Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 31, 2021 – 9:32 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren Halloween

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and all the little spooks will be out tonight. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Outside The Beltway notes NYC shuttering fire houses over vaccine refusal
  2. Newsbusters discusses Twix’s no candy all-trans propaganda commercial
  3. Moonbattery covers the Dem spending bill propping up the Dem media
  4. Jihad Watch notes a Presbyterian church singing hymns about climate change
  5. hogewash features a cool space solar jack-o-lantern
  6. Gen Z Conservative discusses how to keep your state red
  7. Geller Report covers the ISIS threat against America
  8. Flag And Cross notes PETA being mocked for demanding MLB get rid of “bullpen”
  9. Happy 13th Blogoversary Fisherville Mike!
  10. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers Biden off in La La Land
  11. Common Cents Blog wants folks in Virginia and NJ to fly those flags
  12. Blazing Cat Fur features some censorship irony in Canada
  13. American Greatness highlights some Wisconsin election board felony fraud
  14. 357 Magnum notes how well things are going in cop hating Portland
  15. And last, but not least, Watts Up With That? covers how Brandon’s policies will actually spike CO2 output

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.

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?

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Brandon Fail: Democrats Fail To Sell Their Agenda To American People

By William Teach October 31, 2021 – 8:32 am

Surrender Joe and his Democratic Party Comrades have spent most of the time since Joe was inaugurated pushing their infrastructure bill which includes very little for actual infrastructure and their Big Agenda bill, meant to change America and put the government even more, way more, in control of citizens lives than before. How’s that working out?

Biden, Democrats failing to sell agenda to American people: POLL

Negotiations on the infrastructure and social program bills have consumed Capitol Hill for months. Still, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll out Sunday finds Democrats are failing to sell the legislation to the public, who are broadly unaware of what is in the spending packages or skeptical they would help people like themselves, or the economy, if signed into law.

President Joe Biden was unable to secure a legislative win before departing on his second foreign trip since taking office, even after he laid out a framework for the package focused on social programs and climate change around which he believes Democrats can rally. He pitched that package, which no longer includes paid family and medical leave or free community college, as a “historic economic” opportunity on Thursday, but this poll reflects the continued confusion and intraparty mistrust over these bills.

Although a majority (55%) of the public is following news about the negotiations at least somewhat closely, about 7 in 10 (69%) Americans said they know just some or little to nothing about what’s in both bills. Fewer than half (31%) said they know a great deal or good amount. Despite Republicans having sat on the sidelines while the White House works exclusively with congressional Democrats to get both bills to the president’s desk, the lack of knowledge extends across all parties.

It’s hard to know what’s actually in the bills when they are both massive, both contain way too much stuff, especially what used to be $6 trillion, then $3.5 trillion bill, and now about $1.75 trillion, because they have mostly failed to provide text of the bills, they are hard to read, and the Credentialed Media has failed to do their job in digging deep into the frameworks. They put this all together in secret, leaving Republicans out, despite barely hold a majority in the House and being 50-50 in the Senate

Americans also do not feel like these bills would help them or the U.S. economy if they become law.

The ABC News/Ipsos poll, which was conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, found that a plurality (32%) of Americans think the bills would hurt people like them if they became law, while fewer (25%) think it would help them. Nearly 2 in 10 (18%) think the bills would make no difference, and 24% said they didn’t know.

Oops?  Complete messaging failure.

Even among Democrats alone, fewer than half (47%) think the two bills would help people like them. A quarter of Democrats think the bills would make no difference for people like them and about 2 in 10 (22%) don’t know how they would impact their lives. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Republicans think the bills would hurt people like them, and so do about 3 in 10 (29%) independents.

Put that way, it’s even worse.

The American public is evenly divided — 34% to 34% — over whether they believe these bills would help or hurt the U.S. economy if they become law. Very few (6%) think the bills would have no effect on the economy, and a quarter don’t know. Democrats are much more likely to think the legislation would help the economy if enacted than Republicans and independents, 68% compared with 7% and 29%, respectively.

That number for Independents does not bode well for the mid-terms, eh? But, we know the Democrats won’t give up. They’ll keep focusing on their Crazy agenda, rather than attempting to do stuff that will actually help the post-Chinese coronavirus recovery. They see a chance to remake America, and won’t stop. They’ll continue to divide America. Republican states will sue. Things will get bogged down. And we will get closer to that Big Split, which is really no longer a conspiracy theory.

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What’s On The G20 Docket? Climate Crisis (scam), COVID, And Taxes

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 3:00 pm

It’s a wonderful thing that the leaders of the G20 nations, and their huge posses, flew into Rome ahead of the climate conference in Scotland to talk about how they are going to control your lives and take more of your money. But, remember, ‘climate change’ is totally about science, not politics

Climate, COVID and corporate tax on the G-20 agenda in Rome

The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses on Saturday took part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 economic recovery and the global minimum corporate tax rate on the agenda.

Italian Premier Mario Draghi welcomed the Group of 20 heads of state to Rome’s Nuvola cloud-like convention center in the Fascist-era EUR neighborhood, which was sealed off from the rest of the capital. Saturday’s opening session was focused on global health and the economy, with a meeting on the sidelines among U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss next steps on Iran’s nuclear program. (snip)

On the eve of the meeting, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the Glasgow meeting risked failure over the still-tepid commitments from big polluters, and challenged the G-20 leaders to overcome “dangerous levels of mistrust” among themselves and with developing nations.

“Let’s be clear — there is a serious risk that Glasgow will not deliver,″ Guterres told reporters in Rome.

A recent U.N. environment report concluded that announcements by dozens of countries to aim for “net-zero” emissions by 2050 could, if fully implemented, limit a global temperature rise to 2.2 degrees Celsius (4 F). That’s closer but still above the less stringent target agreed in the Paris climate accord of keeping the temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) compared with pre-industrial times.

Oh, good, people with carbon footprints way bigger than the average 1st World citizen want to lecture and make deals which will effect the Little People.

The G-20, though, will likely be a celebration of one agreement, on a global minimum corporate tax. The G-20 leaders are expected to formally affirm their commitment to establishing a 15% global minimum corporate tax rate by 2023, a measure aimed at preventing multinational companies from stashing profits in countries where they pay few or no taxes.

Guess what? Cost of goods will go up. Fewer people will be hired. They will make less charitable contributions, spread less money out. They know this, and don’t care. It’s a great talking point, ie “we’ll tax these big companies and give you all sorts of Free Stuff”, but, it never works out like portrayed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the notion that ‘climate change’ will increase crime so we need more police, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on how much money Let’s Go Brandon wants to give illegal aliens.

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How Many Fossil Fueled Vehicles In Biden’s Motorcade?

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 11:39 am

Because ‘climate change’ is real

Because of COVID restrictions there can only be so many people in each vehicle. Despite being vaccinated

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Surprise: Surrender Joe Is Out Of Touch With Voter Concerns

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 10:30 am

Really, the Democratic Party is out touch altogether

Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch with voters’ priorities

Inflation is at its highest level in decades. Store shelves are empty. The southern border is in chaos. Hundreds of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan. China just tested a hypersonic missile. Employers can’t find workers to keep their businesses running. No wonder more than 60% say the country is going in the wrong direction.

But don’t worry: President Joe Biden has a “National Gender Strategy” that will turn everything around.

The document, released on Oct. 22, is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Identifying “gender equity” as a “moral and strategic imperative,” the strategy promises an “intersectional approach” that acknowledges “compounding forms of discrimination” including gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status. This “first ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality” will provide an “aspirational vision” and a “comprehensive agenda” to advance gender equity.

The agenda in the document is, at heart, the same tired laundry list of new government programs that the Left has been trying to force on the nation for decades using other specious justifications.

Nowhere does the “strategy” address inflation or the border crisis. The only time COVID-19 is even mentioned is when the document asserts that no one has suffered more from the pandemic than “women and girls of color.” And that’s not even true — the data indicate that men are more likely to die from COVID .

Meanwhile, CBS has a new poll out showing that only 37% of people believe Biden is focusing on the issues they care about. What a huge surprise. Majorities of voters believe Biden hasn’t focused enough on inflation (60%), the U.S.-Mexico border (57%), and jobs (53%). Somehow, Biden’s gender equity strategy isn’t assuaging their concerns.

It’s well worth ready the rest of this Washington Examiner piece. Suffice to say, Let’s Go Brandon is in La La Land, or, at least, his advisors are, because Joe doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s going on, just saying what his advisors tell him.

Here’s the big question: what does the GOP do about this? They haven’t been very strong on their messaging for decades. They do not sustain political attacks. Trump did (probably too much), which is why so much of the Republican base loved him. He fought back. He tried to solve problems, not keep them going while saying “elect me again and I’ll fix this.”

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Bummer: Climate Crisis (scam) Drops To Bottom In NJ Governor’s Race

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 7:51 am

It’s like I keep saying: Doing Something about ‘climate change’ may be popular in theory, but, when push comes to shove, it’s not particularly important in Real Life. Poll after poll after poll confirms that when you stack it up against real world issues it comes in very low in terms of people’s actual concerns

What About Climate Change? NJ Voters Push Issue to Backseat in Governor’s Race

Taxes, economy, COVID, education, healthcare, abortion, immigration, and down the line you go before climate change pops up as the “one most important issue in this year’s election” for New Jersey voters polled recently.

Just 3 of 544 voters surveyed by the Stockton University Polling Institute marked it as their most important issue ahead of the Nov. 2 gubernatorial election in New Jersey. Incumbent Phil Murphy is seeking to become the first Democratic governor re-elected in the Garden State since 1977. He faces former state Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, a Republican.

Climate change placed 27th out of 31 issues offered as options for voters who took the Stockton survey.

Oops! People in NJ were most concerned with property taxes and general taxes. Things that are real, rather than Doom from bad weather which has always occurred.

Monmouth Poll Director Patrick Murray said climate change didn’t rank high in an August poll of voters in New Jersey and Virginia, the only two states with governor’s races this November.

“Back in August, we asked open-ended questions in both New Jersey and Virginia about voters’ most important issues. ‘Environment’ (which includes climate) was named by no more than 5% in either state,” Murray said in an email.

He added, “None of the candidates in either state are focusing their messages on climate change.”

It’s a shame that ‘climate change’ is included with questions on the environment, because the environment is important, and that question often does well when it doesn’t include ‘climate change’. Anyhow, ask people in theory, they’ll say it’s important (they’ll also tell you they don’t want to spend their own money on it or make changes to their own lives). Ask them when including things like the economy, taxes, healthcare, COVID now, and it drops to the end.

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Bill Maher: Saying Parents Shouldn’t Be Involved Is An Applause Line With Teachers

By William Teach October 30, 2021 – 7:39 am

Fortunately, Democrats rarely listen to Bill Maher (or other moderate Democrats) as he speaks from a left of center spot, but, more in line with a JFK type Liberalism, rather than a Bernie Sanders or AOC liberalism (video at link)

Maher: McAuliffe Saying Parents Shouldn’t Decide What’s Taught Is ‘Applause Line with Teachers,’ Dems ‘Are So Used to Talking to Teachers’

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that education will be the big issue in the 2022 elections because “Parents vote, and they don’t like what’s going on in school.” And that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s (D) statement that parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach happened because “Democrats are so used to talking to teachers. This is a mic drop applause line with teachers, not so much with parents.”

Maher stated, “Terry McAuliffe, he was the governor, he’s running again. He should walk away with it. Biden won the state by ten points. It has not gone statewide for a Republican since 2009. He’s neck-and-neck. Because he’s — the issue became schools. I said this months and months ago, that the issue in the coming elections is going to be what’s going on in the schools. Why? Parents vote, and they don’t like what’s going on in school. They feel like they are losing control, and this became the issue in this election. Trust me, this is going to be a huge barometer kind of election. Because if Terry McAuliffe loses, people are going to understand yes, oh, that’s right, it is going to be about that.”

Maher continued, “And here’s what Terry McAuliffe said, and then we’ll get into the backdrop of this. He said, ‘I’m not going to let parents come into schools –‘ not a good idea, that right there, is because Democrats are so used to talking to teachers. This is a mic drop applause line with teachers, not so much with parents. ‘I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision[s]. … I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.’ Just on a political level, f*cking — excuse me, I mean, very stupid, right, very stupid?”

It’s an interesting notion, and one that so many in the Democratic Party, particularly the elected officials, are pushing: parents should just shut up and keep their ideas to themselves when it comes to what the Democratic run schools are teaching kids.  This interested me because it was a conversation I had with a bunch of coworkers in Real Life. Those of us in Gen X mostly didn’t have to deal with anything crazy in our schools. Our parents didn’t have to worry about the curriculum and if we were being taught crazy stuff. They didn’t have to go to wild school board meetings over what was being taught, because they taught the material. We learned math in math class, English in English class, art in art class. Etc. History simply taught history, without all sorts of editorializing from a certain position.

We didn’t get hate on America, white people, or all the other insanity present in today’s schools. Nothing like “here’s an exercise, figure out which gender you identify with” or “pretend you are the other sex” nor let’s let people with mental illness use the women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers.”

There was no concern for my parents about what was being taught in elementary school nor high school. Hilariously, for the Gen Y and Gen Z kids, well, the insanity taught to them made them a nightmare to teach in college

Teachers at lower levels created this issue. Remember this one?

I’m a liberal professor, and my liberal students terrify me

I’m a professor at a midsize state school. I have been teaching college classes for nine years now. I have won (minor) teaching awards, studied pedagogy extensively, and almost always score highly on my student evaluations. I am not a world-class teacher by any means, but I am conscientious; I attempt to put teaching ahead of research, and I take a healthy emotional stake in the well-being and growth of my students.

Things have changed since I started teaching. The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this, but my students sometimes scare me — particularly the liberal ones.

Not, like, in a person-by-person sense, but students in general. The student-teacher dynamic has been reenvisioned along a line that’s simultaneously consumerist and hyper-protective, giving each and every student the ability to claim Grievous Harm in nearly any circumstance, after any affront, and a teacher’s formal ability to respond to these claims is limited at best.

If you’ve never read that one, it’s worth it.

Anyhow, parents shouldn’t need to get so involved, but, when the school is giving the kids books on man/boy sex, there’s a problem.

They can let the kids read the books that cannot be read allowed? Don’t have this stuff in school, don’t teach it, don’t assign it for reading. Just teach the subjects, and parents won’t need to be involved.

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Pope Francis Wants “Radical” Climate Crisis (scam) Reponse

By William Teach October 29, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Well, perhaps the Pope could tell all those big wigs to not take all those long, fossil fueled trips on private jets to a ‘climate change’ conference? And, perhaps, he could spend more time on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus, rather than an authoritarian scam

Pope Francis calls for ‘radical’ climate change response before COP26

Pope Francis said Friday that climate change was an “unprecedented threat” which requires an urgent and effective response, as global leaders prepare for the imminent COP26 summit in Scotland.

“The political decision-makers who will meet at COP26 in Glasgow are urgently summoned to provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis, and in this way to offer concrete hope to future generations,” the pontiff said, in the “Thought for the Day” message on BBC Radio 4’s Today program.

Francis also pointed to health care, food supply issues and economic challenges as part of a “profoundly interconnected” global crisis which represents an “immense cultural challenge.”

He called for “vision” in rethinking of the future of the world amid the crises, and urged leaders to make “radical decisions that are not always easy.”

“We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation or we can see in them a real chance for change,” the Pope added.

He’s calling for authoritarian, world wide government, screwing the little people and enabling the elites.

Meanwhile

PICS – Not Very Environmentally Friendly: Climate Activists Burn Boat, Litter During Pre-COP26 Protest

Environmental activists from an Extinction Rebellion (XR) offshoot set fire to a prop boat and filled the air with plumes of smoke to protest climate change and fossil fuels.

Two so-called environmentalists from Ocean Rebellion, one dressed as Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, set fire to the small boat bearing a sail reading, “Your children’s future” on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, opposite the site of the United Nations COP26 climate conference which starts on Sunday.

Footage shared on social media and pictures from the protest showed smoke from the fire rising into the air. The activists from Ocean Rebellion, founded in August 2020 as an offshoot of XR, also burnt fake money, some of which was seen strewn on the ground.

And

On Tuesday, another XR offshoot, Animal Rebellion, scaled the government’s Home Office building in Westminster, London, demanding the world adopt a vegan diet.

Funny how they always want the Government to force compliance, eh? Funny how, even with all sorts of rules and regs and laws and Dicates, we get

Canadians have highest “lifestyle carbon footprint” of all nations in this study

New research has found that all nations analyzed exceed the lifestyle carbon footprint required to avert the climate crisis. The report warned of the need for a precipitous reduction in the global carbon footprint and called for changes at the personal and systemic levels.

The research, 1.5 Degree Lifestyles report, analyzed the lifestyle carbon footprint of nine G20 countries, including Canada. Examining domestic habits in six areas, including food, housing, transport, and leisure, the research determined the reductions necessary to align with the 1.5°C warming increase target outlined in the Paris Agreement. (snip)

These recommendations would have particular ramifications on lifestyles in Canada, which was determined to have by far the highest lifestyle footprint of all nations analyzed. The per capita emissions of the average Canadian was found to be fully six times greater than the average person in Indonesia, three times that of Chinese or South African citizens, and not quite double the footprint of someone from the UK.

Canada has a lot of forced climate emergency (scam) restrictions on citizens, yet, they’re still tops. It’s almost like this has nothing to do with the climate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 29, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful green space perfect for wind turbines, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on how media bias works, specifically.

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