Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 13, 2025 – 9:08 am

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the doctor is pleased with healing on the tendon in my ankle. This pinup is by Bill Randall, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. American Greatness: Texas AG Ken Paxton Announces Primary Challenge Against Sen. John Cornyn
  2. Bearing Arms: Virginia Democrat Backs Gun Ban in Governor’s Race
  3. Chicks On The Right: Bill Maher’s Post-Trump Dinner Report is a Must-Watch
  4. Climate Depot: Over 30 pieces of evidence on how ‘the climate scam is collapsing’
  5. Cold Fury: Another day, aniother violent-Left assassitard
  6. Gates Of Vienna: A Prisoner Turns to Jihad
  7. Geller Report: Judge Rules Columbia Pro-Terror Jew-Hater Mahmoud Khalil Can Be Deported
  8. IOTW Report: Illegal from India Charged With “Elderly Scam”
  9. Jihad Watch: You Go, Girl! First Illegal Alien Muslim City Councilor Heads to Prison on Corruption Charges
  10. Legal Insurrection: STARRS Town Hall: U.S. Military Opposition to the Trump Administration A Matter of Concern
  11. Moonbattery: No British Need Apply to Become British Cops
  12. Powerline: The Associated Press and Left-Wing Violence
  13. Sultan Knish: Democrats and Republicans Were For Tariffs Before They Were Against Them. Or Vice Versa.
  14. The First Street Journal: Thank you, Jill Biden!
  15. And last, but, not least, The Gateway Pundit has Fauci, Birx, Walensky, and Other Top COVID Officials Face Criminal Referral Requests in Seven States for Alleged Murder and Medical Terrorism

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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Warmists Super Upset White House Has Plan To End NOAA Cultism

By William Teach April 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

Has it occurred to Warmists that they can, in fact, make their own lives carbon neutral? That if they Believe they do not need NOAA to produce all sorts of doomy information?

White House outlines plan to gut NOAA, smother climate research

The Trump administration wants to effectively break up NOAA and end its climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to help boost U.S. fossil fuel production, budget documents show.

The move, outlined in a memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget, carries forward President Donald Trump’s broader goals of slashing federal spending, gutting climate research and unleashing U.S. energy production.

But it also represents a dramatic shift in NOAA’s mission.

NOAA has long served as the nation’s preeminent climate and weather agency, and the new marching orders would downsize those functions in the pursuit of a “leaner NOAA,” the memo says.

It calls for a sharp spending cut at the agency.

NOAA would get about $4.5 billion in its next budget, down from roughly $6.1 billion in its 2025 enacted budget. Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which facilitates studies of the planet’s oceans, atmosphere, climate, weather patterns and other Earth systems.

I will say, NOAA shouldn’t be used to boost fossil fuel production, the same as it shouldn’t be used for climate cult propaganda. Let it simply gather the data it was created to gather.

The changes were outlined in a budget proposal shared this week with POLITICO’s E&E News by three current and former agency employees. The memo broadly calls for a shakeup within the Commerce Department, where NOAA is housed, to help balance the federal budget.

“Reaching balance requires: resetting the proper balance between Federal and State responsibilities with a renewed emphasis on federalism; eliminating the Federal Government’s support of woke ideology; protecting the American people by deconstructing a wasteful and weaponized bureaucracy; and identifying and eliminating wasteful spending,” the memo says.

Many of the things NOAA does would be shifted to other existing agencies, such as moving “enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other NOAA-specific endangered species functions to the Fish and Wildlife Service”. Why is NOAA doing this now? Like so many federal agencies, they keep stretching what they are meant to do. Anyhow, the document may actually go a bit too far, but, I do believe the idea is to wipe all the climate cult stuff from NOAA.

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Good Grief: Washington Post Editorial Board Chooses “Authoritarian” China Over Trump’s America

By William Teach April 12, 2025 – 3:00 pm

One would think that an American news outlet would try and support America, but, the WP editorial board is telling us who they are

This U.S.-China trade war might not end well

President Donald Trump’s climbdown from his sweeping and ill-considered worldwide tariffs brought temporary relief to global markets on Wednesday. But his escalating import levies against China, and Beijing’s determination to fight back, leave the world’s two largest economies locked in a potentially devastating trade war. Unless this ends quickly, both economies could be damaged, and collateral harm could be done to supply chains and trade ties across Asia and the world.

China has massive tariffs on US goods, plus, currency manipulation and a whole host of other shady things. But, the WPEB would prefer that China win, not Orange Man Bad. Let’s go all the way to the end, skipping over what looks like a love fest for China and their communist regime

Other countries, even longtime U.S. allies, might find China to be a more reliable trading partner. They might appreciate the stability that China’s authoritarian, state-controlled system provides for long-term planning — in contrast to the ever-changing demands emanating from an erratic U.S. president. If this comes to pass, it will be the worst unintended consequence of Trump’s trade war with China.

We’ve seen this again and again, with Democrat run news outlets loving them some authoritarian, state controlled systems. They are reliable: for breaking promises, undermining trading partners, and stealing intellectual property. How many of these editorial board members are on China’s payroll? Does Jeff Bezos approve of this China love? Does the WPEB approve of the child and slave labor used to make cheap goods?

Say, I wonder how these WPEB members would feel if the state dictated what they published?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle killing the planet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on some quick hits on wisdom, snark, and knowledge.

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Stanford Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Face Felony Vandalism Charges

By William Teach April 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

Actions do, in fact, sometimes have consequences

12 pro-Palestinian protesters at Stanford face felony charges

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at Stanford University were charged with felonies Thursday after taking over a campus building last year.

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced it has charged 12 people, ranging in age from 19-32, with felony vandalism and felony conspiracy to trespass.

The office said the demonstrators did hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage after they broke windows and furniture, splashed fake blood and disabled security cameras during their takeover of the facility.

“Dissent is American. Vandalism is criminal,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. “There is a bright line between making a point and committing a crime. These defendants crossed the line into criminality when they broke into those offices, barricaded themselves inside, and started a calculated plan of destruction.”

The incident happened last June at Building 10 when the activists broke in and barricaded themselves inside. Items found on the protesters included food, an electric grinder, hammers, crowbars, chisels, screwdrivers, goggles, numerous straps and cables.

They FAFO’d. I’ve been through about a dozen articles on this, and none name those involved, but, KQED, the PBS station for the Bay area, notes

All 12 defendants, including eight current Stanford students, face felony charges of vandalism and conspiracy to trespass, among the most serious charges against demonstrators involved with pro-Palestinian campus protests in California last spring.

That’s the most I can find on who they are. Were they Americans? On visas? And Rosen said

“They had operational plans. They had lookouts. They were scouting out the area to see what time either uniformed police officers or private security would be around,” he said. “They had multiple layers of clothing. They brought a lot of food with them. They planned to be there for a long time.”

So, they planned their crime.

The group also spray-painted graffiti on the facade of the office with messages praising “the martyrs,” threatening death to “pigs” and police and accusing Stanford of being complicit to genocide, according to the DA’s office.

As of Thursday morning, at least four of the suspects had self-surrendered to authorities for booking, Rosen said. He noted that if convicted of the charges, they could face a maximum sentence of nearly 4 years behind bars. But he said his office did not intend to pursue jail time.

So, threatening police to boot, but, won’t pursue jail time. I guess a criminal record for felonies is the best we could expect in the Bay area.

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Warmist Nations Agree On Carbon Tax For Global Shipping

By William Teach April 12, 2025 – 7:15 am

This will totally stop climate doom, right? Or just be a way to raise prices for consumers, put money in the pockets of the rich and politicians, and, well, put money in the pockets of the rich and politicians, who all fail to practice what they force on everyone else

Major nations agree on first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.

The International Maritime Organization estimates $11 billion to $13 billion in revenue annually from the fees, with the money to be put into its net zero fund to invest in fuels and technologies needed to transition to green shipping, reward low-emission ships and support developing countries so they aren’t left behind with dirty fuels and old ships. The thresholds set through the agreement will get stricter over time to try to reach the IMO’s goal of net zero across the industry by about 2050.

The agreement, reached with the United States notably absent, is expected to be formally adopted at an October meeting to take effect in 2027. The IMO, which regulates international shipping, also set a marine fuel standard to phase in cleaner fuels.

Do these cleaner fuels exist?

One major issue during the meetings was the way the fee would be charged. More than 60 countries entered the negotiations pushing for a simple tax charged per metric ton of emissions. They were led by Pacific island nations, whose very existence is threatened by climate change.

In other words, nations with barely any exports of note, but, who have lots of airports and receive most of their goods through fossil fueled ships want lots of that sweet, sweet, strings free climate scam cash.

Other countries with sizable maritime fleets — notably China, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and South Africa — wanted a credit trading model instead of a fixed levy. Finally, a compromise between the two models was reached. The compromise is in the ambition of the measure, since the fee is not a universal levy on all emissions.

The IMO aims for consensus in decision-making, but in this case had to vote. Sixty-three nations, including China, Brazil, South Africa and many European states, approved the agreement. Led by Saudi Arabia, 16 opposed. And 24 nations, including a group from the Pacific Islands, abstained. Ministers from the island nations said they refused to support an agreement that would “do too little, too late to cut shipping emissions and protect their islands,” and will try to strengthen it at the October meeting.

What’s in it for China? You know they wouldn’t sign on if they weren’t going to make some money out of it. Or, be given some sort of exemption.

When asked about the United States’ position in a press conference, Secretary-General Dominguez said large ships traveling between different countries are obliged to comply with the IMO’s regulations. He said nations with concerns should engage with the IMO, to move forward together.

Yeah, well, good luck with that as long as Trump is president.

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Judge Rules People In Charge Of Immigration Can Deport Mahmoud Khalil

By William Teach April 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

Of course, Democrats are going to work hard to make sure this guy who came to the US and immediately started calling for the deaths of Jews and Americans, the destruction of Israel and America, and taking over buildings with violence can stay in the U.S.

Immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled Friday during a hearing over the legality of kicking the activist who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations out of the U.S.

Immigration Judge Jamee E. Comans said at the conclusion of a hearing in Jena that the government’s contention that Khalil’s presence in the United States posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences” was enough to satisfy requirements for his deportation.

Comans said the government had “established by clear and convincing evidence that he is removable.”

Lawyers for Khalil are expected to appeal. And a federal judge in New Jersey has temporarily barred Khalil’s removal from the country.

Khalil, a legal U.S. resident, was detained by federal immigration agents on March 8 in the lobby of his university-owned apartment, the first arrest under President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on students who joined campus protests against the war in Gaza.

How is he a legal U.S. resident? He came in on a student visa in 2022 and immediately started protesting and whipping up hatred of Jews. His student visa is over. The US government has no need to keep him on any work visa. They do not have to give him any visa. He is not a legal resident. Threatening to kill Jews, destroy Israel, and destroy America is more than enough to get him booted. He’s a hardcore Hamas supporter, and that’s enough.

On Friday, Justice Department attorneys said in papers filed in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, that Comans would not have the authority to immediately free Khalil.

They said an immigration judge could determine if Khalil is subject to deportation and then conduct a bail hearing afterward if it is found that he is not.

Seriously, why does it take so long to boot out people who are bad for the U.S.?

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Starmer To Relax UK Green Rules To Help Out Rich Brits

By William Teach April 11, 2025 – 3:00 pm

The green rules relaxation won’t help out the peasants, except in one small case

From the link

Gas guzzling supercars are set to be exempted from the 2030 ban on new petrol vehicles as ministers scramble to help companies hit by Donald Trump’s tariff war.

Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to ‘back British brilliance’ as he confirmed yesterday that luxury vehicle manufacturers, such as Aston Martin, Bentley and McLaren, will be allowed to continue selling petrol-only models beyond the cut-off year.

In a victory for ‘white van man’, ministers have also agreed to delay the ban on petrol and diesel vans until 2035. Swingeing fines on manufacturers which fail to hit targets for selling electric vehicles have also been reduced and postponed while firms try to cope with the 25 per cent tariff on exports to the US announced by Mr Trump.

Apparently, Starmer thinks all the peasants are working class who buy white vans. What happens if all the working and middle class folks buy them? It would create a shortage and drive up prices

Let’s see how the uber-left BBC covers this

The government has announced a relaxation of electric vehicle (EV) sales targets to help the car industry in the face of trade tariffs from the US.

A ban selling new petrol and diesel cars will still come into effect in 2030, but manufacturers will now have more flexibility on annual targets and face lower fines.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander told BBC Breakfast its changes were not a “silver bullet” but part of the solution to responding to US tariffs.

UK opposition parties said Labour’s measures would not be enough to boost the car industry.

Um, what do tariffs have to do with any of this? These are cars made not made in the US and shipped to the UK. What’s the percentage? Only about 18,000 vehicles are imported into the UK from the US a year for new sales. Forcing the peasants into expensive, low range EVs is what’s killing the UK car industry. And relaxing the rules for supercars and white vans sold in the UK has little to no bearing on British produced cars shipped to the US, which averages about 101,000 a year, 16.9% of the exports from the UK for new vehicles. I suspect the Rich folks in the UK are getting a bit upset over being forced into EVs, rather than their luxury cars.

But, really, the Elites who push the climate scam rarely include themselves in Doing Something.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 11, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on Labor wanting working people to help rich people buy home batteries for their solar systems.

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RFK, Jr Says HHS Will Know Cause Of Autism By September

By William Teach April 11, 2025 – 10:30 am

Well, this is sure to drive a lot of people crazy, especially since RFK, Jr. was Trump’s pick to head HHS. And, he’s always been a little loopy on vaccines causing autism

RFK Jr. pledges an answer to the ‘autism epidemic’ by September

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a significant commitment at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting at the White House, saying that his agency will “know what has caused the autism epidemic” by September.

Kennedy said that HHS had launched, at President Donald Trump’s direction, a large research effort involving “hundreds of scientists from around the world” to look into the rising rates of autism diagnoses.

“At your direction, we are going to know by September,” Kennedy said. “We’ve launched a massive testing and research effort that’s going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world.”

“In September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures,” he added.

Trump commended Kennedy on the September goal, speculating — without scientific backing — that the answer to driving down rates could be “you stop taking something, you stop eating something or maybe it’s a shot, but something’s causing it.”

The question is, what causes autism? Environmental? Societal? Medical? Chemical? Vaccines? What is it? Consider

(Autism Speaks) A new study published in JAMA Network Open shows that the number of children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased by 175% over a decade.

Researchers analyzed electronic health records and insurance claims data from over 12.2 million people from 2011 to 2022. Over that period, autism prevalence across the lifespan rose from 2.3 per 1,000 people to 6.3 per 1,000 people.

Results showed that ASD prevalence was highest among children aged 5 to 8, reaching 30.3 per 1,000 children in 2022—about the same as the most recent CDC prevalence rate. Among adults, prevalence was notably low, particularly in those aged 45 and older. However, young adults aged 26 to 34 saw the sharpest rise in diagnoses, with rates increasing by 450% over the study period.

That’s not an insignificant rise. Is it over-diagnosing? Wouldn’t it be nice to know? Wouldn’t it be good to know? Shouldn’t we do science to figure this out?

Scientists have been studying the cause of autism for decades, and have identified genetics and several other factors as possibly playing a role.

It is true that estimated autism rates have climbed in the past 20 years, however experts say these rising rates are likely largely due to better awareness, a wide definition of autism spectrum disorder, and better access to services, leading to more children being screened and diagnosed. It’s possible that a yet-unknown factor is also contributing to the increase.

If it’s genetics and other factors, what has changed to significantly increase the rates? Obviously, the 2nd paragraph is trying to poo-poo Kennedy’s investigation, but, then they end with “yet-unknown factor”. Shouldn’t we find out?

In 2000, approximately 1 in 150 children in the U.S. born in 1992 were diagnosed with autism. By 2020, 1 in 36 children born in 2012 were diagnosed, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Prior to 1985, it is estimated that 1 in 2,500 had autism. Why the big jump? Just better diagnoses? Perhaps over-diagnoses? If we could figure it out might it be a step to ending autism, or at least drastically reducing the rates? Especially for those with the type that truly has kids and adults stuck in their own little world, where they used to be diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized?

Now it’s time to sit back and wait for Democrats to lose their sh*t over this investigation.

I wrote this early morning. By 930 stuff like this started popping up in my timeline

Most are not saying why it is a problem to do scientific research, just, Orange Man and JFK, Jr Bad.

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