…is horrible heatsnow because Other People drive fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Grist, with a post on the promise and perils of Hawaii’s renewable energy revolution (yeah, I know Grist is a Warmist site, and will probably be upset with the link, but, it is an interesting article. If there is one state that needs renewables, as long as they can kept clean, it’s Hawaii.)
It’s snow week.
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking, and the second half of the NHL season is almost here. This pinup is by Edward Runci, with a wee bit of help.
Can you believe this is the 1,000th Patriotic Pinup post? Wild
What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
What could have possibly precipitated this change in illegal alien behavior?
Large majority of illegal border crossings shift to Arizona and California, pivoting away from Texas
A large majority of illegal crossings at the southern border are now happening in Arizona and California, shifting away from Texas counties.
Sources with U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Fox News that over the last week of January, Border Patrol apprehended 32,809 illegal immigrants.
Per CBP sources, 23,576 of them – 71.8% – were in Arizona and California. Notably, the numbers in Texas’ Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, have fallen off a cliff. In December, the sector saw days of 3,000-4,000 illegal crossings per day. Over the last week, it has averaged around just 200.
The shift could be attributed to two reasons.
Is it because of the food in California and Arizona? Perhaps they prefer the climates? Maybe the Grand Canyon and Yosemite?
Texas has locked things down on their side of the border, and Mexico has increased enforcement against migrants arriving in the Mexican state of Coahuila following Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Mexico in December.
Mexico is now suddenly stopping migrants from boarding trains, and is removing migrants from their northern border down to their southern border following that meeting.
And the migrants who do cross there now find a very unwelcoming posture from the state of Texas with legions of soldiers, troopers and razor wire, as well as the threat of arrest. It is unknown what the U.S. offered Mexico in return for this cooperation.
Weird. It’s almost like deterrence works. Like telling illegals “don’t come here” and blocking them makes them change what they’re doing. Now, imagine doing this from Texas through California. And telling any other illegals that if they come by boat or plane anywhere else they will be sent packing and we’ll take any of their assets to pay for it. That they are not getting healthcare, money, housing, food, education, or anything else.
Read: Weird: Illegals Shift Crossing From Texas To California And Arizona »
Sigh. This again? I wonder if the NY Times consulted with all the rich folks, like Barack Obama and Al Gore, who’ve purchased homes in low lying coastal areas, and seem to be in no hurry to sell them
Coastal Cities Brace for Climate Change
Over the past few weeks, flooding from storms has battered cities in the South and the East Coast, from Louisiana to New Jersey. Overlapping atmospheric rivers over the West Coast have brought heavy rains that are likely to come back in the next few days.
So far this week, Californians have not seen the kinds of weather-generated disasters that struck last winter, with flooding in Ventura County in December and in San Diego in January, my colleague Jill Cowan reports.
Storms are part of the natural cycle that replenishes the water supplies that several states will rely on during the drier months to come, Judson Jones, The Times’s meteorologist, told me.
Buuuuuuut, cult
“The problem comes when there’s too much at one time,” he said.
Climate change makes that a lot more likely. Warmer air holds more moisture, which means storms in many parts of the world are getting wetter and more intense, as my colleague Ray Zhong explained during deluges last year.
Coastal areas are especially vulnerable to climate change, not just because of storms and floods, but from rising seas and erosion. These factors put a tenth of the world’s population, the 896 million people who live near the oceans, at risk. That includes one-fifth of Americans.
And t’s all your fault. But, we can fix this with lots and lots of taxpayer money
The good news is that there is a lot we can do. Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank that promotes environmental policies for coastal cities, has designed a framework that lays out dozens of solutions that governments and communities can implement.
See? And lots and lots of “legislative and regulatory options”, as that link shows. All for a mostly mythical problem. The natural part would be around simply because warm periods happen. If the anthropogenic part, and, heck, the natural part, were so concerning you wouldn’t have so many rich people building/buying homes in low lying areas.
…is a river turned muddy from Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Hot Air, with a post on CNN being stunned over illegal alien crime in NY vs Florida.
Read: If All You See… »
Well, give him credit for allowing the strikes. There are probably a lot of people who lost money in the betting pools that there would be no retaliatory strikes
US hits hard at militias in Iraq and Syria, retaliating for fatal drone attack
The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.
The massive barrage of strikes hit more than 85 targets at seven locations, including command and control headquarters, intelligence centers, rockets and missiles, drone and ammunition storage sites and other facilities that were connected to the militias or the IRGC’s Quds Force, the Guard’s expeditionary unit that handles Tehran’s relationship with and arming of regional militias. And President Joe Biden made it clear in a statement that there will be more to come.
The U.S. strikes appeared to stop short of directly targeting Iran or senior leaders of the Revolutionary Guard Quds Force within its borders, as the U.S. tries to prevent the conflict from escalating even further. Iran has denied it was behind the Jordan attack.
It was unclear what the impact will be of the strikes. Days of U.S. warnings may have sent militia members scattering into hiding. With multiple groups operating at various locations in several countries, a knockout blow is unlikely.
And therein lies the issue: did the strikes hit anything of consequence and did they kill the Iranian backed terrorists, or, did they amscray with their weapons? And, really, if Iran wants to get frisky the U.S. needs to strike them back directly. The only thing they know is Islamic extremism and nations pushing their power. And the U.S. can do way more damage to Iran then then go do back.
“Our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing,” Biden warned, adding, “let all those who might seek to do us harm know this: If you harm an American, we will respond.” He and other top U.S. leaders had been saying for days that any American response wouldn’t be just one hit but a “tiered response” over time.
Of course, he did this while taking an early weekend, spending time in Delaware again since Thursday, then heading off to Los Angeles today.
Double of course, the naysayers who are upset that Biden used the military to strike back are Concerned
Biden’s retaliatory strikes in Middle East come with significant political risk: Experts
With U.S. retaliatory strikes underway Friday after three American troops were killed in a drone attack by an Iran-backed militant group, President Joe Biden faces a turning point in the Middle East conflict that carries significant risks of escalation and heavy election-year political consequences.
Yeah, well, if Iran doesn’t want some they shouldn’t start some. Now it’s time to wait for Biden’s wacko base, including the crazies like those in The Squad, to decry the airstrikes as they protect Iran, Islamic terrorists, and all those who hate Israel and Jews.
But, I will give Biden credit for ordering the large scale airstrikes.
Read: Biden Finally Orders Strikes On Iran Backed Terrorist Groups »
It’s not full on
but, it’s close! Because cults never give up on ideas to scare people. The subhead tries to soften the wackadoodleness of the headline
What is winter without snow? Our children are finding out.
This generation won’t remember winter the way their parents doWhen Celerah Hewes remembers the winters of her childhood, growing up in Albuquerque in the ’80s and ’90s, she recalls at least one or two significant snowfalls every season. She can still picture pulling back a curtain to see the world blanketed in white, then racing outside to spend a day building snow forts with neighborhood kids, or heading to the foothills of the Sandia Mountains to go sledding. She remembers those days as free, untethered from the rhythm and routine of daily life.
Hewes’s 11-year-old daughter, Evelyn, is also growing up in Albuquerque, but her experience of winter is very different from her mother’s. The last big snow came when Evelyn was just 2 years old — “too small to take advantage of it,” Hewes says. Since then, there have been only occasional dustings, an inch or two perhaps; when Evelyn flops to the ground to make a snow angel, her wing-prints reach the wet earth below. “She’ll bundle up and go outside in almost no snow, and she’ll try so hard to play, and come back muddy and disappointed,” Hewes says, “and that’s heartbreaking.” A few years ago, Evelyn asked for a sled for Christmas. It has never been used.
Well, that’s rather inconvenient
Snow began piling up in the Sangre de Cristo Mts this morning. Here's a current look at Bobcat Pass east of Red River. Expect even heavier snow tonight and Saturday with deteriorating travel conditions #nmwx pic.twitter.com/D0Cbdmf5ci
— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) February 2, 2024
Anyhow
This past December saw snow at a record low across the country. Last month, a new study confirmed that climate change has altered snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere, bringing certain parts of the United States closer to a “snow loss cliff,” at which point snow loss will only accelerate. In the D.C. region, where I grew up and am now raising my children, a recent January snowfall marked the end of a nearly two-year-long snow drought; a few weeks before the December holidays, I had folded last year’s snow pants — never worn, already outgrown — and put them in a pile to give away
The thing is, this is what should be expected during a Holocene warm period. Of course, the same people will also blame all the snow in January on ‘climate change’.
Read: Washington Post: Kids Won’t Know Snow The Way Their Parents Did »
Well, gee willikers, I wonder why the Sanctuary City Of New York could do with $53 million to help the legal residents of the city? Perhaps hire a lot more police to reduce crime? Do better with sanitation? Work on the rat problem? Feed and house the homeless?
NYC launches $53M program to hand out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will soon start handing out pre-paid credit cards to migrant families being put up in Big Apple hotels, The Post has learned.
The $53 million pilot program, run by the New Jersey company Mobility Capital Finance, will provide asylum seekers arriving at the Roosevelt Hotel with the city cash to help them buy food, according to city records.
It’ll start with a group of 500 migrant families in short-term hotel stays and will replace the current food service offered there, according to City Hall.
The cards can only be used at bodegas, grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores — and migrants must sign an affidavit swearing they will only spend the funds on food and baby supplies or they will be kicked out of the program.
How many of them have babies, and how many are young, single, military age men?
The amount on each card will vary depending on the size of the family and whether any income is coming in, according to the details of the contract. A family of four, for instance, could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which comes out to $35 per day for food. Cards will get refilled every 28 days.
I hope the low income residents of SCNY do not complain, because they surely voted for Democrats who enable all the illegal aliens. Otherwise they might have received the money themselves.
“Not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing, but the pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month, or more than $7.2 million annually,” Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak said.
First, it should not save them anything, because they shouldn’t have to deal with feeding illegal aliens. But, hey, irony is a bitch. Second, why culturally relevant food? Do they not want to learn what it is to be an American? Or, do they just want to take advantage of America and never assimilate?
How is illegally downloading books, movies, and music going to help?
“Torrents, not trickles”: UN climate chief’s vision for COP29
The UN’s next climate summit will be an “enabling COP,” focused on drastically scaling up climate finance and making bold emissions reduction commitments.
Why it matters: Top UN climate official Simon Stiell delivered a speech this morning in Baku, Azerbaijan, envisioning what will happen if the world meets the climate challenge and avoids devastating impacts of climate change.
Zoom in: The speech, delivered at ADA University, counters perceptions in some parts of the climate community that Baku will involve lower stakes and more technical work than COP28 did in Dubai.
Stiell instead makes clear how much work needs to be done to finance the transition away from fossil fuels to reliable forms of renewables in both industrialized and developing nations.
“Without far more finance, 2023’s climate wins will quickly fizzle away into more empty promises,” Stiell said. “We need torrents, not trickles, of climate finance.”
The money message was delivered loudly in Dubai, but countries like the U.S. committed little in the way of public financing, given the political realities in Congress.
Well, why not tell every Warmist to donate 30% of their yearly income and 50% of their net worth? We can start with all the rich folks telling us this who have massive carbon footprints. It’s just so wild that this always comes down to taking money away from Other People. Along with their life choices and freedom.
And, really, what assurances do we have that this “torrent” of money would solve anything? Please let me know of any government that truly spends the money they forcibly take from citizens wisely.
Read: World Needs “Torrents” Of Cash To Solve Hotcoldwetdry »
…is a hazy, humid day from carbon pollution bad weather, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on how bad it is for Fani Willis.
Read: If All You See… »
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