Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 2, 2021 – 9:58 am

Patriotic Pinup Pearl Frush

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my Devils have won 4 in a row. This pinup is by Pearl Frush, with a wee bit of help.

Pretty much lost all the pinups I saved since mid-January unless I can restore the hard drive on my old laptop without wiping it. Fortunately, the only things I will be out of are those, the ones I added something patriotic to since then, and the stuff in the If All You See folder (which had more than just babe photos, it was a default download folder. Have all my music. Funny thing is, I’ve installed very few programs to my new laptop, which is awesome, BTW. I see the programs in my download folder, but, forget which ones I had installed, because I almost never used them.

Anyhow, what’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Ice Age Now covers the MET Office trying to downplaythe UK’s frostiest April in 60 years
  2. Real Climate Science notes it was the coldest Valentine’s Day in US history
  3. America’s Watchtower highlights Xenophobic Joe banning travel from India
  4. American Elephants covers China Joe’s speech to Congress not being well received
  5. Chicks On The Right covers a poll showing 50% of white liberal women have mental illness
  6. Cold Fury features Cubans noting American’s digesting communism
  7. Dissecting Leftism covers a lawsuit filed by Ashli Babbitt’s family
  8. Free North Carolina notes the Kentucky Derby turning down the Woke left’s demands
  9. Gen Z Conservative covers yet another fake hate crime
  10. IOTW Report highlights Rolling Thunder being denied a pass by China Joe’s Defense Department
  11. Jihad Watch discusses China Joe forgetting he was against the raid that took out bin Laden
  12. Legal Insurrection notes NYU grad students going on strike over their demands
  13. Moonbattery highlights an Alaska couple who attended the Jan 6th DC rally getting a guns drawn visit from the FBI
  14. neo-neocon discusses the FBI’s war on the right
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline laughs at China Joe unable to find his mask. While outside. And vaccinated. And well over 6 feet from people.

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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Washington Post Is Super Excited Over “Reporters” Harassing Politicians Who “Tried To Overturn An Election”

By William Teach May 2, 2021 – 8:30 am

This would make the reporters partisan activists and mouthpieces of the Democratic Party. Also, the Washington Post, as they’re cheerleading this, seems unaware of what the Washington Post was pushing on the 2016 election even before Donald Trump won (the WP article is behind a big paywall, can’t even read it with Pocket, but, available in full here)

The politicians who tried to overturn an election — and the local news team that won’t let anyone forget it
The journalists at WITF, an all-news public radio station in Harrisburg, Pa., made a perfectly reasonable decision a few months ago.

They decided they wouldn’t shrug off the damaging lies of election denialism.

They wouldn’t do what too many in Big Journalism have done in recent months: shove into the memory hole the undemocratic efforts by some Republican elected officials to delegitimize or overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Too many Sunday news shows repeatedly book the likes of Kevin McCarthy, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson without reminding viewers how these members of Congress tried to undo the results of the election — and encouraged the Trumpian lies about election fraud that led to the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol less than four months ago. A rare exception is CNN’s “State of the Union,” which hasn’t booked a single member of the so-called Sedition Caucus since January. (snip)

But Harrisburg’s WITF has gone a different route: They want you to remember.

Months before the election, the station’s reporters and editors were already deeply alarmed by what they saw unfolding. “We could see the disinformation really taking hold, this idea that the only way President Trump could lose is if the election were rigged,” Tim Lambert, the station’s news director, told me last week.

This story, which is in the Lifestyle (?) section of the Washington Post, is very long, but, I think you get the idea. This “reporters”, as funded by the taxpayers, won’t let people forget that some Republicans off the hook for daring to attempt to uphold the integrity of our voting system, having witnessed huge amounts of irregularities in states that were tossups, and some that shouldn’t have been tossups but easy Trump wins. There’s zero way Joe Biden gets 80 million plus votes, nor gets enough to win in states like Georgia. One has to wonder if these same “reporters” worked as hard to go after Democrats who attempted to overturn the 2016 election, blaming it on Russia Russia Russia? And wanting to impeach Trump before he even took office. And finally impeaching over really dumb stuff when we should have been focused on the Wuhan Flu. It took a long time, because the website’s search function is not very good, but, yeah, they covered Russia Russia Russia, essentially taking the side of “Trump needs to go”, rather than those who attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election.

These elected officials, WITF reminded its audience, either knowingly spread disinformation or flat-out lied in an effort to keep Trump in office.

“This was an unprecedented assault on the fabric of American democracy,” the statement said.

Yet, didn’t do the same as Democrats attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election. Remember Dems forcing the Mueller investigation, which turned out to be a big nothingburger?

“We’re out on a ledge here,” Jason Lambert (station’s news director) remembers thinking. Both he and Blanchard hoped other news organizations would join them. “But it’s been radio silence,” Lambert said.

To be sure, other news organizations, including The Washington Post, are covering the aftermath of the election fraud lies and the insurrection, sometimes in innovative ways, as NYU professor Jay Rosen recently wrote. ProPublica has established a “democracy beat,” and a nonprofit news organization, Votebeat, focuses on election integrity.

But I’d like to see more accountability. So would Princeton’s Kruse. “There’s a tendency in the political media to get caught up in the story of the day and not dwell on the things that need to be reckoned with,” he said.

Yes, let’s hold the Washington Post accountable for all their Russia Russia Russia stuff, in the news and opinion sections, which attempted to delegitimize or overturn the 2016 election, for 4 years. Heck, it started even before Trump took office, even before he won.  Did the WP or WITF complain about the riots during Trump’s 2017 inauguration? How about Rep Al Green saying that they would impeach Trump even before he won? How about the WP running an article on inauguration day about the impeachment of Trump starting? The Russian collusion meaning Trump didn’t win the election legitimately stuff was daily starting November 2016 in the Washington Post. And so many “news” outlets. Who holds them accountable? What of all the Democrat politicians, and some unhinged Never Trump Republicans?

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Surprise: Farmers Believe In Climate Change, Just Not Anthropogenic

By William Teach May 1, 2021 – 6:51 pm

Hey, you know all the talking points that farmers are super concerned about climate change? About that

Farmers Believe In Climate Change But Don’t Think Humans Are The Cause, New Poll Shows

A new poll shows farmers overwhelmingly believe climate change is real and will create significant weather problems but do not think it’s caused by human actions.

The latest annual Farm and Rural Life Poll, conducted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Iowa State Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, indicates 80% of farmers believe climate change is occurring, and more than half are concerned with its impact on their operations. (snip)

The study also indicates only 18% believe human activities are causing climate change. That comes as there is an increasing focus from the Biden administration on agriculture’s role in mitigating the problem.

Farmers are concerned about weather, for obvious reasons. And, a warming, or cooling, world can create issues. You had the great potato famine in Ireland and all the crop failures in France, leading to a revolution. Both during the Little Ice Age. Farmers will adapt.

Here’s where this gets really fun

Climate change activists say changing practices is more important than changing minds.

“I don’t think we have the luxury of time to change everybody’s mind,” said Rolf Nordstrom, president and CEO of the Great Plains Institute, a nonpartisan energy advocacy group. “But what we could do is create the market conditions that allow agriculture to flourish in pursuing a low carbon, net-zero carbon world.”

In other words, screw their opinions, they will be forced to comply. Even though most of the little climate cultists refuse to change their own lives. This really doesn’t seem to be about science, but power.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 1, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible rising sea because Other People eat meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a Florida woman going for a drive.

Lindsay Wagner, of The Bionic Woman fame.

Doubleshot below the fold, so check out The Other McCain, with a post on a drunken Michigan Democrat.

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Cancel Culture: Isaac Newton And George Floyd Murals

By William Teach May 1, 2021 – 10:30 am

Turning science class into social (justice warrior) studies

Isaac Newton Latest Historical Figure Swept Up in ‘Decolonisation’ Drive

Sir Isaac Newton has been labelled as a potential beneficiary of “colonial-era activity” in draft plans to “decolonise” the engineering curriculum at Sheffield University.

Students learning about the mathematician and scientist’s three laws of motion, the core of modern physics, could see changes in their teaching to explain the “global origins and historical context” of his theories, documents suggest.

The plans form part of the engineering faculty’s efforts to “challenge long-standing conscious and unconscious biases” among students to tackle “Eurocentric” and “white saviour” approaches to science and maths, and promote “inclusive design”.

A leaked copy of the “draft inclusive curriculum development” plan at the Russell Group institution says that “much important engineering content and curriculum resources is based on maths developed in the 18/19th century.”

It claims pioneering scientists including Paul Dirac, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Newton, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz “could be considered as benefiting from colonial era activity”.

You mostly learn a little bit about these guys, primarily Newton, in History class and science classes, right? Places you get facts. Now we have to have squishy context idiocy?

Newton, who lived until 1727, laid the foundations of modern science with his theory of gravity, in the seminal Principia, and theories on light, time, colour and calculus. (snip)

The documents do not explain how Newton is thought to have benefited from colonialism. However, it is known that he held shares in the South Sea Company that traded in slaves.

Which has what, precisely, to do with his scientific achievements? It’s turning science into social studies.

George Floyd mural covered up in Phoenix; drew complaint it ‘celebrates White violence’

Artist Jeremie “Bacpac” Franko painted a George Floyd mural in Phoenix last year to “start a conversation” about the Minneapolis man’s death in police custody.

But after complaints from residents, and an act of vandalism earlier this year, Franko painted over her mural Friday, according to a report.

The mural showed Floyd’s face on a $20 bill and included the title, “#the_price_of_black_lives.” (snip)

But some residents in the Coronado district of Phoenix were not happy with the mural, the Arizona Republic reported.

“This is a mural designed by White people that celebrates White violence,” Coronado resident Kelvin West told the newspaper. “It creates a space for Black people to continue to be traumatized.

Oh, and there’s this

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Kids Will Face Wars Over Food And Water In Future From Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach May 1, 2021 – 7:06 am

Wars have never happened before over those things, right? Remember things like the French Revolution, when they had trouble growing crops? Oh, right, that was during the Little Ice Age. But, this is not about rationality, it’s cultish scaremongering. And it’s about “We” needing to sacrifice, meaning “Other People need to be forced, not me, I’m spreading awareness”

Climate crisis: our children face wars over food and water, EU deputy warns
Exclusive: Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future

Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will face a future of fighting wars for water and food, the EU’s deputy chief has warned.

Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the EU commission, said that if social policy and climate policy are not combined, to share fairly the costs and benefits of creating a low-carbon economy, the world will face a backlash from people who fear losing jobs or income, stoked by populist politicians and fossil fuel interests.

He said: “It’s not just an urgent matter – it’s a difficult matter. We have to transform our economy. There are huge benefits, but it’s a huge challenge. The biggest threat is the social one. If we don’t fix this, our children will be waging wars over water and food. There is no doubt in my mind.”

What sacrifices has Frans Timmermans made? How about the other bigwigs on the EU commission?

He added: “Those of us who understand we need to move fast should make the social issue the pivotal issue in all of this. I really call upon all of those in the climate movement to join me in focusing on the social issue more than they’ve done in the past. Because this could become the biggest stumbling block.”

He warned that sacrifices would be needed from the older generation to ensure that young people can live in a safe climate. Today’s older people were the beneficiaries of a previous generation’s sacrifice, and were now being called on to make changes themselves, he said.

“Sometimes I wonder whether we are aware of the transformation we’re heading to, and how profound it is. It’s an effort comparable to restructuring after a violent conflict. I used to talk to my grandparents and my parents about how they saw this, after the war. They said, ‘Well, we sacrificed a lot because we knew our children would be better off.’ And this feeling is not there yet in our society.”

WWII actually happened. The Cold War happened. Climate change is happening, but, it is primarily caused by nature, and it sure seems that things like “social” are mentioned a lot when we’re supposed to be talking about science.

Changing people’s lives today would be difficult, but the benefits would be felt by today’s children, he added. “This for politics is a huge, huge challenge. We need to recapture that feeling of a purpose – doing something not for yourself, but for others, which I think has always led to society being at its best.”

And how will all this be accomplished? Via government force?

On Thursday, he travelled to London for his first official visit outside Brussels since the pandemic lockdowns began, with a four-hour meeting in Downing Street with Alok Sharma, the UK’s Cop26 president and host of the talks. He is in weekly contact with John Kerry, climate envoy to US president Joe Biden, and with China’s top climate official, Xie Zhenhua.

Interestingly, there’s no mention of how he traveled. Did he bike? Take the train? An electric vehicle? Or, a fossil fueled flight? People who say everyone needs to sacrifice never say what they’ve sacrificed themselves.

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Boston Globe Thinks It’s A Great Time For Employers To Force Employees To Get Vaccinated

By William Teach May 1, 2021 – 6:50 am

The question now becomes “do other newspaper editorial boards follow suit?”

It’s time for employers to impose vaccine mandates

Despite the widespread availability of COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers in the United States, there still appears to be a stubborn resistance to getting them among nursing home staff. And unfortunately, that resistance has proved to be fatal: According to a recent study by the CDC, a nursing home in Kentucky experienced a COVID outbreak when an unvaccinated worker triggered a string of infections among residents and staff. And though most residents had been inoculated, the virus still managed to spread its way through the home — disproportionately infecting unvaccinated people — and three residents wound up dead.

What’s alarming is that health care professionals are not the only workers in high-risk conditions who have been reluctant to get the vaccine. Correctional officers have also been slow to get the vaccine despite being eligible since the start of the year. As of February, for example, more than half of workers in Massachusetts’ Department of Correction had refused the vaccine, even though prisons have been vectors for the disease. Other state employees who regularly interact with the public have also shown signs of hesitancy: As of last month, 30 percent of State Police had not been vaccinated at department-run sites, indicating that many of them have yet to be vaccinated.

Interestingly, despite so many trying to say it is mostly Republican voters who have vaccine resistance, you see lots of commercials and such featuring left wing folks. Walgreens is running a commercial with John Legend, who totally appeals to Republicans, right? And it features mostly black people. So, who is that aimed at?

Numbers like these are a serious public health risk. While the United States now has ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines, the next hurdle in reaching herd immunity — which Dr. Anthony Fauci has estimated might require up to 90 percent of the population to be immune to the virus — is convincing enough people to actually get the shot. That target is still far away: even though Massachusetts has one of the highest vaccination rates in the country, still only about 35 percent of its residents are fully vaccinated. That’s why some employers, both public and private, must start mandating the COVID-19 vaccine. Not doing so could prolong the pandemic indefinitely, and make the return to normalcy seem more like a mirage than a soon-to-be reality.

So, both private sector and government must enforce employees taking the vaccine. I have to wonder, has the Boston Globe required all employees to take it? How about all players and employees of the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. soccer, since they are all owned by John W. Henry? Interestingly, the editorial doesn’t say.

Employers have the authority to mandate vaccines for their workers, except in cases where an employee has a medical exemption or if a vaccine might conflict with their religious beliefs. And though there’s a question of whether or not federal law allows employers to mandate vaccines that are under Emergency Use Authorization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued guidance that such mandates are a matter of state law. “Many health care facilities have required their workers to get a flu vaccine before. Why is the flu vaccine in that context different from COVID?” Emanuel said. “If anything, we ought to be mandating COVID [vaccines] because it’s a much more deadly disease.”

Well, yes, it’s lawful, however, let’s be honest: many are resistant because the vaccines were developed so fast without all the clinical trials and such of, say, regular flu vaccines. Will the employer be accountable for any side effects from taking the vaccine? They are rare, but, I saw someone taken to the hospital after taking it, as I was sitting out my 15 minutes from the second dose. It’s a slippery slope in requiring employers to force employees to get the vaccine.

Interestingly, the editorial makes no mention of the editorial board members having been vaccinated themselves.

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If All You See…

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

…is a window melted from extreme heat from climate emergency, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on a massive failure of $20 billion of wind power in Australia.

That’s Wanda Ventham in the early 70’s British show UFO.

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All Wildfires Are ‘Climate Change’, Including Ones Used To Cover Up Murder

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

Say, you know how they were blaming the wildfires in California (with all the horrendous forest management practices that turn the areas into tinderboxes)? Well

From the link

A 2020 wildfire in Northern California that killed two people was intentionally set to cover up a murder, officials said Wednesday.

The Markley Fire was set near a dam in Solano County where the burned body of Priscilla Castro, 32, was found, according to the Solano County sheriff’s office and Vacaville police.

Two other people — Douglas Mai, 82, and Leon “James” Bone, 64 — were found dead from that fire in their homes, Sheriff Tom Ferrara said at a news conference.

Victor Serriteno was arrested by Vacaville police in September and charged with murder in Castro’s death, and prosecutors will file to add two more murder charges and arson charges, the district attorney said.

“Based on an extensive eight-month investigation, we believe Serriteno deliberately set the Markley Fire in an attempt to conceal his crime,” Ferrara said.

Of course, what the climate cult will say is that it was worse than it should have been because you take a fossil fueled vehicle to get an Evil burger.

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North Carolina, LA County To Enter Somewhat Relaxed Mask Rules Friday

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

Were people actually wearing masks outside when alone and doing stuff? A few cranks, of course. We were required to wear them around customers. I think government just likes laying down rules how we live our lives

You can ditch your face mask while outside starting Friday afternoon in North Carolina

Part of North Carolina’s mask mandate will come to an end Friday afternoon.

Starting at 5 p.m., masks will not be required outdoors in the Tar Heel state. This will be the first time in nearly a year that masks will not be required in some public spaces.

Gov. Roy Cooper said he was relaxing the restrictions because of the continued improvement to COVID-19 metrics and the increase in the number of adults in the state who have gotten vaccinated.

However, masks will still be required indoors.

Cooper said the indoor mask mandate would remain in place for a while longer. Before he removes that restriction, Cooper said he would like to see two-thirds of vaccine eligible North Carolinians get inoculated against the virus.

Although the outdoor mask mandate expires Friday, remember that the executive order is a minimum requirement. So individual businesses could still opt to be more strict about where customers are required to wear masks.

And that’s where it breaks down: what will companies require? Regardless, this changes mostly nothing for most of us who wouldn’t wear a mask outside anyhow. A bigger part is that Cooper is requiring 2/3rds of adults to have had at least one vaccine (thanks, President Trump for the vaccines!) before doing away with the indoors mask mandate. Right now it’s about 49%, and fewer and fewer are getting it. So, this is a way of keeping the government restrictions going, despite things going pretty good in maskless states like Florida, South Dakota, and Texas.

L.A. County relaxes outdoor mask rules for vaccinated people

The L.A. County Department of Public Health has revised a pandemic health order to align itself with new federal guidance that eased rules on when fully vaccinated people should wear masks.

The updated health order, which goes into effect Friday, states that unless they are in crowded settings, fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask when outdoors alone, with members of their household or with a small group of fully vaccinated people. They also can go without a mask when intermingling with a small group of people who are not fully vaccinated but not at high risk for experiencing serious illness or death from the coronavirus.

The order states that fully vaccinated people must still wear a mask in crowded outdoor settings, such as concerts or sporting events, in spaces where physical distancing isn’t possible and it’s unknown if everyone is fully vaccinated, in indoor public settings and at worksites or businesses.

So, requiring it at worksites and business doing business outside. These government folks really, really like controlling the lives of citizens. And really want to keep this stuff going.

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