Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 26, 2020 – 9:22 am

Edward Runci Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and baseball is back. Just hand the trophy to the Dodgers, save yourself some time. This pinup is by Edward Runci, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Watts Up WIth That? discusses St. Greta picking a side
  2. Adrienne’s Corner considers a world without police
  3. American Greatness covers the Democrats cargo cult
  4. Blazing Cat Fur notes no charges for guy who drove truck through Tulsa “protest”
  5. Bustednuckles has proof that the mask mandates are politically motivated
  6. Chicks On The Right covers Melania Trump delivering lunches to police officers
  7. Cold Fury discusses classical music’s cancel culture moment
  8. Datechguy’s Blog notes the 1st Amendment before and after Roberts
  9. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers hucksters of the Lincoln Project
  10. Dissecting Leftism discusses why COVID19 sometimes strikes young people
  11. Geller Report News covers an all black armed group managing to shoot a member (and calls police)
  12. hogewash notes an unwise escalation by Portland “protesters”
  13. IOTW Report features an SUV going after a Defend The Police protest
  14. Jihad Watch reports on how many non-Muslim girls have potentially been raped by Muslim grooming gangs
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection covers the Seattle PD now saying they cannot protect property

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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Portland NAACP Head: Say, I Thought The Portland Protests Were About Black Lives Matter? No?

By William Teach July 26, 2020 – 7:41 am

Someone should tell E.D. Mondainé that that ship sailed weeks ago, and not just in Portland. The violence has been, and still is, all over. Here’s a smattering of last night, the in-story subheads

  • Portland, Ore.: Courthouse fence breached
  • Seattle: Explosive blows hole in precinct wall (and that’s the point where police declared a riot. Didn’t seem to care when the non-peaceable nuts were trashing the streets and businesses)
  • Austin, Texas: Fatal shooting (Austin may be in Texas, but, very much a Dem run city)
  • Aurora, Colo.: Vehicle drives through crowd; courthouse fire
  • Oakland, Calif.: Courthouse fire
  • Omaha: ‘Potential of getting violent’ prompts arrests
  • Los Angeles: Damage to courthouse, City Hall clash

And

From the link

Early in his activism, Malcolm X was asked by a young white woman what she could do to help the cause of civil rights. He famously replied, “Nothing.” Years later, he regretted dismissing her so abruptly, because he came to believe there was much she could do to advance the cause of justice for black people in the United States. But I am quite certain that striking yoga poses nude on the streets of Portland, Ore., was not on his list of actionable items.

Images of “Naked Athena,” as the protester has been labeled, have gone viral, her unclothed confrontation with police earning her accolades as a brave ally of the cause. But I see something else: a beneficiary of white privilege dancing vainly on a stage that was originally created to raise up the voices of my oppressed brothers and sisters. In this, she is not alone. As the demonstrations continue every night in Portland, many people with their own agendas are co-opting, and distracting attention from, what should be our central concern: the Black Lives Matter movement. (snip)

Unfortunately, “spectacle” is now the best way to describe Portland’s protests. Vandalizing government buildings and hurling projectiles at law enforcement draw attention — but how do these actions stop police from killing black people? What are antifa and other leftist agitators achieving for the cause of black equality? The “Wall of Moms,” while perhaps well-intentioned, ends up redirecting attention away from the urgent issue of murdered black bodies. This might ease the consciences of white, affluent women who have previously been silent in the face of black oppression, but it’s fair to ask: Are they really furthering the cause of justice, or is this another example of white co-optation?

Mondaine’ is correct in all but one thing: don’t call it white co-optation, call it Leftist co-optation. Or white Leftist co-optation. Because it’s certainly not white Republicans involved with this. Most of us were interested in some sort of police reform. We’ve had a problem with the police using surplus military gear for quite some time. But, all this that’s been going on is straight up Modern Socialist stuff. We can debate about the Black Lives Matter movement, at least at the leadership level, being purely Marxist, but, there are lots of blacks who aren’t, they just want reform.

I’ve argued this with black people I know for almost 2 months at this point: how does the violence, property destruction, graffiti, assault, arson, etc, help? How about when the protests start yammering about LGBTQ and the gender confused? And the climate change scam? And adding in all sorts of the same old hardcored Democrat policy wants? At a minimum, regular citizens tune out. Many turn against the “protesters.” And the notion of black lives mattering has been discarded by the Leftists. Of course, when you see black kids being handed “f*ck the cops” and other nasty messages by their black parents, that doesn’t help, either.

And, as you’d expect, Mondaine’ has to add some Trump Derangement Syndrome, which distracts from his actual op-ed message

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Study Shows Roman Warm Period Was 3.6F Hotter Than Today

By William Teach July 25, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Damned Romans conquering the world in fossil fueled chariots, crossing seas in fossil fueled longboats

Roman Warm Period was 2°C warmer than today, new study shows

The Mediterranean Sea was 3.6°F (2°C) hotter during the Roman Empire than other average temperatures at the time, a new study claims.

The Empire coincided with a 500-year period, from AD 1 to AD 500, that was the warmest period of the last 2,000 years in the almost completely land-locked sea.

The climate later progressed towards colder and arid conditions that coincided with the historical fall of the Empire, scientists claim.

Spanish and Italian researchers recorded ratios of magnesium to calcite taken from skeletonized amoebas in marine sediments, an indicator of sea water temperatures, in the Sicily Channel.

The study offers ‘critical information’ to identify past interactions between climate changes and evolution of human societies and ‘their adaptive strategies’.

It meets requests from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to assess the impact of historically warmer conditions between 2.7°F and 3.6°F (1.5°C to 2°C).

However, the historical warming of the Med during the Roman Empire is linked to intense solar activity, which contrasts with the modern threat of greenhouse gases.

The RWP was a time of great progress for humans, not just Romans. Many other populations took great leaps, and tended to have major issues when the climate flipped to cooling.

For the first time, we can state the Roman period was the warmest period of time of the last 2,000 years, and these conditions lasted for 500 years,’ said Professor Isabel Cacho at the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics, University of Barcelona.

Of course, climate cultists will say that this time is different, just as you’d expect a cultist to say. And we can fix it all with a tax. And taking away the freedom, liberty, and choice of Other People.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 25, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…are shades needed to keep the heat out from climate change, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on the Portland cult singing “hands up, don’t shoot me”

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Ivanka Visits National Park, Unhinged Lefties Go Unhinged

By William Teach July 25, 2020 – 10:30 am

Then again, is there anything that doesn’t cause them to get unhinged? Well, rioting, arson, assault, vandalism, and property destruction against certain federal employees is OK, but, visiting a national park? People are ticked!

Ivanka Trump Visits National Park In The Middle Of Pandemic, And People Are Ticked

Twitter users are annoyed over Ivanka Trump’s visit to a national park amid the coronavirus pandemic for what appeared to be a photo opportunity.

Critics tore into President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser after she tweeted photographs on Thursday of herself celebrating the passage of The Great American Outdoors Act at the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.

Trump hailed the widely welcomed bipartisan legislation, which her father has said he will sign, to address maintenance backlogs in national parks and secure funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, with this post:

But, see, unhinged leftards cannot even celebrate visiting a national park nor Trump signing the bipartisan legislation without going bat guano insane

But her detractors questioned she was there in the first place.

They also accused the White House of “greenwashing,” given its decidedly anti-environmental agenda and previous attempts to gut the Land and Water Conservation Fund of its funding almost altogether.

Some even put their own spin on what the pandemic ― that has now killed more than 140,000 people in the United States — had really made them value.

“The pandemic has made us value, now more than ever, decency, integrity, honesty…all the things you aren’t capable of,” said one Twitter user, referencing the Trump administration’s disastrous handling of the public health crisis.

There are a lot more tweets at the story with them losing their shit. Because that’s what people do these days.

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We’re Saved: Erie Youths Hold Climate Shoe Strike

By William Teach July 25, 2020 – 7:52 am

These would be shoes made with fossil fuels, shipped with fossil fueled vehicles, many coming from Vietnam and China

Erie group’s ‘shoe strike’ highlights climate change

The Inner-City Neighborhood Art House’s event drew attention to the global climate crisis without a public protest.

A display of shoes took the place of a march or protest on Friday, but the message of global climate change awareness was still made.

A youth group at the Inner-City Neighborhood Art House, 201 E. 10th St., put out about 100 pairs of donated shoes to draw attention to the global climate crisis. The shoe strike took the place of a public protest due to the threat of COVID-19.

“Because of COVID, we are not allowed to go out and march and walk,” said Sofia Masi, 13, co-organizer of the project and a member of the Art House’s climate change group. “So the shoe strike is a way of saying, ‘Climate is (still) an issue.’”

The protest is similar to national and international events occurring this weekend and is based on the Skolstrejk movement started in Sweden by youth activist Greta Thunberg.

Not allowed to march? Perhaps they missed all the other hardcore leftists marching and not catching flak for it. Anyhow, if they really care

Start taking away a large portion of their allowance/work earnings. Limit their freedom, where they can travel to, what they can buy. See if they really care then.

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GOP Introduces Resolution Banning Democratic Party Name Over Slavery

By William Teach July 25, 2020 – 7:11 am

This is exactly the kind of thing you get in the era of Donald Trump, where Republicans finally have the cajones to fight back against Democrats, instead of being meek and cowed. Of course, the Credentialed Media is barely covering this, unsurprisingly. I’m find a total of 5 articles. You have Salon, which is, of course, defending Democrats and smearing Republicans, The Blaze, The Hill, and WSET in Virginia, along with

GOP reps push resolution to ban Democratic Party over past slavery ties

A group of Republican House members, led by Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas, introduced a resolution Thursday that would effectively ban the Democratic Party from the House or force a party name change over past slavery ties — a response to the recent efforts to remove tributes to past members of the Confederacy from the halls of Congress.

It specifically cites the Democratic Party platform’s support for slavery between 1840 and 1856, and other racist actions by party members through the early-to-mid 1900s, before calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “remove any items that names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy” from the House and its properties. The resolution also says such a party “shall either change its name or be barred from participation in the House of Representatives.”

Gohmert, in a statement accompanying the bill, told Democrats they should rebrand to “avoid triggering” anyone.

“As outlined in the resolution, a great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred,” Gohmert said. “Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan.”

He added: “To avoid triggering innocent bystanders by the racist past of the Democratic Party, I would suggest they change their name. That is the standard to which they are holding everyone else, so the name change needs to occur.”

The resolution is available at the link, and shows lots and lots of the Democrats links to slavery, bigotry, segregation policies, and links to the KKK. And, heck, it doesn’t even include all their anti-Chinese stuff from their party platforms. It’s surprising that ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the NY Times, Washington Post, and LA Times fail to have any articles about this, eh?

Because the resolution is privileged, it takes priority over other business on the House floor. And assuming it isn’t dispensed with via voice vote, lawmakers would likely be forced to go on the record on the resolution, even if that’s through a motion to table it or refer it to a committee.

You can bet the vote will not be covered by the media: don’t want people to know the racist history of the Democratic Party, nor that they switched from being hardcore segregationists and racists after the Civil Rights era to keeping blacks down in the inner cities, making them essentially wards of the state, keeping them uneducated and poor, inviting heavy violence, and pushing abortion heavily for blacks.

Republicans should make sure they continue pushing this through the election.

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Trump Admin To Implement Global Climate Standards For Aviation, Cultists Still Not Happy

By William Teach July 24, 2020 – 3:00 pm

The Trump admin should implement hardcore climate standards for anyone flying to a climate conference

US says it will adopt global climate standards for aviation — though environmental groups still not pleased

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it plans to adopt aircraft emissions standards modeled on international ones, a move it says will not further reduce climate-damaging emissions from planes.

Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the change “strikes the right regulatory balance” and would ensure that U.S.-made airliners and large business jets meet the demands of the global market.

Environmental groups, which had threatened to sue EPA over delays in setting greenhouse gas limits for aviation, said the agency’s proposal does not go far enough.

The Center for Biological Diversity called it “toothless.” The rules “are too weak to address the severity of the climate crisis,” said Clare Lockwood, the group’s climate legal director.

Yet, these same groups won’t give up their own use of fossil fueled flying.

The new U.S. proposal is modeled on a change adopted by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency, to limit climate-damaging carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Since airline makers globally are expected to follow the new international standards anyway, “the EPA is not projecting emission reductions associated with today’s proposed GHG regulations,” or greenhouse gas rules, the EPA description of the change notes.

You can never satisfy climate cultists, so, why bother?

The Obama administration concluded that aviation contributes to climate change, endangering public health. That set Wednesday’s proposed rule in motion. The EPA says U.S. aviation accounts for 3% of the country’s overall climate-changing emissions.

Oh, wait, so, if it was good enough for Obama, should be good enough for Warmists, right? Right?

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New Climate Cult Study Rules Out Less Severe Scenarios Or Something

By William Teach July 24, 2020 – 1:40 pm

Climate cultists must be upset that the media and most people are still ignoring the climate crisis (scam) during the Bat Soup Virus occurrence. Seriously, I’ve mentioned before that it has become rather difficult to find any articles of interest over the past months, so, scaremongering time! (note: this is from the Seattle Times, which reprinted the Washington Democratic Party Post article, but forgot the link to the study. I’ve added back)

Major new climate study rules out less severe global warming scenarios

The current pace of human-caused carbon emissions is increasingly likely to trigger irreversible damage to the planet, according to a comprehensive international study released Wednesday. Researchers studying one of the most important and vexing topics in climate science — how sensitive the Earth’s climate is to a doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — found that warming is extremely unlikely to be on the low end of estimates.

These scientists now say it is likely that if human activities — such as burning oil, gas and coal along with deforestation — push carbon dioxide to such levels, the Earth’s global average temperature will most likely increase between 4.1 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (2.3 and 4.5 degrees Celsius). The previous and long-standing estimated range of climate sensitivity, as first laid out in a 1979 report, was 2.7 to 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 to 4.5 Celsius).

If the warming reaches the midpoint of this new range, it would be extremely damaging, said Kate Marvel, a physicist at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies and Columbia University, who called it the equivalent of a “five-alarm fire” for the planet.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a wonderful Christmas.

The new range is narrower than previous studies, but shows at least a 95% chance that a doubling of carbon dioxide, which the world is on course to reach within the next five decades or so, would result in warming greater than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) relative to preindustrial temperatures. That is the threshold beyond which scientists say the Earth will suffer dangerous effects — disruptive sea level rise, intolerable heat waves and other extreme weather and permanent damage to ecosystems.

So, that is the less severe scenario, which is a 95% chance if perhaps maybe CO2 hits 800ppm in 50 years or so? Gotta wonder, what happens if CO2 does and we don’t get 3.6F, essentially a 2.1F increase in 50 years (or so! Gotta be scientific and precise, you know!) after seeing just 1.5F since 1850.

Staying below that is still possible. If steep emissions cuts are made in the near-term, a doubling of carbon dioxide levels could be avoided. But if a doubling does occur, there would be a 6 to 18 percent chance of exceeding the upper bound defined by the study of 8.1 Fahrenheit (4.5 Celsius).

Yeah, you know the rest of this long, long climate cult sermon is just scaremongering. When will the Washington Post and Seattle Times give up their own use of fossil fuels? How about the rest of Warmists? And, no, I will never give up on that talking point, not till Warmists practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 24, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on fabricating evidence against the folks who held off a mob with firearms.

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