If All You See…

By William Teach September 21, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon mode of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blogs For Victory, with a post on “Racism Fatigue”

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Rep. Kim Takes Aim At Ending Another Piece Of Congresses Get Rich Scheme

By William Teach September 21, 2026 – 10:30 am

It would be interesting to see how much of federal money ends up as graft, and especially as ending up in the pockets of family and friends

GOP takes aim at Congress’ next ‘get filthy rich’ loophole after stock-trading ban

While the House successfully moved to rein in lawmakers’ stock trading, a California Republican is targeting what she says is another avenue for congressional self-enrichment, citing members whose wealth has multiplied over the years.

Rep. Young Kim’s Stop Congressional Self-Enrichment Resolution comes after a successful GOP-led effort in July that imposed restrictions on stock purchases and requires several days’ notice before stock sales. It also comes as Americans across the political spectrum remain frustrated by many lawmakers’ rapidly growing wealth while in public office.

“It could be earmarking a nonprofit organization where a member’s spouse sits on the board of directors or board of trustees, so it will indirectly benefit the family. Or it could earmark for a park at, let’s say, an apartment building that a member or member’s spouse or member’s children owns,” Kim told Fox News Digital.

“And with the federal funds that the member brings and build the park nearby or community center nearby, it could increase the property value and therefore indirectly benefiting the member and their family members. Maybe asking to build a road up to rural land the member owns.”

Her new push would cover all material financial interests — direct or indirect — that benefit people beyond the lawmaker themselves.

Current House rules require members requesting an earmark to certify that neither they nor their spouses have a financial interest in the recipient. Kim’s bill would extend that requirement to immediate family members and indirect financial interests, such as nearby property values.

It’s a good start, but, will it be voted down? There are several instances of earmarks which sure seemed like a conflict of interest, but, how many make sense and how many are financially beneficial? Those are the problem. Also, that a lot of these earmarks are way, way, way above what is actually necessary for the project.

“The days of members thinking that ‘I can use the community project funding request or bringing the earmarks for my district and get filthy rich off of it’— those days are numbered.”

“This is a good time because we see Americans are sick and tired of watching politicians getting filthy rich while average Americans are worrying about making ends meet and stretch every dollar that they earn.”

Next up, let’s stop the current allocation process, where around 20-30% ends up being used for the actual project and the rest disappears into the pockets of friendly NGOs and companies, with some coming back to campaigns.

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Your Fault: England Could Soon Have A Climate Cause Tea Shortage

By William Teach September 21, 2026 – 7:15 am

Seriously, do the peasants in the UK need more scary fables? The government really doesn’t give a damned what they think and will force them, and have been forcing them for 15 years, to comply with climate cult doctrine

Tea shortage warning as climate crisis sees production plummet and prices soar

Kenyan growers who produce black tea for British supermarket shelves have warned that climate impacts are damaging crop harvests and further diminishing their already “scarce” household incomes.

The East African nation currently provides half of all black tea consumed across Britain, but local farmers face increasingly unpredictable weather patterns, lower crop yields and quality, alongside escalating operational expenses over recent years.

These compounding issues have driven up global tea costs, leaving supermarket shoppers in the UK paying noticeably higher prices for their favourite beverage.

Yet impoverished farmers at the start of the supply chain see little financial gain from higher market prices. Harvesting smaller crops while spending more to maintain them, growers watch as intermediaries, brokers and large corporate firms continue absorbing the vast majority of total profits.

Right now Kenya is having a drought. But, it also has floods interspersed. And the weather always plays a challenging role, now and in the past. This is all just meant to scare people into giving up their money and freedom.

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ICE Needs To Pick It Up, Only 5000 Arrests In NC In 2026

By William Teach September 21, 2026 – 7:00 am

In fairness, they’ve been working hard in other places

ICE arrests in North Carolina top 5,000 in 2026 so far; leading to fear, anxiety, advocates say

More than 5,000 people have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in North Carolina so far this year, according to data from the Deportation Data Project analyzed by the ABC News Data Team.

The data shows ICE detained more than 253,000 people nationwide this year. In North Carolina alone, ICE apprehended more than 5,000 people, including at least 441 arrests in the Raleigh area.

Immigration advocates and attorneys in the Triangle say increased enforcement activity is contributing to fear and anxiety among immigrants and their families.

“We’re definitely seeing increased activity with this,” said Trey DeBrine, an immigration law attorney with Sivaraman Immigration Law.

There are reportedly 425K illegals in NC (funny how so many levels of government seem to know this, yet, haven’t booted them), so NICE needs to pick up the pace

“People with status are afraid to do things like drive, because they think, ‘I’m gonna get pulled over, I’m gonna get arrested, and I’m gonna get put into ICE custody,'” DeBrine said.

Mental health advocates say the heightened concern is affecting immigrant and refugee communities across North Carolina.

“Because of this fear, it’s having an effect overall in the quality of life of North Carolinians,” said Molly Hayes, head of learning and dissemination at El Futuro.

Good. They should be afraid. And they can solve this by leaving the US.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 20, 2026 – 1:29 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on “Congress Needs A Cold Shower: The Lauren Boebert Edition”

It’s legs week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 20, 2026 – 8:48 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are kinda screaming at each other, and ECU had a nice little comeback win, holding ODU scoreless in the 2nd half. This pinup is certainly AI, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15, er, 16, because I lost count

  1. Bearing Arms: Stop Telling Women Their Guns Will Be Used Against Them
  2. Blazing Cat Fur: How Abdul El-Sayed Wants To Recreate Trudeau’s Canadian Failures
  3. Climate Depot: Zero Hurricanes Formed By Peak 2026 Season. A Former Climate Reporter Says That’s Why You Haven’t Heard About It.
  4. Cold Fury: Great American Stories Vol 1
  5. Common Cents Blog: DID YOU KNOW – – – Just seeing an American Flag entices and persuades people to vote Republican!
  6. Gates Of Vienna: Allison Inquiry: “Using Health Crises to Remove the Rights of Individual People”
  7. Gatestone Institute: The Muslim Brotherhood: Follow the Money
  8. Geller Report: Trump Announces ‘AI Force’ and AI Czar to Keep America Ahead of China
  9. IOTW Report: Report: Ketanji and Boasberg Exposed in Foreign Influence Operation
  10. Jihad Watch: Germany: Muslim migrant arrested for plotting jihad massacre at church in Bremen
  11. Legal Insurrection: USDA Targets 170 NYC Retailers in SNAP Fraud Sweep
  12. Moonbattery: Lesbian Minister Confirms Talarico’s Moderate Makeover Is Fake
  13. neo-neocon: The case against AI doom
  14. Powerline Blog: The Church of England Has Lost the Plot
  15. The Gateway Pundit: FLASHBACK: In 2021, CNN’s Brian Stelter Openly Wondered if FOX News Should be Banned From the White House Press Pool (VIDEO)
  16. And last, but, not least, The Last Refuge has “President Sheinbaum and President Trump Agree on Terms for Bilateral Trade Deal”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Bummer: Green Card Applicants Can Be Denied For Using Government Benefits

By William Teach September 20, 2026 – 7:00 am

Well, yeah. Anyone wanting to live in America from a foreign nation should be able to be self sufficient (also, why in the ever lovin’ f*ck to we have people living here as “permanent residents”? Very silly)

Immigrants using food stamps or Medicaid can now be denied green cards

Immigrants applying to live permanently in the United States can be rejected if they receive public benefits, beginning this week.

Use of Medicaid, food stamps, tuition assistance and free school lunch programs, among other government assistance, could all be grounds for denying a green-card application.

The policy from President Donald Trump’s administration, which took effect Friday, marks a dramatic change to a long-standing federal policy consistent with the president’s efforts to restrict legal immigration pathways.

The rule could reduce federal and state payments by $13 billion a year, by persuading some 950,000 people to disenroll from or avoid federal safety net programs, according to estimates from the Department of Homeland Security. The agency said that the rule aligns with Congress’s intent that noncitizens “in the United States be self-sufficient and not dependent on taxpayer-funded government benefits.”

That makes sense, right? Beyond the whole “why in the f*ck are there permanent residents?” People should be coming to apply for citizenship or be on temporary visas. People on visas or applying for citizenship have to show they can take care of themselves, that they will not be on government benefits.

“Aliens in the United States should be self-reliant,” a DHS policy document for the rule states, “and government benefits should not incentivize immigration.”

Applying for a green card, or legal permanent residency, is a necessary step for those seeking U.S. citizenship.

Yes, well, a goodly chunk apply and never go through with the whole process to be citizens. They just….reside. And use government programs.

This week, New York led 21 other states, the District of Columbia and several cities in suing the Trump administration over the new rule. The lawsuit argued that the rule fails “to consider many important aspects” of the problems it creates and warned that the harms will extend to mixed-status families and U.S. citizen children.

“Cruelty is the point,” New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit this week. “Having a chilling effect on immigrants is the point. Letting individuals know that they are not welcome here is the point.”

Well, then those states can pay for the lives of these people. Most nations around the world require that people moving to those countries be self sufficient. That they bring value. It is not uncommon for a person to have to meet a financial burden test when they want to move to a new country. Why does the US have to let every poor person in who brings nothing? This is the way it used to be a long time ago.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 19, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil gas grill killing the trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on “Trump to Ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico From White House Over Fake News Coverage”

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Nvidia CEO Takes Opposite POV, Wants AI Developed As Fast As Possible

By William Teach September 19, 2026 – 10:30 am

So, it’s not going to kill us all?

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls for AI to be developed “as fast as we can”

The CEO of the world’s largest chipmaker told CBS News that tech companies should push forward with the development of artificial intelligence despite recent warnings from worried industry leaders that there may be a need to pull back due to unease about where the technology could be headed.

“We should go as fast as we can irrespective of anybody else,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News senior business and technology correspondent Jo Ling Kent in an interview airing this weekend on “Sunday Morning,” when asked if AI development needs to slow down.

“We’re going to go as fast as we can, but we would never ever, and never should, ship products before they’re ready, deliver products that are unsafe,” Huang said. “And nobody’s expecting us to do that. But everybody’s expecting us to succeed and help America be as prosperous as possible.”

It’s nice to see a different take than the doom and gloom. But, then there’s this twat

Oh, good, more incentive for tech companies to leave California and take their money and jobs with them. Mostly, though, Gavin is suffering from TDS. Oh, and certainly looking to increase the size of his stock portfolio.

If You Think Your Product Could Wipe Out Humanity, It Shouldn’t Exist

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Now, it struck some as odd for Amodei and Hubinger to come out and say that AI development needs to slow down, since, well, they’re the ones doing it. In the New York Times, Sebastian Mallaby praised Amodei for having the “courage to stand in front of an express train and yell at it to slow down.” A more accurate analogy would be if the driver of a speeding train published an essay explaining why the train ought to slow down. Figures in the Trump administration, scoffing at calls for regulation, said that if Amodei is so concerned with safety, he can go ahead and make his product more safe. “If you’re building Frankenstein,” said JD Vance, then “stop.” (Respecters of literature will wince at Vance forgetting that Frankenstein is the scientist, not the monster.) Top Trump tech adviser David Sacks said fears about AI are overblown and companies should self-regulate if they deem it necessary. Trump himself said his very high IQ would keep us safe from any problems caused by AI. Meanwhile, Congress largely slumbered, with the notable exception of Bernie Sanders, the one senator who can be relied on to occasionally give a damn. Sanders is so alarmed by AI that he swallowed his vomit and stood alongside Steve Bannon to condemn the irresponsible tech oligarchs and push for reform.

It is still a bit of a doomy article, with some serious run-on paragraphs, but, the headline is correct. AI was not designed as a weapon, so, if there is a “10% chance that it could wipe out humanity by 2030”, then shut it down.

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Illinois Releases Climate (scam) Plan

By William Teach September 19, 2026 – 7:15 am

Damn, isn’t this something that the People’s Republik Of Illinois should have passed years ago along with the other climahysteric liberal states?

Illinois EPA releases ‘Comprehensive Climate Action Plan’ to reach ‘net zero’ emissions

Illinois has made substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, but it is not yet on track to meet its goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

That’s the conclusion of a new Comprehensive Climate Action Plan released this month by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

To reach that goal, the report suggests Illinois will need to enact significant changes across virtually every sector of its economy, including transportation, building construction, manufacturing, agriculture and waste disposal.

Hey, I’m missing the part where the elected politicians, leftist bureaucrats, and state employees have to make massive changes and stop using fossil fuels.

The Comprehensive Climate Action Plan is intended to provide a roadmap for Illinois to reduce its carbon footprint to as little as 72% below its 2005 baseline. It also outlines two scenarios under which Illinois could virtually eliminate all carbon emissions.

Those would involve a combination of incentive packages and regulatory changes that would affect nearly every sector of the economy. But doing so, the report suggests, would produce $21 billion a year in net economic benefits.

The document outlines a laundry list of additional actions Illinois could take to reduce its carbon footprint even further, starting with providing rebates and other incentives to convert all forms of commercial vehicles, including medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, to electric.

It also proposes new regulations on residential and commercial buildings. Those include adopting clean heat standards that would require a 22% reduction in emissions from natural gas by 2035, offering subsidies to install heat pumps in residential homes, adopting all-electric construction codes for new construction and phasing out gasoline-powered lawn and landscaping equipment by 2035.

It also proposes additional regulations for industrial activities such as requiring net zero emissions from cement production by 2050 and requiring reductions in emissions intensity of cement, glass, iron and steel used in public construction.

I’m still missing the part involved politicians

One plan, called the “moderate efficiency and flexibility” scenario, assumes full electrification of buildings by 2050 with 32% of households using hybrid heat pumps. It also assumes a rapid expansion of electric vehicles.

LOL, the sale of EVs has crashed without the $7,500 tax credit. How many Illinois politicians drive EVs themselves? How about the governor and those around him?

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