Trump Releases Sensible, Constitutional Abortion Position

By William Teach April 9, 2024 – 10:30 am

This goes hand in hand with what the Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs case: that it is not a federal issue, it’s a 10th Amendment issue

Trump says abortion is up to the states, declines to endorse national limit

Former President Donald Trump on Monday said abortion should be left to the states in the post-Roe era, declining to endorse any national limit on the procedure.

His announcement, shared on Truth Social, is likely to disappoint anti-abortion groups who hoped he would use his bully pulpit to endorse national restrictions on abortion, especially after his campaign floated a 15-week ban earlier this year. Trump instead said that it was “up to the states to do the right thing” on abortion, painting Democrats as “radical” on the issue.

“The states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land,” Trump said. “Many states will be different. Many will have a different number of weeks, or some will [be] more conservative than others, and that’s what they will be. At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people.”

The announcement highlights Trump’s recognition that abortion has dogged Republicans on the campaign trail since the fall of Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago — and his primary goal of winning the 2024 election. He has chided other Republicans for speaking “inaccurately” on abortion, intimating that severe restrictions have cost the GOP winnable elections. On Sunday night and again Monday morning he urged people to “follow their heart” or their religion but encouraged voters to remember the stakes.

Political or not, abortion decisions belong in the states. I know many will disagree with me, but, Congress should not be banning or approving abortion for the nation. While I’d certainly be in favor of European styled laws with bans around 15 weeks, it is not a federal issue (excepting where the US government should not be spending taxpayer money on abortions). Things that are not specifically mentioned as a Congressional duty must be left to states and The People.

Trump’s position has made many upset

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, in a statement to POLITICO reiterated the group’s commitment to “defeat President Biden” and congressional Democrats, but condemned Trump’s decision.

Trump also got into a spat with Lindsay Graham. And

(Politico) In the end, Trump couldn’t get past the feeling that it was a loser with voters. It is a lesson he learned through hard political experience — most importantly in the 2022 elections.

For years, at a gut level, the former president has feared the backlash he might face for taking a hard-line position on abortion. And despite his attempt to fog up the issue with his new, state-based stance, Trump is still likely to pay a price with voters for appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. And his decision not to endorse a ban has exposed deep fissures within his own party. After Graham released a statement Monday in which he said he “respectfully disagree[s]” with Trump’s position, Trump did not let it go, instead accusing Graham and Republicans like him of sinking the GOP.

And then there’s Biden

(Politico) President Joe Biden lashed out at Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that abortion should be left up to the states and warned of consequences should Trump win in November.

“No one trusts Donald Trump,” Biden said, pointing to how the former president made a “political deal” with the anti-abortion right.

The president went on to say that his predecessor’s lack of endorsement for a national ban was an illusion. “If they put one on his desk, he said he’d sign it.”

Biden made his remarks during a high-end fundraiser in Chicago featuring about 50 friends and donors, including Bill Daley, former chief of staff to President Barack Obama.

Blah blah blah. These are the same people who push abortion as contraception, and are happy to make sure that blacks are aborting their babies at higher rates than any other group. Anyhow, Trump’s position may not be the moral position, but, it is the correct Constitution position. I mostly do not get involved in this issue except as a political position, and I agree with Trump.

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Climate Crazy: Sunny Hostin Links Earthquakes, Eclipses, and Cicadas To Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach April 9, 2024 – 7:15 am

When a doomsday cult constantly pushes insane doomsday propaganda you get this

You have to know that a lot of climate cultists were totally agreeing with her

The View’s Sunny Hostin blames eclipse, earthquake and cicadas on ‘climate change’

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin blamed Monday’s solar eclipse, Friday’s earthquake and the expected cicada breeding season on “climate change.”

“All those things together would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on,” she said Monday.

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt across New York and New Jersey on Friday and on Monday the highly anticipated solar eclipse swept across the continental U.S.

Good on The View’s cohosts for shutting this bit of insanity down, but, really, these kinds of thoughts are not outside the norm for Warmists. This is the kind of thinking that has perpetuated via the media, schools, politicians, and “scientists.”

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San Francisco Looking At Way To Make Sure No Grocery Stores Close

By William Teach April 9, 2024 – 7:00 am

So, how does this all work? The uber-Leftists in SF make crime, prosecuting criminals, and safety a low priority, along with allowing poop and drug needles in the streets, so stores are getting ripped off constantly and to a point that they are losing money. Customers and employees are in constant danger. And have to watch where they step. And the solution to fix this?

San Francisco proposal would allow lawsuits over grocery store closures

A San Francisco lawmaker introduced a proposal that would require grocery stores in the city to provide six months of notice before closing a store and to explore a replacement supermarket at the vacated location.

Dean Preston, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, introduced what he calls the Grocery Protection Act – which is based on a proposal the board approved in 1984 that was vetoed by then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.

Preston’s proposal would require grocery store owners to provide six months written notice to the Board of Supervisors as well as the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD). The store would also be required to post notices at all entries and exits as a means of informing customers and the general public. The rule wouldn’t preclude closures due to a store being unprofitable.

“It was a good idea in 1984, and it’s an even better idea now,” Preston said in a press release. “Our communities need notice, an opportunity to be heard, and a transition plan when major neighborhood grocery stores plan to shut their doors. Meeting the food security needs of our seniors and families cannot be left to unilateral backroom decisions by massive corporate entities.”

The city needs to make the city safe, and, if residents want their grocery stores they need to vote appropriately and demand the city of San Francisco do it’s job. So far, the citizens whining about losing grocery stores have only themselves to blame. Some are closing due to safety and money, some have closed because they had a better offer for the property. If citizens do not like them closing, well, they can buy the store themselves, right?

The bill would also require that grocery stores “meet and work in good faith with neighborhood residents” and the OEWD to find a workable solution to keep groceries available at the location. Those solutions could include identifying strategies and resources to allow the store to remain open, helping residents organize and open a cooperative and identifying another grocery store operator to take over and continue grocery sales at the location.

So, the people who have zero capital invested in the business would get a say? Several grocery stores have closed in SF over the past few years, and lots of little stores have closed. The ones who have stayed open have all sorts of security measures, such as putting items behind locks. SF must be hearing talk that many stores are planning to close. If they do not like this, let the city purchase them and try and run them.

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Portuguese Youts, Swiss Boomers Await Climate (scam) Rulings Or Something

By William Teach April 8, 2024 – 3:59 pm

So, what we have here is a bunch of youts who have basically asked courts to restrict their freedom and life choices while increasing their cost of living, and a bunch of boomers who have already had their good lives looking to restrict that of the youts

Portuguese Gen Z and Swiss boomers await pivotal court rulings on climate change

Europe’s top human rights court will rule on a trio of climate change cases this week brought by individuals from a range of ages and backgrounds across the continent, potentially prompting governments to rethink their efforts to reduce emissions.

The most prominent case is led by Portuguese nationals, aged from the early teens to mid-20s, bringing the claim that the 32 governments, including 27 EU member states plus Norway, Turkey, the UK and Switzerland, failed to adequately cut the emissions behind global warming.

The court will on Tuesday also decide on a case brought by a group of senior Swiss women, mainly in their 70s, who claim that Switzerland’s inadequate climate policies violate their right to life and health, arguing their age and gender put them in a high-risk category for temperature-related mortality.

The third case involves a former French mayor of the Grande-Synthe municipality, a low-lying north-eastern coastal area vulnerable to sea rise.

Each case has argued before the Grand Chamber in Strasbourg that the governments involved are breaching human rights by failing to protect the applicants against the damage from climate change.

The Portuguese youth said that their right to life, privacy and family, and to be free from mental or physical torture, under the European Convention of Human Rights, had been infringed by multiple years of extreme heat and wildfires in their country. They said they had not been able to attend school or leave their homes, and struggled to sleep as temperatures topped 40C.

As usual, the defense, and the judges, should be asking questions like “are you practicing what you preach? Have you ended your own use of fossil fuels?” to the plaintiffs. Oh, and perhaps “do you understand that if I rule in your favor it will restrict your own lives?”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 8, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a fast rising sea which spells doom, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on islands growing, not shrinking.

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Islamists Chant “Death To America”. In Dearborn, Michigan

By William Teach April 8, 2024 – 10:30 am

When you import the 3rd world practicing an antiquated, repressive, violent version of Islam, don’t be surprised when you get it

Every single person there and chanting should be rounded up and deported. Any who were given permanent resident or naturalized citizen status should have that revoked (that is perfectly legal) and deported. Why do we keep letting in and bringing in these people who’s values are incompatible with American mores? Instead, the government goes after little old ladies who wandered around the Capitol Building, causing no damage, hurting no one, and prosecuting them like they stabbed people.

Unsurprisingly, none of the Democrat dominated Credentialed Media outlets bothered to cover this.

Michigan protesters yell ‘Death to America’ in raging rally held in Rashida Tlaib’s district

Demonstrators at an event held for International Quds Day shouted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in Dearborn, Michigan, this weekend.

International Quds Day is held to support Gaza and oppose Israel’s “occupation” of areas considered by the day’s demonstrators to be Palestinian territories. Dearborn, part of Michigan’s 12th Congressional District, is represented in Congress by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the only Palestinian American member of Congress and likely also the staunchest supporter of Gaza among both chambers.

“Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America,” Tarek Bazzi, a local activist, said on Friday in a video shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The video appears to cut for a moment before chants of “Death to America” ring out in the background.

“It’s not Genocide Joe that has to go, it is the entire system that has to go,” Bazzi added, condemning the United States for its support of Israel during the Jewish state’s military campaign in Gaza. “So when these fools ask us if Israel has the right to exist, the chant ‘Death to Israel’ has become the most logical chant shouted across the world today.”

Get these Islamic extremists out of America. Of course, they mostly vote Democrat, so, Democrats would rather keep voters around who hate America and want to destroy it.

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Good News: Biden Regime Running Stealth Geoengineering Program In San Francisco

By William Teach April 8, 2024 – 7:00 am

What could go wrong?

I’m surprised Scientific American bothered to cover this, as the organization is 100% a part of the climate cult

The nation’s first outdoor test to limit global warming by increasing cloud cover launched Tuesday from the deck of a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay.

The experiment, which organizers didn’t widely announce to avoid public backlash, marks the acceleration of a contentious field of research known as solar radiation modification. The concept involves shooting substances such as aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight away from the Earth.

The move led by researchers at the University of Washington has renewed questions about how to effectively and ethically study promising climate technologies that could also harm communities and ecosystems in unexpected ways. The experiment is spraying microscopic salt particles into the air, and the secrecy surrounding its timing caught even some experts off guard.

If this goes badly, who will be held liable? Who gets fired?

The study plan also made no mention of its potential ecological impacts, a key consideration recommended by a 2022 Biden administration marine cloud brightening workshop. That’s a significant oversight, according to Greg Goldsmith, the associate dean for research and development at Chapman University.

“History has shown us that when we insert ourselves into modification of nature, there are always very serious unintended consequences,” said Goldsmith, who studies the implications of climate change for plant structure and function. “And therefore, it would be prudent to listen to what history has shown and look for consequences.”

If this was so safe they would have announced it publicly, instead of trying to hide it. Further courts have said “don’t do this,” and the US has been part of an agreement to not do this kind of thing since 2010. How much “carbon pollution” can be eliminated by ending the fossil fuels usage of Biden, Kamala, and all the Congressional and State elected Democrats who believe in this scam?

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PRC Looks To Pass “Right To Disconnect” Law For Workers

By William Teach April 8, 2024 – 6:45 am

On the heels of their $20 minimum wage for restaurants law, which is seeing businesses raise prices, cut employees, and even close, the People’s Republik Of California is going to try something else to mess with the economy

California could become first state to give workers a ‘right to disconnect’

unintended consequencesCalifornia could become the first state in the country to give workers a “right to disconnect” under a new bill.

Assembly Bill 2751, introduced by Asm. Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) on Monday, would guarantee workers in the Golden State the ability to have uninterrupted personal and family time by giving them the ability to disengage from emails, texts and calls during non-work hours.

“Work has changed drastically compared to what it was just 10 years ago. Smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” Haney said in a statement. “Workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they’re not being paid for 24 hours of work.”

With the proposed changes, both public and private employers would be required to establish a right-to-disconnect policy for their workplace, permitting them to ignore communications when they are off the clock.

What’s that saying, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions”? Any non-exempt employees, those who typically get paid hourly, are required to be paid under the Fair Labor Standards Act if they are contacted when they are off the clock. If this happens, what could happen? Perhaps some are converted to salaried, making them exempt. Perhaps companies look for workers who are interested in extra work. The law would allow employees to be contacted for emergencies and scheduling, which are the primary reasons employees are contacted when not at work.

This type of law seems like a good intention, but, it can cause unnecessary confusion, and could drive more businesses out of California. They are overly broad, and do not allow for employee choice. And it’s just the heavy hand of government controlling even more of the economy.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 7, 2024 – 1:36 pm

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is No Tricks Zone, with a post on scientists predicting the 2023 El Nino after it happened.

Still cleaning out the folder.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 7, 2024 – 9:35 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers are doing pretty well. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal notes the Truth could set Woke professors free
  2. Shot In the Dark says the world has a 1938 feel
  3. Powerline covers Uber vs the lunatics running Minneapolis
  4. Pacific Pundit discusses the Woke SF Giants playing the black national anthem
  5. Outside The Beltway wonders why prices are up if inflation is down
  6. Noisy Room notes that the Keystone Cops are running America
  7. neo-neocon features more info on the World Community Kitchen killings
  8. Moonbattery shows people being red-pilled by a punch to the face
  9. Legal Insurrection covers the histrionics and panic in the news
  10. IOTW Report has Squad member Jamal Bowman trailing badly
  11. House Of Eratosthenes covers men coming out on top
  12. Geller Report notes a great grandma convicted for walking around the Capitol for 10 minutes
  13. Common Cents Blog wonders if California is going Red
  14. Cold Fury notes stupidity in those running for office
  15. And last, but, not least, Watts Up With That? features the lunatics blaming ‘climate change’ for the Mongolian deep freeze

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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