Your Fault: Global Boiling Could Maybe Possibly We Feel Wipe Out $1.4 Trillion In Real Estate Value

If it’s a day ending in a Y it must be a great day to fearmonger and prognosticate (it’s an Axios article, so, their formatting is always a bit different

Climate change could erase $1.4 trillion in real estate value: report

A novel new report combining several strands of research finds that human-driven climate change could result in $1.47 trillion in net property value losses from rising insurance costs and shifting consumer demand.

Why it matters: Insurance costs are increasing faster than mortgage payments. That’s squeezing homeowners and leading to climate change-driven migration away from high-risk areas in the Sun Belt and the West.

The report from First Street, a climate risk financial modeling company, identifies the five largest metro areas likely to see the biggest spikes in insurance premiums: Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, New Orleans and Sacramento.

I’ve mentioned First Street before: they are overly hysterical and full blown members of the doomsday climate cult. And they’re claiming this will happen over the next 30 years. What happens if this doesn’t happen? Who gets fired?

According to the new research, climate impacts may disrupt historical migration to Sun Belt states as risks of climate change-worsened extreme weather events continue to grow.

Is there anyone who thinks that this slight uptick in temperatures will stop them? The fearmongering over tropical systems, something not born out by actual data, will scare people? It has not so far. Nor the scary prognostications of sea rise doom.

Between the lines: First Street’s report itself hasn’t been peer-reviewed, and there are important caveats and uncertainties associated with the work, since it combines results from multiple models and peer-reviewed studies.

OK, so, then why are so many news outlets reporting this? Why did they publish a report with “important caveats and uncertainties”? Would it surprise you that this is based on a garbage computer model? This is doomsday crap that’s as useful as Alex Jones and the Weekly World Report.

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If All You See…

…is a no good giant fossil fueled truck, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Panama being the latest country to give Trump a win.

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Media Freaks Over Musk Saying USAID Needs To Be Shut Down

Of course, CNN and most of the other outlets yammering about what Elon Musk said are mostly focusing on it being full of Democrats and Leftists doing Leftist things

Elon Musk said Donald Trump agreed USAID needs to be ‘shut down’

Development needs to be “shut down,” following days of speculation over the future of the agency after its funding was frozen and dozens of its employees were put on leave.

“With regards to the USAID stuff, I went over it with (the president) in detail and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said in a X Spaces conversation early Monday.

Musk said he checked with Trump “a few times” and Trump confirmed he wants to shut down the agency, which dispenses billions in humanitarian aid and development funding annually. CNN has reached out to the White House and USAID for comment.

Sunday evening, before the X Spaces conversation, when asked for comment on USAID, Trump told reporters: “It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we’re getting them out, and then we’ll make a decision” on its future.

In the X Spaces conversation early Monday, which he co-hosted with Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa and Vivek Ramaswamy – who was initially named co-chair of DOGE with Musk but has since left – the X owner called USAID “incredibly politically partisan” and said it has been supporting “radically left causes throughout the world including things that are anti-American.” (snip)

Other top Trump officials, such as Stephen Miller, who serves as deputy chief of staff for policy at the White House, have also taken aim at USAID, accusing its workforce of being overwhelmingly Democrats.

Blah blah blah. Let’s ask USAID

Factored into this challenge is the need for program offices to comply with existing policies and procedures, obtain and use reliable data, and hold implementers (nongovernmental organizations or NGOs, contractors, and public international organizations or PIOs) accountable for results. Simultaneously, USAID must strengthen its efforts to detect and prevent corruption, fraud, and sexual exploitation and abuse, as these serious issues compromise the integrity of Agency programs, create reputational risk to USAID, and betray the very beneficiaries its
programs are intended to assist.

Because the programs are rife with fraud, corruption, sexual exploitation and abuse, and USAID keeps giving money to the programs, countries, contractors, NGOs, and international organizations.

(Bureau of Investigative Journalism) Within its first two years of operation, the largest ever project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was in crisis.

The $9.5bn initiative was led by US contractor Chemonics International. Its aim was to transform global health supply chains – the sprawling system of procurement and transport that delivers life-saving products including HIV/Aids drugs, mosquito nets and contraceptives to millions around the globe. (snip)

By the spring of 2017, it was clear the project was failing. During its worst quarter, only 7% of its shipments arrived at their destinations on time and in full. Project leaders scrambled as multiple countries ran short of essential health products and faced stock-outs.

But interviews with those closely involved, as well as the rare instances of external scrutiny, suggest serious problems persist. Chemonics has received multiple extensions to continue implementing the project – until at least November 2024. And after eight years and billions of dollars, there is little independent evidence that USAID, Chemonics and its partners have actually strengthened a global supply chain that millions rely on for life-saving medical supplies.

It’s mostly a fail. USAID is pissing away taxpayer money for little reward. Of course, this is throughout the federal government.

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Good Grief: UK Could Get Colder With Global Warming

And you wonder why I call this an unscientific, doomsday cult

Could the UK actually get colder with global warming?

Of all the possible climate futures, there’s a scenario where the United Kingdom and north-west Europe buck the trend of global warming and instead face plunging temperatures and freezing winters.

It’s not the most likely outcome, but a number of scientists fear that the chance of it happening is growing, and that the consequences would be so great that it deserves proper consideration.

They are concerned that the ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic could weaken – or even collapse – in response to climate change.

Huge uncertainties remain about when – or even whether – a collapse could happen. So, how likely is it, and what would it mean?

The system of Atlantic currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc), is a key reason why the UK is warmer than Moscow, despite being a similar distance from the Equator.

OK, we’re really doing this again, saying that global boiling will shut down the AMOC and make the UK cold like during the Little Ice Age. And it’s all your fault. It certainly couldn’t happen for the same reasons that it happened as the world went from the Medieval Warm Period into the Little Ice Age, right? Or the previous warm to cool Holocene periods, right? The cult has their talking points, and they will never give up on them.

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Democrats Having A Hard Time Figuring Out How To Get Americans To Believe In Open Borders

Politico and writers Emily Ngo and Nicholas Wu do not see to understand either

Democrats scramble to make their immigration stand amid broader support for deportations

illegal alien DemocratDemocrats’ long-standing struggle with messaging has come back to haunt them just as President Donald Trump is intensifying his crackdown on illegal immigration — an effort some Democrats support.

For the moment, the party is backed into a corner. Its leaders are reluctant to alienate centrist members voting with Republicans on bills making it easier to deport migrants charged with crimes. They also can’t deny that public opinion is shifting to the right and aligning with Trump on targeting criminals. And they know missteps could blow their chances at retaking the House in the midterms.

It’s a familiar dilemma at an unpredictable time.

“What is the party’s message on immigration? There presently is not one,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told reporters recently in Washington.

Messaging? Americans literally saw it play out in real time, with the Biden-Harris admin opening the borders, letting in murderers, rapists, child predators, and gang members, as well is importing Islmists, gang members, and America haters, then shipping them off to small town America. Democrats are still talking about being sanctuary cities and protecting illegals, including ones like child rapists. Even as they whined about Greg Abbott shipping tens of thousands of illegals to sanctuary cities. How do they put that in messaging? They can yammer about being charitable and helpful, but, they’re still protecting murderers.

But the party does have the beginnings of a game plan. It’s built around the expectation the president will expand his signature deportation blueprint to target immigrants with whom Americans can more readily sympathize.

“Dreamers, farm workers and families,” Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, listed at a recent news conference, previewing where Democrats will make their stand — if they can get on the same page with messaging.

And, they bring in criminals and refuse to deport them. Actively protect them.

Many Democrats have sought to warn voters that the president will not stop at deporting criminals, and some have stressed the need for due process for those charged. They’re now trying to paint Trump’s plans as a precursor to efforts to break up mixed-status families and remove agricultural workers, which would likely drive up grocery prices.

Yeah, Democrats need those illegals to pick their veggies and do their decks.

Jeffries has also begun specifying the same three groups — families, DACA recipients and agricultural workers — as Democrats’ potential line in the sand.

“House Democrats are prepared to work together with our Republican colleagues to find common ground, with respect to securing our border, with respect to fixing our broken immigration system in a bipartisan and comprehensive way and with respect to defending Dreamers, farm workers and keeping families together,” the top Dem said at a news conference.

We’re not falling for this again. Democrats will demand legalization in exchange for future border security. Guess what? Trump doesn’t need their permission. He has all the standing law as previously passed by Congress. This is who Democrats protect

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If All You See…

…is a horrible fossil fueled truck causing trees to lose their leaves and needles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on Trump cutting Irish DEI musicals and other DEI foreign programs.

It’s truck week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in the Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and yes, that was a fox walking through the back yard. Cool! This pinup is by Bill Medcalf, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. This ain’t Hell…: Trump Administration fires group of prosecutors related to the J6 cases
  2. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: Pete Hegseth just killed PRIDE MONTH at the Pentagon
  3. The Lid: Winning: Trump Orders Teachers and School Admins to Stop ‘Facilitating’ Gender Confusion in Kids
  4. The Last Refuge: First Emissary Mission a Resounding Success – Grenell to Venezuela
  5. The Gateway Pundit: Faulty Electric Buses Cause Massive Headaches for Multiple School Districts
  6. The First Street Journal: Too old? Our 78-year-old President is getting things done, and done in a hurry.
  7. The American Conservative: Trump Should Go Big on Tariffs
  8. Pacific Pundit: Communist Hakeem Jeffries calls for left wing terrorists to “fight” “in the streets” against Trump
  9. Moonbattery: Woke Three Musketeers Movie Bombs
  10. Legal Insurrection: California Assembly Shamed into Freezing its Absurd $50 Million Plan to “Trump-Proof” State
  11. Jihad Watch: Arizona Man Wanted to Become ‘the Beheading Guy’ for ISIS
  12. IOTW Report: LA Times: Trump Unleashed the Water; Newsom Copycats
  13. Geller Reports: WATCH: Trump Signs Executive Order to Slash Federal Regulations
  14. Gates Of Vienna: Knives at Work in Nieuwegein
  15. And last, but, not least, Real Climate Science has Expert Forecasting

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 Admin Looking To Revoke Legal Status Of Illegals Biden Brought In

It’s time to stop taking in every minorly inconvenienced person from around the world, especially when they demand that America change for them

Trump officials make plans to revoke legal status of migrants welcomed under Biden

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the U.S. legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed by CBS News.

The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in an unpublished notice, would fully terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the U.S. if American sponsors agreed to help them financially.

The Biden administration argued the policy, known as CHNV, discouraged illegal immigration by people from these four Latin American countries by offering them legal means to come to the U.S., but President Trump froze the initiative hours after being inaugurated. Trump officials have specifically argued the program was a misuse of immigration parole, the legal authority which the Biden administration used to admit those under the sponsorship initiative, and to allow them to apply for work permits.

But, you’re just bringing in lots we do not want legally for ones that might have come illegally. But, did the policy really stop them? How many illegals still came in?

Under the new move, the Trump administration would revoke the parole status of those allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV policy and place them in deportation proceedings if they have failed to apply for, or obtain, another immigration benefit, like asylum, a green card, or Temporary Protected Status, the internal proposal shows.

The U.S. shouldn’t be a dumping ground for all these people, and damned sure not when they refuse to assimilate.

Many Haitians and Venezuelans, for example, are enrolled in the TPS program, which, like parole, temporarily shields them from deportation and gives them work permits. But TPS is in the crosshairs of Trump officials, who argue the policy has also been abused.

It has been. There was a time when the U.S. brought in people who brought value, not be wards of the state who abuse Americans.

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LOL: USDA Scrubs Climate Crisis (scam) From Website

The USDA is not the only one doing it, either

USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News.

The directive instructs web managers to identify, archive, or unpublish materials mentioning climate change by “no later than close of business this Friday,” according to the emails.

In an email sent Thursday, USDA Director of Digital Communications Peter Rhee detailed the process, requiring staff to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change” and track related content in an attached Excel spreadsheet for review.

“OC will review the submitted materials and make determinations on next steps,” Rhee wrote, referring to the department’s Office of Communications.

A separate email sent to website managers at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) emphasized the urgency of the request.

And there was much crying and teeth-gnashing among the doomsday cultists

A USDA webpage published in 2022 provides information on “Climate Change Adaptation and USDA.”

“Producers, ranchers, forest landowners, and communities across the country are facing challenges posed by the effects of climate change,” the webpage states. “Some of these effects are familiar but occurring more frequently or intensely while others are new and unprecedented.”

And therein lies the problem: it reads as cult propaganda and activism rather than neutral government. It’s unnecessary and, really, interferes with the core mission of the Ag Dept. But, that’s what the cult does, all meant to create a dominant, authoritarian government.

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If All You See…

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles that Other People should be forbidden to drive, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on what has made Meta employees mad.

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