Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 23, 2025 – 8:52 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America! The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and baseball is in pre-season. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right: Transgender Animal Surgeries Are A Thing, And Our Government Spent Money Them.
  2. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: Racial Arsonist Joy Reid Has Been Canceled
  3. Gates Of Vienna: Empty Words in the Face of Knife Jihad
  4. Geller Report: Zelensky SURRENDERS to President Trump and Will Be Signing a Mineral Deal
  5. Jihad Watch: Germany: Machete-wielding Muslim migrant rapes teen girl, ‘You’re not leaving here until one of you has sex with me’
  6. Legal Insurrection: Wisconsin Gov. Evers Wants to Change ‘Mother’ to ‘Inseminated Person’
  7. Moonbattery: Jasmine Crockett Openly Sides Against USA
  8. neo-neocon: Is Trump “politicizing” the military?
  9. Pacific Pundit: Woke Connecticut releases man accused of cannibalism and murder because of his race
  10. The First Street Journal: Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?
  11. The Gateway Pundit: Bizarre: Trans Activist Says “Why Not?” to Combining Paralympics and Olympics
  12. The Last Refuge: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Discusses Blurred Line Between Liberty and Security
  13. This ain’t Hell…: President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  14. Watts Up With That?: Climate Change Weekly # 535 — Paris Climate Treaty Is Going Down
  15. And last, but, not least, Real Science has Defending Democracy In Ukraine

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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LAS: Federal Employees Need To Explain Their Work Or Be Fired

By William Teach February 23, 2025 – 7:00 am

There’s some serious Liberal Apoplexy Syndrome going on, because Trump and Elon are requiring federal employees to show their work, you know, something that happens in the private sector. Employees have to actually show that they are doing something. You can bet at Musk owned business employees cannot just sit around and lollygag while being paid

Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be let go

All federal government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

Musk posted on X that employees will be receiving an email “shortly” requesting to “understand what they got done last week.” A lack of response, Musk said, “will be taken as a resignation.”

The email — sent with the subject line “What did you do last week?” just two hours after Musk’s post, and shared with POLITICO — asks employees to please reply with “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and CC your manager.”

It instructs employees to not send any classified information. The deadline for response: end of day Monday, just over two days hours from when it was sent. The email did not include any threats for punishment for those who don’t respond.

It’s unclear what legal authority, if any, Musk is relying on.

Perhaps Politico could have asked? You can bet Politico employees must show their work. Federal employees must do the same. Democrats and their Comrades in the media surely do not want to die on the hill of federal employees not having to show that they actually worked, right? That surely won’t go over well with the American people. It’s easy

  1. Sold 5 cars
  2. Made 45 calls
  3. Sent a lot of emails and text messages to customers
  4. Sent out birthday cards and thank you letters
  5. Finished the new online training class
  6. Figured out a way to get another rep’s customers phone to work with Android Auto
  7. Told another how to use XM Radio with Apple Carplay, which sealed her deal
  8. Got another’s minivan set up with Firestick for the media player and their BT headsets

Not hard, right? Oh, wait, I broke the requirement with more than 5. And there were more, like the customers who didn’t purchase (a 530 with multiple derogatories for bad payment on two leases goes nowhere)

Michael Fallings, an attorney specializing in federal employment law, told POLITICO the actions Musk described in the post would be illegal.

“I don’t believe it would be legal, and I don’t think he really understands right now how he will even do what he’s threatened to do,” Fallings said.

Requiring federal employees to show they are actually working is illegal? Would love to see that law.

Dissent from Democratic lawmakers has already started pouring in, calling for employees to reject the move from Musk. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) said Musk has “no authority” to do what he’s claiming. “This is a good opportunity for mass civil disobedience,” Casten wrote on X.

He wants federal employees to protest having to do their jobs and prove that they work? Really?

As the employer of federal employees, as a person who’s earnings go to paying their salaries, I’d like to know what I’m paying for.

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ZOMG: Trump Has Shifted The Burden Of The Climate (scam) Onto Individuals

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 4:01 pm

And it makes climate cultists very apoplectic that they might actually have to practice what they preach, rather than forcing Other People to bear the burden

Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals

electric vehicleOne of President Donald Trump’s most damaging strikes at the foundation of U.S. climate policy is buried deep in a sweeping Inauguration Day executive order focused on “Unleashing American Energy.” Half way through the lengthy document is a directive that would obliterate an obscure but critically important calculation the government uses to gauge the real-world costs that climate change is imposing on the U.S. economy.

Getting rid of the measure, called the “social cost of carbon,” would upend energy and environmental regulations meant to address climate change and could have the long-term effect of shifting costs from polluting industries directly onto Americans as the expenses of climate change rise.

The measure essentially establishes a price for each ton of carbon emitted, based on the long-term damages it is expected to cause in the future. It has become the government’s primary tool to weigh the economic costs of climate change — such as disaster cleanup or health impacts from warming — against the burden of regulations.

The executive order disbanded the working group, which included the treasury secretary, energy secretary and director of national economic policy, that set the social cost of carbon and advised how it should be implemented. It revoked that group’s previous decisions. And it directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates the figure and bases regulatory proposals on it, to reconsider using the social cost of carbon altogether with the goal of eradicating “abuse” that stands in the way of affordable energy production.

In other words, the hyper-leftists at Pro Publica hate that communist social cost of carbon, which is something more akin to what they have in China, is going bye bye

If carried out, the shift away from using the social cost of carbon measure would not only make it exceedingly difficult to enact new rules slowing climate change and its growing costs in the future, but it would send the signal that the Trump administration doesn’t believe that climate change carries economic consequences.

Well, gosh darnit, the whole Progressive (nice Fascism) government thing will have to go away as it pertains to the doomsday climate cult. Shucks! Go pound sound, wackos, do things in your own lives, leave the rest of us alone.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are Bad Weather clouds rolling in because people use fossil fueled boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on the last gasp for Zelensky.

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NBC News Says Republicans Are Starting To Feel Heat From Trump Cuts

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 10:30 am

NBC News, and other outlets, are running with this, but, it sure seems like the “constituents” who are complaining are mostly Democrats, not Republicans. But, you know, NBC has to do their tone deaf Resistance stuff and Democrats have to astroturf their TDS with protests

Republicans start to feel the heat on budget cuts: From the Politics Desk

After the Senate pulled an all-nighter to adopt a budget blueprint, the pressure next week will be squarely on the House as it plans to take up a competing version to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda.

For some Republican lawmakers, it will come after they spent the past week getting an earful back home.

At town halls across the country, House Republicans faced sometimes-hostile crowds furious about the sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal workers that Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are carrying out, Scott Wong, Syedah Asghar, Sahil Kapur and Ben Kamisar report.

With the House on recess, public events this week marked the first opportunity for many lawmakers to hear directly from constituents since Trump’s inauguration.

  • Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., was pressed on DOGE’s “sloppy approach” to cuts to the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • Reps. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Wis., and Kevin Hern, R-Okla., were accused of not doing enough to stand up to the executive branch amid Trump and Musk’s flurry of actions.
  • And a man confronted Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ore., about not being responsive to his concerns about Musk.

The raucous town halls conjured memories of those in 2009 — the start of the tea party movement — when constituents protested lawmakers over Democrats’ massive health care bill, which became the Affordable Care Act.

I seriously doubt they are Republicans complaining about Trump and Musk’s actions

One Republican lawmaker said it appeared that constituents who’ve been “quiet” since Joe Biden’s 2020 victory are back out in force. “Too much too fast seems to be a common refrain,” the lawmaker continued.

So, Democrats and the few Never Trumper Republicans complaining about reducing the number of federal employees and cutting money for transgender comics and puppet shows? Tough sh*t. To paraphrase what they said when Obama and Biden won “Trump won. The majority voted for him. Sit down for the time being. Elections have consequences.”

As Melanie Zanona, Sahil Kapur and Ben Kamisar report, the House’s budget plan could result in steep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps. That could put a handful of Republicans who represent parts of the country where sizable shares of the populations receive government assistance from Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in a politically difficult position.

“Could.” What I’m hearing is that any cuts will not affect the money US citizens get, just that illegals/fake asylum seekers will be cut off, and that certain foods will be removed from SNAP. And, work requirements may be strengthened. Unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape could be eliminated, which will streamline how the the programs operated.

This is just a case of the Credentialed Media being The Resistance to Trump, rather than being a news outlet.

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Climalawfare: Puerto Rico’s Racketeering Lawsuit Greenlighted By Federal Magistrate

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

So, when does the island of Puerto Rico give up their own use of fossil fuels? How will manufacturing sector do without them, considering it is 43% of the GDP? What about the $8.9 billion in tourism dollars? Will they be able to import TVs, computers, phones, etc, on sailing ships?

Lawsuit Survives Dismissal – Milberg Moves Forward in Groundbreaking Climate Change Racketeering Case Against Big Oil

In a major victory for climate accountability, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that the landmark lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico’s municipalities against the fossil fuel industry will proceed, sustaining claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and antitrust laws. This decision marks a monumental leap forward in climate litigation, placing some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies on track to face trial for their role in deliberately misleading the public about climate change while suppressing clean energy alternatives.

The lawsuit, led by Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, on behalf of 37 Puerto Rican municipalities, alleges that ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and other major oil producers engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. Through dark money funding and industry-backed disinformation campaigns, these corporations manipulated public perception, influenced policy, and delayed the transition to clean energy—despite possessing particularized knowledge of climate change’s catastrophic effects.

Once again, I recommend that these fossil fuels companies cut off all supply to the involved municipalities. They won’t, but, come on, if someone is suing you you wouldn’t provide them service, right?

Puerto Rico has long been on the frontlines of the climate crisis, suffering unprecedented destruction from extreme hurricanes and rising sea levels. The municipalities bringing this lawsuit have been left to rebuild communities devastated by climate change-fueled disasters, a direct result of the fossil fuel industry’s fraudulent suppression of climate science and obstruction of renewable energy development.

You know what the tide gauge shows for San Juan, Puerto Rico? “The relative sea level trend is 2.11 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 0.33 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1962 to 2024 which is equivalent to a change of 0.69 feet in 100 years.” Which is exactly average for the Holocene, but should be much more for a warm period, based on averages between warm and cool periods. Hurricanes happen. PR is rather in that zone.

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SCNY Sues To Get $80 Million Back For Illegals

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 6:45 am

Yeah, well, that was money the Biden-Harris admin gave them as illegals were pouring over the border, and being flown in, thanks to the Biden-Harris admin. Then were sent to sanctuary cities just like Sanctuary City New York by Greg Abbott

New York City sues Trump administration over $80M FEMA migrant funding clawback

New York City is suing the Trump administration after FEMA revoked more than $80 million in migrant funding, citing concerns over “illegal activities” at a hotel.

The lawsuit argues that the federal government violated regulations and seeks to prevent future clawbacks of approved funds.

What we know: The lawsuit claims that FEMA unlawfully withdrew $80 million in approved funding meant for migrant assistance. The funds were initially disbursed on February 4, 2025, but were removed from a city bank account on February 11, 2025, without prior notice.

The money was originally awarded under the Shelter and Services Program to assist with the city’s efforts in housing and supporting migrants.

City Comptroller Brad Lander raised concerns over the legality of FEMA’s move, stating that his office had no knowledge that the federal government could access and remove money directly from the city’s account. FEMA officials later cited “illegal activities” at a hotel as a justification for the clawback, though details remain unclear.

Go cry to Biden-Harris. Raise the taxes on SCNY residents. And ask Americans who saw the IRS yank money from their bank accounts.

“Without a doubt, our immigration system is broken, but the cost of managing an international humanitarian crisis should not overwhelmingly fall onto one city alone,” Adams said. “With very little help from the federal government, our administration has skillfully managed an unprecedented crisis, which has seen over 231,000 people enter our city asking for shelter. The $80 million that FEMA approved, paid, and then rescinded—after the city spent more than $7 billion in the last three years—is the bare minimum our taxpayers deserve.”

Go cry to Biden-Harris.

Meanwhile

Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants

The Trump administration is ramping up plans to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites across the United States, a significant expansion of efforts by the White House to use wartime resources to make good on the president’s promised mass deportations.

President Trump’s team is developing a deportation hub at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, that could eventually hold up to 10,000 undocumented immigrants as they go through the process of being deported, according to three officials familiar with the plan.

Good. The more migrants realize they won’t be staying in luxury hotels and provided phones and more, that things won’t be cushy as they are processed the fewer will come.

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Bummer: Trump Disallows Federal Scientists From Working On IPCC (scam) Report

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 4:32 pm

The doomsday cult scientists are more than welcome to resign their jobs and go work elsewhere. They do not run the federal government. They really do not have a say in the matter. They are just employees

Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report

The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research.

The US had been highly involved in planning for the next installment of the report due out in 2029 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change.

The IPCC assesses how the climate crisis is affecting the planet according to the latest science. Its reports take thousands of scientists many years to produce and are used to inform policymakers across the world of the risks posed by global warming.

In a sense, all of the world’s current, accepted knowledge about climate change stems from the IPCC and its reports, the first of which was published in 1990.

An international meeting of IPCC authors that was scheduled to take place in China next week is now in limbo. Kate Calvin, NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate advisor, was supposed to co-chair the discussion but was impacted by the stop-work order, according to the scientist involved in the report. The meeting was planned to talk about next steps in the development of the report.

Bummer, they won’t get an all expense paid vacation to China, where they will stay at the InterContinental Hangzhou, a 5 start hotel. To be honest, it really isn’t all that expensive to stay there, I’m seeing prices of an average $137, but, it is a swanky hotel. And flights average $1377 round trip. Think the scientists will look for the cheapest flights, or, the most comfortable? Why can’t this be a Zoom meeting? Why are scientists from all over the world who are unhinged over fossil fuels driving global warming taking long fossil fueled flights?

“The IPCC is the backbone of global climate science, providing the world with unbiased, evidence-based insights needed to confront the climate crisis,” said Harjeet Singh, a climate advocate and founding director of Satat Sampada Climate Foundation.

OK, that is one of the funniest things I’ve read from the cult in a while. “Unbiased.” Regardless, just like if someone doesn’t like what a company is telling them to do as an employee they can leave, so can these “scientists.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is what could be a horrible fossil fuels drilling platform, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post £62 Million for wooden bottles

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Biden Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Resume Wasteful Foreign Aid Spending

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

You just have to love how one unelected judge is demanding that stupid foreign aid be taken off of pause and spent right now

Judge warns Trump administration not to dodge court order unfreezing foreign aid

A federal judge delivered a stern warning to the Trump administration that it must abide by a court order to unfreeze foreign-aid funding, but he stopped short Thursday of holding administration officials in contempt of court for continuing to hold up some of the money.

In a seven-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali seemed troubled by complaints from aid groups that much of the funding remained on hold despite his Feb. 13 order suspending the blanket freeze put in place by the Trump administration.

An official overseeing the administration’s foreign-aid revamp, Peter Marocco, filed a declaration with the court Tuesday that seemed to confirm the bulk of payments remained suspended. Marocco said, however, that the administration was not invoking the across-the-board freeze to suspend those payments; rather, he insisted, officials had separate authority stemming from the aid contracts or federal law to halt those payments.

That prompted aid groups to seek to hold Marocco and his boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in contempt for what the groups called the officials’ “brazen defiance” of the court’s order.

In the new ruling, Ali said his Feb. 13 restraining order was “clear.” He warned officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department not to attempt to use other labels or directives to avoid the court’s order.

Is this what they want to continue?

The judge wants the Congressional authorized spending to continue right now. Did the budget, er, continuing resolutions specify a time frame? Because there is plenty of time in the government calendar to spend it. I doubt the continuing resolutions authorized for “$15 million for ‘contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan” specifically. Is any of the crazy spending time sensitive? They don’t need money for transgender puppet shows in Ukraine immediately, right? Is it that important that the left wing groups get their slush funds immediately? How about giving it a chance to audit exactly how the money is being spent, whether it is going where it’s supposed to go.

Judge denies unions’ request to block mass firing of probationary employees, buyout offer

A federal judge has denied federal labor unions’ request to temporarily block the Trump administration from carrying out mass firing of probationary employees and deferred resignation offers, saying the court “likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction” over the matter.

Instead, Judge Christopher Cooper, overseeing the matter, wrote in his ruling that the matter should be brought before the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

“The Court will now deny the motion because it likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the unions’ claims,” the judge wrote.

“They must pursue their challenges instead through the scheme established by Congress in the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (‘FSLMRS’), which provides for administrative review by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (‘FLRA’) in the first instance, followed by judicial review in the courts of appeals,” he added.

If the Chief Executive cannot do Chief Executive things, they, why do we actually have a Chief Executive? At least this judge ruled using law.

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