Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 7, 2024 – 9:38 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking, and I’ll no longer have to watch the Giants play for a long time after today. This pinup is by George Petty, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Chicks On The Right features Israel drone striking Hamas’ #2
  2. Cold Fury covers Shameless Biden
  3. Common Cents Blog notes Hillary’s name in the Epstein documents
  4. Da Techguy’s Blog discusses a Navy desperate to keep everyone
  5. Geller Report highlights the Supreme Court taking up the case of removing Trump from the ballot
  6. Legal Insurrection covers the pro-Hamas road shutdown in Seattle
  7. Moonbattery discusses the media burying the Dylan Butler school shooting
  8. neo-neocon notes something else Claudine Gay liked to do
  9. NoisyRoom covers a terror plot in South America
  10. Pacific Pundit shows the loon at Bass Pro taking a swim with the fishies
  11. Powerline notes that it’s always January 6th somewhere
  12. Shot In The Dark covers the horrible, unconstitutional Minnesota red flag law
  13. Sultan Knish notes commie lawyers trying to get Hawaii to secede
  14. The First Street Journal shows someone who will not do well in prison
  15. And last, but, not least, Climatism covers heatsnow and heatcold stranding thousands of vehicles in Sweden

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). 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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Colorado Mayors Having A Lot Of Problems With Illegal Alien Inflow

By William Teach January 7, 2024 – 7:00 am

But, we have two different situations in a state that is a de-facto sanctuary state, since Governor Polis signed a bill stating that the state would not cooperate with federal immigration officials in certain circumstances, such as detaining someone with an immigration detainer, nor can any state or local officials provide information to federal immigration authorities

Denver mayor pleads for nationally coordinated effort on migrant crisis as city nears ‘breaking point’

Democratic leaders in sanctuary states and cities are pleading for help as record-breaking numbers of migrants are entering the country.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is the latest sanctuary city Democrat to speak out. Though he proposed a number of solutions on “America’s Newsroom” Friday, Johnston ultimately echoed calls from other Democrats, insisting “more federal aid” is urgently needed.

Johnston previously warned that the border crisis will “crush city budgets around the country,” as he expects 10% of Denver’s entire budget to go toward aiding migrants.

“I have called the White House,” Johnston told hosts Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino. “We’ve told them we need more federal aid. That’s why there’s dollars in that supplemental budget to do that.”

No, what’s needed is for the border to be secured as much as possible and every illegal and asylum seeker without a rock solid case be sent packing. And that asylum seekers apply outside the U.S. and wait. And, really, immigration needs to be shut down for a few decades to allow assimilation, and this includes bringing in refugees.

‘We can’t handle more’ | Carbondale mayor shares update on migrant response

Carbondale’s mayor stressed they have reached their limit to help unhoused migrants. Over the last few months about 125 people have arrived into town, many with no place to stay. The migrants increased the unhoused population by 500% when they began arriving looking for work.

A nonprofit initially created a shelter within a community center but since then plans have changed. Mayor Ben Bohmfalk said they do not have any more room for any additional migrants. He spoke to 9NEWS about their latest humanitarian efforts to keep people out of the cold.

Carbondale is a small community of about 6,400 way west of Denver, out in the mountains just to the north of Aspen. The county it’s in, Garfield, just barely went for Biden over Trump in 2020. There’s only about 30K residents in the county. Who sent those illegals there? It wasn’t Greg Abbott. Was it the mayor of Denver? Or did Biden send them? Think about it, just 125 pushes them over the edge. What do border towns have to deal with? If they have complaints, they should address them to the Biden regime, which is leaving the border open as much as possible.

Migrants’ pricey cars towed outside controversial NYC shelter in same area where they begged door to door

These migrants appear to have better rides than some Brooklyn families they’ve been hitting up for cash, food and clothes.

Authorities on Friday night towed at least five unregistered vehicles apparently being used by migrants that were illegally parked outside the city’s controversial tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, according to Assemblywoman Jaime Williams (D-Brooklyn)

The wild scene – which Williams caught on video and shared on Facebook — included a white pickup truck with no plates being towed from a grassy lot that is federal parkland to the dismay of at least one migrant seen pleading to gain access to the vehicle.

Where did they get the cars? Where did the money come from? Almost no lenders will lend to an illegal/migrant. Do they have a driver’s license? They surely have no credit. Do they have earnings? Can they provide stips (documents like proof of income, residence, insurance)? Who’s going to give them proper insurance? Where’s the money coming from?

Over the past few weeks, residents in Marine Park – a predominantly working class, blue-collar neighborhood  — have openly complained about asylum seeker families showing up on their doorsteps asking for spare change and other aid. Some previously told The Post they fear for their safety.

How many people in that neighborhood voted for Biden and other Democrats?

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Giant California Waves Finally Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Did you read about those huge waves that have been hitting California since the last few days of 2023?

Seriously, there are some wild videos out there, and I watched some of this on the webcams (Swellmagnet and Webcamtaxi are great sources). Did you know that this is your fault?

Huge waves are crashing on the California coast, in part due to climate change

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Giant waves are crashing along the California coast for the second time in two weeks thanks to stormy weather and high sea levels due in part to human-caused climate change. Tides are lower this week, so the waves are smaller, but they’re still forecast to get as high as 20 feet through the weekend. That is thrilling for surfers, but, as member station KQED climate reporter Ezra David Romero explains, all these waves are also eroding the state’s beaches.

EZRA DAVID ROMERO, BYLINE: When big waves happen, pro surfers drop everything and flock to them. On December 28, pro surfer Bianca Valenti caught the biggest wave of her life at Mavericks Beach, about an hour south of San Francisco. Forecasters had projected waves over 40 feet tall, but Valenti says this was bigger. (big snip)

ROMERO: Last week’s giant waves resulted from a few things – high tides, a storm giving them extra speed from the Gulf of Alaska and higher seas due to climate change and the climate pattern El Nino.

GARY GRIGGS: Waves are getting bigger.

ROMERO: UC Santa Cruz oceanographer Gary Griggs has studied the California coastline for decades. He says that human-caused climate change will force seas to rise in the future, making waves even bigger. A Scripps Institution of Oceanography study from last summer found that California waves have grown, on average, a foot taller in the last 50 years as climate change has heated up the planet.

GRIGGS: All the indications are that the water is going to continue to warm. It’s going to drive stronger winds, probably higher-intensity storms, greater wave power, bigger waves hitting more often.

Things are always happening with the weather and Earth systems, no need to assign witchcraft. But, let’s say that this is happening because it is a Holocene warm period: that doesn’t mean it is mostly/solely Mankind’s fault, just that the climate on Earth changes. In the doomsday cult word, this is all your fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bicycle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Average Bubba, with a post on Biden’s AmeriKa.

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USA Today Wants Arnold Schwarzenegger To Run For President, And Says It’s Allowable

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 10:30 am

Young voters really do not want a Trump-Biden rematch. They do not want either running. Yeah, I think that’s most of us. But, USA Today screedster Joe Matthews thinks he has the answer, and it’s probably the dumbest thing you’ll read so far this young year

Schwarzenegger for president? Arnold should run – and not just because he’d beat Trump.

Dear Arnold,

In Netflix’s new action series, “FUBAR,” you’re compelling as a retiring CIA agent pulled back into intelligence madness because he didn’t realize his daughter is also a secret agent.

You also may not realize that, in real life, the door just opened for you to be pulled back into the FUBAR (“F’ed Up Beyond All Recognition”) of our national politics. I’m writing to ask you to walk through that door, and run for president for the good of our country.

You’ve previously said that you would run for president, if not for two facts: that you were born an Austrian, and that Article II, Sec. 1 of the U.S. Constitution says “no Person except a natural born Citizen… shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

It’s pretty darned specific. Arnold is not natural born. He cannot be president. Period. 100% not allowed. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a hell of a thing, though

The article hasn’t changed, but American devotion to the Constitution and its provisions on presidential eligibility has.

Huh what?

For this, Donald Trump is responsible. Incredibly, he has inspired leading Democrats and Republicans to take the position that being constitutionally ineligible to serve as president is no longer a barrier to running for president.

A new consensus is emerging: Voters have the right to choose whomever they want as president, no matter what the Constitution says.

This is the product of Trump’s own ineligibility. The Constitution’s 14th Amendment bars any officer of the U.S. who took a constitutional oath and then “engaged in insurrection” – as Trump did – from holding another government office. Leading constitutional scholars, from right and left, have affirmed that Trump isn’t eligible.

Even if that was true (he has not been convicted of insurrection, and half the country doesn’t thing January 6th was an insurrection), that in no way allows Arnold to be president. The insanity continues a bit, to

In entering the race, you should emphasize that Republicans and Democrats, by keeping Trump on the ballot, have rubber-stamped the principle that voters should get to choose whomever they want. When opponents refer to that Article II requirement that candidates be natural born, you should make two arguments. First:  you’ve always felt American in your heart and soul – a “natural born” American, in fact. Second: If the Biden vs. Trump matchup is the best that native-born citizens can manage, then it’s high time to welcome foreign-born contenders.

Yeah, reality doesn’t work like that. This is the kind of muddle-headed thinking the Youts have this day, where reality is simply what’s in their mushybrains rather than real reality. This is delusional. I’ve never seen this so-called consensus. Probably some sort of newsroom yammering by the Youts with Ivy League journalism degrees.

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Federal Court Kills Berkeley’s Ban On New Gas Stoves

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 7:00 am

This should make Kamala Harris happy, if she decides to build in Berkeley. She loves her gas stoves….just not for you peasants

Federal Court Deals Knockout Punch To Blue City’s Biden-Backed Effort To Ban Gas Stoves

A federal appellate court ruled Tuesday that it would not reconsider an earlier decision that prevents the city of Berkeley, California, from enforcing its de facto ban on installing gas-powered appliances in new buildings.

Berkeley, one of the most liberal cities in America, enacted the policy in 2019, marketing it as a means of countering climate change while others railed against it as a de facto gas stove ban. The California Restaurant Association sued the city over the ordinance, losing its challenge in federal court initially before a three-judge panel vindicated the trade group in April 2023, a decision the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opted against revisiting on Tuesday.

“By completely prohibiting the installation of natural gas piping within newly constructed buildings, the City of Berkeley has waded into a domain preempted by Congress,” Patrick Bumatay, a circuit judge on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and member of the panel, wrote in his opinion. “The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), 42 U.S.C. § 6297(c), expressly preempts State and local regulations concerning the energy use of many natural gas appliances, including those used in household and restaurant kitchens. Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result.”

Interestingly, while I like that the 9th killed the ban, I’m torn: nowhere in the Constitution does it seem to give the Congress the power to be the only ones who can make this policy. Shouldn’t this be the domain of the States and The People? Where did this federal government power come from? Just because they say so doesn’t mean it is Constitutional, just like so many other powers they’ve taken.

And, really, the climate loons in Berkeley voted for the ban. Most of the restaurant owners complaining surely voted for the hyper-left wing moonbats on the city council. Anyone wanting a gas stove, well, you probably voted for this. They should have to suffer the consequences.

And don’t forget that Brandon has one

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Illegal Aliens Bummed That Pets Are Treated Better

By William Teach January 6, 2024 – 6:45 am

Perhaps they should be mad at Democrats, who set the conditions that all illegals would be welcome…as long as they don’t come to Democratic Party run cities

‘Pets are treated better than us’: Migrants who spent life savings traveling from Africa to NYC complain they’ve been ‘sold a dream by Hollywood – but the American Dream isn’t like the movies’

Migrants who spent their life savings traveling from Africa to NYC have complained that they have been sold a dream by Hollywood – but the Big Apple is not what they expected.

Hundreds of homeless expats, mostly young and middle-aged African men, were waiting in line outside a church on East 7th Street in Manhattan’s East Village on Thursday, hoping to find a place to sleep.

Among them was Landry, 40, from Congo, who told DailyMail.com he spent his life savings of $9,000 traveling to the US, taking the difficult decision to leave his wife and 14-year-old son behind four months ago.

That’s on him and the others. He made that decision to spend all his money to come to the U.S. without applying correctly.

The military veteran had been hoping to land a job in construction but he’s been unable to find work in the city and ended up sleeping on the streets in sub-zero temperatures after shelters ran out of space.

Conditions in Congo were ‘terrible’ according to Landry, with frequent fights between ethnic groups and oppressive laws – but he said life in the Big Apple has been ‘even worse.’

‘It’s like prison here,’ he said, speaking in French. ‘It’s negligence. We have no access to food, toilets, or anything. Animals live better here – pets in the street are treated better than us.

That’s on you. Did you think you would show up and be given everything to live? Free apartment, food, money?

‘We were sold a dream in Hollywood films and TV, but the reality of life in New York City is not like the movies,’ he said, adding that he had been bussed over from California.

I know many people who came to the U.S. the right way. They applied, were accepted, and went through the citizenship process. They’re all doing well. Because the citizenship process requires that applicants be able to be self sufficient.

When asked how he felt thinking of his family back in Congo, Landry said: ‘I cry and think, why did I do this? But it’s too late. I spent my life savings coming here and now I can’t get a job. What can I do?’

Turn yourself in, say you do not want asylum (which you will most likely not be approved for anyway), and you’ll be flown back to Congo via the U.S. government

Friends Vivienna, 44, and Selena, 22, from Ecuador, were the only two women in the hundreds-strong queue on Thursday afternoon.

And therein lies a huge problem: the massive amount of young males streaming into the country. I hope all those Democrats in SCNY are enjoying their diversity as much as these illegals.

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Your Fault: Sri Lanka Sees More Incidents With Crocodiles

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 3:00 pm

You could have stopped this by ending your reliance on fossil fuels and making the first world energy poor like the 3rd world

As Sri Lanka floods swell with climate change, so does human-crocodile conflict

Flying birds, running squirrels, hopping hares and snakes are species that frequent the tea estates in Akuressa in southern Sri Lanka. But an unusual heavy rustling and crawling sound of an animal disturbed a woman plucking tea, who let out a loud scream as she realized it was a giant crocodile next to her. She ran toward others, and the villagers caught this 15-foot-long giant after a difficult and risky operation.

Tea plantations are not considered the habitat of saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), but there was severe rain in the area and the nearby Nilwala River began to flood. The crocodile likely reached the edge of the flooded area and got trapped in the tea plot as the flooding receded, said Priyanath Sanjeewa, a Matara district wildlife ranger.

The tea estate incident happened during the 2017 floods, but similar incidents where crocodiles ended up in areas that humans inhabit remain a common occurrence when the Nilwala River floods. The river also accounts for the country’s worst human-crocodile conflict, Sanjeewa said. (snip)

During a severe flood event that occurred in October, crocodiles were spotted in several paddy fields and along slightly flooded roads, Sanjeewa told Mongabay. Crocodiles had also moved to small canals where the water was calmer than in the river.

There were posts on social media warning people about crocodiles and referring to an incident when a dog was snatched by a croc. Displaced when their homes were flooded, this was an additional worry to flood victims.

Sri Lanka, at the southeastern tip of India (I bet most Warmists have zero idea where it is), has a long history of flooding and other disasters. It now has a much larger, and growing, population of humans. In 1960 the population was 10 million. It’s now 22 million. It’s a densely populated island. The crocodile population has grown quite a bit since the 1970’s, when lots of environmental protections were put in place. Floods will happen, and the crocs will follow, since the humans move into their domains. No need to invoke witchcraft, er, ‘climate change.’ But, that’s all the climate cult knows how to do.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Nikki Haley blowing it.

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California County Says They Will Not Enforce PRC Anti-Gun Law

By William Teach January 5, 2024 – 10:30 am

Sutter County is a small county of about 100K people which typically votes Republican. Trump won 57.16% to 40.73%. It’s also just barely to the north of the People’s Republik Of California capitol of Sacramento

New gun laws won’t be enforced by Sutter County Sheriff’s Office: “We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior”

Days after a federal appeals court ruled to temporarily uphold a new California law that bans carrying guns in public spaces, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Office announced they will look at each circumstance on a case-by-case basis.

“We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior,” said Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes and Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer R. Dupré in a joint social media post on Wednesday. “We took an oath to uphold our Constitution and will work to protect the rights of our citizens.”

The controversy stems from Senate Bill 2, which became law on Jan. 1. The new law bans licensed concealed gun holders (CCW) from carrying their firearms at bars, places of worship, parks, public events, stadiums, casinos, financial institutions, medical facilities, on public transportation, and other public places.

On Dec. 26, 2023, a federal judge blocked the new California gun control law from taking effect on Jan. 1, however, days later, a federal appeals court reversed that decision while the issue went through litigation.

They law basically stops law abiding citizens who’ve passed federal background checks and other measures from being able to carry concealed out of their homes. Do people need to carry in some of those places mentioned? It should mostly be up to the individual venue. Bars? Certainly not if you are drinking. Casinos? Probably not. It’s “other public places” that is the issue

(PBS) The California Pistol and Rifle Association’s president, Chuck Michel, said in a statement that under the law, gun permit holders “wouldn’t be able to drive across town without passing through a prohibited area and breaking the law.” Michel said criminals are deterred when law-abiding citizens can defend themselves.

Just about anywhere a legal gun owner goes would be illegal. Private businesses are allowed to put up signs stating that concealed carry is OK, otherwise, the permit holders may not go into any store. Will other sheriff’s in the Republican leaning counties follow Sutter?

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