…are wonderful low carbon bikes which should be forced on Other People, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Independent Sentinel, with a post on Navy warships sent to the border.
It’s a nice week for a bike ride.
Read: If All You See… »
Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the ankle is feeling much better today. It’s not healed yet, but, very little discomfort. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.
What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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.
Read: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup »
How soon till some liberal judge jumps in to keep these fake asylum seekers in the U.S.?
U.S. to revoke legal status of more than a half-million migrants, urges them to self deport
The Trump administration will be revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of Latin American and Haitian migrants welcomed into the U.S. under a Biden-era sponsorship process, urging them to self-deport or face arrest and removal by deportation agents.
The termination of their work permits and deportation protections under an immigration authority known as parole will take effect in late April, 30 days after March 25, according to a notice posted by the federal government.
The move will affect immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who flew to the U.S. under a Biden administration program, known as CHNV, that was designed to reduce illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border by giving would-be migrants legal migration avenues.
A total of 532,000 migrants entered the U.S. under that policy, which was paused soon after President Trump took office, though it’s unclear how many have been able to secure another status that will allow them to stay in the country legally. (snip)
In a statement, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the migrants allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV process were “loosely vetted,” and argued the program undercut American workers.
Were they vetted at all? How many are gang members, like all those Tren de Aragua “migrants”? What cBS and so many other outlets forget to mention is that CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) is a humanitarian parole, which are only good for two years. Venezuelans had it since October 2022, so, it already ended. The other three countries since January 2023, so, it also ended for them. It’s time to go. How many of these parolees have integrated themselves into American society, showing their worth, trying to be a part of America and be American? How many are just living off the teet of the American people and demanding everything?
But, yeah, you can bet some Biden or Obama appointed judge will ignore the law and DEMAND that Trump not deport the people who’s parole program ended.
Read: Bummer: Trump Admin Revoking Legal Status For Half Million Biden Brought In »
But, better, what actually happened?
Whitmer’s Michigan spent $670 million on green energy & EV corporate welfare — ZERO jobs created after three years! https://t.co/McjZL6D0x5 pic.twitter.com/IPUeYJRqHU
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) March 22, 2025
From the Midwesterner article
Green energy and EV taxpayer-funded handouts from SOAR Critical Industry Program promised thousands of jobs that never transpired
Three years after lawmakers created the Strategic Outreach Attraction Reserve Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said would “create tens of thousands of good paying jobs,” not a single one has materialized.
Michigan taxpayers have shelled out more than $670 million to five multibillion companies to prop up the electric vehicle and renewable energy industries in Michigan with a promise to create a total of 8,812 jobs, but a report from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation that oversees the spending shows zero “actual qualified jobs created.”
“The program was poorly designed from the start,” said James Hohman, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “It allows companies to cash in on taxpayer subsidies without having to create jobs. Lawmakers must wait years to ask for taxpayer money back if deals fail to deliver. It’s good that House lawmakers are working to redirect this money to roads.”
Some of the companies have been around for a while (did GM really need this money?), some, like Our Next Energy, are start ups and have done nothing. This is all a scam.
Not only have the jobs failed to materialize, companies awarded taxpayer funds have backed out of their commitments, or laid off employees.
Earlier this month, Our Next Energy cut two dozen Michigan jobs in a second round of layoffs since receiving its $200 million payout. The company also laid off 128 workers in November to focus on “core priorities,” according to The Detroit News.
Scam. Maybe I need to at a “Green Scam” sub-category to the Global Warming category.
Read: Climate Elite Gretchen Whitmer Spent $670 Million On Green Crazy »
…is an area flooded by carbon pollution driven Extreme Weather, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on the death of George Foreman.
Read: If All You See… »
In NY Times World it was perfectly fine for Biden to revoke Trump’s security clearance, but, not the other way around. Anyhow, as we’ve been told, elections have consequences
Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More
The tally of names read like President Trump’s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.
President Trump’s revenge tour continues.
Late Friday night, he issued a memo rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.”
Mr. Trump had said back in February that he planned to remove his predecessor’s access to classified intelligence briefings. It was payback — Mr. Biden had done the same to him after he left office in the days after the Jan 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A variety of figures who’ve tangled with Mr. Trump at one point or another were named in Friday’s memo. Some had already been mentioned by Trump officials as people who would soon have their security clearances revoked, so their inclusion in Friday’s memo did not come as a shock. But taken together, the catalog of names read like an enemies list.
There were New York’s top two law enforcement officials, Letitia James (the New York attorney general) and Alvin L. Bragg (Manhattan’s district attorney), both of whom took on Mr. Trump.
Biden is no longer in office, and no longer needs it. Nor is Kamala. James and Bragg are a disaster, and misused those clearances. Why did Biden’s family need them? Hillary has been out of office for quite some time, and, quite frankly, showed that she played fast and loose with security regulations. Trump should have stripped her clearance in 2017, but, back then, he didn’t want to play that brand of retaliation politics.
And there were the only two Republicans who served on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Neither are in office: why do they need them? It’s like the clearances are thrown around like candy. He does want to play that hardball politics now, after all the crap Democrats did to Trump. Perhaps Dems should have considered their actions against Trump after he left office.
Read: LOL: Trump Revokes Security Clearances For Biden, Hillary Clinton »
They are all very upset that a company dared to sue despite all the climate cult groups using massive lawfare
Greenpeace $660mn damages ruling shocks global NGOs
Civil society groups on Thursday condemned a US court order that Greenpeace pay over $660 million in damages to an oil pipeline company as a chilling attack on climate action around the globe.
Environmental defenders rallied behind Greenpeace after the shock ruling by a North Dakota jury fuelled concerns that courtrooms were increasingly being used to smother critics.
“It sends a dangerous message: that fossil fuel giants can weaponize the courts to bankrupt and silence those who challenge the destruction of our planet,” said Anne Jellema, executive director of advocacy group 350.org.
The judgement “is not only an attack on Greenpeace — it is an assault on the entire climate movement, clearly intended to chill the resistance to fossil fuels”, she added in a written statement to AFP.
Or, perhaps climate cultists shouldn’t attack private companies and damage their very expensive equipment.
Ana Caistor Arendar from rights monitor Global Witness said it was “an existential threat to activism, protest and to land and environmental defenders, not just in the US, but everywhere”.
Violence and defamation are not protest. But, hey, if they are saying they cannot operate without doing that, well, too bad.
Brice Bohmer from Transparency International, a global corruption watchdog, said the lawsuit was “unconscionable” and evidence of a much wider problem.
“This kind of activity is becoming increasingly common across climate action, with fossil fuel actors undermining progress wherever possible,” he said.
So fossil fuels companies, where are completely legal, are just supposed to sit back and allow the cult groups to attack them? Oh, brother. And there are even more examples of the cult groups whining. Seriously, breaking the law has consequences, Greenpeace and NGOs. Crying because those laws were enforced is hilarious. Think twice before doing it again. But, they won’t.
Read: Global NGOs Shocked And Dismayed Over Greenpeace $660 Million In Damages Ruling »
Obviously, this makes Democrats very upset because they will no longer be able to skim money off to send to the teacher’s unions and other leftist groups
Trump says the Education Department will shed oversight of student loans and special education
President Donald Trump on Friday began sketching a roadmap for dismantling the Education Department, with other agencies taking over responsibility for federal student loans and programs serving students with disabilities.
The executive order Trump signed Thursday to do away with the department did not offer a timeline or instructions, but his administration appears poised to carve away all but the department’s most vital operations.
The Republican president said during a White House event that student loans will be handled by the Small Business Administration, and “it will be serviced much better than it has in the past.” He also said programs involving students with disabilities would be shifted to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The decisions drew blowback from advocacy groups that fear disruptions will be inevitable. The Small Business Association announced Friday it will cut its staff by 43%, raising questions about its ability to take on the Education Department’s $1.6 trillion loan portfolio.
Student loans were run through other federal agencies prior to the creation of the Department Of Education (ED, not DOE). You had them through the National Defense Education Act of 1958, backed by Treasury. The the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program established in 1965. The the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), formed in 1973. It wasn’t till 1979, with the creation of the ED, that they started rolling some through the ED. And then with all sorts of shenanigans by Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress they drastically increased it all, causing student loan dept to skyrocket, especially as colleges started drastically increasing the cost of tuition, since Los Federales were totally backing it all, including private loans.
And for special education, things worked a whole hell of a lot better behind when states and school districts were in charge, since they knew their students, rather than far away bureaucrats in D.C.
Trump’s executive order said the student loan portfolio is too big for the Education Department to manage. After the SBA cuts, however, it will be left with fewer than 4,000 employees — about the size of the Education Department before it was cut in half by the Trump administration.
Except, there are around 50,000 non-direct employees helping out the ED employees, which are around 4,500 now.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said she is preparing to relocate the department’s core operations to other agencies and roll back federal regulations. In an opinion piece published Friday by Fox News Channel, she said abolishing the department “will not happen tomorrow,” but she plans to pave the way.
“We will systematically unwind unnecessary regulations and prepare to reassign the department’s other functions to the states or other agencies,” McMahon wrote.
Which is always the way it was supposed to be. The ED is supposed to be a helper, not the people in charge of everything, who dictate everything. Look at FEMA: they were meant to be coordinators and helpers for states, counties, and cities. They were not meant to be In Charge of every disaster. They were meant to help with things like supplementing state emergency management offices, especially when there are tons of helpers coming from out of state. Well, the ED was meant to be a helper, not dictate things like that schools must allow the gender confused in women’s sports and safe spaces. What schools are allowed to serve for breakfast and lunch.
Read: Bummer: Trump To Shift Student Loans And Special Education From Education Department »
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How bad was the graft with a federal program to make the government come after her? Pretty bad
Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts
A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need.
They found her guilty. Nothing alleged about it. Fookin’ Associated Press
Aimee Bock — founder of Feeding our Future, the group at the heart of the plot — was one of 70 defendants charged in the overall case, which prosecutors said was the nation’s single largest fraud scheme against COVID-19 relief programs.
The Minnesota case has also drawn attention for an attempt to bribe a juror in an earlier trial and witness tampering in Bock’s trial, which began last month. Thirty-seven defendants have already pleaded guilty, while five were convicted in a group of defendants who were tried last year.
The jury also convicted a co-defendant, Salim Ahmed Said, owner of the now-defunct Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis.
Bock, 44, and Said, 36, were charged with multiple counts involving conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery. Said was also charged with money laundering. Bock allegedly pocketed nearly $2 million, while Said was accused of taking around $5 million. They both maintained their innocence and testified at trial.
Feeding or Future was always rather shady, the minute it was created in 2016, and the Minnesota Department Of Education was always leery of them from the get go. But, somehow they got funding
(IRS) In total, Feeding Our Future opened more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program sites throughout the state of Minnesota, and in doing so, went from receiving and disbursing approximately $3.4 million in federal funds in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021. Throughout the course of their scheme, Feeding Our Future fraudulently obtained and disbursed more than $240 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. The defendants used the proceeds of their fraudulent scheme to purchase luxury vehicles, residential and commercial real estate in Minnesota as well as property in Ohio and Kentucky, real estate in Kenya and Turkey, and to fund international travel.
Who authorized these federal funds to go to Feeding Our Future? I hope federal prosecutors are looking at their finances and lifestyles, see if they were receiving kickbacks. The thing here is that FOF was so shady that they were easily caught. How many others aren’t? How much waste of federal money occurs elsewhere but they’re better at hiding it? From this tweet on the subject
They were so bad they got caught. When Dems caterwaul about children going hungry, medicine not getting to needy people, and so forth, how much of the federal money actually goes to the stated purpose? What percent? There are a few charities I refuse to donate to because so much of the donated money goes to overhead, payroll, and more fundraising and just a pittance goes to aid. If, say, $2 billion goes to feeding people around the world, how much makes it? As it passes through the hands of NGO after NGO to this company to that company, what percent is used for food? The programs are set up poorly, and often set up to avoid accountability. This needs to stop.
Read: Bummer: Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock Found Guilty »
…is a hill which probably lost its glacier from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on a reckoning for higher education.
Read: If All You See… »
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