Quick Reaction: Jurassic World Rebirth

By William Teach July 10, 2025 – 6:02 pm

I was given a $40 gift card for Regal theaters for my birthday, and, they didn’t have 28 Years Later at a convenient time, so I went to see Jurassic World Rebirth, went for the 3D version, which has nice reclining seats. Would I pay $17.95 for a 230pm showing (which had 25 minutes of ads and previews*)? Probably not. Seems a bit excessive, and might be why a lot of people bow out of going to the theater these days.

But, it was free to me, and, if you are going to see it, 3D is well worth it. The action wasn’t excessively crazy, and action was limited and shot in a way where 3D works. If you’ve ever seen the Brendan Frasier Journey To The Center Of The Earth, that worked. Beautiful scenery that makes 3D pop. If you saw The Avengers 3D, that didn’t: way too much happening, really didn’t have the right scenery.

Anyway, at a shade over 2 hours, you get your money’s worth and enjoyment. This pretty much straight adventure: the characters are meant to do something by going to an island with the dinosaurs. They go, things happen, more things happen. There’s dinos, cute, awe inspiring, and scary. The scenery is gorgeous. Breathtaking. Where they say the location is makes zero sense. Islands in the Atlantic/Caribbean do not look like that. If you know your geography you know that it had to be somewhere like Thailand, because that’s where it was filmed. That’s Ok, the scenery in 3D was fantastic.

The plot? Well, that’s pretty much it. Oh, and evil pharmaceutical company and employee (but, without trying to give anything away, are they? We don’t know if they are going to create what they say they are going to create just for the rich and powerful. Maybe they were just going to develop it and sell it for $10 a pop to everyone. They’d make a sh*tton of money doing that, too). There is no virtue signaling. No Woke. For liberals, no Conservative stuff. Nothing that will make you go “sigh”. It’s just a straight forward adventure.

So, is it a great movie? No. Is it a fun and watchable movie? One that you will finish watching and say “I’m glad I watched that”? Yes. There’s not a heck of a lot of depth to the characters, who are all great actors/actresses, but, there was good chemistry. The story just moves along without side quests and introspection. Roger Ebert ends his review with

And there are some sporadic joys here in the clever sight gags, the sleight of hand, the bait and switch. These moments remind us of the mindless summertime excitement the “Jurassic” movies have long provided, albeit with diminishing returns. But that giant footprint just isn’t as imposing as it used to be.

Perhaps not as big a footprint, but, mindless summertime excitement movies are great, right? Commando. Predator. Jaws. The Goonies. Back To The Future. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (was looking at summer 1985). Just fun movies.

I’m good with mindless summer entertainment. So, for watchability, I’ll give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Oh, and while I’m at it, Final Destination: Bloodlines

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Here We Go Again: Wacko Judge Puts Nationwide Injunction On Birthright Citizenship

By William Teach July 10, 2025 – 3:00 pm

The moonbats won’t stop their moonbattery

Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship

A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire.

Ruling from the bench, Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those deprived of citizenship” and issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely blocking Trump’s Day One order from being enforced against any baby born after February 20.

Except, how does one sue when no one subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. has been affected? No one has lost their citizenship? This judge is a George W. Bush appointee, and Bush was a fan of mass amnesty.

In his ruling earlier this year, Laplante said Trump’s order “contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the century-old untouched precedent that interprets it.”

Several other judges similarly ruled that Trump’s order was unconstitutional, but their injunctions applied nationwide and prompted the administration to mount the series of appeals that eventually landed before the Supreme Court.

Except, the 14th was meant to turn all slaves born in the US into citizens.

In this case, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, those proposed representatives had included a Honduran asylum-seeker – referred to in court papers as “Barbara” and who is living in New Hampshire and expecting a baby in October – and a Brazilian man – referred to as “Mark” – who is attempting to get lawful permanent status. Mark’s wife, who is not in the US lawfully, gave birth in March.

The 14th clearly states “subject to the jurisdiction of”, and all associated are not subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S., but, their home countries. The real question here, as I’ve noted many times, is does Trump have the authority to end birthright citizenship for those subject to foreign jurisdictions per laws passed by the Congress, or, is this something that Congress must pass? Again, Congress has already passed laws that members of a foreign diplomatic mission are ineligible for birthright citizenship, which is the way most nations handle it. So, BRC is not absolute, but, determined by law.

Several conservatives, including Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, warned against courts using class-action litigation to essentially supplant the kind of nationwide injunction the court had just shot down.

“Lax enforcement of the requirements” for certifying a class, Alito wrote in an opinion joined by Thomas, “would create a potentially significant loophole to today’s decision.”

Federal courts, he added, “should thus be vigilant against such potential abuses of these tools.”

Whether Laplante’s decision is an “abuse” or exactly what the Supreme Court had in mind will likely wind up back before the justices in short order.

Let’s see how quick this ends up at the SC, and, if the Trump admin has the requisite authority per previously passed laws to do this.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 10, 2025 – 1:27 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Mamdani’s mosque calling for the end of Israel.

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Sigh: Pope Leo Pauses Vacation To Whine About Climate Doom

By William Teach July 10, 2025 – 7:15 am

Vacation? Seriously? He was just made Pope on May 8th of this year, and he’s already taking vacation?

Pope Leo interrupts vacation to appeal for action on climate change

Pope Leo interrupted a two-week vacation on Wednesday to celebrate a special Mass exhorting Catholics to exercise care for creation, in the Vatican’s second major appeal in a week for the world to address global climate change.

“Today … we live in a world that is burning, both because of global warming and armed conflicts,” the pontiff said in a small outdoor ceremony in Castel Gandolfo, an Italian hill town about an hour’s drive from Rome where he is spending his holiday.

“We have to pray for the conversion of many people … who still do not see the urgency of caring for our common home,” said the pontiff.

That doesn’t sound too cultish, does it? And might interfere with that whole “no Gods before me”? And worshiping idols?

The new pope said the 1.4-billion-member Church was committed to speaking about the issue, “even when it requires the courage to oppose the destructive power of the princes of this world”.

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Sec State Rubio Sanctions Wacko America And Israel Hating UN Official

By William Teach July 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

Rubio should sanction most UN officials

Watchdog backs Rubio’s sanctions on UN official over ‘shameful efforts’ targeting US, Israel

The Biden-era kid gloves are off.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the United States is imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the controversial United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Palestinian rights.

“Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated,” Rubio posted on X. “We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.”

Albanese has pushed to haul U.S. and Israeli officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC), drawing outrage from lawmakers, diplomats, and human rights advocates alike.

In multiple reports and public comments since her 2022 appointment, Albanese has accused Israel of apartheid and dismissed Hamas violence as “not surprising.” According to her July 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claimed the U.S. may be ‘liable for the international crime of aggression’ for President Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.

Us usual, she has nothing bad to say about Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, or any Islamic extremists.

Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, weighed in with a statement to Fox News Digital, writing: “This is a bold and courageous move by Secretary Rubio. No UN official — in this case, a purported official, as her reappointment was illegal — has ever been sanctioned before in history. Then again, no UN official has ever been condemned for Holocaust distortion and antisemitism by France, Germany, Canada, and both Democratic and Republican US administrations.”

“She will never again spread her poison on American campuses or enter the country. Justice is served. Good triumphs over evil.”

Good

(State Department) She has recently escalated this effort by writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including major American companies across finance, technology, defense, energy, and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives. We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty.

The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare, to check and prevent illegitimate ICC overreach and abuse of power, and to protect our sovereignty and that of our allies.

Albanese is being designated pursuant to Section 1(a)(ii)(A) of Executive Order (E.O.) 14203.

Rubio doesn’t really say what the penalties are, but, most likely, per the EO, she will only be allowed to fly into a NYC airport and go right to UN property. She won’t be allowed to travel around the US at all. If she happens to own property, it can be seized. She may do no commerce with the US. Good riddance.

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Your Suggested Fault: Excess Deaths In Europe From Heat Wave

By William Teach July 9, 2025 – 3:45 pm

Research suggests that the universe circles the Earth, you know.

Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave

Sherman Potter Bull CookiesDays after an intense, record-breaking heat wave sweltered wide swaths of Europe, a group of scientists released a rapid analysis estimating the extent to which climate change might have amplified the heat wave’s death toll.

The World Weather Attribution study was the first of its kind to produce a rapid assessment of deaths linked to climate change from a heat wave, researchers said. They estimate that the influence of climate change may have tripled the death toll.

Records of actual observed deaths during this heat wave will not be available for months, so researchers used historical temperature data and established mortality trends to approximate the number of excess deaths expected to have occurred because of heat. The scientists examined 12 European cities, focusing on the hottest five-day stretch between June 23 and July 2 for each.

The heatish wave just ended in what is called “summer”, and they already have a study that suggests and approximates and estimates? That’s not science, that’s politics.

The researchers used historical temperature data to determine how intense the heat wave would have been in those cities without global warming, and estimated how many deaths would have been expected to occur in that scenario. They used that information to determine how many additional deaths were caused by climate change.

The analysis found that in the 12 cities, 1,500 of 2,300 estimated heat deaths could be connected to climate change, compared with a toll of roughly 770 without its effects. The researchers noted that the cities in the study represented only a sliver of the total number of excess deaths believed to have occurred throughout the rest of Europe.

Even if true, that in no way proves anthropogenic causation, just that it is, again, a typical Holocene warm period which also has higher temps in cities from UHI and land use. What about the huge European heatwave of 1757, during the Little Ice Age? Was that from fossil fuels? How about the 1540 heatwave and drought? They were pretty darned hot.

In turning the analysis around quickly, the researchers said they hoped to draw the attention of the public and policymakers to the dangers of extreme heat.
“When people are experiencing the heat waves, and in the immediate aftermath, is when people talk about it — when people connect their experience with the scientific evidence we can provide,”

Dr. Otto said. “If we sort of wade through peer review, and wait a year, then that experience is long gone.”

Then this is not science, it’s political advocacy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 9, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is the need to rescue people from Bad Weather rough seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post saying to disbar Judge Talwani for multiple things, including defying the Supreme Court.

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Bummer: Miami Herald Uncovers Giant Bugs And Heat At Alligator Alcatraz

By William Teach July 9, 2025 – 10:30 am

Is the Miami Herald familiar with Florida? It’ll be more fun when the pythons and iguanas show up. But, there’s more fun with the article as there is absolutely no first-hand knowledge

Giant bugs, heat and a hospital visit: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days

The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. A hospital visit. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less confidential calls with attorneys.

The stories, relayed to the Miami Herald by the wives of detainees housed in Florida’s makeshift detention center for migrants in the Everglades, offer the first snapshots of the conditions inside the newly opened facility, which began accepting detainees on July 2. They reveal detainees who are frightened not just about being deported, but also about how they are being treated by the government, which is saying little about what is taking place inside.

So, this is all about what wives of illegal aliens, a goodly chunk of whom are felonious criminals, saying something. Nothing is verified. No first-hand knowledge. Just hearsay from people with an axe to grind because their husbands are in federal custody for criminal and civil violations. This is modern journalism, at least when it’s meant to get Republicans. They should have held a poll to see if Americans actually care.

“Why would we treat a human like that?” a woman whose Venezuelan husband is housed in Alligator Alcatraz told the Miami Herald. “They come here for a better life. I don’t understand. We are supposed to be the greatest nation under God, but we forget that we’re under God.”

They violated federal law by crossing the border, then committed serious crimes. There could be some who were flown in by the Biden regime, then committed serious crimes. They can all avoid being at Alligator Alcatraz by self deporting.

The men, whose identities the Herald is withholding due to their families’ fears that the government will punish them for speaking out, described harsh conditions at the detention center, pitched as a new model for holding migrants ensnared in President Donald Trump’s war on illegal immigration. The state, which intends to eventually house 3,000 or more people at the site, has said the detainees’ descriptions provided to the Herald are “untrue.”

“Bugs and environmental factors are minimized in the facility, restraints are only utilized during transport outside of the detention centers, and visitation arrangements can be made upon request,” said Stephanie Hartman, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Emergency Management, the state agency overseeing the facility’s operations. “All plumbing systems are working and operational.”

Did the three article writers request they be allowed to visit the site prior to writing the article? Nothing in the article says they did.

The women told the Herald that their husbands were unable to shower for several days after arriving. On Sunday, two women said their husbands complained that initially there was no water to flush toilets. All three detainees told their wives that the bugs were getting inside, one of them saying that grasshoppers the size of his hand were springing into the tent and that the biggest mosquitoes he had ever seen were flying over them in their cells.

Um, Florida. This is Florida. People have these in their homes and places of work.

A fourth detainee, Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy Izquierdo told CBS News and other local media outlets that the lights are on inside the facility 24 hours a day, a detail that was corroborated by a Venezuelan detainee’s wife interviewed by the Herald. Izquierdo was transferred to the Everglades site after landing in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correction Center on assault and battery charges. He has pleaded not guilty.

No mention that he was arrested for aggravated assault with a firearm and simple assault. He could simply request he be allowed to leave the country. Anyhow, does the Miami Herald realize people in prison face tough conditions, and no one really cares because they are criminals?

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Rich Folks Worried About Global Boiling Driven Storms Build Better Homes In Path Of Storms

By William Teach July 9, 2025 – 7:00 am

If these people were truly worried about the Doom from coastal storms they wouldn’t, you know, build homes at the coast, right?

Coastal homeowners turn to climate-resilient designs to combat worsening hurricane seasons

Forecasters are warning the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which started June 1, could be an above-average year, potentially producing up to 19 named storms and 5 major hurricanes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As storms grow stronger and more frequent, a growing number of homeowners along the East and Gulf Coast are taking a proactive approach — building smarter, more resilient homes designed to withstand the forces of nature.

They do this every year, fearmongering about doom, despite every year being a threat from tropical systems. Some years will be bad, some won’t. It’s dealer’s choice. This truly highlights how much this has all be politicized.

In Crystal River, Florida, Gene Tener’s home stands out in more ways than one. Unlike most others in the area, his home is round — a design that does more than just offer panoramic views.

He said it initially drew curiosity from neighbors, but the house has already endured six hurricanes in five years, including Hurricane Helene, a Category 4 storm that struck the Gulf Coast in September. Research from Climate Central shows that human-caused climate change is warming ocean waters, which is fueling stronger and more intense hurricanes. Stronger storms often lead to more damage and higher insurance rates.

It’s pretty much not a bad idea to build more resistant homes, like they try and do in Tornado Alley. But, now they want to do it because of climate doom. I’m not going to get into all the stronger hurricanes, more hurricanes, fewer but stronger, etc yet again.

The aerodynamic shape of Tener’s home is built to reduce wind pressure by 30%. Inside, trusses fan out like spokes on a bicycle wheel, distributing storm forces to help keep the roof in place.

“You worry about the wind blowing off the roof,” Tener said of the main concerns for any home during a hurricane. “You worry about the rain. And you worry about flooding.”

Anchored deep into the ground, the home also includes flood vents to relieve water pressure and protect the foundation. With these features, the house is rated to withstand 190-mile-per-hour winds — a very strong Category 5 hurricane.

What they don’t say is how much it is. I guess this is for the rich folks who have the luxury of being climate cult members. But, realistically, Crystal River, Florida, is barely above sea level. You have to go at least 10 miles west before they land starts jumping higher. If you’re so worried you do not build there.

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Fired USAID Leftists Plotting To Stop Trump Or Something

By William Teach July 9, 2025 – 6:45 am

It would be a whole lot smarter and a better use of their time if they looked for jobs, right?

From the link

Some of the democracy-building experts President Donald Trump fired this year from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department are now reapplying the skills and knowledge they built up over decades to undermine Trump’s power.

For years, these officials were stationed across the globe actively supporting opposition movements in autocratic nations. Now they’ve got time, a network of former colleagues and a growing sense of moral indignation.

“Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one,” said a currently employed federal official, who spoke to NOTUS on condition of anonymity. “They were so quick to disband AID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions. But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population. If you kept our offices going and had us play solitaire in the office, it might have been safer to keep your regime.”

The former officials tell NOTUS they’re holding workshops on a tactic called “noncooperation.” They’re building a network of government workers willing to engage in even minor acts of rebellion in the office. And they’re planting the seeds of what they hope could become a nationwide general strike.

Oh, good, more workers Trump can fire. And the Supreme Court just ruled that the Trump admin, can, in fact, fire and reorganize federal Executive Branch agencies. They should start working on their resumes.

“Widespread practice of simple sabotage will harass and demoralize enemy administrators and police,” it says. “The saboteur may have to reverse his thinking… where he formerly thought of keeping his tools sharp, he should now let them grow dull; surfaces that formerly were lubricated now should be sanded; normally diligent, he should now be lazy and careless.”

Hmm, looking to be prosecuted, too!

“Getting people to understand that it’s part of a process is the training,” she told NOTUS. “It feels silly. ‘Why are we going to get ice cream?’ You’re building up that muscle and that bravery, and you’re building up your numbers. Today it starts with four, but tomorrow it’s 10. We’re helping them understand that is the organizing, and that is the process to get to a massive strike.”

Without skipping a beat, several pointed to “Star Wars” and said the show “Andor” is nothing short of a manual.

“Fascism is not creative,” said one former government expert in conflict. “There’s only so many ways to do it. That’s why it’s almost cliché to the point where we ask, ‘What are we, Darth Vader? The Empire? The Nazis?’ The comparisons draw ridicule because people who don’t know enough about it don’t realize there aren’t too many ways to do it. So, the tactics to counter them will still work, and there’s way more ways to be creative.”

These are very silly people. Ice cream breaks and Star Wars watch parties.

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