Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 9:34 am

Olivia De Berardinis Pimup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the once and future nation of America. The birds are signing, the sun is shining, and the Devils are above 500 to start the season. This pinup is by Olivia De Berardinis, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Green Jihad notes that none of Biden’s actions are about healing or unity
  2. JoNova discusses Biden cancelling Keystone XL being a gift to China and Russia
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That highlights the Met Office blaming ‘climate change’ for winter storm Christoph
  4. American Greatness features Biden’s Fascist unity
  5. American Power discusses having to set his Twitter to private
  6. Blazing Cat Fur notes a California congresscritter calling for a $23 minimum wage
  7. Cold Fury discusses fake Conservatives still working the Reagan grift
  8. Diogenes’ Middle Finger notes an obese man with mental health issues as Assistant Secretary of Health
  9. Geller Report News highlights China Joe’s earpiece coach
  10. IOTW Report covers Joe not being sure what he’s signing
  11. Jihad Watch notes the NY Times loves Iran, and wants you to love it too
  12. Legal Insurrection covers Biden’s gender confused order destroying women’s sports
  13. Liberty’s Torch discusses a really dangerous, free speech killing Democratic bill
  14. Moonbattery covers CNN’s lie about no vaccine plan being debunked
  15. And last, but not least, neo-neocon wonders why D.C. is still an armed camp

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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Texas Sues Biden Over Deportations Halt

By William Teach January 24, 2021 – 8:13 am

Day 4 of the China Joe administration, and he’s earned himself his first lawsuit for violations of the law and the Constitution

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden for ‘Unlawful’ Halt to Deportations

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration for what he says is an “unlawful” executive order that halts deportations of illegal aliens.

Hours after taking office on January 20, Biden signed an executive order that halts deportations of most illegal aliens for at least 100 days. The order comes as illegal immigration has spiked in recent months and a migrant caravan heads to the United States-Mexico border in the hopes of taking advantage of the Biden administration’s lax enforcement policies.

On Friday, Paxton filed a complaint and motion for a temporary restraining order in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in a request that immediately ends Biden’s halt on deportations.

Paxton, in a statement, said Biden’s order “violates the U.S. Constitution, federal immigration and administrative law, and a contractual agreement” between Texas and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

“In one of its first of dozens of steps that harm Texas and the nation as a whole, the Biden administration directed DHS to violate federal immigration law and breach an agreement to consult and cooperate with Texas on that law,” Paxton wrote.

Many of those who ICE deports are murderers, arsonists, rapists, sexual assaulters of children. The Constitution and the law state that people unlawfully present in the United States shall be deported. If China Joe doesn’t like that, then he should ask the duly elected Legislative branch to change the law.

Joe wants them sticking around if caught

This guy would have been kept in the United States under Biden’s order.

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Goalposts: Soon, Everyone Will Have To Wear An N95 Mask

By William Teach January 23, 2021 – 3:00 pm

If we just lockdown for 15 days, we can beat this thing. If everyone would just wash their hands and social distance, we can beat this thing (still good ideas, folks, and don’t touch your face). If everyone would just wear a mask, we can beat this thing. Once we have herd immunity, through vaccines and recovering from COVID, we can beat this thing. And more. They keep finding ways to extend it out. Now?

The face mask that could end the pandemic

Getting Americans masked up is a top priority for the Biden Administration.

Biden, who calls wearing masks “a patriotic act,” signed an executive order Wednesday — his very first as president — to ask Americans to wear masks of their choice for the first 100 days of the new administration. The executive order also requires mask use on all federal property, though in this case, not just any old mask will do.

On Wednesday after the inauguration, White House press secretary Jen Psaki showed off her bright white N95 mask in the press briefing room. “I wore it out, of course, here today and will continue to do that,” Psaki said after removing her medical-grade mask and before turning to questions.

“After removing her medical-grade mask”, and not one complaint from CNN in this article, or any Credentialed Media out.

N95 masks are considered the gold standard in personal protective equipment because they block 95% of large and small particles utilizing a unique electrostatic filter (snip)

Studies have shown that masks significantly decrease the chances of transmitting or contracting the coronavirus. But not all masks provide equal protection. Depending on the fabric and number of layers, homemade and simple cloth masks have a range of effectiveness that can be as low as 26%, which leaves the wearer vulnerable.

But, they told us to just wear a mask, right? Any mask, as long as you had one on?

Some experts like Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School physician Dr. Abraar Karan have been advocating for public use of N95 masks from the start of the pandemic. In an interview with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Karan outlined why N95s are critical at this stage of the pandemic. (snip)

The biggest problem is lack of supply. This week marked a full year of the coronavirus, and the Biden Administration has committed to invoking the Defense Production Act more often to boost manufacture of N95 masks and other critical supplies. Experts hope manufacturing will hit a speed to be able to sufficiently supply the population.

So, yeah, next up is keeping things locked down till these are all available, and then requiring everyone to wear one. Which are disposable, so, a new on each day. Not like your fun mask you wash. And they’ll say you cannot go anywhere without a medical grade mask. Even though they’ll still be in short supply.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 23, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the US flag, which is now a great country because it rejoined the Paris Climate agreement, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on buyer’s remorse.

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#Unity: China Joe Considers Turning Over Trump’s Tax Records To House

By William Teach January 23, 2021 – 10:30 am

Well, this will totally help the nation come together and heal, right? Deciding to turn over the private tax records of someone who is now a private citizen

Biden administration weighs turning over Trump tax returns to House Democrats

Move OnHouse Democrats have renewed their long-stalled demand for Donald Trump’s federal tax records, but the Biden administration has not decided whether it will drop its predecessor’s objections and release the Treasury Department records to investigators, Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge Friday.

U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden declined Friday to lift a stay on a pending House lawsuit. Instead, the judge agreed to give Treasury and Justice Department officials two weeks to report back to him, acknowledging that President Biden’s team was just settling in after the inauguration this week.

McFadden also kept in place an order requiring the government to give the former president’s lawyers 72 hours’ notice before releasing his tax return information to allow them to file a request to block the release.

Separation-of-powers issues that have slowed the case “may fall out” now that Trump is no longer in office, the judge noted.

“It would be a former president trying to stop a political branch, rather than one branch suing another. At least that’s my instinct,” said McFadden, a 2017 Trump appointee to the federal bench in Washington.

This really should be so simple: the law has massive restrictions on releasing the private tax records of any American without just cause, and it’s quite clear this is a partisan fishing expedition, looking for anything. If the GOP was trying to get Biden’s tax records, or those of any other Democrat, in such a way I would be 100% against it. For one thing, it is just improper. For another, it sets a precedent. A really bad one. What if the Dems get his tax records now, and then a Republican wins the White House in 2024 and the GOP controls the House, and want Joe’s tax records, a basic fishing expedition? Do you think Democrats would be OK with that? Do the want a tit for tat? We literally have a Right against this

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

At what point is this “reasonable” to do a fishing expedition on someone’s private documents?

Also, he said the Treasury Department and the House historically have always agreed that requests made under the 1924 law giving the tax-writing committee authority to seek tax returns and other records in overseeing the effectiveness of the Internal Revenue Service’s audit program survive the turnover of Congress.

The House has been stymied for months, “numerous investigations have been obstructed,” and “enough is enough,” Letter argued, saying, “The statute here is clear. ‘Shall’ means ‘shall,’ and therefore the Treasury Department should turn over these materials . . . and that should be the end of it.”

That law requires there to be a serious reason, not just “we want them to attempt to get Trump, we’re just not sure how.” This is dangerous to the rule of law, and certainly won’t turn the political stove down.

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Excitable Bill McKibben: We Need To Stop Burning Things To Stop Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach January 23, 2021 – 7:47 am

It might just only be grand high poobah Bill McKibben writing this, but, he’s a major Cult of Climastrology player, and other cultists will follow along

To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things

If one wanted a basic rule of thumb for dealing with the climate crisis, it would be: stop burning things. Human beings have made use of combustion for a very long time, ever since the first campfires cooked the first animals for dinner, allowing our brains to get larger. Now those large brains have come to understand that burning stuff is destroying the stable climate on which civilization depends.

By this point, it’s pretty clear to almost everyone that we’d be better off not burning coal, the first fossil fuel that we learned to set on fire in a big way. The explosions set off by a billion spark plugs every second around the world are—for serious motorheads—being replaced by the electric engines in the most admired cars on earth. Even natural gas, long heralded as the clean fossil fuel, is now widely understood to be climate-dangerous, spewing both CO2 and methane. That leaves the original fuel for fires: wood.

In the early years of the climate crisis, scientists thought that “biomass” was an exception to the burning rule. That’s because, when you cut down a tree and burn it, another one eventually grows in its place, theoretically sucking up the carbon dioxide that the burning emitted. But, in recent years, researchers have upended those calculations. For one thing, wood burns inefficiently, producing large amounts of carbon for each unit of energy that it produces. Worse, it takes decades for those forests to regrow and suck up that carbon—decades that we don’t have. We’re breaking the back of the climate system in real time and, as we’ve known for years, burning wood hurts, not helps. So far, large-scale biomass-burning to produce electricity has not become a major factor in the United States, but the fight is on: in Massachusetts, for example, where there’s a proposal to build an enormous wood-burning plant in Springfield, opponents are trying to insure that biomass isn’t counted as renewable energy under state guidelines.

That’s right, Bill is coming after burning all the other things besides fossil fuels, including wood (and those fake logs) in your fireplace, when you go camping, a nice bonfire on the beach (actually, Warmists went after those in places like California back in the early part of this century). People in Europe have been relying on wood pellets for heat, because all the climate cult regulations have made heating their homes with other sources expensive and unreliable. And the climate cult wants to stop the solution to the problem the cult created.

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China Joe Finally Says There’s “Nothing We Can Do” To Slow COVID

By William Teach January 23, 2021 – 7:09 am

Remember when Joe and his folks, including his Credentialed Media cheerleaders/lapdogs, were telling us he would Do Something to slow and stop COVID? That ended on day three

Biden says ‘nothing we can do’ to change pandemic ‘trajectory’ in coming months

(NM) President Biden provided a grim outlook about the country’s ability to combat the coronavirus pandemic Friday while calling on Congress to move forward with additional stimulus relief measures.

Biden addressed his administration’s response efforts during a press briefing on two executive orders meant to provide food assistance to low-income families and protect workers’ rights during the pandemic. Days after the US surpassed 400,000 deaths related to COVID-19, the president warned the country had little ability in the near term to prevent spiking case totals.

“If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” Biden said.

Biden had pledged efforts to jumpstart the US economy and provide aid to struggling Americans would be his top priority upon entering the Oval Office. The two executive orders Friday followed 10 other actions related to the pandemic he signed the previous day, including a mandate requiring masks to be worn on federal land.

The president faced some pushback over his remarks on the pandemic’s trajectory. Critics, including former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, pointed out that coronavirus-related restrictions imposed in several states were meant to “flatten the curve.”

“Haven’t we been told for months that restrictions and mandates were necessary to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months?” Amash wrote on Twitter.

Well, Justin, you were a major #NeverTrumper, this is what you told people to vote for, the guy you told people to vote for. What did you expect? Own it. Anyhow, the original forecast for COVID deaths in the first year were between 200K and 2 million. Sure seems like President Trump kept the deaths on the low end. And now Joe is saying “nope, can’t do anything”, after months and months of him and his Comrades saying that Trump failed and Joe would fix this.

Guess not. Surprise?

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Climate Cult Wants Super Bowl Visitors To Think About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach January 22, 2021 – 3:00 pm

There’s always something they look to ruin as they hitch their wagons to things that are going on

Environmental group wants Super Bowl visitors to think about climate change

The idea is that anyone looking up at the football will then be forced to think about climate change.

The Florida office of the Environmental Defense Fund, seeking to draft on hype around the big game, has arranged for at least three billboards to carry a green message in Tampa for the Super Bowl. The ads read: “94% of Floridians Agree that Climate Change is Real.” White block text is set on a football field backdrop, next to a ball. The billboard directs readers to a website with policy proposals for how Florida lawmakers could begin to address the problem.

“Football is a great unifier in Florida, and it was really important for us to get past all of the partisan rhetoric,” said Dawn Shirreffs, the organization’s director in Florida. “Because climate is actually non-partisan.”

Yes, climate change is happening. That’s not the debate. It’s a matter of anthropogenic vs natural causation. But, if it is non-partisan, why are all the climate cult’s ideas about Big Government, higher taxation, and removing liberty, freedom, and choice?

The “Let’s Tackle Climate Change” campaign will also include ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Shirreffs said the blitz costs about $30,000. Rotating digital billboards are planned to display the message near Dale Mabry Highway and Hillsborough Avenue, and another ad will be stationed off Interstate 275 at Westshore Boulevard.

Shirreffs noted that leaders in Tampa are expected to vote soon on setting the city’s targets for lowering emissions. At the state level, the Environmental Defense Fund is pushing policymakers to formalize Florida’s chief resilience officer position, encourage school districts to use solar energy for their buildings and devise a plan for transitioning the area to electric vehicles.

If Tampa really cares, they’d get rid of their pro-sports arenas and airports, get rid of all fossil fuels gas stations, and require the city to only use EVs. And no more Super Bowls. They aren’t. And you can bet the group members aren’t giving up their own fossil fueled lifestyles.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 22, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible evil keg full of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on speaking truth to power.

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Sore Winners: CNN Wants Government, Private Sector To Go After “Trump’s Instruments Of Information Warfare”

By William Teach January 22, 2021 – 10:30 am

How’s that healing and unity going to work when Democrats and their pet media want to eradicate the ability of their opposition to speak out? Also, place your bets when the unhinged finally move on from Trump

Trump may be gone, but the instruments of information warfare that empowered him remain

Donald Trump might no longer be in office, but the information infrastructure he exploited to ascend to the Oval Office and then exert a firm grip over the Republican Party is still largely in place. During Trump’s 2016 run for office and throughout his presidency, the focus was mostly on spotlighting the lies he told and the conspiracy theories he promoted. And to be clear, that was important work.

But the conversation should — and, frankly, needs — to go deeper than that. Trump was only one person who took advantage of the existing instruments in place to wage information warfare on his political opponents and critics in the media. Yes, he’s now out of office. But those instruments he used to amass power still remain out on the battlefield ready for another aspiring candidate to come along, pick up, and use for their own benefit.

These tools include right-wing cable channels, talk-radio, hyper-partisan news websites, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In the wake of the domestic terrorism that took place on Capitol Hill earlier this month, some of these platforms have made some tweaks that have helped curb the spread of disinformation. But if you speak to experts, most aren’t convinced that these tweaks are enough. And elsewhere in the information economy, such as on Fox News, nothing has fundamentally changed.

This is the kind of thing that Fascists do. That we see in Communist China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, etc, where they do not allow opposition voices to flourish. It’s insidious and against every notion of being America.

While Big Tech certainly deserves to face questions for helping to radicalize untold numbers of Americans, other platforms that disseminate disinformation and conspiracy theories for profit really shouldn’t be left without scrutiny. That includes channels like Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN. But it also includes TV providers that willfully deliver such channels into the living rooms of millions and companies such as Premiere Networks that distributes shows from dishonest talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh.

How’s this going to work with healing? With unity? It’s like Democrats actually want a physical civil war. Resistance is apparently no longer patriotic. And things will not go very well if they try and shut down people’s voices.

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