Chicago Residents Feel Like They Are In A “Police State”

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 10:30 am

It really shouldn’t be a surprise to Chicagoans that the streets are shut down and law enforcement is everywhere, this is what happens during a political party convention. And certainly when tens of thousands of their wacko comrades will be showing up and creating problems

New DNC security measures in downtown Chicago have some feeling “like a police state”

With street closures and restrictions already in place at both the United Center and McCormick Place ahead of the Democratic National Convention, new security measures that went into effect this weekend have left parts of the downtown area in a state of lockdown.

Residents and businesses were still trying to navigate the new restrictions on Sunday, after large security fences went up along sidewalks in parts of the Loop, Gold Coast, and Magnificent Mile – with a handful of downtown streets also closed off.

Unlike those closures announced in advance around the United Center and McCormick Place, the new restrictions downtown were not formally announced until Saturday morning, after they were already in place, blindsiding many who live and work in the area.

Well, yeah, they either didn’t want to give the wackos advanced warning or didn’t realize how many would show up

The heightened security in and around the Magnificent Mile, Gold Coast, and other parts of downtown all went into effect this weekend due to what police call “DNC activity.”

The Bidens, Clintons, and Obamas as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are staying in downtown hotels during the convention, prompting the security hot zones.

Street closures downtown include (they’re in the story)

People who live and work in the area also should be prepared to show identification to gain access to certain buildings.

Wait, what? Free citizens will have to show identification to go to their home and/or work? That’s weird. We’ve been told that identification is unnecessary in order to vote, but, it is to go home?

“Wow, this is like crazy. A lot of important people are gonna be here, and we are happy that they’re gonna be safe. But, yeah, it does feel like a police state with all the big walls going up and everything. It’s a little crazy,” Michael Tenniswood said.

Walls, eh? We’ve also been told they do not work.

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Hotcold Take: ‘Climate Change’ Means Your Windshield Wipers Are Moving Fast Enough

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 7:00 am

From the mind of hyper-Warmist Marshall Shepherd comes this delightful tale of climate doom, which is a new one

Are Your Wiper Blades Moving Fast Enough For Today’s Rainstorms?

Much of the content that I write about comes from the convergence of routine life and being an atmospheric scientist. Yesterday, my family and I were driving home from a college recruiting trip. We encountered very intense rainfall as we entered Gwinnett County, a suburb just northeast of Atlanta, Georgia. The wiper blades were at full speed and could not keep up with the intensity of the rainfall. I said to my wife, “The current generation of wiper blade settings are not ready for the climate change-juiced rainstorms of today.” She pulled out her phone and snapped the picture above because she probably knew a Forbes article was coming. Here’s the science behind my statement.

Got that? He was in one heavy rainstorm and because the wipers couldn’t keep up doom is coming

While my observations about wiper blade rates are somewhat anecdotal, here’s what I do know. I had a difficult time seeing the road in that rainstorm yesterday, and the wiper blades on that car were recently installed. My wife also happened to snap a picture of my phone showing the weather radar (picture above). Yes, it’s true. I am a “weather geek,” so it is not uncommon for my phone to be on the radar in these situations. The blue circle indicates the position of our car within that afternoon thunderstorm.

Here’s also what’s not anecdotal. Scientific studies consistently show that rainfall intensities are increasing in the U.S. Rainfall intensity or rate is essentially a measure of how hard it rains. The 2023 U.S. National Climate Assessment report notes, “Since the 1950s, there has been an upward trend in heavy precipitation across the contiguous US…. increase is driven largely by more frequent precipitation extremes, with relatively smaller changes in their intensity.” The Northeast and Midwest have seen the largest increases. Here in the Southeast, total precipitation in the heaviest 1% of days has increased by 37% from 1958 to 2021.

And? That fails to prove anthropogenic causation, just that the Earth is in a typical warm period. Heavy rains happen. They always have. They always will. Sometimes even on high they cannot keep up, so, you slow down or even pull over. You don’t go all cult over it.

BTW, was Marshall traveling in a fossil fueled vehicle?

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Biden-Harris Admin Re-Opening Border Crossing Points

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 6:45 am

Why? Biden-Harris finally did something somewhat right for the border, after saying they couldn’t do anything, but, hey, there’s an election coming up. It’s working, so, why open them up?

U.S. reopening 4 entry points at southern border after migrant crossings drop

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will resume commercial and legal travel at four official crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday that were partially or fully closed recently due to record levels of migrant crossings, senior U.S. officials told reporters Tuesday.

The impacted ports of entry are in Eagle Pass, Texas, Lukeville and Nogales, Arizona and San Ysidro, California.

The U.S. officials also said the Mexican government has stepped up efforts to slow U.S.-bound migration, adding that those operations have been partially responsible for a recent marked drop in illegal border crossings.

The U.S. Border Patrol processed roughly 2,500 migrants Monday, a sharp decrease from the record arrivals reported in December, one of the U.S. officials said.

Heck, if we can cut it down to 2,500 a day, we can cut it to zero a day, which would just leave all those who do not get caught. Of course, opening up the ports during the DNC so that all the illegal alien supporters will hopefully quiet down a bit makes sense

A story everyone should know: Harris, Biden, and Gianfranco Torres-Navarro

A STORY EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW: HARRIS, BIDEN, AND GIANFRANCO TORRES-NAVARRO. If the Trump campaign has any say in it, voters should learn the name of Gianfranco Torres-Navarro. According to U.S. authorities, Torres-Navarro is the leader of a Peruvian crime gang and is thought to be personally responsible for 23 murders. He is a notorious figure in Peru, where he is known as “Gianfranco 23,” clearly “a reference to the number of people he is alleged to have killed,” according to the Associated Press. He has a girlfriend who, also according to the Associated Press, “has a sizable following on the social media platform TikTok where she showed off their lavish lifestyle, including designer clothes, resort vacations and shooting targets at a gun range.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but Torres-Navarro’s gang is known as “Los Killers.”

Here’s why Americans should know who he is. On Wednesday, Torres-Navarro was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Endicott, New York, a village with a population of 13,667 about 190 miles north of New York City. Given that he is a wanted man, wanted for very serious crimes in Peru, one might ask how he made it to the United States.

The answer is: He just walked in. In May, Torres-Navarro crossed illegally into the U.S. near Roma, Texas, in the Rio Grande border sector. He was arrested by U.S. authorities who then…let him go. Like millions of other illegal crossers, he was given a “notice to appear” before an immigration judge at some point far in the future and then sent on his way.

This is the kind of thing the Trump campaign should be talking about, not little nicknames and such.

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DNC Erecting Walls For Convention, Though Democrats Have Said Walls Do Not Work

By William Teach August 18, 2024 – 4:04 pm

Huh

I remember the 2020 Biden-Harris platform:

Democrats will rescind President Trump’s fabricated “National Emergency,” which siphons funding away from our men and women in uniform to construct an unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective wall on the southern border.

Huh. And, looky here

That’s about a tenth of the CPD workforce getting blue flu. I wonder how many of the police that are supposed to come from other cities and the county will say “nope, I want nothing to do with this?” And the funniest part is that most of the demonstrators are leftists.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 18, 2024 – 1:36 pm

…is horrible ice cream from world killing cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on Germany cancelling Ukraine, possibly over dependence on Russian gas.

It’s tight dresses week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 18, 2024 – 9:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking, and I’m really looking forward to some terrible NY Giants football. This pinup is an oldy by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Major California Solar Energy Company Files Bankruptcy
  2. Jo Nova: Paper finds the world was cooling for most of the last 2,000 years and started warming long before Big Coal arrived
  3. No Tricks Zone: Less Extreme Pacific Weather … Number Of Typhoons Trending Downward Over 70 Years!
  4. 357 Magnum: Chicago/Cook County Courts Prepare for a Bad Week
  5. American Greatness: Harris’s Kamunist Agenda Faces Harsh Reality
  6. Chicks On The Right: Facebook Is Now Censoring “Reagan” Movie Advertising
  7. Climate Depot: ‘Science Alert’: Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Collapses Into Pile of Rubble — Destruction ‘driven by human-caused climate change’ or because the gods were ‘displeased’
  8. Cold Fury: Another American icon bites the big Woke one
  9. Common Cents Blog: Violence coming? Downtown Chicago businesses board up ahead of DNC
  10. Da Techguy’s Blog: Why the Left Needs to Import Voters and Steal National Elections in a Single Tweet
  11. Diogenes’ Middle Finger: The Party of Gender Confused, Illegal Coddling, Gun Grabber and Authoritarian Far Left Identity Politics to Gather in the Windy City Monday.
  12. Dissecting Leftism: UK: Sir Keir Starmer’s Liberal Authoritarianism The United Kingdom’s new Prime …
  13. Gates Of Vienna: Boys Will Be Boys
  14. Geller Report: ‘EXPLODE EVERYTHING”: Muslim Terrorist Arrested for Explosives Threats and Attack on Energy Facility in Florida
  15. And last, but, not least, Jihad Watch: Walz’s Minnesota administration gave $2,000,000 to Muslim group fundraising for al Qaeda-linked charity

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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DNC Looking Forward To A Butt Ton Of Pro-Hamas Demonstrators

By William Teach August 18, 2024 – 7:00 am

Chicago looks like it’s going to be fun

Anyway, also at the NY Post

Roughly 100K anti-Israel protesters expected to descend on Chicago to steal spotlight from DNC, Harris-Walz ticket

Roughly 100,000 far-left, Israel-hating protesters will be descending on Chicago this week, sowing chaos as Democratic leaders rally around their new presidential ticket.

At least seven large rallies and marches are set to take place in the Windy City while the McCormick Place Convention Center hosts Democratic National Convention, organizers said.

And other rallies are also expected even though their organizers have not scored necessary city permits.

The causes run the gamut of radical leftist causes, including backing Hamas terrorists and ending US aid to Israel.

Well, you know what?

Dems deserve the anti-Israel rioters they’ve created

The Hamas-loving chickens are coming home to roost for the Democratic Party.

A gang of anti-Israel thugs crashed Big Apple leaders’ impromptu Wednesday rally for Kamala Harris in Harlem, screaming because Harris won’t denounce Jerusalem’s war of self-defense against the terrorists behind the Oct. 7 atrocities. (snip)

These leftist goons could not be telling Democrats any louder: We expect you to kneel to our demands.

And kneel is all Democrats have been doing.

Instead of telling these radicals to kick rocks, they’ve coddled, placated and encouraged them.

The far left Democrats have been coddling and supporting and placating these anti-Israel nuts for 30 years, culminating in it slowly morphing into straight up Jew hatred in the early 2000s, where Intifada keffiyehs were common on college campuses in Berkeley and San Francisco. This spread out across the country as those nuts graduated and spread their Jew hatred across the nation. As the US (and other 1st World nations) let in waves of Islamists post 9/11 for some insane reason, the base of the Democrats also started to identify with the actual Islamic terrorists who not only hate Jews, but, hate Western culture, nations, people, Americans.

Democrats don’t seem to realize that the Islamists are in direct competition for control of the soul and government of America (and every other Western nation. England is losing hard).

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Climate Doom To Make Las Vegas Super Hotter By 2050

By William Teach August 17, 2024 – 5:47 pm

There are climate cult over-reaches, and then there is this

A month more 100 degree days’: Climate change will roast Las Vegas

By the middle of the century, it’s going to be a lot hotter in Las Vegas, according to climate change models that were discussed this week at the 2024 Water Summit.

“We’re going to see a month more 100 degree days by mid-century,” Colby Pellegrino, deputy general manager at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said during a panel discussion at the Springs Preserve on Wednesday. She was talking about how climate change impacts Las Vegas and the Colorado River, where 90% of the valley’s water comes from.

Climate change models indicate temperatures will increase by 7 to 9 degrees, Pellegrino said.

Sherman Potter Bull Cookies

There’s been a 1.6F increase since 1850. Somehow the climate unicorn will increase temps 7 to 9 degrees in 25 years. Can they prove this? Or, is this just what they programmed the computer program to say?

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 17, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded because Other People won’t give up their fossil fueled travel, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Shot In The Dark, with a post on Walz’s 20 years of lies.

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Kamala Tries To Divorce Herself From Bidenomics Or Something

By William Teach August 17, 2024 – 10:30 am

Ever since Kamala was announced as Joe’s running mate they have termed it the Biden-Harris administration. She’s spent pretty much four years being a part of Bidenomics, so, now she wants to say she’s not part of it? Well, she actually makes it worse with Kamalanomics

Harris breaks from ‘Bidenomics’ in North Carolina

Don’t call it “Bidenomics.”

Vice President Kamala Harris used a speech on her economic platform Friday to try to distinguish herself as a candidate from President Joe Biden, casting her agenda as more ambitious and forward-looking. From her rhetoric to the phrases plastered around the room, Harris was sending that message loud and clear.

“Now is the time to chart a new way forward,” Harris said to a crowd in the closely divided state, as people chanted the words back. “To build an America where everyone’s work is rewarded and talents are valued, where we work with labor and business to strengthen the American economy, and where everyone has the opportunity not to just get by, but to get ahead.”

Behind the podium at Wake Tech Community College’s Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence, the words “OPPORTUNITY ECONOMY — LOWERING YOUR COSTS” served as a backdrop. And around the room, the words “A NEW WAY FORWARD,” filled large banners and signs waved by supporters. The crowd of roughly 200 people chanted “we’re not going back” as Harris attacked former President Donald Trump’s economic plans.

This is a long, long puff piece from Politico, which is light on her awful plans, like the “price gouging” plan and the one to give new home buyers $25,000 of other people’s money, both of which have been obliterated as Bad Ideas even by pundits and economists on the Left.

“”A loaf of bread costs 50% more today than it did before the pandemic. Ground beef is up almost 50%.”” Not exactly a winning statement about what happened during the Biden-Harris administration, eh? And, there were roughly about 200 people in a large auditorium, and the roads in that area were shut down as rush hour was starting on a Friday afternoon.

(Breitbart) Vice President Kamala Harris promised Friday that she would build 3 million new homes in four years if she were elected, but she and President Joe Biden barely managed to build eight EV charging stations in two-and-a-half years.

Let’s be honest, most of what she’s offering are simply patronizing ideas that will never be implemented. They’re just meant to be fake bribes to get votes. To get her base out to vote. Then to blame Republicans for not passing her ideas if she manages to win the presidency.

She can try to divorce herself from her own record all she wants: citizens have plenty of methods to find out the truth.

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