Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 15, 2024 – 9:20 am

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the new car drove like a dream on a quick trip. This pinup is by Fritz Willis, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Greenie Watch: Frustrated wannabe authoritarians
  2. Green Jihad: Hollywood Bowl Canceled Due To California Power Grid Strain
  3. No Tricks Zone: Studies That ‘Confirm’ Humans Cause Climate Rely On Imaginary-World Conditions In Their Calculations
  4. Watts Up With That?: Steel Giant May Have to Bail On $500 Million Biden-Harris Admin Green Grant, CEO Says
  5. American Greatness: The Unbalanced Foreign Policy of the Biden-Harris Regime
  6. Chicks On The Right: Taylor Swift’s Endorsement Is Backfiring On Democrats
  7. Climate Depot: UK Independent promotes Halloween scare! ‘Halloween pumpkins contribute to the climate crisis’ as ‘methane emitters’
  8. Geller Report: Pennsylvania Supreme Court OVERRULES Lower Court: Undated, Mis-Dated Mail-in Ballots Cannot Be Counted, Flawed Ballots are “UNCONSTITUTIONAL”
  9. LMAO: One Ounce of Secret Service. Pound of LGBTQ etc. Pinch of Disney Characters. Put in Blender; Mix Well
  10. IOTW Report: ‘This Error Is Regrettable’: Hundreds Of Non-Citizens Registered To Vote By Oregon’s Department Of Motor Vehicles
  11. Jihad Watch: Brooklyn: Muslims honor ‘our honorable and beloved martyrs and freedom fighters Ismail Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr’
  12. Legal Insurrection: New DOJ Report Confirms Trump’s Debate Comments on Rising Crime Were Right
  13. Moonbattery: John Legend Personifies Liberal Ruling Class
  14. neo-neocon: Kamala Harris in 2020 on gun control by executive order
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit: Tampon Tim wants you to go to strangers at grocery stores and ask if they voted yet

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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Stage Setting: NY Times Says To Expect It To Take A While For The 2024 Election Results

By William Teach September 15, 2024 – 7:00 am

And they know this 2 months out how?

New York Times Says to Expect Election Results to Take a While

Expect election results in November to take a while, the New York Times told its readers Friday, a warning that appears to preempt an expectation that Americans should know who wins the presidential election on Election Night.

Before modern technology, close presidential elections often were decided in the early morning of the next day, such as the 1960 presidential election between Robert F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, which some political experts believe was stolen from Nixon.

Now, in the 21st century, close election results still take a similar amount of time or even longer, depending on the state in question. In 2020, election results were not determined until four days after Election Day.

Americans should not expect to know who won the 2024 presidential election on the night of the election because of “intense security measures required for counting mail-in ballots,” the Times reported:

Counting mail ballots takes more time because there are more steps involved. A variety of security measures, including signature verification and ensuring that voters did not also try to vote in person, are required. Election officials must open the ballots and flatten them out before they can be put in a tabulator to be counted.

Weird. Prior to 2016, and especially 2020, it was easy to count mail in ballots. But, are you really believing the Times’ rationale? It sounds more like they are looking for ways to stretch it out to make sure all the cheat by mail ballots get counted.

But, yeah, more are using it, and Republicans are trying to get those who wouldn’t usually go vote to do vote by mail. Perhaps it’s time to go back to the way voting was meant to be?

The problem is not that it could take a little time: it’s that the time stretches on beyond reasonable, and that Democrats attempt to hide what they’re doing as they’re counting.

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Democrats Introduce Bill To Tax You For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach September 14, 2024 – 5:16 pm

Well, it’s really on the fossil fuels companies, but, it will be you paying it through higher prices on everything

Democrats seek to tax fossil fuel companies over climate change

A large group of Democrats is looking to force the fossil fuel industry to pay for climate change.

Lawmakers unveiled a bill Thursday that would allow the Treasury Department to impose fees on major fossil fuel companies that are owned or operated in the U.S.

The legislation seeks to establish a $1 trillion fund that companies would have to pay into based on their share of planet-warming emissions. The money would go toward infrastructure upgrades, cleaning up pollution and providing assistance after climate-related disasters.

Oh, cool, a slush fund for Democrats to line their pockets and hook up their big campaign supporters

“After fueling the climate crisis for decades, big polluters can no longer run from their responsibility to address the harm they have done,” said Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), the bill’s Senate sponsor, in a written statement. The bill’s House sponsors are Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.).

None of whom have given up their own fossil fueled travel. Yes, it matters.

The bill would also likely face an uphill battle under almost any Senate composition given the upper chamber’s 60-vote threshold for avoiding a filibuster.

Even if Democrats regain the House, it won’t pass the Senate. However, this tells you exactly what they want to do. You think food is expensive now? How about your energy bill? Just wait.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2024 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on this week in radical leftism.

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Politico: The Next President Has Limited Ability To Lower The Food Costs Covid And Biden-Harris Spiked

By William Teach September 14, 2024 – 10:30 am

This article is an attempt to protect Kamala from the food increases that occurred under her watch

What presidents can and can’t do to lower grocery prices

A majority of U.S. consumers believe elected officials, of one party or the other, can help lower their grocery bills — an expectation that could help swing the election, given how important inflation is to likely voters in 2024.

The truth is likely to disappoint them. Despite what both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are promising on the campaign trail, the next leader of the free world has limited options to lower food costs in the speedy or widespread way many voters might hope. (Just ask President Joe Biden, who struggled for much of his presidency to show Americans he was reining in grocery prices). That said, POLITICO spoke to a number of economists who argued there are good reasons to go after some of the drivers of high food costs, even if the impacts won’t be felt for some time.

Joe did? How? Most of his policies made things worse. Who was sitting right there with him? Did Politico miss that they called it the Biden-Harris administration since day one?

POLITICO took a look at some of the policies Biden, Harris and Trump have used, or said they plan to use, to address high food prices and the limitations of each. Neither the Harris nor Trump campaigns responded to a request for comment.

First they discuss Kamala’s price gouging idiocy, and it comes to the conclusion everyone knows: it has zero chance of passing Congress, and it would actually make food prices worse.

Then they touch on Trump wanting to increase the energy supply, and their “reality check” states

The U.S. government has limited influence over those global prices, which are shaped by market and geopolitical factors. Gas prices dropped during the early months of the pandemic, for example, because millions of people stayed home and dramatically reduced their gas consumption. But as the Bureau of Labor Statistics documented, prices surged as society reopened and the economy started to rebound.

While energy prices have consistently been higher under Biden than they were during Trump’s first term, they have dropped from their heights in 2022, when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent global prices soaring. As the Agriculture Department noted in February, fuel and oil costs saw significant declines in 2023 and are expected to decline again in 2024, thanks to drops in global energy prices. U.S. oil prices in the past few days have dropped to their lowest level in two years as OPEC+ says it will increase its own oil production later this year and fuel demand in China looks weaker.

Except, energy prices are still higher than they were during the Trump years. If you bring them down by even just 50 cents a gallon, especially for diesel, you significantly decrease the supply chain costs. Couple that with decreasing the cost of energy to run businesses and farms and such, and food prices come down without disinflation (which is often bad). You’re just lowering the cost of doing business. The Ukraine war has a very, very, very limited impact on US food prices and energy.

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UK To Fund Small Scale Geoengineering Projects

By William Teach September 14, 2024 – 7:15 am

What could possibly go wrong?

U.K. to Fund ‘Small-Scale’ Outdoor Geoengineering Tests

A British science agency will provide 57 million pounds, or about $75 million, for researchers to examine ideas for artificially cooling the planet — including outdoor experiments to determine whether any of those ideas could actually work.

The announcement, by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, is among the largest single infusions of money to date toward research into “solar geoengineering”: the notion of injecting particles into the air to deflect some of the sun’s radiation back into space with the goal of reducing the Earth’s temperature.

The government initiative is focused on testing several types of solar geoengineering. Those approaches could include injecting aerosols, such as sulfur dioxide, into the stratosphere or shooting sea-salt aerosols into low-lying marine clouds to reflect more sunlight away from the Earth.

Frank Keutsch, a geoengineering researcher at Harvard, said that as far as he knew, it was the first time that a government has called for proposals for outdoor experiments.

So, what happens if they test these, and actually mess up the climate? Because it is primarily driven by water vapor and the big nuclear furnace at the center of the solar system. But, hey, it’s a wonderful way to burn taxpayer money for usually no results.

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Pro-Hamas Groups Sued Over Traffic Blockades

By William Teach September 14, 2024 – 7:00 am

In a sane world, the people blocking roads would be arrested, charged, prosecuted, and given some sort of punishment, even if it is a bunch of community service, with penalties escalating if they are caught doing it again. What we’ve mostly seen is the Jew haters mostly just let go. So

Anti-Israel Groups Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Coordinated Traffic Blockade

Several anti-Israel organizations that formed an illegal blockade across the highway leading to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport are facing a class action lawsuit from travelers who were trapped in the traffic jam.

Left-wing groups, including the Tides Center—a George Soros-funded dark money network—Community Justice Exchange, and National Students for Justice in Palestine, among others, coordinated a “multi-city economic blockade” on April 15 targeting major airports, highways, and bridges. In one instance, activists shut down access to O’Hare, backing up traffic and forcing some travelers to walk with their luggage to the airport.

Keffiyeh-clad activists handcuffed themselves, linked arms with drain pipes, and later sat side-by-side on Interstate 190 leading to the Chicago airport. The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed a lawsuit on Monday against the organizers for “imprisoning” thousands of travelers in vehicles on their way to O’Hare, according to the complaint.

But, were these protests protected by the 1st as peaceable? Also Article 1 Section 5 of the Illinois Constitution.

Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute cofounder and litigation director Ted Frank told the Washington Free Beacon the First Amendment does not protect criminal activity.

“These sorts of abusive roadblocking tactics have been used with impunity over the last few years, and the organizations seem to think that they can do that too,” Frank said.

“But when you injure people, when you commit torts against individual people, there’s not just criminal enforcement, but also civil enforcement,” he added. “We hope that this lawsuit vindicates that principle, vindicates the rights of the people who were adversely affected, encourages other such lawsuits, and discourages such tactics in the future.”

Too bad the suits can’t force the government to deport all those who are not natural born back to their Islamist nations. Or, just, out of the U.S.

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Global Boiling Is Terrifying To GenZ Or Something

By William Teach September 13, 2024 – 4:25 pm

It’s not terrifying enough for them to give up their own use of fossil fuels, often to just go take selfies, nor their fast fashion, nor constantly getting new smartphones, nor the enormous amounts of energy they use to stream everything on a constant basis. They won’t stop fighting, though, for government to raise their cost of living, tax/fee them heavily, restrict their freedom of speech and life choices

Climate change is terrifying. These young people won’t give up fighting it.

Southern Californians emerged from a prolonged and punishing heat wave this week only to be greeted by a world on fire. Major blazes in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties are gnawing through sun-baked hillsides, threatening lives and properties and blanketing the region with noxious ash and smoke. (An earthquake on Thursday only ramped up the tension.)

Are they trying to link the earthquake in? Why mention it?

The hellish conditions offer an all-too-real preview of a climate future dominated by more extreme temperatures and larger, faster and more frequent wildfires driven by fossil fuel emissions.

Hellish!

It’s no surprise, then, that young people are collectively concerned about what lies ahead. A recent Yale survey indicated that Gen Z and millennials are the most likely generations to be alarmed about global warming.

Their anxieties — and their commitment to solutions — inspired my colleagues to fan out across our beats to better understand how young people were grappling with climate change and extreme weather. One thing we heard over and over: People are anxious. After all, it’s hard not to feel existential dread at a moment when carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are soaring, global temperatures are breaking new records and climate hazards are touching more and more lives.

They have been inundated with prognostications of doom. That everyone is going to die. That a mass extinction will happen. That all the corals and sea life will die. That the planet will boil. So, yeah, they’ve been turned into emotional messes, just like cults do. This is a state sponsored cult, though, with it being taught in schools, with lawmakers and bureaucrats doing it. With most news outlets preaching doom.

One way to address these fears, my colleague Rosanna Xia wrote in this powerful essay, is to focus less on individualism and more on the collective.

Oh, communism. Surprise?

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 13, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible Bad Weather snow in the desert nation of Lebanon, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, with a post on age and temperament.

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Australian Government Will Fine Social Media Companies If They Do Not Moderate “Misinformation”

By William Teach September 13, 2024 – 10:30 am

What is misinformation? Is it like most major intelligence agencies saying COVID most likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute, not from someone eating something? That natural immunity was better than the vaccines? That lockdowns did nothing? That the vaccines would do nothing? That most masks do nothing? That Hunter’s laptop was, you know, actually Hunter’s laptop? That Putin did not conspire with Trump? That they did actually spy on Trump’s campaign? Who determines what is misinformation?

From the link

Australia said it will fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online, joining a worldwide push to rein in borderless tech giants but angering free speech advocates.

The government said it would make tech platforms set codes of conduct governing how they stop dangerous falsehoods spreading, to be approved by a regulator. The regulator would set its own standard if a platform failed to do so, then fine companies for non-compliance.

The legislation, to be introduced in parliament on Thursday, targets false content that hurts election integrity or public health, calls for denouncing a group or injuring a person, or risks disrupting key infrastructure or emergency services.

The bill is part of a wide-ranging regulatory crackdown by Australia, where leaders have complained that foreign-domiciled tech platforms are overriding the country’s sovereignty, and comes ahead of a federal election due within a year.

A big questions is will the Australian citizens be for this or against this when it comes time to vote? Australia does not have the Free Speech or other 1st Amendment protections we have here in the U.S., so, will they like the government determining what is Approved Speech and which is not? What if the government demands that all criticism of government is misinformation?

And which other governments will do this will Canada, which has a history of not only restricting speech but prosecuting for it (if it’s against Muslims, especially)? Britain seems on this road, even threatening to drag US citizens to the UK for prosecution. And, how about the EU overall, which loves overriding all free speech (lower case for Europe) laws and Constitutional provisions?

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