NY Times Has Wackiest Fact Check Regarding RFK, Jr And Fruit Loops

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’m not a big fan of RFK, Jr. He is, in fact, kind of a crank and into conspiracy theories. Still, now that he supports Trump and was nominated to be HHS Secretary the Credentialed Media has now decided to do silly hit pieces

It’s an interesting piece with the title “Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies”

Boxes of brightly colored breakfast cereals, vivid orange Doritos and dazzling blue M&Ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump administration.

In excoriating such grocery store staples and their mysterious ingredients, Robert F. Kennedy tapped into a zeitgeist of widening appeal for healthy foods to curb obesity and disease that helped propel President-elect Donald J. Trump to select him to oversee the country’s vast health agency.

“We are betraying our children by letting these industries poison them,” Mr. Kennedy said at a campaign rally on Nov. 2, to raucous applause.

Anyone else get the idea that this is a Bad Thing in NY Times World, simply because Trump supporting RFK, Jr. is saying it? A lot of the article is about “clean food”, without all the extra chemicals and dyes and such, leading to

Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” Mr. Kennedy asked.

He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.

So, the Canadian version is much cleaner without all the chemicals, and we’re supposed to oppose RFK, Jr on this? This is full on Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Biden Takes Long Fossil Fueled Trip To Shore Up Climate Legacy In Amazon

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

Joe is sure racking up the frequent flyer miles

Biden visits Amazon to shore up limited global climate record

Joe Biden will put a bow on his environmental legacy Sunday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon — a gesture of solidarity with global efforts to confront the looming catastrophe of climate change.

But while Biden will be remembered for making climate a core part of his political and economic agenda in America, his international record has less to show for it. (snip)

Biden will touch down for just a few hours in Manaus, one of Brazil’s largest cities situated along the confluence of the Negro and Amazon rivers. (Theodore Roosevelt made his mark on the region, but only after he left office.)

White House officials said Biden will meet with local and Indigenous leaders working to preserve the Amazon ecosystem. U.S. officials have previously met with Brazilian counterparts to support a multibillion-dollar effort to pay for forest protection.

His visit Sunday, sandwiched between global summits in Lima and Rio de Janeiro, comes as the nation and world prepares to move past Biden’s climate agenda.

Got that? He flew all the way to South America on a jumbo jet with a backup jumbo jet and fighter jets. He has his own limo and military helicopter. And did this between multiple cities. He used more fossil fuels than most Americans do all year long.

I wish he hadn’t made this about ‘climate change’, because environmentalism is important, and saving the Amazon shouldn’t solely be about the climate scam.

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WWIII Watch: Biden Gives Ukraine The Authorization To Strike Deep In Russia With US Missiles

By William Teach November 18, 2024 – 6:45 am

Now, certainly, if one nation attacks another the attacker should expect the attacked to fight back and even attack in the attackers borders. How well will it work, though, if Ukraine is using US missiles?

Biden authorizes Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia

President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing limitations on the weapons as Russia deploys thousands of North Korean troops to reinforce its war, according to a U.S. official and three other people familiar with the matter.

The decision allowing Kyiv to use the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs, for attacks farther inside Russia comes as President Vladimir Putin positions North Korean troops along Ukraine’s northern border to try to reclaim hundreds of miles of territory seized by Ukrainian forces.

Biden’s move also follows the presidential election victory of Donald Trump, who has said he would bring about a swift end to the war and raised uncertainty about whether his administration would continue the United States’ vital military support for Ukraine. (big snip)

Biden had remained opposed, determined to hold the line against any escalation that he felt could draw the U.S. and other NATO members into direct conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

So, what changed?

Worried about Russia’s response, however, the Biden administration repeatedly has delayed providing some specific advanced weapons sought by Ukraine, agreeing only under pressure from Kyiv, its supporters and in consultation with allies.

Almost no article that I’ve read really delves into the potential consequences of this. What will Putin do? Now, Ukraine doesn’t have a whole lot of the missiles, but, they require calibration and control by US satellites. Will US government assets be actually in control of these long range strikes? Yeah, it would be nice to boot Russia out of Ukraine, but, are we will to widen the war?

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If All You See…

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

…is a hazy and humid day from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Ace Of Spades HQ, with a post on the Ukrainian war ending soon.

It’s redhead week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 17, 2024 – 9:47 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! It’s a wonderful day in the almost Once And Future America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Democrats are still melting down. This pinup is by Joyce Ballentyne, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer keeps up with the hate of Donald Trump even after the election
  2. Diary Of Daedalus: “Be Gracious.” – Charles Johnson
  3. Sultan Knish: Feminists for Human Extinction
  4. Shot In The Dark: The Stultifying Blue Fog
  5. Pacific Pundit: Whoopi Goldberg goes missing from The View after lying about Holtermann’s bakery
  6. Outside The Beltway: Muslims Shocked—SHOCKED!—Trump is Pro-Israel
  7. Newsbusters: CBS Frets Palestinians Are Scared of Trump’s Israeli Ambassador Pick Huckabee
  8. Moonbattery: Two Stories Demonstrate British Anarchotyranny
  9. Legal Insurrection: After Rescinding Covid-Era Policy, Seattle Police Begin Jailing Petty Criminals Again
  10. Jihad Watch: Khamenei rumored to be seriously ill, may even be in a coma
  11. House Of Erathosthenes: Twenty Years Blogging, and I’m Thinking About Work
  12. Geller Report: Islamize Montreal, Win a Paid Vacation
  13. Gates Of Vienna: Who Will the New Germans Vote For?
  14. Cold Fury: No more business as usual, or else
  15. And last, but, not least, Watts Up With That?: “Hygiene Poverty”: The Brutal Reality of Life in Net Zero Britain
  16. And one to grow on: Real Science has “Peace, Relief, And Recovery”

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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Trump Team To Go Back To Maximum Pressure On Iran

By William Teach November 17, 2024 – 7:00 am

No more coddling a nation which hates the United States. A nation which would like to destroy the US. Which calls the US the “Great Satan.” No more giving them pallets of cash and access to the oil market to sell their product and make money and them put it into terrorism and their nuclear weapons program (available non-paywalled here)

Trump’s team wants to bankrupt Iran with ‘maximum pressure’ plan

US President-elect Donald Trump’s team wants to ruin Iran. For this purpose, a new plan of ‘maximum pressure’ has been developed, according to the Financial Times.

According to the agency’s sources, the new Trump administration will resume its policy of “maximum pressure” to “bankrupt” Iran and its ability to finance the development of nuclear weapons.

Moreover, the agency’s anonymous sources noted that Trump’s foreign policy team will seek to tighten sanctions against Tehran, including vital oil exports, as soon as the president-elect returns to the White House.

A national security expert familiar with Trump’s plans stated that he was determined to resume the maximum pressure strategy to cripple Iran as soon as possible.

Iran has a choice to make: continue their violent ways, continue supporting and arming Islamic terrorist groups, continue causing problems in the middle east, continue trying to get nuclear weapons or look for peace. Trump and his team will not accept the attacks on Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, and the others, nor what the Iranian backed Houthis are doing. As shown by his previous term, Trump does not want war: he does want peace. He’s kinda going with the “talk softly and carry a big stick” method, though, he will at times talk loudly.

Iran cannot win a war. Most of their offensive weapons are outdated, and their defensive aren’t that great, as Israel just showed with their attack in October. It wouldn’t be a war: it would be a rout. And, how many Iranians, particularly the young ones, will be happy if the crazy Islamic caliphate leaders are deposed/killed?

Speaking of Iran’s nuclear weapons program

(Jerusalem Post) The Israeli strike at the end of October on Iran’s military complex in Parchin significantly hindered Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear bomb, according to two senior Israeli officials.

The sophisticated equipment destroyed in the attack was essential for shaping and testing plastic explosives that encase uranium in a nuclear device and crucial for initiating a nuclear chain reaction.

The equipment was previously used by Iran before it froze its military nuclear program in 2003.

Fortunately, Iran is not very good at this whole nuclear weapons thing, and keeps giving Israel opportunities to gum up the works.

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Eco-Wackos Trot Out Human Composting Again, cBS Runs With It

By William Teach November 16, 2024 – 5:04 pm

Well, they’re a little late to the party, I’m sure I’ve done posts on this insanity in the past, but, you know, a wackadoodle idea from the doomsday cult never goes away

They want to tell you how it works. Do you really want to know?

(cBS) Most people plan to either be buried or cremated when they die, but there is another, environmentally friendly option: Human composting.

“So instead of being cremated and turned into ash, you’re getting gently transformed into soil,” Tom Harries, CEO and founder of Earth Funeral, explained Thursday on “CBS Mornings Plus.” (big snip)

He said he sees the eco-friendly option becoming more popular in the future.

“Death is obviously deeply personal, a lot of considerations, religion is one of them. There’s been a little bit of opposition, but I think it’s a new concept. It will gain greater acceptance in mainstream culture at the time.”

In seriousness, there are some who practice this and similar stuff. In Nepal they have what is called a sky burial, where they will lay the dead on a slab in the mountains, pull the body tight, then cut it. The vultures descend, and, whatever is left over is mashed into a pulp and then left there for the vultures to finish off. This seems more eco-loony, though.

Anyhow, I still love this from the Olympics. As a metal fan, it made me squee like a 10 year old getting a pony

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 16, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible bottle of carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on a classic hate crime hoax.

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Centrist Democrats No Longer Want To Be Part Of The Freak Show

By William Teach November 16, 2024 – 10:30 am

Yeah, but, they ignored the gender confused elephant in the room for a long time. They went with it. They didn’t complain about it. Now they’re upset?

Centrist Dems seize opening at the DNC: ‘I don’t want to be the freak show party’

Centrist Democrats are revolting.

As they begin to dissect their collapse in the presidential election, some Democratic National Committee members are concluding that the party is too “woke,” too focused on identity politics and too out of touch with broad stretches of America.

Those existential concerns, according to interviews with more than two dozen DNC members, are shaping the earliest stages of the race for DNC chair and, in the absence of a formal party autopsy, blame-casting among members about the causes of Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat.

“The progressive wing of the party has to recognize — we all have to recognize — the country’s not progressive, and not to the far left or the far right. They’re in the middle,” said Joseph Paolino Jr., DNC committeeman for Rhode Island. “I’m going to look for a chair who’s going to be talking to the center and who’s going to be for the guy who drives a truck back home at the end of the day.”

Or as one DNC member from Florida put it: “I don’t want to be the freak show party, like they have branded us. You know, when you’re a mom with three kids, and you live in middle America and you’re just not really into politics, and you see these ads that scare the bejesus out of you, you’re like, ‘I know Trump’s weird or whatever, but I would rather his weirdness that doesn’t affect my kids.’”

Well, good luck. The moonbat base runs the party. The wacko groups that back the Democrats, who are out there demonstrating, who give lots of money, won’t allow it. The so-called centrists (are there many?) have sat around and watched the freak-show for decades and just gone along on the rafting river of rainbow anger tears. How will they possibly change the Democratic Party?

“I do think there’s this whole sentiment that we just went too far out there on identity, and it allowed the Republicans to really attack us at every turn as a result, and that we just essentially did not focus on just the everyday issues of Americans,” said one DNC member from California, granted anonymity to speak freely.

“I’m not interested in anyone who is moving further away from the center,” said Cindy Bass, a Pennsylvania committee member from Philadelphia. “The center is where we have to be.”

And what do they consider to be the center? Is it the center of the Democrat Party which is now still pretty far left? Will they still 100% support transitioning kids, showing them pornographic books in schools, have purple haired teachers festooned with piercings, have biological boys with mental illness on girl’s teams and in their locker rooms? Will they still support abortion at any time with zero restrictions? Will the still support government forcing social media to restrict free speech? How about no cash bail? All the laws that cause a spike in lower level crime? Confiscating firearms? All the DEI and Woke stuff? Identity politics?

We don’t know, because they aren’t saying.

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Bummer: Climate Cultist Sentenced To Two Years For Throwing Powder On Constitution

By William Teach November 16, 2024 – 7:15 am

The nutter should be sentenced to a psychiatric detention facility so that he can be deprogrammed

Climate change activist gets 2 years in prison for dumping red powder on Constitution display

A climate change activist who dumped red powder on a case containing the original copy of the U.S. Constitution was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison for his role in the vandalism earlier this year at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Donald Zepeda that his attack on the display of the priceless document did nothing to advance his cause.

“You still think that was connected to the climate change problem, and I can’t agree with that,” she said.

Zepeda, a leader of Declare Emergency, was charged with another member of the climate change awareness group. Jackson sentenced Zepeda’s co-defendant, Utah resident Jackson Green, on Tuesday to 18 months of prison.

Consequences have actions. If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime.

The judge said “eco-vandalism” doesn’t benefit the environment and only gives climate change skeptics more reason to believe that activists like Zepeda are “just a bunch of crackpots.”

Pretty much. Do these stunts help bring people to the side of the climate crazies, or just push them away?

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