Your Fault: We’re Betraying The Yutes With Our Fossil Fuels Usage

OK, so, maybe we should make the yutes walk or bike everywhere? No fossil fueled busses, cars, SUVs, planes, etc

We are betraying our children with fossil fuel pollution

The national conversation about global climate change has gone through ups and downs over the last 75 years. Climate science entered politics in the 1950s and led to bipartisan support for action in the 1970s. But the issue became intensely partisan in the 1990s, when big oil companies aligned with Republicans.

Congress did virtually nothing about global warming until 2022, when it passed the country’s largest-ever investments in clean energy. But over the last 18 months, President Trump has blocked the investments, suppressed clean energy, and accelerated America’s fossil fuel production.

All those “investments” did was reward donors, friends, and NGOs with lots of slush money. And the lawmakers who bought stock ahead of time with foreknowledge.

Meantime, fossil-fuel pollution keeps accumulating in the atmosphere like a metastasizing cancer, causing a slow-growing fever that’s changing the planet’s metabolism. But over the decades, whether we paid attention or not, one thing has remained constant: Our failure to get global warming under control is the greatest betrayal that any generation has ever imposed on its children. We are letting oil oligarchs get rich by robbing our children’s future.

Hey, did William Becker, who’s been in government and is involved in lots of climate scam groups, ever consider that he could cajole all his Warmist pals to give up their own use of fossil fuels?

This is not the American way. With the industrial revolution, Western societies in general adopted the ethic that each generation should make life better for its children. We are not keeping that promise now.

Oh, please, complete bullshit.

2014 study found that economic elites and business interests dominate government policy, while “average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.” The government delivers what special interests want rather than what most Americans want.

And the elites are here to restrict the peasants from using fossil fuels while the Elites run around the world on private jets and in limos. F off. Stop using the kids for your doomsday cult business.

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If All You See…

…is an area flooding and drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on the Warmists using a natural phenomenon to support their cult.

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Surprise: Bill Maher, Who Has Raged Against Nazi Platner, Endorses Him

Bill Maher attempts to act as a responsible Democrat, the type from the Bill Clinton era, but, at the end of the day he’s like all the rest: power is the only thing that matters

Bill Maher makes shocking recommendation in Maine Senate race after Graham Platner’s ‘scary behavior’

Comedian Bill Maher threw his weight behind Maine Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner, despite his “scary behavior,” arguing that flipping the Senate for Dems is more important than his Nazi tattoo or cheating scandal.

HBO’s “Real Time” host said that Democrats’ retaking the Senate in November would be a critical check on President Trump, and argued that America is rife with “a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people” anyway.

“Let’s get real about Graham Platner,” Maher said during his Friday show.

“The big story is the Democrats can likely take back the Senate in November if they win Maine. But their local candidate, official now up there, is after the primary this week, let’s just say, a guy who has a backstory that screams, ‘Don’t ask.’”

“I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons,” Maher explained after rattling through Platner’s string of scandals. “One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that.”

“And two, get used to it. America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone-addicted, sort of nutty people. And as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror. I wish the tattoo was the scariest thing about Platner. It’s not. That would be his solution to a home invasion, which is to rape the home invader.”

And, yet, Maher still wants people in Maine to vote for Platner

“- said he’s a communist

– joined an app known to be used by predators to contact minors”

Dems are trying to play the “this was in the past” card, but, they went after Mitt Romney over a haircut in high school, saying it was relevant. All Democrats care about is power, and there’s virtually nothing that will disqualify someone if Democrats think they can win a seat. If this were a midterm where there was no chance of retaking the Senate, they might have let him go, but, not now. And Bill is the perfect example of a Democrat who acts and talks reasonable, but, truly isn’t.

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Cool: Louisiana Gov Signs Law Stopping Climalawfare

It’s time for other states run by Republicans to do the same

Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. So have other states.

Louisiana has joined a handful of Republican states that have recently passed legislation aimed at banning lawsuits against oil and gas companies over the harms of climate change.

The Louisiana Energy Protection Act, written by state Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, is aimed at preventing lawsuits filed by states and local jurisdictions in other parts of the U.S. from playing out in Louisiana. Across the country, about 30 lawsuits seeking to hold industry to account for the impacts of climate change have been weaving their way through the legal system, but none have been brought in Louisiana.

The lawsuits seek to hold oil and gas companies accountable for the impacts of sea level rise, extreme weather events, wildfires and flooding, arguing that the companies should pay for measures needed to adapt, such as seawalls and building elevations. Louisiana has now banned those types of claims from being brought in state court against oil and gas producers or any other defendant.

Geymann, who chairs the House Natural Resources and Environment Committee, said he was skeptical that human activity is causing climate change, and didn’t think the lawsuits were “legitimate.” There is overwhelming consensus among scientists that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels heat the planet.

Mind you, this is not some small climate cult outlet, this is NOLA.com which is stating the opinion is science.

“To say my aunt died from a heat stroke and I’m going to sue every oil company and every pipeline company in Louisiana because of it — that is not a legitimate claim,” Geymann said, referring to a lawsuit filed in Washington state against oil companies after a woman died of heat exposure. “A legitimate claim would be: I live down the road from a refinery and I have damages from the emission of (hydrogen sulfide) at a level that exceeded the EPA or the Clean Air Act.”

Gov. Jeff Landry signed the bill into law on Thursday. It was passed by a vote of 31-3 in the Senate and 92-5 in the House. Oklahoma, Utah, Iowa and Tennessee all passed bills this year that aim to ban lawsuits over the impacts of climate change. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, also introduced the “Stop Climate Shakedowns Act” at the federal level, which would ban climate lawsuits nationwide.

Really, anyone filing these types of lawsuits should be required to prove they had previously given up their own use of fossil fuels, at a minimum.

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Unhinged Judges Look For Ways Around Superior Court Ruling On ICE Detention Policy

In a sane world these judges would be removed from the bench

ICE’s detention policy won at the 5th Circuit. Then judges found another way to reject it.

When a federal appeals court in February endorsed ICE’s unprecedented policy to detain — without bond — thousands of immigrants with established roots in the U.S., the Trump administration celebrated it as a landmark win.

It’s not actually unprecedented, federal law actually says illegals who are caught get a small fine, potential detainment, then deportation

The Feb. 6 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cut against the overwhelming rejection of ICE’s new detention policy by federal district courts around the country. And because the 5th Circuit’s rulings are binding on judges in Texas, where a significant share of ICE detainees are held, the decision seemed poised to reverse the tide.

What has played out since tells a more complicated story.

Judges bound by the appeals court’s holding have overwhelmingly continued to reject ICE’s detention policy. Instead of labeling the policy a violation of the law — an interpretation taken off the table by the 5th Circuit decision — those judges have concluded that ICE has violated detainees’ constitutional due process rights, a distinct violation that the appeals court didn’t address.

Due process? “Are you in the US illegally? Yes? Then you are in violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1325 – Improper entry by alien. You’ll be held till deported.”

As a result, judges in Texas and Louisiana have ordered bond hearings or release of ICE detainees more than 1,200 times on due process grounds since the appeals court’s ruling, according to a POLITICO analysis.

That’s nearly 60 percent of all immigration detention rulings in the 5th Circuit since the Feb. 6 decision. The 5th Circuit is now considering whether ICE detainees subject to ICE’s “mandatory detention” policy are owed the due process that these district court judges decisively say they are.

These judges care more about illegals, and their far left beliefs, then actual law and American citizens.

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If All You See…

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on British PM Starmer supposedly growing a pair.

It’s women in glasses week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the hummingbirds are buzzing, and the Knicks finally won a championship, which makes my dad happy. This pinup is by Dietzdolls, with a wee bit of (unnecessary) help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The US government has been secretly funding 120 dangerous biolabs around the world
  2. Watts Up With That?: Why is the Financial Times Encouraging Parents to Make Their Children Anxious About Climate Change?
  3. 357 Magnum: The Breakdown of Civilization in California
  4. American Greatness: The Face of Modern Britain: Jihad’s Triumph
  5. Bearing Arms : Potential Mass Shooting in Georgia Stopped by Armed Citizens
  6. Chicks On The Right: Europeans Experiencing the U.S. During the World Cup is the Best
  7. Twitchy: Libs Lose Their Minds Over UFC & Motocross at the WH — Yet Cheered Biden’s Topless Freak Shows
  8. Climate Depot: ‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup called ‘the deadliest sporting event in history’ – ‘On pace to be ‘a climate catastrophe’ – ‘Most polluting World Cup ever, with total greenhouse gas emissions hitting nearly two times the historical average’
  9. Cold Fury: Proximity to Moslems=DEATH
  10. Common Cents Blog: Jerry Seinfeld SHUTS DOWN anti-Israel influencer with PERFECT 3-word response – Video
  11. Gates Of Vienna: Migrants are the Real Victims of the Belfast Beheading Attack
  12. Gatestone Institute: Europe in Wonderland: Belgium Criminalizes Truth
  13. Geller Report: Tens of Thousands March in Rome for Mass Migrant Deportations
  14. Jihad Watch: Italian Woman Beheaded as Attacker Recites Passages From a Book. Yeah, THAT Book.
  15. And last, but, not least, The First Street Journal has “Killadelphia: I confess to being unable to see how a victim’s race makes him either more or less dead.”

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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Washington Post: Trump Officials Digging Deeper On Missing Illegal Alien Kids

Um, the WP actually seems a bit upset over this

Trump officials broaden investigation into unaccompanied migrant children

The Trump administration is expanding its probe into what happened to the record number of migrant children who crossed the southern border without their parents during the Biden era, dispatching investigators to nonprofit organizations, prosecuting alleged smugglers and requesting help from the U.S. military.

Administration officials this week said federal investigators are continuing a nationwide effort to prosecute anyone who has committed a crime involving an unaccompanied minor, but records obtained by The Washington Post and accounts from aid workers show the administration’s efforts have been even broader.

President Donald Trump and his administration say their investigation aims to protect hundreds of thousands of children who arrived alone and were released to sponsors who they claim were poorly vetted. They allege many of those adults then abused or exploited the children for financial gain, though so far, the government has presented examples of a small number of cases.

Advocates say most children were reunited with parents or relatives in the United States, and that the administration’s efforts could have a chilling effect on a vulnerable group of migrants who may now be wary of seeking help from groups meant to protect them.

So, the investigation is broader per the groups who probably helped lose the kids, and the advocates are advocating to stop searching for the kids because it will cause problems for the illegals who shouldn’t be here? Really?

The acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is under the Department of Health and Human Services and oversees the shelters that house unaccompanied minors, separately secured the Pentagon’s help this spring in auditing federally funded nonprofits that provide legal aid to migrant children, according to a copy of the request reviewed by The Post. The auditors were going to be tasked with investigating any potential fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security, which sent some agents to the nonprofits this week, did not respond to questions about the visits, saying only that its efforts are part of an overall endeavor to locate unaccompanied minors. DHS shared 16 cases in which a sponsor with a criminal history was later arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for immigration violations.

Well, that sounds like a good thing, right? Right?

“This feels like another government attack on immigrant children,” said Michael Lukens, executive director of the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights in D.C., one of the groups that federal agents targeted this week. “I don’t think they understand. We’ve been doing this a long time. We’re very good at it. We are working on shoestring budgets.”

Say, did the WP ask Lukens and members of Amica Center about the missing kids, tough, pointed questions? Sorry, sorry, silly question. Apparently, missing illegal kids who are probably being trafficked is no big deal because Orange Man Bad’s admin is investigating

Now the nonprofits contracted to provide legal aid and shelter to unaccompanied children are becoming a focal point of the administration’s probe, and internal correspondence shared with The Post shows how government officials are pushing institutional norms to execute the president’s immigration enforcement agenda.

Did the WP ever consider that all these groups might be problematic, in that they helped facilitate all those kids coming solo, and then profitted off provide aid and shelter? That they might be implicated in trafficking the kids, even by accident?

Advocates who work at the nonprofit organizations contracted to help unaccompanied minors said they turned away the investigators who arrived at their doorsteps and did not hand over any records. Some interpreted the surprise visits as an attempt to intimidate them and expressed fear that it would discourage children from seeking their help.

They’re taking taxpayer money for this, right? Lots and lots of it? Next time there will be warrants. One would think a premier news outlet like the WP would care about kids being missing, about potentially being trafficked, but, they’re more concerned with sheltering the NGOs and such. That the WP would be an advocate for the little people, the people who are in trouble. Nope.

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Cult Of Climastrology Now Discussing “Indirect Interactions”

It’s always some new and authoritarian thing the cult is coming up with

The Climate Change Culprits Not Addressed by Global Policy

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesRecord-high global temperatures aren’t driven only by well-known greenhouse gas culprits.

These other emissions, unlike carbon dioxide, don’t have a direct warming effect on their own. Instead, they trigger reactions in the atmosphere that create more greenhouse gases or make the gases stick around longer.

new paper published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that 15 percent of human-driven global warming has come from these indirect interactions. None of these pollutants appear on the international climate treaty list that forms the basis for nations’ pledges to cut back—and the authors say it’s time for that to change.

“We’re emitting things into the atmosphere that don’t directly warm the planet, but they increase the amount of the greenhouse gases that do directly warm the planet,” said the paper’s lead author, Ilissa Ocko, a former climate advisor for the U.S. Department of State. She’s now senior climate scientist at Spark Climate Solutions, a nonprofit that aims to identify and mitigate sources of unmanaged climate risk.

Sounds like culty BS to me

Carbon monoxide and non-methane volatile organic compounds are the major players named in the paper, indirectly accounting for most of that 15 percent of warming. Black carbon, commonly known as soot, also contributes.

It’s another method to come after Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles

“The political climate in many countries is not for adopting even stronger climate rules,” added Michael Gerrard, founder of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. It’s enough of a struggle to meet current emission reduction goals that he doubts countries would want to add more pollutants to the list.

But despite the challenges, the paper’s finding “highlights an important missing piece of the climate regulatory picture,” Gerrard said. “It demonstrates that these pollutants that are not regulated under the climate regime still have some significance.”

“Regulatory.” Of course.

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If All You See…

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Washington hearing a challenge to a huge wind and solar project.

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