PRC Looks To Now Ban Reusable Plastic Bags

By William Teach May 28, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s always something new with these Progressives

California lawmakers vote to ban ‘reusable’ plastic bags from grocery stores

California lawmakers have voted to do away with reusable plastic bags after the elimination of single-use plastic bags failed to reduce plastic pollution.

“California’s original ban on plastic bags hasn’t worked out as planned, and sadly, the state’s plastic bag waste has increased dramatically since it went into effect,” said Sen. Catherine Blakespear, the bill’s author, in a statement. “California must do its part to eliminate this scourge that is contaminating our environment.”

On Tuesday, California lawmakers in the State Senate and the State Assembly voted to approve two identical bills which would restrict grocery stores and retailers from offering thicker, “reusable” bags made out of plastic film to customers.

SB 1053 and AB 2236 would permit grocery stores to sell other types of reusable bags made of cloth, woven textile or other washable textile that can carry at least 22 pounds for at least 300 uses. It also allows for paper bags with at least 50% recycled paper content to be sold for at least 10 cents apiece to customers.

Oh, good, there will just be more paper bags, which generally do not have the strength for handles. And cloth ones that rarely get washed. Granted, I’m not a big fan of regular plastic bags, but, I reuse the heck out of them. And have much thicker ones for when I go to Lidl, and Aldi occasionally. Progressives, though, just love to micromanage everything.

However, the move to reduce plastic pollution failed, as customers treated the thicker “reusable” plastic bags as disposable. California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) reported a roughly 47% jump in plastic bag waste tonnage since 2014, despite the ban on single-use shopping bags.

Well, huh. One would think that all the Leftist voters who all care about ‘climate change’ and stuff would be doing their part to reduce plastic waste.

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Canada Pledges To Bring In More Terrorist Supporters After Rafalah

By William Teach May 28, 2024 – 6:45 am

I have to wonder if the Canadian people are down with the plan of the Elites to bring in more terrorist from Gaza

Canada pledges more visas for Gazans, says it’s ‘horrified’ by Israeli attack in Rafah

unintended consequencesCanada said on Monday it will issue visas to 5,000 Gazans, more than it originally pledged, and said it was “horrified” by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah that triggered a blaze causing 45 deaths.

The visas for Canadians’ relatives living in the enclave represent a five-fold increase from the 1,000 temporary resident visas allotted under a special program that Canada announced in December.

“While movement out of Gaza is not currently possible, the situation may change at any time. With this cap increase, we will be ready to help more people as the situation evolves,” Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.

A spokesperson for Miller said 448 Gazans had been issued a temporary visa, including 254 under a policy not related to the special visa program, and 41 have arrived in Canada so far.

Temporary, eh? For how long? Will Canada ever make them leave? Or, just let them stay and bring their hardcore support of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups to Canadians? Infecting their cities and towns, getting themselves elected and forcing their Islamist beliefs on Canadians? Seriously, what could go wrong when 70% of Palestinians support Hamas? There’s a reason Arab nations won’t take them in.

Nearly 36,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s offensive in Gaza, according to the local health ministry, and an estimated 1.7 million people, more than 75% of Gaza’s population, have been displaced, according to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA.

Israel launched its military campaign after Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, killing around 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

I like how Reuters takes the word of Hamas, which is behind that “local health ministry”. Further, they forget to mention the rapes, tortures, and beheadings of civilians.

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We Can’t Forget About The Global Boiling Threat To America’s Military On Memorial Day Or Something

By William Teach May 27, 2024 – 5:00 pm

You really didn’t think the Cult of Climastrology would forgo dragging their doomsday beliefs into Memorial Day out of respect, did you?

The Climate Change Threat to America’s Military

As we approach Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives in service to our country. While we take this time to honor their memories, it’s also a time to reflect on what we can do to truly support those soldiers who put their lives on the line for freedom.

In paying tribute to the valor and heroism of our Armed Forces, we need to address one of the greatest threat multipliers facing our military today: climate change.

In 2007, a report issued by the Center for Naval Analysis (presently named CNA National Security Analysis) detailed the myriad ways that climate change poses a threat to our national security, not just here at home but in the many places abroad where our brave men and women are stationed. Rising seas threaten naval bases (none more so than Naval Station Norfolk, the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Forces Command). In fact, the majority of critical U.S. military infrastructure is vulnerable to environmental impacts like flooding, desertification and extreme heat.

In fact, the Norfolk area is seeing sea rise exactly about the amount one would expect during a Holocene warm period, much due to subsistence. And that report never assigned causation, just that the climate is in a warm period. So, yes, it effects operations. But, not that much.

There is no better time to have a discussion of ways to fortify against climate threats than Memorial weekend.

That’s because you are a doomsday cult, have no honor, and should just f*** off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 27, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution drought, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on the Phantom Regiment for Memorial Day.

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IDF Sends Two Senior Hamas Officials To See Allah

By William Teach May 27, 2024 – 10:30 am

But, since Muslims use the same Old Testament, will they go for their 72 virgins, or go to Hell? Further, so many articles start the same way as this The Hill one, and many fail to wonder Hamas was doing operating in the area. But, pearl clutching Hamas supporters gotta pearl clutch

Israeli military says it killed two senior Hamas officials in Rafah strikes that left at least 35 dead

At least 35 Palestinians were killed Sunday in an Israeli strike on a tent encampment, Gaza health officials said, that the Israeli military claims targeted two senior Hamas officials.

The strike targeted a humanitarian zone in Rafah which the Israeli military previously instructed displaced Palestinians to shelter from attacks, the Gaza Health Ministry said. The ministry said most of the 35 dead were women and children, and that the death toll is likely to rise as “countless” are trapped in rubble.

The attack comes just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to stop its operations in Rafah, the last remaining major settlement in Gaza that has not been invaded by the Israeli military.

Yeah, well, Israel is not part of the ICC, and Hamas, a designated terrorist group by the U.S., UN, and EU, is still in operation. The Allies refused to let the Nazi Party continue to operate during WWII when they annihilated city after city, including Berlin.

Anyhow, what about those Hamas officials? So many stories barely mention them, just the plight of the Palestinians, who were willingly being used as human shields

(NBC News) The Gaza health ministry reported that at least 35 people had been killed in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, the majority of them women and children. First responders had warned the number of casualties could rise as many were trapped in flames that erupted following the bombardment.

And on Monday, the Palestinian Civil Defense in Rafah said the death toll had risen to at least 40 people.

“This massacre is the largest in the city of Rafah in months,” Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman Muhammad Al-Mughir told NBC News. He stressed that the area that was hit was a designated “humanitarian area” next to U.N. warehouses.

Why were those Hamas members operating in the area, right next to the UNRWA storage facilities. It’s not like we haven’t seen Hamas operating near and out of them, even chatting amicably with UN employees. Per the IDF

Eliminated in the precise airstrike in northwest Rafah: Hamas Chief of Staff in Judea and Samaria and an additional senior Hamas official.

Terrorist #1: Yassin Rabia, managed the entirety of Hamas’ terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria, transferred funds to terrorist targets and planned Hamas terrorist attacks throughout Judea and Samaria. He also carried out numerous attacks, in which IDF soldiers were killed.

Terrorist #2: Khaled Nagar, a senior official in Hamas’ Judea and Samaria Headquarters, directed shooting attacks and other terrorist activities in Judea and Samaria and transferred funds intended for Hamas’ terrorist activities in Gaza. He also carried out several deadly terrorist attacks in which IDF soldiers were killed.

So, very senior Hamas leaders operating, which, apparently, was not in the safe zone

The rest of the twee reads

The execution site of senior Hamas officials in Rafah is located near UNRA warehouses in the west of the city – areas 2371 and 2372 – more than a kilometer away from the safe zone

And this contrasts with the Arabs’ claims that the IDF bombings took place in the safe zone

Maps: the elimination zone is marked in red near the UNRA warehouses, the elimination zone in red on the IDF evacuation map and the safe zone in purple, a map of the safe zone for reference

Not only were they not evacuated to the safe zone, they also serve as human shields for senior Hamas officials and then lie and claim that the IDF attacked in the safe zone.

Well, whoops. Don’t hang around terrorists and you won’t be in danger.

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BidenFail: Admin Has Only Built 7 Or 8 EV Charging Stations

By William Teach May 27, 2024 – 7:00 am

How much money was in the partisan “Inflation Reduction Act”?

Buttigieg Can’t Explain Why Biden Has Only Built ‘Seven or Eight’ EV Charging Stations

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg struggled Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation to explain why the Biden administration has only manged to build “seven or eight” electric vehicle (EV) charging stations thus far.

As Breitbart News has noted, while the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allocated $7.5 billion for EV stations, as part of building a national EV charging infrastructure, no EV charging stations had been built by the end of 2023.

$7.5 billion. Yup. Insanely, it can cost several hundred thousand dollars per level 3 charger installed. And, for those who say “well, it can take years”, I watched them put at least 5 Tesla chargers up over in Knightdale near the Lowe’s Foods in a matter of a few months. And, being government backed, I bet the costs skyrocket to at least $300k per Level 3 charger. Level 1 and 2 are less costly, of course.

Only about seven or eight had been built under the program by April — while the fossil fuel industry has been cashing in by lobbying to have the stations built at existing gas stations.

Places like Sheetz get in on that sweet federal money, since, people can sit down and eat while waiting.

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Irony: Anti-Semites Force Seattle To Close Anti-Prejudice Exhibit

By William Teach May 27, 2024 – 6:45 am

Do this Jew hating, Hamas loving Progressives even see it, or have they just made such common ground with the Islamists (not that the Islamists reciprocate) that they will never notice the irony?

Museum closes anti-prejudice exhibit after employees walk out against Israel

A Seattle-based museum is temporarily closed down after employees accused its “Confronting Hate Together” exhibit of inadvertently supporting Israel.

The striking Wing Luke Museum employees, who organized under the handle @wlm4palestine on Instagram, claim that the exhibit “conflate[s] anti-Zionism as antisemitism.” The museum describes the exhibit as exploring “anti-Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander hate, Black hate and anti-Jewish hate.”

The strike is made up of over 20 employees who walked out on Wednesday, which was the day that the exhibit opened. The strikers are a mix of full-time staff members and part-time employees.

“A majority of our walkout collective is made up of the most vulnerable employees of the Wing Luke Museum — front of house staff and part-time workers,” a post from @wlm4palestine read. “There are 22 known WLM Staff across departments and organization levels who are still in solidarity with walkouts, with others who are in solidarity.

In a sane world the museum would simply fire every single of them, with work records showing “not eligible for rehire”.

Among the employees’ demands are for the museum to remove “any language…that attempt[s] to frame Palestinian liberation and anti-Zionism as antisemitism.” The anti-Israel protesters also ask for the museum to “acknowledge the limited perspectives presented in this exhibition.”

“Missing perspectives include those of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslim communities who are also experiencing an increased amount of violence, scapegoating, and demonization as Zionist forces continue the genocide in Palestine,” the petition states.

Do they understand that the Palestinians mostly hate Americans, including the far left nutters advocating for the Palestinians? That Islamism is a competing ideology, which seeks to (direct quote from the Real Clear Politics piece cited at the beginning) “torture and kill based on race, ethnicity, and sexual preference; loathe and wage war against Israelis, Jews, Americans, and the West; and, by all available means, seek to establish Islamist theocracy”? That quote doesn’t just apply to the Iranian backed Hamas, but, all Islamists.

They even set up a GoFundMe account, and

“As we are withholding labor, we potentially will not be compensated,” the campaign states. “These funds would provide financial relief so that we can pay rent, utilities, food, medical bills, and other living expenses here in Seattle. Funds will also assist staff efforts of this walkout (needs, supplies, sustenance).”

Yeah, well, actions have consequences. Unfortunately, the museum will most likely give in to their demands, being Seattle and all, especially based on their statement.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 26, 2024 – 1:10 pm

…is fat inducing bread, and being fat is bad for climate change, but, it’s also bad to call fat bad, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on London buying 100 electric buses from China.

It’s ladies with glasses week. Of course, the funny part is that a goodly chunk are plano (no prescription), just there for looks.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 26, 2024 – 9:00 am

Patriotic Pinup David Uhl

Happy Sunday! It’s another fine day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbirds are mocking, and we should remember all those who gave their lives to keep America, and so many other nations, Free. This pinup is by David Uhl, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel covers Biden’s fantastic West Point speech
  2. This ain’t Hell discusses a veteran beating a bear
  3. The Right Scoop notes a new person added to Trump’s VP list
  4. The Gateway Pundit features Ana Navarro calling Latino voters stupid
  5. The First Street Journal discusses Bidenomics and Bidenflation hitting real people
  6. The American Conservative covers the new theory of Ukrainian victory
  7. neo-neocon explains the Trump “unified Reich” hoax
  8. Moonbattery covers biscuits and gravy now being raaaaacist
  9. Legal Insurrection discusses how the fight for part of Washington to join Idaho is going
  10. Jihad Watch covers Spain, Ireland, and Norway rewarding Hamas violence
  11. IOTW Report notes the media keeps calling deranged males “she”
  12. Geller Report shows where some of the Hamas hostages were found
  13. Dissecting Leftism features more on over-reporting deaths from COVID
  14. Cold Fury has the first legit UFO photo being released
  15. And last, but, not least, Climate Depot covers NPR discussing whether paper books or E-readers are better for ‘climate change’

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, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Biden’s Gaza Pier, Navy Relief Ships Having Trouble In “Rough” Seas

By William Teach May 26, 2024 – 7:00 am

$320 million for Biden’s pier and

That’s what all the news reports are calling rough seas. Barely looks like it’s decent surfing

(Politico) The transfer of aid from four U.S. Army vessels through the newly completed Gaza pier was disrupted by rough seas Saturday morning, the latest hiccup in a bumpy rollout of the pier’s operation.

According to the U.S. Central Command, the vessels “broke free from their moorings” during bad weather, with two vessels beaching farther north along the Israeli coast near the city of Ashkelon and another two anchoring on the beach closer to the pier. CENTCOM added that the Israel Defense Forces were assisting in the recovery efforts and that no U.S. personnel would enter the Gaza Strip.

All the video makes it looks like they were choppy seas. Maybe the US Navy should have been in charge of the vessels? But, of course, with all the gender confused, DEI, and other wackadoodle stuff going on in the Army and Navy, should we be surprised that at least one ship was beached? Will the commander be relieved for this breach of duty?

Meanwhile

(NY Post) Three US service members were injured, one critically, while working on the Army’s Gaza aid pier on Thursday.

Two service members suffered a sprained ankle and a minor back injury.

“Two were very minor, routine injuries. Those individuals returned to duty,” Cooper said.

A third service member, who was injured on a ship at sea, was medically evacuated to a hospital in Israel, he said.

That person is in critical condition. No mention anywhere of how they were injured. All to supply aid which is mostly stolen by Hamas, which is meant for Islamists who hate Americans.

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