Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 23, 2023 – 9:20 am

Patriotic Pinup Arthur Sarnoff

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Once And Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the hummingbirds are liking the feeder, and my Devils finally beat the Rangers. This pinup is by Arthur Sarnoff, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers covers how many Democrats voted to protect women in women’s sports
  2. Jo Nova covers what the NOAA STAR satellite shows for warming
  3. No Tricks Zones shows the German media blaming riots at pools on ‘climate change’
  4. Real Climate Science covers Time wanting to make Earth Day a religious holiday
  5. American Power discusses book bans
  6. Chicks On The Right covers Mayor Pete wanting more female crash dummies
  7. Climate Depot notes to never trust the climate prophets of doom
  8. Common Cents Blog shows the declassified Pentagon video on what damn sure looks like a UFO
  9. Dissecting Leftism discusses the smoking gun in the Senate report on COVID origins
  10. Geller Report notes medical schools ditching standardized tests for “racial diversity”
  11. Legal Insurrection covers AB getting rid of their marketing head
  12. Moonbattery highlights Canadian moonbats in pink heels
  13. neo-neocon discusses testing for the Alzheimer gene
  14. Pacific Pundit notes cows with their tongues cut out
  15. And last, but, not least, Powerline features rich people saying they want to be taxed who don’t want to be actually taxed

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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Good News: Biden Regime Plans To Crack Down On U.S. Power Plants

By William Teach April 23, 2023 – 7:00 am

First question: under what statutory authority as passed by the duly elected Legislative Branch? Will Republicans in Congress be asking this? Second question: what will Biden do to reduce his own massive use of electricity? Will Republicans take advantage by voting on legislation that restricts the energy use of Biden and the White House? Third question: just how high will this spike your energy bill and cause brown-outs?

Biden admin preparing major crackdown on power plants that fuel nation’s grid

The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology.

The proposal — which will soon be released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — is expected to require coal- and natural gas-fired power plants to cut or capture the vast majority of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing officials briefed on a draft of the plan. The regulation, if finalized, would represent the first-ever federal action curbing power plant emissions.

“EPA cannot comment because the proposals are currently under interagency review,” EPA spokesperson Maria Michalos told Fox News Digital in a statement.

“But we have been clear from the start that we will use all of our legally-upheld tools, grounded in decades-old bipartisan laws, to address dangerous air pollution and protect the air our children breathe today and for generations to come,” Michalos said.

And those tools are what, exactly?

An Office of Management and Budget filing from late last year stated that the EPA anticipates issuing a proposed rule for the action, described as a proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel-fired plants, in spring 2023 and promulgating a final rule by summer 2024. The filing noted there are no EPA regulations on the books limiting emissions from existing electric generating units.

Shortly after he took office, President Biden pledged to enable the nation to achieve an up to 52% total emission reduction by 2030 and to create a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.

Yet, Biden takes massive amounts of fossil fueled trips every week, especially to head to Delaware or Camp David almost every weekend.

“Setting effective, affordable power plant carbon standards under the Clean Air Act now can ensure that the power industry delivers the emissions reductions needed to help meet the climate crisis,” argued an issue brief released this month by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an influential environmental group. “Time is of the essence.”

So, doing what California did, which will skyrocket your power bill, and limit the availability of electricity.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2022 that an Obama-era rule limiting power plant emissions under the Clean Air Act was unconstitutional, since Congress never granted the EPA the explicit power to issue such regulations. But the Inflation Reduction Act passed two months after that ruling allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

And, if authorized, it is so broad that the EPA can do whatever the hell they want. Will the EPA be reducing their own use of electricity?

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World Meteoroligical Org Gives Planet A Failing Grade Due To Climate Apocalypse

By William Teach April 22, 2023 – 3:00 pm

So says CNN

World Meteorological Organization gives planet a failing grade in annual climate change analysis

The link is just to a video from CNN, which fails to mention if CNN has stopped using fossil fuels to run their business. Let’s go to CNN Philippines

Droughts, floods and record low ice levels – from the top of the world’s mountains to the depths of the ocean, the climate crisis took a heavy toll as it continued to intensify in 2022, new analysis from the World Meteorological Organization shows.

The WMO’s annual State of the Climate Report, published Friday ahead of Earth Day, is essentially a health checkup for the world. It analyzes a series of global climate indicators – including levels of planet-heating pollution, sea level rise and ocean heat – to understand how the planet is responding to climate change and the impact it is having on people and nature.

The findings paint a stark picture. “2022 was a year of extremes for the planet – and this continues the trend set in previous years,” Omar Baddour, head of the Climate Monitoring and Policy Division at the WMO, told CNN.

Weather is apparently now climate.

These broad climate indicators are an important reflection of the state of the planet, the report noted, but extreme weather events – fueled by climate change – are where the immediate effects are most felt.

“While greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and the climate continues to change, populations worldwide continue to be gravely impacted by extreme weather and climate events,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said in a statement.

See?

“The droughts and level of heatwaves that we saw throughout 2022 were quite remarkable,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, told CNN.

“This is really a wake up call that climate change isn’t a future problem, it is a current problem. And we need to adapt as quickly as possible,” she added.

Adapt? Just like in all the previous Holocene warm and cool periods? Huh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on Britain talking about kitchen knife confiscation.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out Victory Girls Blog, with a post on the FBI stalling on the release of the Audrey Hale manifesto.

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Biden To Americans Stuck In Sudan: You’re On Their Own

By William Teach April 22, 2023 – 10:30 am

After the U.S. intelligence and State Dept failed on Sudan, the Biden regime has a message for Americans in Sudan: you’re on your own

White House warns American citizens not to count on evacuation from Sudan

As the violent struggle for power over Sudan reaches the one-week mark, the Biden administration is sticking firmly to its warning for private citizens: don’t expect to be rescued.

While the administration says it is working towards evacuating American embassy staff still stranded in the country, it makes no promises about other Americans who could get let behind.

“It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens living abroad,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Friday.

The same administration which is pumping vast amounts of money and arms to Ukraine, helping them out, just can’t be bothered when it comes to Americans stuck in a war zone. Much like with Afghanistan. Perhaps the Americans should identify as Ukrainians?

This is purely insane. It might not be standard procedure, but, they are Americans. Our government shouldn’t leave hanging out to dry when our government failed in its job in gathering intelligence and broadcasting the danger to American citizens. And you cannot ask Biden, he’s taking the weekend off, as usual, up at Camp David.

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How To Talk To Your Kids About Hotcoldwetdry On Earth Day

By William Teach April 22, 2023 – 7:15 am

Nothing like teaching your kids a few things about Earth Day, like that it falls on Lenin’s birthday. On purpose. Oh, wait, this is about un-educated, brainwashed kids with no real world experience teaching you old fogies

Earth Day: How to talk to your parents about climate change

You want to go vegan to help the planet, but you’re not paying for the shopping. You think trains are better than planes, but your dad books the summer holiday.

Young people are some of the world’s most powerful climate leaders and want rapid action to tackle the problem.

It makes a lot of sense. Higher temperatures and rising sea levels will impact the youngest alive today far more than older generations. But the power to act is often still in the hands of older people, including parents.

Big changes are difficult, especially when they involve other people. Where do you begin? For this year’s Earth Day, we spoke to people who have successfully had tricky climate chats at home. Here are their top tips:

You can talk about going meatless. Flying less. Being waste free (this is really about environmentalism, not climate scam)

“Make connections with things they care about,” she advises. Her family like to volunteer so they made meals using leftover food to donate to people in their local community.

“It’s important to not go into it expecting them to change their whole lives. Small things can make a difference,” she explains.

Here’s an idea

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This Is Weird: Democrat Mayor Says Illegal Immigration Has Destroyed NYC

By William Teach April 22, 2023 – 7:00 am

This cannot possibly be correct, can it? Democrats have assured us that illegal immigration is just and benign, that it is egalitarian and equitable, and the Right Thing To Do

Migrant crisis has ‘destroyed’ NYC, Mayor Adams claims ahead of meeting with top Biden aides

Mayor Eric Adams charged Friday that New York City is getting “destroyed” by the federal government’s failure to contain the nation’s migrant crisis — a thinly-veiled broadside against President Joe Biden delivered just hours before Adams was set to meet with White House officials about the matter.

Adams, who claimed earlier this week that Biden has “failed” the city by not providing more migrant-related financial assistance, leveled the latest jab against the president in remarks at the African American Mayors Association’s annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Appearing on a panel with three fellow Democratic mayors from large U.S. cities, Adams argued his administration has since last year done a solid job accommodating more than 52,000 mostly Latin American migrants “without one penny from the federal government.”

“The city is being destroyed by the migrant crisis,” said Adams, who has criticized Biden’s administration over its migrant response in an increasingly aggressive manner in recent weeks.

I thought there was no crisis? That the border is under control? No?

To date, the feds have only forked over about $8 million in migrant-related aid to New York City — a drop in the bucket as compared to the $1.4 billion that Adams administration projects it will spend on the crisis by July 1.

Ah, so Adams just want some cash from other places. Shouldn’t he be asking his constituents to pony up some extra money, since most support unfettered illegal immigration? Seriously, they were fine with being a sanctuary city in theory until they actually became a sanctuary city. Voting has consequences, now enjoy yours.

Adams should bus them to D.C. And Biden’s beach house town.

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Climate Today: Joe Manchin’s Upset, Vikings In Greenland, Kamala In Miami

By William Teach April 21, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Senator Joe Manchin seems a little bit surprised and upset that the Brandon regime is going beyond what was laid out in the horrible IRA, for which Joe still hasn’t gotten his vote on expedited permitting

Manchin grills Granholm over ‘budget busting’ electric vehicle rules

Sen. Joe Manchin accused the Biden administration Thursday of “liberalizing” Congress’ efforts to stimulate sales of electric vehicles — and warned Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm that the president’s approach could send money and jobs to China.

It was the West Virginia Democrat’s latest attack on the administration’s handling of the sweeping climate bill that Manchin helped write.

Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told Granholm at a hearing that President Joe Biden’s implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act could “bust the budget” and go far beyond the spending forecast that Congress relied on last year.

He specifically accused the administration of loosening Congress’ mandate that electric vehicles must be made with domestically produced parts and minerals to receive $7,500 tax incentives. As a result, he said, many more EVs with foreign-sourced parts will claim the tax break, and jobs will go overseas.

Perhaps Joe should have thought of this before making his deal

But Manchin responded that the IRA has specific language on the issue, and that DOE should not have turned to the earlier infrastructure bill.

“Y’all broke the law by advising, referring back to the bipartisan infrastructure bill. It had nothing to do [with it]. This is the IRA we passed,” said Manchin, who has threatened to sue the administration over its implementation of the tax credit.

How did Joe not know they would pull all sorts of shenanigans? These are the people in his Party. This is what they do.

Epic 11-foot-tall sea level rise drove Vikings out of Greenland

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Around the 15th century, signs of Norse habitation in the region vanished from the archaeological record. Researchers previously suggested that factors such as climate change and economic shifts likely led the Vikings to abandon Greenland. Now, new findings show that rising seas played a key role, by submerging miles of coastline, according a new study published April 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Between the 14th and 19th centuries, Europe and North America experienced a period of significantly cooler temperatures, known as the Little Ice Age. Under these chilly conditions, the Greenland Ice Sheet — a vast blanket of ice covering most of Greenland — would have become even bigger, Marisa Julia Borreggine, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, said when she presented data at an American Geophysical Union annual conference in New Orleans in December 2021. (snip)

Their models showed that from about 1000 to 1400, rising seas around Greenland would have flooded Viking settlements by as much as 11 feet (3.3 meters), affecting about 78 square miles (204 square kilometers) of coastal land, Borreggine said. This flooding would have submerged land that the Vikings used for farming and as grazing pastures for their cattle, according to the models.

What caused that warm period, called Medieval Warm Period, which caused the sea rise? It wasn’t fossil fuels and such. And then they got hit with the Little Ice Age (hey, remember when the climate scientists said that was localized?)

And here’s Kamala

U.S. vice president to visit Miami, announce $562 million climate investment

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris planned to visit Miami on Friday, a White House official said, as she announces a $562 million investment in helping communities become more resilient to climate change.

And here was Kamala the day before taking a long fossil fueled trip to Miami, rather than taking the train

This was a big gathering of Warmists, who took long fossil fueled trips to attend (with lots of fast fashion). Sophia, who has the grift down pat, noted the invitation, along with one to the White House. The weird thing is Kamala doesn’t mention this party on her own VP twitter feed or her personal one.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise dozens of feet soon, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post Portland being a no go zone.

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Good News: Americans Legally Purchased 60 Million Guns During Pandemic

By William Teach April 21, 2023 – 10:30 am

It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with Americans seeing rioting in the streets of American cities for months on end from BLM/Antifa, with government authorities doing pretty much nothing, could it? Or all the smash and grabs, the looting, the violence?

Americans bought almost 60 million guns during the pandemic

One-fifth of U.S. households purchased guns during the pandemic, a national arming that exposed more than 15 million Americans to firearms in the home for the first time, academic studies show.

Americans purchased nearly 60 million guns between 2020 and 2022, according to an analysis by The Trace, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that tracks gun violence. Yearly gun sales are running at roughly twice the level of 15 or 20 years ago.

All the new weapons may be fueling a historic surge in gun deaths, which reached record highs during the same period.

Is it or is it not? That’s a hell of an allegation while providing zero proof.

“It’s not a rifle stored away somewhere that you take out twice a year to go hunting. It’s a handgun, probably a semiautomatic handgun, that you keep in your bedside table or in your glove compartment, or that you maybe carry around with you.”

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a run on gun shops, part of a larger national spasm of panic-buying that gripped the country at a moment when many Americans thought society might collapse.

“There was fear, and real concern, about what happens to the country during a global pandemic,” said Nick Suplina, senior vice president of law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun-control nonprofit.

No, The Hill will not mention all the violence from Democrat voters in mostly Democrat run cities, which is one of the main causes of purchases. However, the government authoritarianism during Wuhan Flu certainly enticed some to purchase a firearm for protection. All the calls to defund the police was another reason

More Americans died from gun violence in 2020 and 2021 than in any prior year on record. Gun-related homicides and suicides totaled 48,830 in 2021. Shootings of children nearly doubled during the pandemic.

How many were committed by those who legally purchased a firearm, particularly during the COVID years? They don’t say

The link between rising gun ownership and rising gun violence is hard to prove. Yet, “gun ownership rates track very closely to gun fatalities,” Fleegler said. “If you want to know where people are dying by guns, look where the guns are.”

See? I told you they had zero proof. Just an allegation.

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