Abortion Might Be Limited By SCOTUS And ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach May 3, 2022 – 8:21 am

I had no intention of doing back to back abortion on demand posts, but, I can’t ignore this, yet another case of the Cult of Climastrology linking their supposedly scientific cult to everything that happens

SCOTUS may limit abortion access. So might climate change

When Hurricane Ida barreled through Louisiana last month, its 149 mph winds didn’t just ravage the state’s power grid and leave residents cooking in sweltering heat — they also took two of the Pelican State’s three abortion clinics offline.

From a reproductive health perspective, the storm couldn’t have come at a worse time — just days after a Texas law effectively banned abortions and sent hundreds of people over state lines looking for care.

“The hurricane was truly just one more slap in the face,” said Kathaleen Pittman, administrator at the Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La. Hers was the sole clinic that remained open through the storm, extending hours for consultations and procedures in an effort to provide care to everyone in need. (snip)

Now, with the Supreme Court weighing two abortion-related challenges this term, reproductive rights advocates fear that the story of Hurricane Ida and Texas’ S.B. 8 could soon be repeated on a national scale as climate change intensifies extreme weather, creating even more hurdles for the 615,000 women the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says seek abortions annually.

Hurricane Ida is just the most recent example of how natural disasters fueled by climate change can limit access to abortion — a procedure that must be precisely timed due to legal restrictions. In 2017, both Hurricane Harvey and California wildfires, including the Tubbs Fire, also forced abortion clinics to close and left people scrambling for care at the last minute.

Good grief. This is bat guano insane.

One woman in the study said she became pregnant after being raped in a hurricane shelter and wanted to terminate. But the clinic in Houston where she lived was closed because of the storm, and she needed money to travel some 10 hours to El Paso instead — an expense she could ill afford.

“When abortion access is restricted and then you have climate change, which creates natural disasters that displace people and cut off access to things they normally would have access to, it exacerbates existing inequities and access issues,” said the study’s lead author, Ophra Leyser-Whalen, a medical sociologist at the University of Texas, El Paso. “Just think about having to pick up and travel to get an abortion in the middle of not having anything in your life after a natural disaster. That is also a disaster.”

Where do you go with something this nutty? In Real Life, you probably just walk away, expressing the old saying “never argue with an idiot crazy climate/abortion cultist. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

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Leaked SCOTUS Draft Shows Roe V Wade Overturned

By William Teach May 3, 2022 – 8:08 am

Abortion is the number 1 commandment of the Democratic Party. It rises above all else. So, this is making them nuts already

What happens if Roe v. Wade is overturned? What we know about Supreme Court’s leaked draft

Politico reported Monday night that it had obtained a draft opinion suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a ruling that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

The leak itself is highly unusual: While court deliberations have leaked before, including during President Richard Nixon’s administration, the release of a draft opinion is virtually unprecedented.

Politico said the draft was circulated in February, about two months after oral arguments. A Supreme Court spokeswoman declined to comment. Several legal experts consulted by USA TODAY said the leaked draft ruling has all the hallmarks of being accurate. Politico said a majority of justices supported the ruling.

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the draft obtained by Politico. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.”

The question now is “do any of the justices change their minds before the final ruling?” You always have to worry about Chief Justice Roberts, who can be rather squishy.

What will happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned? What states will ban abortion?

If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, states would be free to make abortion illegal. Nearly half of the states in the country already have laws in place that would take effect immediately upon the Supreme Court ruling. Another 16 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws explicitly protecting abortion rights in case Roe v. Wade is overturned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research and policy organization.

As it should be. This should be a States’ Rights issue.

Abortion-rights activists say banning abortions will hurt people of color the hardest. People of color have abortions at the highest rates in the nation and so these Americans will likely have the hardest time finding ways to get rid of unwanted pregnancies or to raise children they cannot afford or didn’t want.

In other words, white Democrats are the same old black people haters that the party has been since the Civil War. Why do they want black people to abort their babies at such high rates? Has the Democratic Party ever considered enlightening people to use contraception, rather than irresponsible sex followed by an abortion?

Democrats are, of course, not taking this well

Democrats condemn Supreme Court abortion draft as ‘abomination,’ urge Congress to codify Roe v. Wade

Democrats urged Congress to pass a bill codifying Roe v. Wade in response to the alleged draft of a forthcoming Supreme Court opinion striking down the 1973 precedent on abortion.

“If the report is accurate, the Supreme Court is poised to inflict the greatest restriction of rights in the past fifty years – not just on women but on all Americans,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a joint statement Monday.

Abortion doesn’t appear anywhere in the Constitution, and Roe is considered to be one of the worst legal Supreme Court rulings of all time. But, hey, you try and get that passed, and you’ll get even more lawsuits based on the 10th Amendment. Now, they could pass a law making it legal on federal land and having abortion facilities on federal property, which, of course, could change based on which party is in charge of the White House.

“The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history,” Pelosi and Schumer added.

So, ending the notion of killing the unborn is the abomination? These people are insane.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., also called for a law codifying Roe, blaming Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. for blocking the move.

“As we’ve warned, SCOTUS isn’t just coming for abortion – they’re coming for the right to privacy Roe rests on, which includes gay marriage + civil rights,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Manchin is blocking Congress codifying Roe. House has seemingly forgotten about Clarence Thomas. These 2 points must change.”

That’s a pretty big stretch, but, AOC is even more nuts than most Democrats.

This leak has has displaced everything else on the front pages of news outlets. The NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, ABC News, you name it, they’re all leading with the leak. Ukraine and everything else has been relegated to lower articles and opinions. Much like COVID. And it will continue till the ruling is released. It’ll be non-stop articles, analysis, editorials, and opinion till that day, and then for long after.

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry To Bring Thousands Of New Viruses

By William Teach May 2, 2022 – 3:19 pm

I touched on the scaremongering, doomy, climate cult piece from Nature a few days ago: here’s some more apocalyptic doomsaying from it

Climate Change Will Bring Thousands of New Viruses, Says New Study

Climate change isn’t just bringing rising temperatures and rising sea levels. According to new research, it’s bringing a rising risk of infectious disease.

A new study published last week in the journal Nature points to “thousands” of new viruses spreading from animals to humans by 2070 as a result of climate change.

Researchers out of Georgetown University used a model to look at the likely migration patterns of more than 3,000 mammal species as warming temperatures impact their food sources and mating locations. This shift would bring increased risks of infectious diseases that jump from animal to human.

The study found that countries across Africa and Asia are most at risk as they’re already the hotspots for deadly animal-to-human infections including HIV, Ebola, and covid.

The study is “a critical first step in understanding the future risk of climate and land-use change on the next pandemic”, says Kate Jones, who models interactions between ecosystems and human health at University College London.

In other words, it’s a measure to enable governments to control everything by scaring people into giving up their personal freedom. And property rights. As well as government just taking them.

The model looked at a 2°C temperature rise over the next 50 years, which they say is likely. The recent installment of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment found temperatures are likely to surpass 1.5°C in the next several years, even if just temporarily. Warming past the 1.5°C target set by the Paris Accord is expected to bring extreme weather, rising sea levels and temperatures, as well as habitat and biodiversity loss.

If temps do not hit 2C since 1850 (I’m assuming that’s what they mean, not a 2C rise in the next 28 years) and we don’t have all the climate cult initiatives in place, who’s held responsible for this scaremongering?

This is the first research of its kind; other studies have examined the impacts of deforestation, decreasing animal populations, and even the illegal wildlife trade, which all play parts in animal-to-human disease spread. But little has been known about how much of an impact warming global temperatures will have on the risk of animal-to-human infections.

The climate has always changed. The spread of the Black Death in the mid-1300’s was at the beginning of The Dark Ages, a cooling period.

The researchers are urging for drastic cuts in emissions to help thwart the climate crisis. The findings come on the heels of another study that called for a 75 percent decrease in meat consumption in the wealthiest countries. Meat is a leading producer of emissions including CO2 and the more heat-trapping gas, methane.

So, not a scientific study, an advocacy one. What happens if we do not have thousands of diseases crossing the lines? This is all a way to link COVID, which most likely came from a lab, with the climate cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 2, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should be forced to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post showing 75% of world’s beaches are stable or growing.

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Mayorkas Says Ministry Of Truth With Not Monitor U.S. Citizens

By William Teach May 2, 2022 – 10:30 am

If that’s the case, why do we need this Disinformation Governance Board to start with? It could be done within the CIA, NSA, or the numerous alphabet soup agencies tasked with monitoring foreign communications. Why have a nutty, hyper-partisan leftist in charge, one who thought the Hunter Biden laptop story was fake? How long till we find out that the Ministry Of Truth is monitoring Americans?

Mayorkas claims new DHS disinformation board will not monitor US citizens

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas claimed Sunday that his department’s Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” will not monitor US citizens — and vouched for the “eminently qualified” agency czar who has been blasted by critics for being too partisan.

Mayorkas defended Nina Jankowicz amid questions from conservatives over her ability to ferret out disinformation when she doubted the credibility of The Post’s series of reports in October 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop — information that has since been confirmed by other newspapers and media outlets.

Oops

Asked by host Bret Baier during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday” about Jankowicz’s objectivity, Mayorkas said he had no reservations.

“I don’t question her objectivity. There are people in the department who have a diverse range of views and they’re incredibly dedicated to mission. We’re not the opinion police,” he told Baier.

Will this end up being like that joke from The Blues Brothers movie, where Jake asks “what type of music do you have here, Ma’am?” and she responds “Oh, we have both types. Country and Western!” Then, while on CNN, meaning people saw it in the airports

Mayorkas responded, “So what it does is it works to ensure that the way in which we address threats, the connectivity between threats and acts of violence, are addressed without infringing on free speech, protecting civil rights and civil liberties, the right of privacy.”

Bash pushed: “Will American citizens be monitored?”

“No,” he replied. “The board does not have any operational authority or capability.

“What it will do is gather together best practices in addressing the threat of disinformation from foreign state adversaries from the cartels and disseminate those best practices to the operators that have been executing in addressing this threat for years.”

How do we know what the Ministry Of Truth can do, since it was not created by Congressional legislation? There’s no tasking by law to determine the mission. There is, at this time, no government website explaining the entire point in writing. Further, what we received early on was a mention of Chinese Flu vaccine disinformation, which would mean they would, in fact, be monitoring what U.S. citizens were saying.

Since the board was essentially not created by legislation, how is anyone held responsible when they start monitoring U.S. citizens and responding?

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Ireland To See Rise In Carbon Tax On Back Of Rising Inflation And Energy Prices

By William Teach May 2, 2022 – 7:15 am

First off, you’d think the Wall Street Journal would know how bad carbon taxes are

A Carbon Tax Lets Markets Lead the Fight Against Climate Change
There’s no need to have government pick winners and losers, issue mandates or add to our deficit.

The beauty of a carbon tax is that it uses market forces to stimulate innovation and reduce carbon emissions (“Oil Group Drafts Proposal for Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels,” U.S. News, April 22). Economists find it among the fastest, fairest, cheapest and most effective actions we can take to limit global warming.

Under the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, 95% of low- and middle-income earners are expected to save money or break even, with the poorest seeing the greatest health and economic benefits. All this without our government picking winners and losers, issuing mandates or adding to our deficit.

Tom Hazelleaf

Seal Beach, Calif.

See, this might be a letter from a reader, but, the headline came from the WSJ. And, you’d think someone in California would know exactly what their carbon taxes and insane climate cult policies are doing. Carbon taxes do pick winners and losers, and, who does Hazelleaf think is running the tax schemes, and setting the pricing?

Tax hike many forgot about to hit most Irish homes from today with bills set to jump even further

An increase in carbon tax on home heating fuels comes into effect today which will see the majority of homes hit with a hike in costs.

This jump will mean the price of gas in every home will rise by €1.40 per month and home heating oil will increase by €1.50.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe explained that this move was vital to help the public with the rise in the cost of living here, “but also in particular, to offset the increase in carbon tax.”

However. applications remain open for the Fuel Allowance payment for 2022/2023, which will start up again in September.

Of course, the Government starts yammering about offsets and reducing the VAT (a government tax) will reduce the already sky high cost of energy. It might not be much, but, at the end of the day, the increases will be passed around then passed to the consumers. This stuff never goes down.

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Calling Groomers Groomers Is Upset The LGBT Community Or Something

By William Teach May 2, 2022 – 7:00 am

Pro-tip: you wouldn’t be getting upset about being called groomers if you weren’t supporting teaching/discussing/indoctrinating young children about adult sexual topics

Weaponized grooming rhetoric is taking a toll on LGBTQ community and child sex abuse survivors

Grooming, a term associated with adults who sexually abuse children, has become an attack word in today’s battle over anti-LGBTQ legislation and is spilling out into the broader culture wars.

The term, coined in the 1980s, describes a process used to gain access to a potential victim, coerce them to agree to the abuse and reduce the risk of being caught, according to RAINN, a national anti-sexual violence organization.

Now, however, some conservatives are using such terms as “grooming,” “groomer” and “pro-pedophile” against opponents in battles over everything from laws restricting discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools to Supreme Court confirmations. Critics say the references are dangerous, diminishing the experience of sexual assault survivors and smearing the LGBTQ community, which has long faced a false stigma regarding inappropriate behavior with children.

“I think it does enormous harm,” said Michael Bronski, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at Harvard University and author of “A Queer History of the United States for Young People.” “This really speaks to the deep-seatedness of this notion of abusing children as a political tactic.”

And, as long as these people are going to support the notion of exposing young children to adult sexual topics they have no business knowing about they’ll be called groomers. They don’t seem particularly upset about hurting young children.

Use of terms such as grooming and pro-pedophile play into a persistent stereotype linking LGBTQ people to inappropriate behavior with children, “which is completely, patently false,” said R.G. Cravens, assistant professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University, who focuses on LGBTQ politics and policy.

Well, there wouldn’t be stereotypes if it wasn’t happening.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1520152815972208640

It’s not just LGBT, but, unhinged straight leftists who are doing this.

He added that the use of weaponized language often arises in reaction to LGBTQ political, legal and social gains. As such, Cravens explained, right-wing groups have historically used loaded terms to discredit and delegitimize political opponents and LGBTQ people in particular and few topics draw as strong an emotional response as harm being done to children.

Oh, good, the Victim card has been played. A very good sign that the person is in the wrong. Leave the kids alone.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a building on stilts from sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on a study saying that mask use correlates with a higher death rate.

It’s biking week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 1, 2022 – 9:34 am

Patriotic Pinup Pearl Frush

Happy Sunday. Another fantastic day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Giants made what looks like some great draft picks. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers notes that St. Greta wants you to stop talking about her
  2. This ain’t Hell… covers stupid people of the week
  3. The Right Scoop highlights DeSantis saying he will stand in the way of the Ministry Of Truth
  4. The Political Hat covers today being Victims Of Communism Day
  5. The Other McCain discusses SJW Tublrinas
  6. The O.K. Corral goes to the Valley Of The Dolls
  7. The Lid notes how to create panic in a foreign country
  8. The Last Refuge explains what that $33 billion for Ukraine goes to
  9. The First Street Journal notes what happens when prosecutors do not take crime seriously
  10. Powerline covers the student loan scam
  11. Pacific Pundit notes teachers dressing in drag and hiding it from parents
  12. Moonbattery discusses the human rights establishment opposing free speech
  13. Jihad Watch highlights Psaki claiming the Ministry Of Truth was started by Trump
  14. Gen Z Conservative covers AOC’s silly retort to Elon Musk
  15. And last, but, not least, Geller Report notes a J6 defendant filing a habeas corpus petition

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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Time: You Know, Free Speech Is Mostly For White Males

By William Teach May 1, 2022 – 7:00 am

Especially the Elites. Oh, and a really great hot take

OK, let’s do it this way: Freedom of the Press in the 21st century is different than in 1791. Press outlets like Time would be fine with reigning in their 1st Amendment Rights, right? From the “article”

Bill Of RightsThey say that something is worth what someone will pay for it.

If that’s true, then protecting “free speech,” which Elon Musk has cited as a central reason he agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion this week, may be worth twice as much as solving America’s homelessness problem, and seven times as much as solving world hunger. It’s worth more (to him, at least) than educating every child in nearly 50 countries, more than the GDP of Serbia, Jordan, or Paraguay.

A: he can do what he wants with HIS money. It’s not Charlotte’s to dictate how it’s spent. B: gotta love the quotes around free speech.

In the days since Musk agreed to terms on a deal to take Twitter private, nearly all of Musk’s tweets have been about freedom and censorship on the platform. Like: “By ‘free speech,’ I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.” Or: “Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech.” And: “the extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.”

And who decides the law on what is censorship? See it’s not the law, it’s the 1st Amendment. Charlotte would be fine with some laws on how Time operates and what Charlotte can write, right?

But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution. The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation.

No, it’s the same. There was surely some disinformation about the British government and King George before we won our independence. It’s not for the government to decide per that pesky 1st. It was about the right to criticize the government without fear of reprisal. If you don’t like the speech, well, tough shit. Ignore it. Debunk it.

Jason Goldman, who was on the founding team at Twitter and served on the company’s board from 2007 to 2010 before joining the Obama Administration, says the tech rhetoric around free speech has become an obsession of the mostly white, male members of the tech elite, who made their billions in the decades before a rapidly diversifying workforce changed the culture at many of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley.

So, women, blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, Orientals, etc, aren’t concerned with free speech? Really, it’s about hardcore Leftist wanting people they Disagree with from having their say. Anything they consider Wrongthink is disinformation in their world. News for them: we won’t stop with Free Speech, and even standard liberals are getting the picture about your hardcores.

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