Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 11, 2024 – 9:08 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once and Future Nation Of America! The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I just noticed that Futurama is back for season 12. This pinup is by David Uhl, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15 (well, 16, added an extra)

  1. Green Jihad: Harris-Waltz Campaign Will Not Answer Questions About Tax Policy, Especially Carbon Taxes
  2. Jo Nova: Lost for 30 years in a freezer: The whole of Greenland melted away when CO2 was perfect — consensus broken
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That: The Incestuous Green Blob
  4. Watts Up With That?: WEF: Climate Change Causes Pakistani Men to Beat up Their Wives
  5. American Greatness: Kamala’s Abuse of Staff Exemplifies Leftist Culture
  6. Chicks On The Right: Gov. Gavin Newsom issues executive order for removal of homeless
  7. Cold Fury: US Vs “Great” Britainistan Round III
  8. Da Techguy’s Blog: Britain throws The Two Greatest Gifts to Mankind Away
  9. Gates Of Vienna: Kamala Stomps Her Little Foot — ‘Don’t Call It Radical Islamic Terrorism’
  10. Geller Report: “Think Before Your Post” is a Perfect Orwellian Slogan – Designed to Intimidate the Public into Silence
  11. IOTW Report: Dem Insider Says ‘Republicans For Harris’ is Scam Created By Kamala’s Campaign
  12. Twitchy: Snopes Unsure if Huge Crowds for Kamala Harris Don’t Cast Reflections
  13. Irons In The Fire: A short collection of responses to the Brits
  14. Jihad Watch: Tim Walz repeatedly hosted Muslim cleric who celebrated Oct. 7 jihad massacres and shared pro-Hitler website link
  15. Legal Insurrection: Unemotional Analysis: The sky is not falling for Trump, but Republicans need to get their act together
  16. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery: Harley-Davidson Gets Bud Lit

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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2028 Los Angeles Olympics Looking To Ban Cars

By William Teach August 11, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s never too early to push the climate cult crazy

No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues will only be accessible by public transportation

Traffic. What will you do about notorious gridlocked Los Angeles traffic? That’s the one burning question repeatedly posed to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she prepares to receive the Olympic flag ahead of the 2028 Summer Games.

“A no-car Games,” Bass said Saturday.

Huh?

Bass and Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA 2028 organizing committee, highlighted some of the planning already completed before Paris organizers hand the Games over to them during Sunday’s closing ceremony. Bass was preemptive about the traffic, addressing it in her opening remarks.

“We’re already working to create jobs by expanding our public transportation system in order for us to have a no-car Games,” she said. “And that’s a feat for Los Angeles, as we’ve always been in love with our cars. We’re working to ensure that we can build a greener Los Angeles.”

Working from home, that is.

Bass said public transportation will be the only way to access the Los Angeles venues, and her plan to address traffic snarls consists of both using 3,000 buses that will be borrowed from all over the country and asking businesses to allow their employees to work from home during the 17-day period.

I mean, it kinda makes sense, because traffic in LA can be a nightmare. Of course, much depends on where on LA the events will be held. And they better plan well, because all those millions of people coming to LA via fossil fueled flights and vehicles will be pretty mad if it is tough to get to the venues on these buses. And getting mugged and beaten and robbed. Seriously, LA isn’t really known for have a world class mass transit system, and what will the city do if citizens say “nope, I’m driving?”

Then there’s the homeless

Bass said she’s working at both the government level and with the private sector and vowed: “We are going to get Angelinos housed.”

“That is what we have been doing, and we’re going to continue to do that,” Bass said. “We will get people housed. We will get them off the street. We will get them into temporary housing, address the reason why they were unhoused and get them into permanent housing.”

Yeah, just like with Paris they will be cleaned out and forcibly relocated away.

Anyhow, I can’t wait for all the celebrities, politicians, and millionaire-actors to get caught driving their fancy sports car to an event, and all the average citizens who were told to “stay home” wondering what’s going on. Oh, and if Mayor Bass, provided she’s still mayor then, driving up in a limo.

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NY’s Climate Cult Governor Considers Relaxing Climate (scam) Goals

By William Teach August 10, 2024 – 4:12 pm

I wonder what could have brought this on?

Gov. Hochul Ponders a Relaxation of Goals Under New York’s Landmark Climate Law

After state officials admitted last month that New York State will likely miss a key deadline required by its ambitious 2019 climate law, business groups have seized the moment to lobby Gov. Kathy Hochul to relax the law’s basic mandates.

And Hochul sounds receptive to the idea.

“The costs have gone up so much I now have to say, ‘What is the cost on the typical New York family?’” the governor said in a recent TV interview. “The goals are still worthy. But we have to think about the collateral damage of these decisions. Either mitigate them or rethink them.”

The costs, eh? I was told that costs would come down from investing in and building all this green energy. No? Instead we’re getting collateral damage?

But that’s not going to happen, the state Public Service Commission (PSC) admitted in a draft report July 1. That 70 percent renewables target will not be met before 2033, it said.

Two weeks later, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a blistering audit that criticized the PSC and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for using outdated data in required CLCPA projections. It also said the PSC had failed to estimate the costs of the transition to renewables or to specify ways to cover those costs beyond loading them on ratepayers.

In other words, the report was complete mule fritters designed to deceive.

Robert Howarth, a Cornell University climate scientist, takes a different view.

“I am appalled at this pushback against the CLCPA by business interests pushing their short-sighted agenda,” Howarth told WaterFront. “Climate change is very real. The consequences of climate disruption (floods, droughts, fires, crop failures) are becoming increasingly obvious to all.

He can be appalled all he wants: he gets paid regardless by the taxpayers, and the union can push for and demand raises that the private sector cannot afford.

“The passage of time does not change the law and it doesn’t make the climate crisis magically disappear,” state Sen. Liz Krueger, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, posted on X (formerly Twitter) after Hochul’s TV interview was aired July 18. “We are dangerously behind on the science-based mandates in CLCPA. It’s time to redouble our efforts, and build a more affordable, healthier, livable future for New Yorkers.”

1st, the whole push for green energy has increased costs, not decreased them. Second, has she considered asking the citizens of NY? What do they think?

Anyhow, renewable projects have been cancelled, which hurts the push (because the costs have gotten too high). The sale of EVs have stalled out (because those who wanted them got them, and the rest find them too expensive or inconvenient). And the state needs more and more energy, and green energy cannot compete.

So the costs to achieve CLCPA’s mandates are both rising and uncertain.

“I can’t do things without knowing the cost on consumers in either educating them that they believe this is the way to go because it’s good for the future … or making it go just a little bit slower,” the governor said.

I’ve said many times that every experiment needs an experimental group, and we’re seeing that his experimental group is not doing well when reality intrudes.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 10, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible storm from carbon pollution rushing to the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on Tim Walz’s 30 year relationship with China.

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Kamala Promises To Get Tough On Border Once She’s In Office Or Something

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

Will Politico note that Harris has been VP since 2021 and failed to show up at the border when Biden put her in charge? Maybe we can refer to her campaign website and see her policy positions? Oh, wait, all it does is ask for donations

Harris promises to go tough on border security

Less than 200 miles from the southern border, Vice President Kamala Harris promised to fight for “strong border security,” going after Donald Trump for killing immigration legislation that would have curtailed asylum and promising to sign such a bill into law if elected.

“I was attorney general of a border state. I went after the transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers,” Harris said, touching on an issue she has rarely spoken about in depth. “I prosecuted them in case after case and I won, so I know what I’m talking about.”

Speaking in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 supporters at the Desert Diamond Arena, Harris blamed Trump for the failure of Congress to pass a bipartisan border deal earlier this year: “He talks a big game about border security but he does not walk the walk,” Harris said to a raucous Sun Belt crowd.

“We know our immigration system is broken and we know what it takes to fix it: comprehensive reform. That includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship,” Harris said.

Comprehensive reform is not getting tough, it’s giving amnesty in some form, and that border bill didn’t do a lot to stop illegal immigration. Rewarding illegals for coming illegally/overstaying visas is not getting tough

The remarks are part of an aggressive effort by the Harris campaign to flip the issue of immigration and border security, long a political liability for Democrats and the vice president in particular. Polls show Americans believe Republicans are more effective on the issue, a perception the GOP has worked to reinforce in recent weeks by condemning Harris’ efforts on the subject as vice president.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, here’s Trump’s ad

Her campaign has tried

Democrats have typically shied away from the issue, but Harris’s camp has suggested a more aggressive posture, framing her as tough on the border throughout her career. Harris’s remarks Friday were similar to a new campaign ad up on TV earlier in the morning that pushed a tough-on-immigration message.

“As vice president, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades. And as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. Fixing the border is tough. So is Kamala Harris,” a voice read over videos of Harris’ political career.

Why didn’t the Biden-Harris administration do this for almost 4 years?

Notably on Friday, Harris declared her support for “comprehensive reform that includes strong border security and an earned pathway to citizenship” — referencing a policy compromise that was at the heart of every past immigration negotiation over the past two decades until the recent Senate talks.

So, amnesty with little border enforcement. I mean, she has to respond to the attacks, but, even with the Credentialed Media in her corner, will it help win over new voters?

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Wackos Push For Intersection Of Gender Transformation And ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach August 10, 2024 – 7:00 am

But, remembers, ‘climate change’ is totally about science

A gender-transformative climate change programming guide: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean

PURPOSE OF THE GUIDE: This guide and accompanying tools have been developed to support and encourage UNICEF country offices (COs) globally and in particular, those in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) –to plan and implement gender-transformative climate change programmes. Currently, few organizations or initiatives work at the intersection of child rights, gender equality and climate change, and there is a need and opportunity for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to spearhead local, national and global action around these critical issues.

It is important to recognize that gender norm change, a key component of gender-transformative programming, takes time to develop. Effective transformation may start by bringing a gender lens to programmes that have a limited focus on gender and by integrating additional elements that push the bar further towards deep-seated change. Climate change programmes designed with the ambition to achieve gender transformation over the long term can run alongside initiatives with short- or medium-term time horizons and goals. It is important to monitor and share these intermediate steps and results since they demonstrate possible pathways towards gender-transformative climate change programming. In this respect, COs are encouraged to share and document their experiences, challenges and successes to support colleagues working towards similar goals in the LAC region and beyond.

The present guide is intended to support UNICEF COs as they develop gender-transformative climate change programming, progressively grow their aspirations and accumulate valuable experiences. This guide, in particular, includes five practical tools that have been developed to assist UNICEF staff in integrating a gender-transformative approach into key stages of climate change programming – from identifying the gendered impacts of climate change on children, including underlying gender structures and norms, through to gender-transformative programme and indicator design, as well as identifying key areas for influencing national governments.

On one hand, it seems like they are pushing for protection of children, especially females. In the next, it looks like they are linking climate doom with transgender madness. It just goes to show that the cult will link every issue.

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Jew/Israel Hating Democrats Threaten To Withhold Votes Unless Kamala Complies

By William Teach August 10, 2024 – 6:45 am

The Hamas Caucus is making demands

Anti-Israel voters warn Harris won’t get their vote without a cease-fire: ‘This is our leverage’

Some anti-Israel voters in swing states are resisting calls to support Vice President Kamala Harris in November, vowing to stay home without a cease-fire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel.

“This is our leverage,” Hannah Zellman, a social worker from Philadelphia told The Washington Post of her protest vote.

Her friend Leah Shepperd, a child-care provider and longtime Democrat, agreed.

The swing state voters are part of the progressive movement putting pressure on the Harris campaign and the Biden administration to withdraw U.S. weapons to Israel and demand a cease-fire in Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

Voters in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin sent a message to President Biden in the primaries by marking “uncommitted” on their ballots to protest his support for Israel. After Harris became the Democratic nominee, Shepperd and Zellman signed a pledge declaring that Harris must bring about a cease-fire to win their votes.

Michigan and Wisconsin could be huge if they withhold their votes, with all the imported Islamists from Somalia,Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, you know, places where there are lots of extremists, which we’ve brought into the US post 9/11 for some reason. If they stay home, that could easily give Trump the win in those states, plus, damage down ballot votes.

But, will Cackles go full bore and placate them? And will Jews finally realize that the a large segment of the Democrat party hates them? Will other non-hard left Democrats finally realize that the base of the party and so many elected officials are anti-Semites and supporters of radical Islam?

(JPost) An Israeli airstrike on a car deep inside Lebanon killed a senior Hamas commander on Friday evening, the IDF, Hamas, and security sources reported.

The strike, on the southern edges of the Lebanese port city of Sidon, some 60 kilometers (nearly 40 miles) from the frontier, killed Samer Mahmoud al-Haj, a Hamas security official who works in the nearby refugee camp for Palestinians, Ain al-Hilweh. His bodyguard was critically wounded, the three sources said.

Al-Haj was responsible for directing attacks against Israel, the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) reported in a joint statement. He was also reportedly the commander of Hamas forces in Ain al-Hilweh and was responsible for recruiting and training more terrorists there.

Terrorist goes boom.

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Climate Cranks Put Up Anti-Fossil Fuels Billboards

By William Teach August 9, 2024 – 4:05 pm

They are so amusing

‘Make Polluters Pay’: Big Oil Slammed in Satirical US Billboards

Across the United States this week, the climate disasters fueled by Big Oil will be displayed on billboards in California, New York, Arizona, and Philadelphia.

The bold campaign, launched by non-profit organization Fossil Free Media, calls out the decades of misinformation spread by oil and gas companies as they sowed doubt about the environmental dangers of burning fossil fuels while greenwashing their public image.

The Make Polluters Pay campaign captures the devastating impacts of the climate crisis specific to each state: Images depicting the Paradise fire in California, extreme heatwaves in Arizona, and wreckage left behind by widespread flooding triggered by Hurricane Ida in New York are contrasted with the phrases “Brought to you by Big Oil” and “Superstorms: Sponsored by Big Oil.”

The Paradise Fire was caused by a faulty transmission line in an area prone to drought in a state which refuses to allow clear cutting, cleanup of dead brush, backburns, and fire breaks. Hurricanes happen

According to Cassidy DiPaola, the communications director for the Make Polluters Pay campaign, the group faced push back when trying to place billboards in Houston, Texas. “Billboard owners there weren’t willing to work with us, citing concerns about upsetting their oil and gas industry clients,” said DiPaola, adding that the owners even asked if the message could be made “more positive” and avoid using the term “Big Oil.”

“It’s hard to imagine how you can make homes burning down and people dying from extreme heat into something positive,” continued DiPaola. “This pushback shows just how powerful the fossil fuel industry’s influence is and the fear they instill, even in the advertising world.”

What amuses me is that the people who will see these will be mostly be driving fossil fueled vehicles which get them reliably, dependably, and cheaply to work, school, the store, etc, and have no intention of giving them up. Then, that the billboard stands were erected using fossil fueled machines and vehicles, and them the billboards themselves were transported using fossil fuels. If these people do not want to use fossil fuels, have at it. Leave the rest of us alone.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 9, 2024 – 1:53 pm

…is extreme rain from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on Gov. Youngkin signing an order requiring paper ballots.

Anyone see any issues? Something went hinky for not reason with SSL code in a WordPress file, causing “too many redirects”. I had to backdoor into the system to remove the code, which has been there for at least 6 years. I made zero changes to plugins or anything else yesterday, could be linked to Cloudfare? No clue.

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Fifteen States Sue To Stop Illegals From Getting Obamacare

By William Teach August 9, 2024 – 10:30 am

Remember this?

Asked by CBS News’ Katie Couric in an exclusive interview whether illegal immigrants should be covered under a new health care plan, President Obama responded simply, “no.” But he said there may need to be an exception to that policy for children.

Yet, lots of American children are not being given free healthcare, and, ever since, Democrats have been trying to give illegals government paid for health insurance and care

15 states sue to block Biden’s effort to help migrants in US illegally get health coverage

Americans before illegalsFifteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance.

The states are seeking to block the rule from taking effect Nov. 1 and providing people known as “Dreamers” access to tax breaks when they sign up for coverage. The Affordable Care Act’s marketplace enrollment opens the same day, just four days ahead of the presidential election.

The states filed suit in North Dakota, one of the states involved. All have Republican attorneys general who are part of a GOP effort to thwart Biden administration rules advancing Democratic policy goals.

The lawsuit argues that the rule violates a 1996 welfare reform law and the ACA. They also said it would encourage more immigrants to come to the U.S. illegally, burdening the states and their public school systems. Many economists have concluded that immigrants provide a net economic benefit, and immigration appears to have fueled job growth after the COVID-19 pandemic that prevented a recession.

Except, so many of these illegals are on the public dole, and take jobs from Americans. Regardless, what part of them “being unlawfully present in the United States” is misunderstood?

“Illegal aliens shouldn’t get a free pass into our country,” Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said in a statement. “They shouldn’t receive taxpayer benefits when they arrive, and the Biden-Harris administration shouldn’t get a free pass to violate federal law.”

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials did not immediately respond Thursday to an email seeking comment about the lawsuit. But Biden said in May in outlining the rule that he was “committed to providing Dreamers the support they need to succeed.” The Biden administration is shielding them from deportation.

The “Dreamers” have been ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs because they did not meet the definition of having a “lawful presence” in the U.S. The states filing the lawsuit said declaring their lawful presence by rule is “illogical on its face,” given that they’d face deportation without Biden administration intervention.

Democrats keep looking for ways to help out the invasion.

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