Surprise: Democrat Donor Arrested For Starting Fire Blamed On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 20, 2023 – 7:15 am

Say, I wonder why this story isn’t getting more coverage in the Credentialed Media

Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change

What happened: Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a “ginormous inferno” in Yosemite National Park. Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.

Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.

By the numbers: The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan’s failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.

What they’re saying: “Ed Wackerman is facing several felony charges, including aggravated arson. These charges carry serious legal consequences and the District Attorney is committed to ensuring a fair trial and upholding justice,” Mariposa County District Attorney Walter Wall said in a statement. Authorities did not say how Wackerman is believed to have started the fire.

In other words, this Democrat donor intentionally set the fire. I wonder why?

What they said: “Thank you to all the firefighters and first responders working tirelessly under difficult conditions to combat the #OakFire,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Calif.) wrote on Twitter on July 25, 2022. “Worsening drought and severe weather will only continue to put lives and property at risk from wildfire if we don’t take climate action NOW.”

I remember all sorts of Warmist wackjobs blaming ‘climate change’ for the Yosemite wildfire, failing to consider that their extreme enviro-weenie policies of refusing to clear the brush, provide firebreaks, and no culling created a dangerous condition. It’s not anthropogenic climate change when a Democrat sets it on fire.

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Good News: Biden Regime Just Gave China Greenlight To Invade Taiwan

By William Teach June 20, 2023 – 7:00 am

What’s your bet? I’m thinking sometime in December

Blinken says US ‘does not support Taiwan independence’ during China visit

China Votes BidenSecretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated U.S. support of the “One China” policy on Monday, saying that the U.S. does not support Taiwanese independence following a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“We do not support Taiwan independence,” Blinken said in a press conference on Monday. “We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross strait differences. We remain committed to continuing our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act including making sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.”

“At the same time, we and many others have deep concerns about some of the provocative actions that China has taken in recent years going back to 2016,” Blinken added. “And the reason that this is a concern for so many countries, not just the United States, is that were there to be a crisis over Taiwan, the likelihood is that could produce an economic crisis that could affect quite literally the entire world.”

“Fifty percent of commercial container traffic goes through the Taiwan Strait every day. Seventy percent of semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwan. If as a result of a crisis that was taken offline, it would have dramatic consequences for virtually every country around the world,” he added.

It’s not really a change in position, but, it’s a Bad Thing for a Biden regime member to say it out-loud and forthright, especially since the Biden regime is pretty darned week internationally, with one thing leading to another, such as the horrible Afghanistan withdrawal leading to Ukraine. China will see this as pure weakness, like most things Biden. It is a tightrope

But the means that China will need to use to achieve its ascendancy over Asia are military. And Taiwan occupies a central position along Beijing’s path to this goal. (snip)

It’s in this hard-nosed context that Taiwan takes on such importance. We might admire its democracy and entrepreneurial spirit, but those are not enough to justify Americans going to war. Instead, Taiwan is important to Americans for two reasons: because it is militarily critical and because it is a bellwether.

First, Taiwan is vital to the defense of Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. If China occupied Taiwan, it would pose a much greater threat to these countries and be able to project power deep into the Pacific, a very real possibility as we can see from China’s activities in Solomon Islands and its construction of an enormous oceangoing navy, including aircraft carriers.

Second, Taiwan is the canary in the coal mine. Credibility arguments always deserve to be met with skepticism. But it is only rational for Taiwan’s neighbors to look at how we treat Taiwan as an indicator of how we would treat them. Whether we like it or not, Taiwan’s fate will play a major role in whether countries think America is reliable as the cornerstone of the coalition. Indeed, as a result, if Taiwan fell we would probably have to do far more aggressive things to prove we were reliable at all.

China is salivating at being able to finally retake Taiwan and knock the U.S. down.

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NJ Schools Start Their Climate (scam) Indoctrination Early

By William Teach June 19, 2023 – 3:00 pm

It’s a full day in Leftist run schools. They have to learn about LGBT stuff (especially trans), anal and oral sex, BLM, how white people are evil, and ‘climate change’. No wonder test scores are so bad for math, reading, and history, among others. No time to teach it!

Seems a little bit cultish, eh?

In June 2020, New Jersey became the first state in the country to mandate climate change education in schools.

Weren’t the kids still locked out of their schools at that time?

Under this mandate, which went into effect during the 2022-23 school year, K-12 public schools must integrate discussions of the environment into classes like science, social studies and even the visual and performing arts. The goal is to further young people’s understanding of climate change and create a generation of climate-conscious consumers.

Visual and performing arts? Sounds a bit cultish

For an article published last week, Cara Buckley, a reporter on the Climate desk at The New York Times, went back to school in May (for half of a day) to understand how climate change is taught in classrooms. She observed a first-grade class at Slackwood Elementary School in Lawrenceville, N.J., as students participated in discussions about the environment, animal extinctions and — one that really got their attention — the implications of shark poop.

None of those have anything to do with the climate scam

In an interview, she shared more about her experience at the school, including students’ reactions to the recent wildfire smoke in the Northeast and the unsavory topic of vegetables. This interview has been edited.

Huh. The news interviewing the news.

Why did you decide to visit a school in person?

I write about people who are working toward small-scale climate change solutions. We need huge shifts to combat climate change; some are underway. But I’ve always been curious about what people are doing in their everyday lives to fix things.

My editor, Lyndsey Layton, had flagged this news to me in New Jersey. A lot of parents really wrestle with talking to their kids about climate change; they worry about freaking them out. Understandably, some people are terrified and heartbroken. That fear was where this idea came from.

Nothing like mass-indoctrination while scaring the pants off the little tykes, right?

The kids were so excited about this stuff, too. I was so struck by the way the teacher really got them to think. One of the big discussions in class was, What would happen if sharks disappeared? It immediately sparked this conversation about the importance of shark food, their poop and how it helps some fish and the ecosystem. The kids were paying attention to every bit of it.

So excited and impressionable, happy to be indoctrinated, rather than icky math and science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a field perfect for solar panels and wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on why Western feminists are silent on Iran.

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Crazy Today: Teacher Calls Kid Who Won’t Endorse Belief That Classmate Is A Cat “Despicable”

By William Teach June 19, 2023 – 10:30 am

Don’t leftists keep telling us that they are, in fact, the adults in the room? That they’re so much smarter than everyone else? Shouldn’t teachers be a little more grounded in reality? How many times have you seen teachers indulging and extolling, even pushing, crazy for their students?

Pupil who questioned classmate ‘identifying as a cat’ called ‘despicable’ by teacher

A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.

The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.

The row, which has infuriated parents, was allegedly sparked by one of them asking a fellow pupil: “How can you identify as a cat when you’re a girl?”

Their teacher told them they were being reported to a senior leader and were no longer welcome at the school, part of the Aquinas Trust, a Church of England network of 11 schools, if they continued to express the view that only boys and girls exist.

I thought I had read an article that the whole “identifying as an animal” thing was made up? No?

The Telegraph has heard a recording of the heated exchange taken by one of the pupils, in which the teacher starts by saying “how dare you – you’ve just really upset someone” by “questioning their identity”.

The pupil responded: “If they want to identify as a cat or something then they are genuinely unwell – crazy.”

The teacher then asks the girls “where did you get this idea from that there are only two genders”, adding: “It is not an opinion.”

The teacher said that “gender is not linked to the parts that you were born with, gender is about how you identify, which is what I said right from the very beginning of the lesson.”

So, identifying as a cat is now considered a gender?

A parent of another Year 8 pupil at the school who has received the same lesson told The Telegraph: “I understand the point the teacher was attempting to make, what bothers me is the shutting down of debate in such a threatening and aggressive manner, which I don’t believe is appropriate in an educational setting.

“Regardless of the subject, education should serve to build awareness of differing points of view to widen the understanding of a subject. It shouldn’t be a case of indoctrination.”

Except, that is exactly what Leftists do, and they run the education system in the U.S., UK, and many other nations. They do see it as indoctrination, and if you won’t toe the line there will be consequences. There’s way more at the article if you’re up to reading massive crazy.

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Brandon To Fly To San Francisco To Announce $600 Million In Climate Scam Funding

By William Teach June 19, 2023 – 7:00 am

Nothing says “We Need To Do Something About Climate Change” like a fossil fueled helicopter to the airport, taking a FF jumbo jet across the country, with a backup jet and fighter jets following, then a massive FF vehicle convoy, right? Will he be flying directly from Delaware, since he took a fossil fueled trip to his beach house yet again?

Pres. Biden to announce over $600 million for climate projects during Bay Area visit

President Joe Biden will announce new funding to tackle the U.S. climate crisis during his visit to California.

The president will be in the Bay Area for a series of campaign fundraisers on Monday. But he’ll also mix in official business with a stop focusing on climate change in Palo Alto.

The White House says President Biden will be highlighting both the urgency of taking bold climate action and strengthening America’s resilience.

“The President will tour a coastal wetland and announce more than $600 million for climate adaption projects through his Investing in America agenda to better protect our nation’s power grid from extreme weather events and prepare coastal and Great Lakes communities for climate change impacts like sea level rise, tidal flooding, and storm surge,” according to a White House official.

The White House says funding is coming from both the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Two bills that do nothing for their names.

That’s just a smattering. I’m confident you’ve read many more yourself. Perhaps the money would be better spent dealing with the collapse of San Francisco. Or, hell, if you’re going to piss it away on climate scam stuff, do it elsewhere, rather than a dying city.

The president returns to the Bay Area to raise money for his 2024 reelection presidential campaign.

And that’s why he’s really going, so he doesn’t have to pay for the trip, he can say most is official business.

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NY Times Is Shocked That Defund The Police Failed

By William Teach June 19, 2023 – 6:45 am

They just don’t fully seem to get that most citizens may not like the police when they get pulled over, almost always for something that was their own fault, but, like the notion of being able to call the police when something bad happens to them. They do not want fewer police, and do not want police who are reticent to enforce the law

How ‘Defund the Police’ Failed

unintended consequencesMore than three years after the murder of George Floyd focused the nation’s attention on racism in law enforcement, Minneapolis’ 3rd Precinct police station, which was set ablaze and looted during the tumultuous days after Floyd’s death, remains abandoned.

Once the city’s most modern police station, the building is now boarded up, tagged with graffiti and ringed with concertina wire — an unintentional monument to the national debate over public safety that led Minneapolis officials to consider disbanding the Police Department.

But three years after “defund the police” became a rallying cry across the nation, efforts to dramatically divert resources from police or do away with conventional policing entirely have largely been abandoned, too, in Minneapolis and beyond.

The movement faltered in Minneapolis after activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition, and an actionable plan. As crime surged during the early years of the coronavirus pandemic and officers left the police force in droves, Republicans seized on the debate to paint Democrats as being recklessly soft on crime.

Seized! I’m thinking lots of average Democrats wanted nothing to do with defunding the police. Especially in their own neighborhoods. Including many Democratic Party politicians/Elites who called for defunding the police then demanded police protection in their own areas, or hired private security.

The movement to abolish conventional police departments predates the murder of Floyd. In the years before his death, a Minneapolis group called MPD150 had been building grassroots support for a “police-free future” — a vision that contemplated a phased end to conventional policing by making dramatic investments in housing and social services.

How was that working out? Seriously, we saw this put into place in many Democratic areas, where cops quit in droves, and those left tend to ignore lots of low level crimes.

Its first move was to corner Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis outside his home in June 2020, and demand that he commit to abolishing the Police Department. As cameras rolled, one of the movement’s leaders made clear that they were seeking the outright disbandment of the Police Department, not a reallocation of resources.

“We don’t want no more police,” she said. “We don’t want people with guns toting around in our community.”

Except for all the thugs, hoodlums, and gangbangers wandering around with illegal firearms.

As police ranks thinned out, violent crime soared. Gang violence, once a modest problem in Minneapolis, became such a challenge that federal prosecutors charged 45 people suspected of being gang members in a pair of racketeering indictments in May, a first in the city.

Many residents have given up on the local public transportation system, where some stations increasingly have become gathering points for people who openly smoke fentanyl and other drugs. The number of car thefts and carjackings skyrocketed. As of early June, more than 4,100 vehicles had been stolen in the city this year, nearly twice as many as during the same period last year.

No one could have possibly seen that coming, right? Ironically the correct solution is to properly fund the police allowing them to fire bad officers and hire good ones. To hold them accountable, and, quite frankly, not allow the public unions to stand in the way, protecting bad officers. Allowing them to hire mental health professionals and do more training. Allowing them to do more proactive policing instead of reactive. The places that want to disband the police tend to have the highest crime rates. Violent crime, shootings, drugs, prostitution, and assaults are all considerably higher than in neighborhoods that don’t think about it or talk about it. Did they think crime would magically disappear without the police in those neighborhoods?

You can bet that all the people working for the NY Times, especially the high end suits, are happy to have police around. But, now, so many areas in Dem run cities are dealing with the idiotic push, even the ones where they’re backtracking.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2023 – 1:35 pm

…is a super hazy day from carbon pollution humidity, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Clear Science, with a post on NJ Democrats adding to their child abuse.

It’s long legs week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 18, 2023 – 9:08 am

Patriotic Pinup Earl Moran

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Dodgers were obliterated again by the hated SF Giants, a great just deserts for their anti-Christian hatred the other night. This pinup is by Earl Moran, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Depot notes thousands of EVs rotting in fields in China
  2. Watts Up With That? discusses Bud Light digging a deeper hole with “climate neutral” beer
  3. Cold Fury covers Muslim leftists not down with the LGBT cult madness
  4. Da Techguy’s Blog wonders if the US is resembling the French revolution
  5. Geller Report covers a girl suing a hospital for doing trans surgery on her at 13
  6. Legal Insurrection discusses what happened when Starbucks fired an employee for being white
  7. Moonbattery highlights the rise of Trantifa
  8. Newsbusters notes NPR pushing the trans agenda for Father’s Day
  9. Outside The Beltway discusses Americans becoming more socially conservative
  10. Powerline covers illegal gun sales now being illegal
  11. The First Street Journal notes that crime metastasizes when not treated
  12. The Gateway Pundit notes majority of registered voters think Trump indictment is political interference
  13. The Last Refuge covers the DOJ filing to limit Trump’s ability to defend himself
  14. The O.K. Corral has your feel good stories, including ducks
  15. And last, but, not least, The Other McCain covers liberals saying there is no cancel culture

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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Biden’s IRS Agents Take Gun Purchase Records In Montana

By William Teach June 18, 2023 – 7:00 am

Coming to a city and state near you

Montana AG Sounds Alarm: Armed IRS Agents Rounding Up Gun Purchase Records

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen spoke to Breitbart News Saturday morning and told us that armed IRS agents rolled into Great Falls’ Highwood Creek Outfitters Wednesday and seized dozens of boxes of ATF form 4473s, the background check form containing information on gun purchasers.

The agents hit the store prior to regular business hours, KRTV reported.

Store owner Tom Van Hoose said, “At 7:30, I came in and they pulled in behind me with 20 heavily armed agents.”

Van Hoose believes his store is targeted because he sells guns the White House opposes: “I can only assume that it’s because of the style of weapons that we have and the press that’s so against them. The current administration seems to be hell-bent on getting those guns out of the hands of average Americans.”

The ATF form 4473 has a gun purchaser’s name, address, birthdate, state/city of birth, gender, social security number, and the serial number of any guns purchased in the store. The information is perfectly suited for use in a registry or registry database.

Why the IRS? What business does the IRS have in knowing all this information and about legal firearm purchases?

The danger of federal agents taking this information was not lost on AG Knudsen, who told Breitbart News, “I spoke with the shop owner who told me that 20 heavily armed IRS agents from multiple states in our region served a warrant before his business opened. They took dozens of boxes full of 4473s — more than a decade’s worth. This is extremely concerning because it seemingly exceeds the search warrant which limited the scope of the search to financial records. These aren’t financial records, they’re records of lawful firearm purchases. What the hell does the IRS need with 4473s? We know the ATF in Washington, DC is trying to scoop up as many of these purchase records as possible, and that’s what it looks like they’re trying to do here.”

My question now is “what will Knudsen do about it? Will he sue? File orders against the IRS and Biden regime. It’s time to stop putting up with this type of federal government abuse.

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