If All You See…

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a nation sweltering at 26C from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on the Treasury being focused on non-profit transparency.

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Daylight Saving Time Debate Heats Up Again

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

To me, this is really the definition of a 1st World debate/complaint, whining about having to fall back in Fall and spring forward in Spring. ZOMG, you lose an hour or gain an hour of sleep for one day, and might take a few days to adjust. We’ve had DST off and on since 1916 for WWI. Farmers hated the notion and it was ended in 1918. Came back in 1942 for WWII, and became law in 1966

As Trump touts permanent daylight saving time, 19 states are ready to lock the clocks

It’s only May, but some lawmakers are already thinking about changing our clocks back in November. If Congress acts quickly enough on a bill praised by President Trump, the clocks may not change at all.

Last week, the language of the Sunshine Protection Act, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, was included in a larger transportation funding package under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The package received a roll call vote of 48 yeas and 1 nay to head to the full House.

But, will Democrats vote for this in the full House, because they have a knee-jerk reaction to anything pushed by Orange Man Bad? Also, can we stop jamming important things in other bills?

Trump spoke highly of the bill after its committee passage, writing on Truth Social about the costs associated with having to change clocks around the U.S. He also said he was “going to work very hard” to ensure the Sunshine Protection Act becomes law.

“It’s time that people can stop worrying about the ‘Clock,’ not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production,” he wrote. “It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day — And who can be against that — This is an easy one!”

Trump is among those who have long supported locking the clocks on daylight saving time, which we currently observe from March to November. Nineteen states have also been awaiting the chance to stop changing their clocks.

The first tweet shows one big poll in support of permanent DST, but, some polls show people want permanent Standard time.

I prefer switching times. I’ve been doing it my whole life. I do not see a big deal in doing the switch. A goodly chunk of the clocks in the house and car change automatically. Most of the kiddies look to their phone for the time, which switches automatically. People get mildly inconvenienced for a short time, like a house plant stinking because you forgot to water it (yeah, that happens with one of mine, which I figure out after playing “is something rotten in the fridge? Where’s that smell coming from?”), then they move on.

If we are going to make something permanent, make it Standard time. I have heavy blinds and stuff over my bedroom window, which faces east.

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Bummer: Feeding People With Rice Is Bad For Climate Doom

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

Hmm, I wonder why Politico will recommend?

Rice Feeds Billions of People — but Its Role in Fueling Climate Change Is Growing

Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.

But the same flooded soils that help rice thrive also create ideal conditions for microbes that release climate-warming gases.

In a new study, ourteam ofenvironment andagriculture scientists found that greenhouse gas emissions from rice paddies have nearly doubled globally since the 1960s, averaging about 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions per year in the 2010s. That’s roughly equal to the annual emissions of 239 million cars.

This makes rice-growing the largest emissions source in agriculture outside of livestock, and rice demand is expected to keep rising.

OK, and?

Farmers have ways to reduce their rice crops’ emissions without lowering their yields. If every grower used the best currently available “climate-smart” options, we found that global rice emissions could be reduced by about 10% by midcentury. However, greater reductions are needed to slow climate change, which would require developing additional, more effective strategies.

And those are?

At the same time, rice farmers are using more fertilizers and organic amendments, such as straw and manure, planting more productive rice varieties and growing the plants closer together. The result is more rice but also more greenhouse gas emissions.

We found that one practice in particular – leaving rice stalks in the field after harvest and then plowing them into the soil to improve soil fertility – was responsible for about 18% of rice’s increase in overall net emissions since the 1960s. The reason: It increases the organic matter in the soil, which microbes then decompose, creating more methane emissions.

OK, so, make growing rice more inefficient. And, later on that is exactly what is recommended. How many people do the Warmists want erased, particularly in the developing world?

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Trump Admin Going After Immigration Lawyers Who File Fraudulent Claims

By William Teach May 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

I fail to see what the problem is here. If a lawyer representing anyone other than illegal aliens was filing shady claims then government authorities would be coming after them, and the Bar may well pull their license. But, since this is about illegal alien lawyers, well, it’s mean to come after them

Trump administration targets attorneys who file fraudulent asylum claims

In its latest effort to narrow pathways to immigration to the United States, the Trump administration says it will crack down on attorneys who file fraudulent asylum claims for their clients.

The U.S. has long granted asylum to people who are unable or unwilling to return to their home countries because they have been persecuted, or fear persecution, based on their race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinions.

In a directive it issued on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security instructed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to develop anti-fraud policies and to take action against immigration attorneys who file false asylum claims in an immigration court.

James Percival, Homeland Security’s general counsel, said “it is standard practice for immigration attorneys representing illegal aliens to assert that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country.”

“Historically, ICE has depended on the discipline of immigration judges and the enforcement of criminal fraud laws to deter this conduct, but ICE has its own tools,” Percival said in a statement. “Now, thanks to this directive, ICE attorneys have greater authority to enforce the law and stop the abuse of our asylum system by illegal aliens and attorneys.”

If the lawyers are doing shady things then shouldn’t they be held accountable?

The limited available data suggests that asylum fraud is extremely rare. A 2015 report by the Government Accountability Office found that as asylum applications increased during the early 2010s, the terminations of asylum status due to discovered fraud declined, from 103 in 2010 to 34 in 2014.

So, an 11 year old report based on data during an administration that was soft on illegal? I wonder how many will be caught now? And this is a hell of a deterant for lawyers to stop making fantastic, fanciful claims.

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Oh Noes: Deportation Flights Have Big Carbon Footprints

By William Teach May 26, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Well, sure, run with this, Champ!

Revealed: huge climate cost of harmful emissions from US immigration flights

US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.

Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign has spurred at least an 80% increase in such flights year over year, accelerating the climate crisis by emitting massive amounts of carbon dioxide, according to data analysis shared exclusively with the Guardian.

“We’ve seen a staggering increase of all US immigration [enforcement] flights,” including “the number of flights as well as the locations that the flights are going to,” said Savitri Arvey, director of research and analysis for refugee and immigrant rights at Human Rights First (HRF), the US advocacy group.

There’s an easy answer: don’t come to the U.S. illegally. Also, how many have taken long, fossil fueled trips in planes and autos to come here illegally?

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) air operations pumped into the air an estimated 335,876 tonnes (370,240 US tons) of carbon emissions in 2025, up 88% from the year before. And the first four months of 2026 show the federal agency is on track to contribute even more to global heating this year from such flights, the Guardian can reveal.

Those emissions exacerbate the climate crisis, a driver of irregular migration in itself, while polluting the air in local communities used as flight hubs, such as Phoenix in Arizona, El Paso and Harlingen in Texas, and Alexandria in Louisiana.

Got admire the Narrative, saying that You are causing the climate crisis (scam) and are Evil for putting illegals on carbon spewing planes away from the U.S.

“When we try to inflict suffering on immigrants, it … inflicts a lot of suffering on them – it also inflicts suffering on ourselves, on everyone. There’s no one that escapes when we’re trying to increase human misery,” said Brett Heinz, global policy coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the social justice organization that shared its ICE flight emissions calculations with the Guardian.

He added: “The pollution that these flights cause is causing harms to every single family in the United States.”

I wonder how many of these people took long fossil flights to Brazil for the big climate conference? And drive fossil fueled vehicles? It’s always fun when two of my favorite blogging subjects are merged.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a beach that will soon disappear from sea rise because of a you, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on Democrats upset over what they voted for.

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Washington Post Seems Upset A Business Insider Is Heavily Involved In Venezuela Policy

By William Teach May 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

If the idea is to super-charge Venezuela’s biggest potential industry, oil, making it viable and profitable, who is better than a private sector person who knows this stuff? Would the WP prefer a Modern Socialist bureaucrat?

Trump’s unofficial Venezuela viceroy shapes U.S. policy, raising oversight concerns

In the hours after U.S. military forces spirited away Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, Secretary of State Marco Rubio placed a call to Maduro’s second-in-command, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

Two others were also on the line. One was her brother, Jorge Rodríguez, the head of the Venezuelan legislature, according to four people familiar with the call. The other was Rubio’s right-hand man on Venezuela: Mauricio Claver-Carone.

A Florida lawyer who briefly served as special envoy to Latin America early in President Donald Trump’s second term, Claver-Carone, 51, has no official job in the U.S. government. But as the administration was formulating plans last fall to send Maduro into exile or capture him, Claver-Carone was intimately involved, by his own account and those of others.

Since Maduro’s removal, Claver-Carone has taken on an even greater role as the unofficial U.S. viceroy of Venezuela, helping to implement the administration’s plan to work with Delcy Rodríguez and exploit the South American country’s vast oil wealth.

“Exploit” to the point of Venezuela having easy access to beer, toilet paper, and food with the citizens enjoying a good life rather than living in the 3rd world it had become.

Working directly with Rodríguez — now the Trump-recognized interim president — her brother, Jorge, and other officials in Caracas, Claver-Carone relays instructions on behalf of Washington, according to more than 10 current and former U.S. officials, people in contact with the Venezuelan government and other knowledgeable observers who discussed his role. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy and the sometimes tense relationship between the two capitals.

Of course they have anonymous people. Then there is no one to point to and no way to ascertain the veracity of the complaints

Claver-Carone, usually operating by phone from his home and office in southern Florida, has been instrumental in picking winners and losers among aspiring investors as the country’s long-faltering oil industry is rejuvenated, said people familiar with his dealings. Most recently, he said, he vouched for Centerview Partners, a New York-based financial firm that was among the many vying to be hired by the Venezuelan government to help restructure its $170 billion debt.

It wasn’t faltering. Chavez and Maduro destroyed it. Their socialism destroyed it.

Claver-Carone, in a lengthy interview with The Washington Post, described his role in Venezuela as a “connector,” whose intimate knowledge of players and policy in Washington and Caracas is needed and sought by both parties.

How dare Trump and Rubio involved smart business people!

His lofty, if unofficial, position and the close hold the administration keeps on its Venezuela decision-making have raised questions about oversight in the affairs of the resource-rich nation that is emerging as a U.S. neo-colony. Under Rodríguez’s interim presidency, the country has largely avoided revolutionary convulsions while a Wild West marketplace swarms with U.S. companies and investors.

Critics say his unofficial position also highlights the lack of transparency within the Trump administration between the worlds of business and diplomacy. Although the long-shuttered U.S. Embassy in Caracas has reopened, the Venezuela portfolio is handled almost exclusively by the White House — where Rubio does double-duty as Trump’s national security adviser — rather than the State Department, according to two U.S. officials.

Critics = people bitching because they aren’t involved. And the rest of the article is a long bitchfest. Did any WP reporter actually go to Venezuela to see what’s going on, or just sit at home or their office working off social media reports?

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Doom Author Says Pessimism Worse Than Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach May 26, 2026 – 7:15 am

Has he observed his fellow cult members?

Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’

Pessimism is probably “a bigger problem than climate change”, said the novelist Ian McEwan on Monday afternoon, as temperatures broke May records in the UK.

McEwan “constantly” hears people say that they don’t “expect their children to have as good a life as they did”, but suggested that optimism is a “moral duty”.

McEwan’s latest book, What We Can Know, is partly set in 2119, in a Britain submerged by seas. He spoke at the Hay festival on a panel alongside the former NFU president Minette Batters and Sandi Toksvig, on a day that saw temperatures in London reach 34.8C, beating a May record set in 1922.

McEwan went on to say that optimism is an “exercise in rationality”, because it’s “quite possible” – given that “the world is big, cultures are diverse” – that “there could be a revolution happening and we don’t even know about it”. He referred to the “historical moment” in 2020 when electricity generated from renewable sources outpaced that generated from gas and coal plants in the UK. “We were probably too busy with Covid to even notice,” he said.

It’s interesting that this is being published in the UK Guardian, not exactly known for their rosy outlook on climate doom. Most articles are about how everything is shit and only going to get worse. Soon, of course. Always soon.

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Liberal States Are Cutting Back On Healthcare For Illegals Or Something

By William Teach May 26, 2026 – 7:00 am

Remember how we were told time and again that illegals were not getting taxpayer funded healthcare, especially in a manner that American citizens could not get?

States that cover healthcare for immigrants scale back

Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple with federal Medicaid cuts and the expiration of federal subsidies that helped people buy Obamacare plans.

Under federal law, immigrants who are in the country illegally are not eligible for federally funded health coverage.

But as of last month, six states — California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oregon and Washington — plus the District of Columbia were spending state dollars to cover some income-eligible noncitizen adults regardless of their immigration status. A total of 14 states plus the district provide state-funded coverage to noncitizen children whether they are here legally or not. And three states — Colorado, New Jersey and Vermont — cover pregnant women regardless of their immigration status.

In addition, 40 states have taken up options in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, to provide coverage to lawfully present children and/or pregnant women who are not citizens.

They mean illegals. States are giving illegals medical coverage even after saying they weren’t

But the sweeping tax and spending bill President Donald Trump signed into law last summer cuts federal spending on Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for low-income people. It also places new eligibility restrictions on lawfully present immigrants, including refugees and asylees, who are enrolled in a variety of government-subsidized health programs, including Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare and plans available on the insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.

They never should have had it to start with. Legal visa holders are forbidden from receiving taxpayer services as part of their visa requirements. Same with people going through the citizenship process.

With less federal money to provide health benefits, at least five states (California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and Washington) plus the District of Columbia have already scaled back or announced plans to scale back state-funded health benefits for immigrants. Other states also may have to pull back as budget pressures continue.

Good. They shouldn’t get any.

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Ouch: Even Rolling Stone Says The Mandalorian And Grogu Is Mid

By William Teach May 25, 2026 – 3:43 pm

When you’ve lost Rolling Stone, which has pretty much come out for every far left thing, that’s’ not good

There are multiple problems with this movie. 1st, they presented it as EPIC! when it should have been “come for some good, mindless summer entertainment!” They should have told Pascal to keep his stupid mouth shut. And, come on, the muppets in New Hope, Empire, and Return looked more realistic than Grogu. He looks like a dog’s chew toy. That was fine for the tv show, not when you’re paying all that money for it while going to the theater. And then there’s the notion that Pascal barely shows his face and his stuntman gets billing right below him, with people thinking he wasn’t really acting much in the movie.

On the flip side, it has a good Rotten Tomatoes of 89%, but, there are other high rated movies that lost money, and this could lose $100 million, and, with the changed times, they aren’t going to make that back on DVD rentals and sales, along with the stream at home. People who saw it are saying it was a good watch, they enjoyed it, no Woke, but, more like a 2 hour TV episode.

Is Star Wars dead? Mostly. If they were smart they’d dump the new universe and go back to the one as written by top tier scifi writers. Books that were on the NY Times best sellers list. How about doing The Hand Of Thrawn trilogy, which was the first big one? Do the Darth Bane trilogy, which was a 1,000 years before New Hope and established the Rule Of 2? Do the graphic novel about the establishment of the Jedi? How about the big Sith War 5000 years before? The material, great material, is available.

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