Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 20, 2021 – 9:31 am

Patriotic Pinup Peter Driben

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. Getting a little rain from the tropical storm for the bushes, the Dodgers are on a winning streak, and it’s Father’s Day. This pinup is by Peter Driben, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Sonoran Conservative has some fun facts about the Kentucky Derby
  2. Sultan Knish explains how HBO got Woke and went Broke
  3. The Daley Gator has 100 tunes that defined rock and roll
  4. The First Street Journal covers Socialism in education
  5. The Gateway Pundit notes that the driver who rammed into a gay pride parade is ….. gay (it was supposedly an accident, and most news outlets have failed to mention he’s part of the Gay Chorus)
  6. The Lid discusses Texas laws that will give gun grabbers heartburn
  7. The Other McCain has a long piece on Victoria’s Secret going Woke
  8. The Political Hat has the Woke history of the world
  9. The Right Scoop notes that Trump was right again on California wildfires
  10. Victory Girls Blog covers the Colorado health department targeting the unvaccinated in violation of HIPPA
  11. Vox Popoli discusses Harry and Princess Pushy being mad their son will never be a prince (entitled brats who walked away from royals)
  12. Weasel Zippers highlights Rochester whining about crime while defunding the police
  13. Powerline covers the IRS abusing their power again
  14. Moonbattery discusses the Woke making the rules on Megan Ripanoe’s racism
  15. And last, but not least, Maggie’s Farm has a simple question on cicadas

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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Democrats “Women’s Health Protection Act” Would Eliminate Almost Every State Law On Abortion

By William Teach June 20, 2021 – 8:39 am

This is the priority for Democrats: it always has been. It’s not ‘climate change’, it’s not equity/equality, it’s not infrastructure, it’s not even women’s rights, it’s abortion. Rather gives a good reason why Catholic bishops should deny Democrat lawmakers communion

Democrats Introduce New Bill to Eliminate Every Single Pro-Life Law Nationwide

Senate Democrats have introduced a new bill that would eliminate every single pro-life law nationwide.

The so-called Women’s Health Protection Act, “would invalidate nearly all existing state limitations on abortion,” said Jennifer Popik, director of federal legislation for National Right to Life.

“This legislation would also prohibit states from adopting new protective laws in the future, including various types of laws specifically upheld as constitutionally permissible by the U.S. Supreme Court,” she said.

Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said the measure “would essentially remove all legal protections for unborn children on the federal and state level. The Women’s Health Protection Act is, in effect, a no-limits-on-abortion-until-birth bill.”

Is anyone surprised that Democrats would attempt this, which would probably see an immediate lawsuit if passed by the Senate or House? Of course, the only way it would get passed by the Senate is if they nuke the filibuster. For one thing, it would end religious objection to performing abortion, violating the 1st Amendment. The federal government also has zero Constitutional authority to do this. It was not a delegated power, hence, a violation of the 10th Amendment.

If passed, here is what this bill would do:

  • Eliminate all state and federal parental consent laws in relation to abortion
  • Eliminate all state informed consent laws, including those that allow women to view an ultrasound prior to abortion
  • Prevent states from passing laws to protect babies at 20 weeks, thereby joining countries like North Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Canada, and the Netherlands in not protecting unborn children later in development
  • Force doctors and nurses opposed to abortion to lose their jobs, and Catholic hospitals could lose public funds unless they perform abortions
  • Eliminate decades-long limitations on direct taxpayer funding of abortion – including the popular Hyde Amendment, which has saved over 2 million lives since enacted
  • In short, overturn all federal and state pro-life laws, and go further to make it illegal for elected officials to even introduce pro-life legislation

“As you can see, this bill would take pro-abortion extremism to a new and alarming level. To make matters worse, they have even erased all references to ‘women’ from the language of the bill, strangely only keeping it in the feel-good title,” McClusky said. “The radicalism of this Congress and their attacks on the inherent dignity of the human person are unprecedented. In the face of this bold radicalism, we must also raise our voices and defend mothers and the unborn from this agenda.”

So, far far left crazy on abortion, and no mention of women in the bill. This is the Democrats. And even if they do not try hard to pass it, their extremism fires up their unhinged base.

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Surprise: Climate Cult Activists Buying Beachfront Property

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Because we’re all doomed from sea rise because Someone Else ate a burger, right?

Climate activists invest in property on beaches they say are disappearing

John Kerry climateFrom Bill and Melinda Gates to climate envoy John Kerry, climate activists have sounded the alarm about how melting ice will soon raise the ocean to levels that swallow the world’s beaches.

But some of the country’s most vocal climate change activists have invested heavily in luxury oceanfront property along beaches they’ve claimed will be underwater one day due to rising sea levels.

Climate activists have long faced charges of hypocrisy from critics who accuse them of lecturing others about making sacrifices for the environment while declining to live by that example themselves. For instance, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were pilloried in the media in 2019 after the two flew on a private jet just days after Prince Harry wrote on social media that “every choice, every footprint, every action makes a difference” in protecting the environment. (snip)

Kerry spent $11.75 million in 2017 for a sprawling estate on the beach in Martha’s Vineyard. The property includes more than 18 acres of land on which his seven-bedroom home sits, overlooking the Vineyard Sound. (snip)

The Obamas own an $11.75 million mansion in Martha’s Vineyard, near the water as well [as a house in Hawii].(snip)

But Gore invested nearly $9 million into an ocean view property in Montecito, California, in 2009. The lush property had a swimming pool, spa, wine cellar, and six fireplaces.

How many other rich Warmists own homes at the beach? I’ll believe the people who tell me it’s a climate crisis when they start acting like it’s a crisis in their own lives.

Meanwhile

One Answer to Climate Change Is Right Under Your Feet

When heat waves hit, people start looking for anything that might lower the temperature. One solution is right beneath our feet: pavement.

Think about how hot the soles of your shoes can get when you’re walking on dark pavement or asphalt. A hot street isn’t just hot to touch—it also raises the surrounding air temperature.

Research shows that building lighter-colored, more reflective roads has the potential to lower air temperatures by more than 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit (1.4 C) and, in the process, reduce the frequency of heat waves by 41 percent across U.S. cities. But reflective surfaces have to be used strategically—the wrong placement can actually heat up nearby buildings instead of cooling things down. (snip)

Phoenix could reduce its summer temperatures even more—by 2.5 to 3.6 F (1.4 to 2.1 C)—but the effects in some parts of its downtown are complicated. In a few low, sparse downtown neighborhoods, we found that reflective pavement could raise the demand for cooling because of increased incident radiation on the buildings.

It’s a long piece which unintentionally describes the Urban Heat Island effect while still trying to yammer about anthropogenic climate change.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful big city full of like minded Warmists, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on what could have been regarding the news blowing of the Wuhan lab leak.

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Catholic Bishops Considering Denying Communion To Politicians Who Support Abortion

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 10:30 am

This has made Democrats who fail to follow the Bible, God’s Word, and Jesus Christ very upset

After Debate On Biden’s Abortion Views, Bishops Vote to Rethink Communion Rules

After a contentious debate, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has voted to move forward with a process that could call into question the eligibility of politicians like President Joe Biden to receive Communion.

The bishops voted 168-55 in favor of drafting “a formal statement on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church,” officials announced on Friday afternoon, the final day of their three-day virtual meeting. Six bishops abstained.

Biden’s election as only the nation’s second Roman Catholic president has prompted renewed debate over denying communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, a position at odds with church teachings. (snip)

Biden was mentioned by name or alluded to several times, including by Bishop Liam Cary of the Diocese of Baker in Oregon, who described what he sees as an “unprecedented situation in the country.”

“We’ve never had a situation like this where the executive is a Catholic president opposed to the teaching of the church ” Cary said.

Biden supports abortion, hence, he opposes the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Word of God. For all the talk about him being Catholic, he sure hasn’t acted like one since his first election in 1972.

What will he do if they deny him communion, considering he is actively opposing God? This sounds rather threatening

Well, there’s 60 who should be denied communion. Of course, how many are Catholic? And what are they going to do about it? There is this thing called the 1st Amendment, with it’s portions on speech and not deny the free practice of religion. Especially since Democrats want to replace the Christian religion with the worship of Government.

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Bummer: People Just Aren’t Buying Into Doom From Climate Crisis (scam) Caused Extreme Weather

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 7:10 am

Maybe people aren’t cultists and realize that bad weather happens, and has always happened? Or, perhaps for those who are cultists they aren’t willing to give up their own big carbon lives

Study: Extreme weather may not lead to increased support for climate action

For some Americans, the signs of global warming are everywhere. In 2020 alone, wildfires broke records across the West, hurricanes fueled by abnormally warm ocean temperatures battered the Southeast, and a Death Valley weather station recorded a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit — possibly the hottest daily high ever reliably documented on Earth. Now, drought has taken hold in much of the West, teeing up what is expected to be an extremely active fire season.

Climate scientists have been warning for decades that global warming will lead to more extreme weather. And so as more Americans start to personally experience disastrous weather events, it’s reasonable to ask whether they will support aggressive climate action.

The short answer is already clear: not necessarily.

Oops.

The signal of climate change is difficult for people to notice against the noisy background of day-to-day and seasonal changes in weather.

30+ years of spreading awareness and this is the best they can do?

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, or YPCCC, the publisher of this site, has been using nationally representative surveys for 12 years to track which Americans think they have personally experienced global warming.

The data show that Democrats and Republicans living in the same states or counties — or even sharing the same roof — can be a world apart when it comes to perceived experience with global warming (Fig. 1). While 60% of Democrats nationally say they have personally experienced global warming, only 22% of Republicans agree.

30+ years of spreading awareness, doomsaying, attempting to scare people, and this is the best they can do? I’ll admit that I have experienced global warming, because it is happening, it’s just that it is primarily natural, with a small portion that is globally anthropogenic and another small percent being from land use and the urban heat island effect.

We found that only one type of weather affected Americans’ beliefs that they had experienced global warming: hot, dry days. When hot, dry days persist for a long period of time, drought conditions arise. In particular, the intense heat and lack of rainfall that affected Texas in the Midwest in 2011, and which turned into a severe drought, stands out clearly in the study’s climate data (Fig. 2, top panel). This drought was also associated with extreme wildfires in Texas, which burned about 4 million acres that year, doubling the previous record. (snip)

In our study, people did not link local increases in heavy rainfall with global warming. Given that the connections between global warming and precipitation patterns are more complex than those for temperature alone, perhaps this is not surprising. Yet the relationship is important and has major consequences for our economy and health. Scientists recently calculated that the impact of global warming on Hurricane Sandy includes a price tag of $8 billion from the flooding damage. But many Americans don’t understand how carbon pollution could cause an increase in flooding and hurricane damage. For them, the dots have not been connected yet between cause and effects.

It’s no wonder I call it Hotcoldwetdry: these doomsday cultists say that the un-scientific, climate cult term “carbon pollution” is causing everything, just like a cult would.

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Macy Gray Calls For Replacing American Flag, Says It Has Replaced Confederate Flag

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 6:57 am

This would be no big deal, just another entitled, unhinged liberal hating on America as usual, if so many other liberals weren’t agreeing with her

Singer Macy Gray argues US needs a ‘new flag’ to replace ‘tattered, dated, divisive’ Old Glory

The American flag is “tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect” and needs to be updated, singer Macy Gray argued this week in an op-ed written for Juneteenth.

But the piece, published Thursday by MarketWatch, received a quick rebuke from a few prominent conservatives.

The five-time Grammy nominee’s article appeared the same day President Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the 1860s.

She argued that Old Glory has “replaced” the Confederate flag, implying it is a symbol of racism.

“It no longer represents ALL of us,” Gray wrote. “It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag.”

If she and others don’t like it, they can leave, right? What do they want to replace it with? The African flag they fly on Juneteenth? Something with the communist symbol on it? Perhaps the BLM or Antifa flags? People like Macy do not want any sort of coming together, and sort of “racial healing”, no, they just want to sow division and air their racial grievances and force everyone else to comply.

She went on to say a new flag should have 52 stars, with the new pair representing Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

She claimed both the U.S. territory in the Caribbean and the nation’s capital city deserve statehood and that the supposed purity and innocence represented by the flag’s white stripes is a fallacy.

“America is great,” she wrote. “It is beautiful. Pure, it ain’t. It is broken and in pieces.”

She suggested the stripes could be off-white and the stars the “colors of ALL of us — your skin tone and mine.”

Huh what? What about Latinos? Asians? Middle Eastern folks? Native Americans? Are they being left out? What is off white? White? I’m guessing she really didn’t think through her moonbat piece. She just wanted to bitch and moan. Perhaps she should talk with her BLM allies about looting and pillaging and arson and vandalism in black owned areas.

As for Puerto Rico, are we to force them to be a full part of the Union? Mentioning D.C. means this was very much about politics, trying to force something to happen. Tell you what, convene a Constitutional convention, see if you can get the votes.

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Warmist Snowflakes Getting Upset With China Joe Over Lack Of Climate Scam Action

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 3:00 pm

They could practice what they preach if they’re so concerned, right?

Sunrise Movement Getting ‘More And More Angry’ At Biden Over Lack Of Climate Progress

The Sunrise Movement is growing frustrated with President Joe Biden’s lack of progress on his climate policies — and the fact that oil and gas executives seem to have his ear.

The youth-led climate group sent a letter to the White House demanding a sit-down with the president and vice president. The letter, sent on June 4 and shared exclusively with HuffPost, asks Biden to prioritize meeting with them rather than a Republican Party looking to strip climate provisions from his infrastructure plan.

The group says it has not received a response.

“We’re definitely frustrated and each day that goes by we’re more and more angry and outraged,” Sunrise Movement spokesperson Ellen Sciales told HuffPost. “We elected Biden on a bold climate mandate and now he’s spending more time with Republicans than with the people who sacrificed all their time to get him elected.”

How cute, they sent a letter. And actually expected it to be answered by Joe.

In the letter, the Sunrise Movement called Biden’s attempt to negotiate with the GOP over his spending package a “dead end mission.”

“The agenda you’ve put forward and I helped craft, while historic, is itself already a compromise; it’s far short of what economists and scientists say is necessary to transform our economy and meet the climate challenge at scale,” Varshini Prakash, executive director of Sunrise Movement, wrote. “But, if you insist on meeting with and negotiation with the Republican Party, it’s only reasonable that you should also meet with and hear from us.”

So what they want is dictatorship, while screeching about Democracy. How cute. Meanwhile

Pennsylvania youth to march to Washington, D.C. fighting against climate change

A group of Pennsylvania youth will be marching from Harrisburg to Washington DC next week as they urge the Biden Administration to take a greater stand against climate change.

The activists are part of Sunrise Movement, which is a group of youth from across the country who are fighting to stop climate change.

Thompson and other members of the Sunrise Movement rallied at the capitol earlier this month. They’re hoping to reiterate their message as they march over 100 miles back to the White House.

I’m betting most of them couldn’t walk 10 miles, much less 100, looking at the photos at the article. Especially in the summer heat. The chance of them being driven in fossil fueled vehicles is around 100%.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on white supremacy expanding through diversity.

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Fauci Remembers An Early Meeting On Wuhan Lab Leak

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 10:30 am

Drip drip drip. Slowly more information is coming to light about the potential for a lab leak

‘I remember it very well’: Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID origins

In the early days of the growing coronavirus outbreak that would soon become a pandemic, an elite group of international scientists gathered on a conference call to discuss a shocking possibility: The virus looked like it might have been engineered in a laboratory.

“I remember it very well,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, said in an interview with me on Wednesday. “We decided on the call the situation really needed to be looked into carefully.”

The teleconference on Feb. 1, 2020, appears to have played a pivotal role in shaping the early views of several key scientists whose published papers and public statements contributed to the shutting down of legitimate discussion about whether a laboratory in Wuhan, China, might have ignited the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a reporter who has spent a decade revealing hundreds of serious safety breaches at U.S. biological research labs, it has always seemed obvious to investigate whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a major coronavirus research center, possibly played a role given that the initial outbreak happened in the same city.

Yet for more than a year, those who publicly raised such questions were too often deemed a crackpot conspiracy theorist or a simpleton who just didn’t understand science.

It has only been in recent weeks that a growing list of high-profile scientists, intelligence officials and politicians – including President Joe Biden  – have publicly acknowledged the plausibility of a lab accident and pushed for rigorous investigation.

Perhaps that’s because the early concerns among key scientists – like the conference call on Feb. 1, 2020 – were kept private until now. That call likely would have remained secret if not for documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

It’s very simple why this acknowledgement is occurring: the first is because the Credentialed Media and Democrats too a kneejerk opposition to Trump and so many Republicans speculating that the most obvious possibility was that COVID19 came from a lab, either accidentally or on purpose, rather than someone eating a bat or something and it spreading like gossip.

The other big reason is due to the World Health Organization and so many others trying to protect China, especially since Trump and many were referring to it as the Wuhan Flu, China Flu, etc.

The group of scientists invited to the call had agreed in advance that the information they discussed would be kept in total confidence and not shared until they had agreed on next steps, emails at the time show. They were among thousands of pages of Fauci’s emails on a wide range of topics that BuzzFeed News posted online recently after obtaining them through the federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

A day before the teleconference, Kristian Andersen, an expert in infectious disease genomics at the prestigious Scripps Research Translational Institute in California, had told Fauci first by phone and again later by email that the genetic structure of the virus looked like it might have been engineered in a lab.

And they wanted to keep this rather important information secret, so, good on BuzzFeed for a change

“The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen said in an email to Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020. Andersen added that he and University of Sydney virologist and evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes, plus a handful of other top scientists with whom Fauci was on a first-name basis, “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”

Surprise? Anyway, it is a long article, worth reading the rest.

More: TDS did play a significant role in the scientists lying

(Breitbart) Far-left NBC News reports:

Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] cases were reported, was connected to the outbreak, and on numerous occasions he called the pathogen the “Wuhan virus” or “kung flu.”

“At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,” she said.

If you read between the lines, what happened here is obvious… A herd of quislings with scientific degrees allowed themselves to be so intimidated by the toxicity fabricated around Trump by the political, media, and academic establishment that they covered up something they believe to be true — that the lab leak theory is credible enough to warrant investigation.

Huh.

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