If All You See…

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post on the Trump admin locating 80K of the 320K missing migrant kinds from under Biden.

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Trump Floats Gazans Going To Egypt And Jordan, Immediately Rejected

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

Sometimes you just have to throw some ideas against the wall

Trump wants Egypt and Jordan to take in Palestinians from Gaza. Here’s why the idea is rejected

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was met with a hard “no” Sunday from the two U.S. allies along with the Palestinians themselves, who fear Israel would never allow them to return.

Trump floated the idea on Saturday, saying he would urge the leaders of the two Arab countries to take in Gaza’s now largely homeless population, so that “we just clean out that whole thing.” He added that resettling most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million could be temporary or long term.

“It’s literally a demolition site right now,” Trump said, referring to the vast destruction caused by Israel’s 15-month war with Hamas, now paused by a fragile ceasefire.

“I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump said.

Hamas and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority condemned the idea. Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, told journalists that his country’s rejection of the proposed transfer of Palestinians was “firm and unwavering.”

Egypt, Jordan, and Israel have not responded, though, both Egypt and Jordan have said not to taking Gazans in early in the war. And, pretty much for 50+ years. Because they do not want them. They are a big problem. They create instability and violence. There’s a reason Egypt built a big-ass wall on the border between Gaza and Egypt with all sorts of security.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has also warned of the security implications of transferring large numbers of Palestinians to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, bordering Gaza.

Hamas and other militant groups are deeply rooted in Palestinian society and are likely to move with the refugees, which would mean that future wars would be fought on Egyptian soil. That could unravel the historic Camp David peace treaty, a cornerstone of regional stability.

Exactly. But, you know, it was an idea. Sometimes ideas have to be thrown out there. How about the Gazans moving to an island in the Adriatic Sea? There are tons of them, certainly there is one big enough that is not settled. Oh, right, they want to be close to Israel so they can continue trying to kill Jews.

Or, how about the Gazans just stop being violent? Stop backing terrorist groups. Stop allowing Iran to fund it. Stop turning water pipes into rockets. Just. Stop.

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Your Fault: 242 Children Missed School From Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is a new one, but, the doomsday cult is always looking for new angles to try and get government to control people’s lives. But, hey, just wait till you get deep into the article.

Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year

Climate change is having a major impact on students around the world. Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year—roughly one in seven students, the UN children’s agency reported Thursday, deploring what it said was an “overlooked” aspect of the climate crisis.

Heat waves had the biggest impact, the report showed, as UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell warned children are “more vulnerable” to extreme weather.

“They heat up faster, they sweat less efficiently, and cool down more slowly than adults,” she said in a statement.

“Children cannot concentrate in classrooms that offer no respite from sweltering heat, and they cannot get to school if the path is flooded, or if schools are washed away.”

Human activity, including the unrestricted burning of fossil fuels over decades, has warmed the planet and changed weather patterns.

So, a bunch of kids here in North Carolina missed school because the roads were icy and it was very cold (for here) last week: is that from fossil fueled ‘climate change’?

If the emission of greenhouse gases continues on its current trajectory, eight times as many children will be exposed to heat waves in 2050 as in 2000, according to UNICEF projections.

More than three times as many would be exposed to extreme floods and 1.7 times more to wildfires, the projections showed.

And what if this doesn’t happen? Who gets fired for the scaremongering? Say, how much school did kids miss during the Little Ice Age?

Beyond the immediate impacts, UNICEF voiced fears that the damage could increase the risk of some children—girls in particular—dropping out of school altogether.

How about the girls that are forbidden to go to school in Islamist countries?

Already, some two-thirds of children around the world cannot read with comprehension by age 10, it said, adding: “Climate hazards are exacerbating this reality.”

Oh, FFS, now they’re blaming crappy teaching on Hotcoldwetdry.

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ICE Starts Immigration Raids In Sanctuary City Chicago Sunday

By William Teach January 27, 2025 – 6:45 am

I still think that Trump should have gone after illegals in areas that do not want them first, but, this sets a tone, and dares Democrats to block federal law enforcement agents

ICE says ‘targeted operations’ are underway in Chicago; feds target at least 2 Albany Park buildings

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted on the ground in Chicago as the agency said “targeted operations” are underway Sunday.

ICE released a statement on Sunday saying that it is working alongside multiple federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Marshals service.

ICE went on to say together they have started “conducting enhanced, targeted operations today in Chicago to enforce U.S. immigration law.”

President Donald Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove are in town to oversee the deportation operations. (snip)

While Homan says for now, they are focusing on criminals with arrest warrants or deportation orders against them, the fear many have is that others, who Homan has referred to as “collaterals,” will also be arrested.

Well, yeah, because, at the end of the day, illegals/fake asylum seekers who have not committed crimes in their home country or in the US still broke federal immigration law, which, for a first offense is a small fine and deportation

Pritzker on immigration raids: ‘We need to get rid of violent criminals,’ not ‘law-abiding’ residents

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said he’s eager to cooperate with federal immigration officials to “get rid” of criminals but questioned the basis for targeting “law-abiding” residents integrated into communities.

“Let me start by being clear that when we’re talking about violent criminals who’ve been convicted and who are undocumented, we don’t want them in our state. We want them out of the country. We hope they do get deported, and if that’s who they’re picking up, we’re all for it,” Pritzker said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“They show up with a warrant, and we’re going to hand over people who are in our prisons, who are in our jails, who fit that description,” he added.

Two points: first, that law abiding have already broken the law, as I mentioned. Second, for all Pritzker says he doesn’t want them, he’s protecting them by being a sanctuary state which directs law enforcement to never contact ICE, even if it is an illegal who raped and murdered a child. Notice he says he won’t hand them over without a warrant, meaning jails have been instructed to not accept a detainer, which is the norm for ICE.

Pritzker said the best approach would be to provide a path to citizenship for those people.

“Why are we going after them?” he continued. “These are not people who are causing problems in our country, and what we need is a path to citizenship for them.”

There’s a way to do that: apply for citizenship outside of the US and go through the process. Otherwise, f*** off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 26, 2025 – 1:47 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer making the world super humid and hazy, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on why the Red Cross is a scam charity.

It’s beer week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 26, 2025 – 8:56 am

Patriotic Pinup David Uhl

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Returned America. The Sun is shining, the moonbats are baying, and America is back. This pinup is by David Uhl, nothing else added.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad: Trump Overturns Biden Energy Standards For Household Appliances
  2. Watts Up With That?: Davos: UN Introduces AI as “The next existential threat”
  3. American Greatness: Trump 2.0: A Shockwave of Change in Just Six Days
  4. Bearing Arms: Debate Over VA Trampling Veterans’ Gun Rights Far from Over
  5. Climate Depot: Zuckerberg vows to stop censoring, but ‘climate skeptics’ say it may be ‘too little, too late’
  6. Cold Fury: When You Strike at a King….
  7. Common Cents Blog: Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Message To The Troops:
  8. Gates Of Vienna: An Allahu Akhbar Moment at a Supermarket in Provence
  9. Gatestone Institute: ‘We Are Going to Behead You and Get a Big Reward’: The Persecution of Christians, December 2024
  10. IOTW Report: California Ballot Initiative to Secede the Union Cleared to Gather Signatures
  11. Jihad Watch: Noem Confirmed as DHS Secretary
  12. Legal Insurrection: President Trump Ends Biden’s War on Menthol Cigarettes
  13. Moonbattery: Mayor of Philadelphia Cannot Spell “Eagles”
  14. neo-neocon: Politico seems to be trying out a new stance on Trump
  15. And last, but not least, The Other McCain has Is the ‘Patriot Front’ a Fed PsyOp?

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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Surprise: CIA Now Leaning Towards Chinese Lab Leak For COVID

By William Teach January 26, 2025 – 7:00 am

Many Credentialed Media outlets are leaving heavily on the “low confidence” assessment, but, that the CIA is even admitting this now is extraordinary. Heck, even printing articles on it, after years of calling people nutjobs and conspiracy theorists for saying it leaked from Wuhan and not from the wet market

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there.

But the agency issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the lab theory.

There is no new intelligence behind the agency’s shift, officials said. Rather it is based on the same evidence it has been chewing over for months.

The analysis, however, is based in part on a closer look at the conditions in the high security labs in Wuhan province before the pandemic outbreak, according to people familiar with the agency’s work.

It’s something most with a working brain thought back in early 2020, that it was just too convenient that COVID-19 started in the wet market because someone at a bat or something, particularly since the Wuhan Institute of Virology has had leaks before and is not known for their stellar security and medical protocols. Why is it so necessary to protect the Chinese government? Or, is it about protecting Anthony Fauci and the others who were funding the gain of function research in an adversarial nation?

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, ordered a new classified review of the pandemic’s origin. As part of that review, the agency’s previous director, William J. Burns, told analysts that they needed to take a position on the origins of Covid, though he was agnostic on which theory they should embrace, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.

Should they not have been looking at this hard starting from the beginning of the Biden admin? You know, intelligence gathering, the mission of the CIA and other intelligence agencies? This is rather important information, seeing as how there have been over 1.1 million deaths reported to be connected to COVID. It might be nice to know the origination, right?

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, questions have swirled around whether the two labs handling coronaviruses in Wuhan had followed safety protocols strictly enough.

It’s just a coinkydink that they were working on Coronaviruses up the road from the wet market, right?

Even in the absence of hard intelligence, the lab leak hypothesis has been gaining ground inside spy agencies. But some analysts question the wisdom of shifting a position in absence of new information.

There was never any real evidence to support it coming from the wet market, especially since the Chinese government was saying it and blocking WHO from investigating.

BTW, does anyone else yell expletives at the TV/radio when they hear a commercial pushing Bat Flu Virus shots?

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Climate Freakout: It Could Maybe Possibly Cut the Economy In Half

By William Teach January 25, 2025 – 3:13 pm

It’s always some sort of future doom with this crowd

Climate Change Could Cut the Economy in Half. We’re Not Ready for It.

Later this century, sometime toward my teenage son’s late middle age, climate change might torch 50 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. I’ll say that again. Sometime around 2070–2090, climate change could be doing so much damage to ecological and human systems, and the links between them, that the global economy could contract by half. (For comparison: The U.S. economy shrank by roughly 30 percent in the Great Depression.)

This projection may sound exaggerated to the point of being implausible. Yes, two entire regions of Los Angeles burned to the ground last week. Yes, preliminary estimates of the cost of this one disaster range from $40 to $250 billion. But U.S. GDP is roughly $27 trillion; global GDP $107 trillion. Wouldn’t the U.S. and world economies be orders of magnitude more gigantic by 2070? Surely climate change couldn’t wipe out all that wealth?

No, it doesn’t sound implausible, it sounds like the ravings of a fruitcake doomsday cult

According to the U.K. Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, it could. Actuaries are mathematicians who assess economic risk for banks, insurance companies, and governments. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, or IFoA, is the professional association that regulates actuaries in the United Kingdom; it traces its roots to the nineteenth century. It’s hardly an environmental advocacy group, let alone a radical one. Yet last week it released a study in collaboration with scientists at the University of Exeter showing that economists have severely underestimated the potentially catastrophic economic costs of global heating. Again, worst-case scenario, we lose 50 percent of GDP this century.

Even understanding the credentials behind the study, many people will still find this figure implausible. Why is that? Humanity is entering a climate regime that has no precedent in our species’ history. The last time there was this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the oceans were so much higher that the eastern coastline of what would become North America ended about one hundred miles west of where it is currently. The Arctic, now largely a frozen wasteland, was a lush pinewood populated by giant camels. And our economy is adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere faster than any other phenomenon in geological history has ever done. It is absurd to imagine that severely damaging the climate would not severely damage the economy, which relies on a stable climate, even in the coming decades.

Just complete wackos. Can’t this cult be like other cults and just leave other people out of it?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 25, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a storm forming because of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the NEA promoting World Hijab Day.

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Secretary Of State Rubio Halts Almost All Foreign Aid

By William Teach January 25, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s just temporary, but, it just shows that the Trump admin is serious about revamping the way government works

Secretary of State Marco Rubio orders halt to almost all U.S. foreign aid

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered an immediate stop to the flow of almost all U.S. foreign assistance Friday pending a review, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NBC News.

The directive sent to all consular and diplomatic posts follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending reviews “for programmatic efficiency and consistency” with U.S. foreign policy, within 90 days of the order.

The memo stipulates that U.S. departments, agencies and entities “shall not provide foreign assistance funded by or through the Department and USAID without the Secretary of State’s authorization or the authorization of his designee.”

Rubio issued a waiver for foreign military financing for both Israel and Egypt, but no other countries were specifically mentioned in the cable. Rubio spoke with both his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts Thursday ahead of the directive.

A waiver was also approved for “emergency food assistance and administrative expenses, including salaries, necessary to administer such assistance.” The salaries of U.S. direct-hire employees and locally employed staff also received a waiver on a “temporary basis.”

This is obviously making Democrats Very Upset, since they care more about giving American taxpayer money to other nations, including those who hate the U.S. and which are a complete waste. They want the cash spigot to stay open, and definitely do not want any sort of review over how the money is spent and where it goes and how it is disbursed and if there is any, you know, fraud and waste.

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking access to reproductive health centers

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and reproductive health centers, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.

Prosecutions and civil actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or “FACE Act” will now be permitted only in “extraordinary circumstances” or in cases presenting ”significant aggravating factors,” attorney general chief of staff Chad Mizelle said in a memo sent to the head of the department’s Civil Rights Division.

Mizelle also ordered the immediate dismissal of three FACE Act cases related to 2021 blockades of clinics in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Good. How this law has sustained judicial review for being against the 1st Amendment, I do not know.

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