Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 15, 2025 – 9:07 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers won a big one against the Giants. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: Looks like China uses small Green “climate” donations to help create $75b in economic damage
  2. Vlad Tepes: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom no longer a Western nation, or a reliable partner for Republic type nations
  3. Victory Girls Blog: No Kings And No Insurrection To See Here
  4. The Gateway Pundit: Failing UK Labour PM Starmer Caves to the Pressure, Announces a National Inquiry Into the Pakistani Grooming Gangs Scandal
  5. The First Street Journal: Bad causes attract bad people
  6. Powerline: The Nullification Crisis of 2025
  7. Pacific Pundit: Tampon Tim Walz says only China has the moral authority to solve the Israel, Iran crisis
  8. Moonbattery: Why Democrats Want Illegal Aliens
  9. Legal Insurrection: Not Quite Sure What Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests Really Accomplished (Update)
  10. Knuckledraggin My Life Away: Your Feel Good Story of the Week
  11. Jihad Watch: Dodger Great Clayton Kershaw Makes Quiet Statement About Pride Night, Leftist Heads Explode
  12. IOTW Report: Canada: Male Elementary School Bus Driver Dressed in School Girl Outfit Confronted by Parents, Calls His Bus the ‘Lolita Line’
  13. Geller Report: Iranians in Tehran Cheer, Shouting “Death to Khamenei” While Israel Bombs the Regime.
  14. Culturcidal: Liberalism is More of a Cult Than an Ideology
  15. Common Cents Blog: INTERESTING – – Attending a “4th of July” parade helps turn children into lifelong Republicans!
  16. And last, but, not least, Cold Fury: What the hell took ya so long, anyway

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.

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Israel Targets, Blows Up Iranian Oil Depot

By William Teach June 15, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is going to hit Iran in the wallet

WATCH: ‘Tehran is ablaze’: Israel strikes massive oil depot near Iranian capital, fire rages

The Shahran oil depot near Tehran was targeted in an Israeli attack on Saturday night, sources confirmed to The Jerusalem Post.

Targets in Saturday night’s attacks on Tehran included not only an oil facility, but also sites associated with Iran’s nuclear program and command and control centers.

Iran’s Tasnim agency reported that Israel targeted the headquarters of Iran’s Defense Ministry in the capital, which the IDF later confirmed.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Tehran is ablaze” on X/Twitter as footage circulated on social media from the outcome of the strikes.
Iran confirmed that the oil depot was targeted, but claimed that the “situation was under control.”

“The fuel volume in the targeted tank was not high, and the situation is fully under control,” Iran’s oil ministry’s SHANA news agency reported.

Yeah, I’d rather believe Israel over Iran.

Meanwhile

State Department urges Americans to ‘depart Iran immediately’ in latest security update

The U.S. Department of State issued a security alert telling U.S. citizens to “depart Iran immediately if they are there,” adding that Americans “should not travel to Iran for any reason.”

For any Americans in Iran, the department said they should be prepared to shelter in place for extended periods, wrote the U.S. Virtual Embassy in Iran posted early Sunday morning local time.

“U.S. citizens in Iran face serious, increasing dangers due to rising regional tensions. The U.S. government does not have diplomatic or consular relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the alert added.

The Embassy of Switzerland in Tehran serves as the protecting power for United States interests.

Probably a good idea. A better idea was not being in Iran in the first place. French president Macron is demanding that Iran release the two French citizens Iran is holding.

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Who’s Up For A Big Umbrella In The Sky To Stop Global Boiling?

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 3:00 pm

The funny part here when it comes to all these types of Do Something’s is that they are unintentionally admitting that the big nuclear furnace in the sky is the primary driver of climate

Scientists want to test a solar umbrella that could help fight climate change

Scientists have long looked for ways to turn the tide in our fight against climate change. So far, no matter what ideas they come up with, none have been solidified as actual missions with concrete goal. But that could change soon, as researchers plan to test a solar umbrella as a way to cut down on how much heat reaches our planet from the sun.

Researchers shared their plan to put together a mission to test a tiny sunshade at what is known as the L1 Lagrange Point — a location between Earth and the Sun where the gravitational pull of both is almost nullified. However, this tiny sunshade will only be a precursor to a much larger mission down the line.

Before deploying a large, full-scale system, the researchers say they need to see if a solar umbrella will even work in the first place. For the test, the scientists plan to use a 12U CubeSat roughly the size of a large briefcase. It will be equipped with a 144 meter solar sail, which should help demonstrate how effective these systems can be for propulsion long-term.

The idea of using space sails to propel spacecraft forward isn’t new, but this will be one of the first true tests that will help us determine if it can actually work. Once in place, the researchers say the constant flood of sunlight on the sunshade will help ensure the spacecraft stays in the right position, casting a shade over our planet.

What could possibly go wrong with this? Of course, realistically, it’s probably a money pit designed to enrich people via taxpayer funds, and nothing comes of it

Meanwhile

Greta Thunberg’s Journey to Tool of Terrorists From Climate Change Hysteric
The real question is: Why is she in the news at all?

Professional leftist Greta Thunberg was brought to Israel this week after the “selfie yacht” she was traveling on attempted to break through a naval blockade of Gaza. Her boat, the Madleen, was part of a flotilla pretending to deliver aid to alleviate an imaginary famine. (big snip)

Ms. Thunberg, since her Time magazine cover, has achieved nothing. Her native Sweden has turned back to fossil fuels. Europe, as well. The Earth, however, is still here.

Subsequently, Ms. Thunberg has moved on to champion other trendy leftist causes, such as Black Lives Matter, and now “Free Palestine.” The only thing she understands less about than climate science seems to be the Middle East.

As far as I can tell, Ms. Thunberg has never once said anything remotely compelling or witty or smart. There are millions of young people far more worthy of attention. For years, youth shielded Ms. Thunberg from criticism.

I wonder how much longer her 15 minutes will last? And, like an aging OnlyFans model, now what? No skills.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are tropical trees that will soon grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on the UK and Canada submitting to Islam.

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Israel Defense Minister Says Iran Will Burn If They Continue To Lob Missiles At Civilians

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s something few in the Credentialed Media really mention, and, if they do, they aren’t too concerned, namely, that Israel is going after military targets, while Iran intentionally targets civilians. No opinion pieces slamming Iran (or any of their terrorist subsidiaries) for going after civilians

Israel Katz: ‘If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at Israeli civilians, Tehran will burn’

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday threatened further action against Iran should more missiles be fired towards Israeli civilians.

“If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at Israeli civilians, Tehran will burn,” Katz said in a threatening message towards to Iranian Supreme Leader.

The defense minister made these statements after finishing a situational assessment with the IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Mossad Director David Barnea, and other Israeli military leadership.

“The Iranian dictator is turning the citizens of Iran into hostages and bringing about the reality that they, and in particular the residents of Tehran, will pay a heavy price for the criminal harm to the citizens of Israel,” the defense minister added.

Iran should think heavily over their attacks, because they just cannot compete militarily

The road to Tehran has been paved: IDF secures air route for stronger strikes on Iran

The Israel Air Force is now capable of operating without obstruction as far as Tehran, following what was described as the destruction of a majority of Iran’s air defense systems, security officials said on Saturday morning.

The reported elimination of Syria’s military capabilities, including those of Hezbollah, has further expanded Israel’s operational range and shortened flight paths to Iran.

Until approximately two years ago, the IAF faced severe limitations in operating over Lebanon and Syria. IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir’s statement on Saturday, saying “The road to Tehran has been paved” reflects the IDF’s present air dominance and signals a strategic shift. According to military officials, the pace of air operations is expected to accelerate.

Israel can easily project force into Iran with almost no opposition. They can perform pinpoint strikes. If they want to decapitate the entire ruling class they can. Iran can throw some missiles and drones, but, they are limited.

Hilariously, the Washington Post editorial board, which never once considered the danger of Biden dragging the US into WWIII with Ukraine, and cheered him on, wonders what the endgame is, and ends with Trump Trump Trump

Israel struck while the moment was ripe. But the “day after” plan and the scope of U.S. involvement in shaping it are alarmingly opaque. Trump needs to proceed cautiously — and forthrightly about exactly what he might be committing the country to. A president with an avowed aversion to sending American troops into “forever wars” in the Middle East should resist being dragged into a new one.

So, a forever war in Ukraine is OK against nuclear armed Russia, but, wiping out Iran’s nuclear ambitions is not? Why? Because Trump is president. Along those lines, Excitable Max Boot’s first thought is to slam Trump “failing to be a peacemaker.” He had no condemnation for Biden over Ukraine, Syria, the Houthis, Hamas attacking Israel, and more.

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Oregon Gets Closer To Passing The Climate Cult Indoctrination Bill

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

Nothing like starting early to indoctrinate the kiddies

Oregon’s climate change education bill advances further

Oregon’s House Bill 3365, which seeks to support climate change education in the Beaver State, passed the Senate on an 18-10 vote on June 12, 2025, having previously passed the House of Representatives on a 32-23 vote on April 17, 2025.

The Senate and the House versions of the bill differ somewhat. Both versions would require the state board of education to “include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to such causes and effects” in academic content standards during its regular review and revision of curriculum goals, performance indicators, and diploma requirements. But the House version (PDF) applies to “core subjects,” while the Senate version (PDF) applies only to “science, health, history, geography, economics and civics.” As originally introduced (PDF), the bill would have applied to all subjects for which academic content standards are established.

Either way, the bills are going to jam climate cult garbage into most subjects. If Bill buys 2 cheeseburgers every week, how many grandmas does he kill?

Want to Be a Climate Kid?

As a freshman, Hayden Crocker noticed that his high school in Solana Beach, California, had plenty of recycling bins around the campus but no recycling dumpsters in which to empty them. Where were all those cans, bottles, and papers going, he wondered?

Crocker asked his school administration about it. He learned that everything was ending up in the trash. So, he and some classmates called their city’s school district to complain. It worked, and soon thereafter, there were recycling dumpsters on every campus so the custodians could properly separate the recyclables from the waste.

Except, that has zero to do with ‘climate change’.

Here’s what student leaders from the East Coast to the West Coast have to say.

1. Start with your school, says Amaya Williams, a high school senior in Brooklyn. (I’m skipping the details, you can read if you want)

2. Join (or start) a club.

3. Suggest new tools. Teachers can use websites like the Climate Action Hub to get ideas for climate-focused lessons.

4. Tailor your solutions. At Go Greenish, Crocker and his team have taken a school-specific approach. Sustainability solutions can’t be one-size-fits-all, he says, because each school has a different set of resources, challenges, and needs.

5. Call your local officials, Spikes urges. Share your personal story with politicians, and tell them why climate education matters to you as a young person.

Start them young. Also, 6. make your own lives carbon neutral.

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Is Israel’s Endgame With Iran Regime Change?

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure if this Politico article is meant to slam Israel, since liberals usually take that line, or just information

What’s Israel’s Endgame?

Israel’s attack on Iran will no doubt set back Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. But among many Middle East obsessives, there’s a growing sense that the Israeli operation has the potential to lead to something much bigger: toppling Iran’s Islamist government.

Yeah, I’ll say it. Regime change.

It’s a phrase that normally sends shudders through a Washington and a Middle East chastened by the U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a concept that has long left President Donald Trump extremely wary; his administration has already put out word it played no role in the attack. And the Israeli government hasn’t declared that regime change is its official objective.

Still, as I’ve listened to Israeli comments on the strikes and learned about their scope, including assassinations of top Iranian military officials, I’ve been struck by how they’re not dismissing the possibility of regime change, either. When you put the moves in the context of Israeli military actions since fall 2023 — strikes that have ousted, helped oust or decimated multiple Iran-allied “regimes” in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria — it doesn’t seem that far-fetched.

Ousting, or at the very least severely weakening, Iran’s regime also is something Israel can arguably do on its own; it doesn’t necessarily need American help on the offensive end.

Would it be such a bad things to get the hardcores out of control of Iran? It would end quite a bit of funding for terrorism in the Middle East. Most of the other nations in the ME would have no problem with calming Iran down. It’s something that should have been done decades ago, and the West had a chance with the Green Uprising, but, the Obama admin blew that off.

In his many-layered initial remarks about the early Friday strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation against Iran “will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.” He never limited the definition of that threat to Iran’s nuclear program.

That’s because the Israeli government sees Iran’s regime itself, not merely its nuclear and military infrastructure, as the real danger. Given that Iranian leaders, many of them fervent believers in extreme Shia Islamist ideology, have long threatened to annihilate Israel, that’s an unsurprising conclusion.

Well, there it is. A little underwhelming of an explanation. Iran wants Israel destroyed, so, what is the problem with Israel going after Iran? The question is, where does Israel stop? Destroying Iran’s nuclear ambitions is the clear target. Anything after that is a bonus.

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Are PRC Democrats Turning On Gavin Newsom’s Climate Scam Policies?

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 3:23 pm

Let’s not forget, the same Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California supported and voted for this stuff, they just didn’t practice what they forced on all the Comrades in the PRC

Gavin Newsom Faces a Climate Revolt—From Democrats – Former backers of his policies now running away from their consequences

climate cowCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom must be grateful for the ugly divorce between President Trump and Elon Musk. It’s a useful public distraction from a crack-up in his own party over the state’s burdensome climate policies, which are driving energy costs up and jobs out of the state.

Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento experienced a political awakening of sorts after two major refineries recently announced they will shut down. A study last month by a University of Southern California business school professor projected that gasoline prices could rise to more than $8 a gallon because of the constricted supply.

Now the lawmakers who backed the Newsom climate diktats that brought about the refinery shutdowns are up in arms. “We have a crisis on our hands that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators,” Assemblyman David Alvarez huffed at a legislative hearing last month with the governor’s energy regulators.

Mr. Newsom claimed the Legislature needed to give his regulators more power to punish refineries for price-gouging. “I don’t hear today any evidence” of such gouging, Mr. Alvarez said. Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris asked: “If California companies were raking it in, why did we have two refineries announce their intent to close?”

Could it be that these Democrats are getting more than the normal earful from their constituents, especially the monied ones, who are not happy with the results of the policies they used to support?

Assemblyman Mike Gipson mused that increasing fuel imports once the refineries are closed could increase pollution. California Air Resources Board Chairman Liane Randolph concurred. But when asked whether the board considered costs of its regulations, Ms. Randolph demurred: “We don’t analyze a retail cost” of gasoline or “specific costs to specific consumers.”

After the hearing, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains demanded Ms. Randolph’s resignation: “CARB has been given so much power, they were prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks single-handedly. It is outrageous that the director would pursue such policies without even trying to analyze the impact on prices.”

Now she notices. In fairness, she was first elected in 2022, so, she wasn’t in office when CARB, a group of unelected bureaucrats who do not drive EVs, mandated Comrades in the PRC drive EVs. Hilariously, after Trump signed the resolution as passed by the duly elected House and Senate, with many Democrats voting for it

California sues Trump administration for blocking state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars

California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration’s blocking of the state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars.

The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced his office and 10 other states filed this latest lawsuit minutes after President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocked the ban. The lawsuit will be considered by the U.S District Court.

State leaders have said the federal government is violating the law, as California has had the authority for decades to set its own clean air rules.

“It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the resolution. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”

The PRC was given the ability to pass the mandate due to a Biden regime waiver. Should the PRC have the ability to mandate EVs? IMO, yes, as long as it does not involve interstate commerce, which is the bailiwick of Los Federales. But, it does, and, Los Federales have primacy on this issue.

Neither California voters nor California’s state lawmakers voted specifically for the clean air rule that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The governor signed an executive order in 2020 that empowered the state’s unelected California Air Resources Board to set the rules.

So, no one actually voted for this. I wonder what would happen if the Comrades in the PRC were allowed to vote on an initiative, what would they want? How often does a state sue the federal government over what has been passed and signed into law by the POTUS? Further, is Rob driving an EV? How about those in the other states?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on an appeals court ruling Trump can control the National Guard in LA.

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Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Program, NY Times Goes TDS And NDS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Israel has had enough of Iran and their nuclear program, since it was recently announced Iran had enough material to make about 9 (or 11 or 15) bombs

Israel hits the ‘heart’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Natanz facility strike

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that one of Iran’s top nuclear facilities had been hit in Thursday night’s strike against the regime.

“Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs, nine,” Netanyahu said. “In recent months, Iran is taking steps that it has never taken before, steps to weaponize this enriched uranium. And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.”

Hours later, officials confirmed that Iran launched approximately 100 retaliatory drones toward Israeli territory, which the IDF was working to intercept.

The Natanz Nuclear Facility – one of Tehran’s key nuclear sites and which has been flagged by security experts that in coordination with the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to produce 11 nuclear weapons within a month – has been hit in the strikes, though the extent of the damage remains unknown.

Israel targeted all sorts of Iran’s nuclear scientists and top military officials, as well. Trump was warned. And where does Excitable Nicholas Kristof immediately go? Trump and Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

Will Trump Show Restraint in the Middle East?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has bombed Iran in what may lead to yet another war in the Middle East, and the challenge for President Trump will be to protect American troops in the region and to stay out of this mess.

Netanyahu justified his latest military campaign by saying that Iran was a “clear and present danger.” And it’s true that Iran was enriching uranium to worrisome levels. It’s believed to be just weeks from having enough fissile material to make several bombs (although creating bombs and a way to deliver them would take much longer).

But a key reason for Iran’s increasingly dangerous course was the past colossal misjudgments by Netanyahu and Trump in their dealings with Iran. With strong backing from Netanyahu, Trump in 2018 pulled out of the nuclear agreement that President Barack Obama had reached that largely contained Iran’s nuclear program.

This would be the deal that would have allowed Iran to start building nuclear weapons 15 years after signed. So, about now. Kristof has no condemnation for Iran

In the coming hours or days, Iran is likely to respond militarily against Israel; an open question is whether or to what extent it will also target American troops in Iraq, Bahrain or elsewhere in the Middle East. The risk is that we see a cycle of escalation leading to a regional war that no one wants. American troops and embassies will be at risk, and the best way Trump can protect them is to stay out of this fight and try to resurrect a nuclear deal.

Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, warned that Netanyahu had undertaken “a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence,” and that seems right to me. To his credit, Trump has seemed wary of getting into foreign wars, and let’s hope he shows restraint this time instead of wading into a fight with Iran.

Don’t forget, Kristof and the rest of the NY Times wackos have been all in on escalating in Ukraine against Russia. They kept pushing Biden to give Ukraine more and more, and even putting US troops as “peacekeepers” in Ukraine. But, against Iran? Protecting Israel? Nope. The same Iran who funds terrorist groups who kill Americans. I’m sure there will be plenty more pieces Blaming Trump.

And, yes, I do not want a big war in the Middle East. But, I doubt it will take long to bomb Iran to oblivion. It won’t be WWIII. No one else except terrorist groups will join in on Iran’s side.

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