paying £0, but, nope, the Powers That Be realized that EVs drive on roads and roads need to be maintained and do not pay a fuel tax, so, they’ll get you one way or the other. Here in NC, and many other states, the yearly registration is vastly higher than with gas and hybrid vehicles, erasing a goodly chunk of the savings for driving an EV. I 100% understand the reasoning with a need to maintain roads, but, seems rather shady to promise all those savings then yank them away. Especially when the UK government is doing all they can to force Citizens into EVs.
All new cars will have to be electric or hybrid from 2030, when a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars comes into force. But some in the industry argue this new tax could make electric cars less appealing.
The OBR said the new charge was “likely to reduce demand for electric cars as it increases their lifetime cost”.
Huh.
…is the world killing fridge all your leftovers are in, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on replacing BBC “journalists” with ChatGPT.
Read: If All You See… »
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