Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the geese are honking, and the Dodgers are going to the World Series. This pinup is by Romain Hugault, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: They’re looking for an escape hatch from the Climate Scam: “The Paris Agreement is starting to work!”
  2. Not A Lot Of People Know That: Green Levies To Blame, Say Energy Bosses
  3. Watts Up With That?: 100,000 Amazon Trees Chopped Down to Build Road for COP30 Climate Conference
  4. Ace Of Spades: They don’t want kings. What DO they want?
  5. American Greatness: The State Department Begins Yanking Visas From Foreign Nationals Who Celebrated Kirk Assassination
  6. Bearing Arms: Armed Robber Ignores NYC’s ‘Gun-Free’ Policy for Public Transportation
  7. Campus Reform: Harvard to host ‘BDSM and Kinks’ workshop as part of 13th annual ‘Sex Week,’ offers free sex toys
  8. Chicks On The Right: Don Lemon is Encouraging Violence Against ICE Agents
  9. Cold Fury: AWWWWW
  10. Common Cents Blog: Almost like they were paid – Report Times Square protest ends EXACTLY at 1PM
  11. Gates Of Vienna: No Jew-Films Allowed in Malmö!
  12. Geller Report: Trump says he expects expansion of Abraham accords soon, hopes Saudi Arabia joins
  13. IOTW Report: Court Hearing for Iryna Zarutska Murder Suspect Delayed to 2026, Sparking Outrage
  14. Jihad Watch: Muslim candidate for US Senate on Trump supporters: ‘We take them to the mud and choke them out’
  15. And last, but, not least, Moonbattery has Rhode Island Public Schools Sued for Discriminating Against White Teachers

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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Next Mayor Of NYC Campaigns With Islamic Terrorist Linked To 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

Some say Cuomo has a chance to win if Curtis Sliwa drops out. Maybe, maybe not, far Left New Yorkers seems bound and determined to elect the hardcore socialist. Except, is he really a socialist?

From the link

Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple.

The Democratic frontrunner to become the city’s next mayor was seen laughing and grinning while standing arm-in-arm with Siraj Wahhaj  at the imam’s Bedford-Stuyvesant mosque in a photo the socialist posted to X a day after the first mayoral debate.

Councilman Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a member of the Central Park 5 who was elected in November 2023, was also in the photo.

“Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century,” Mamdani wrote on X of the Friday encounter.

Wahhaj, 75, who also heads the Muslim Alliance in North America, was fingered by prosecutors as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 WTC bombing, which left six people dead, and has publicly defended the plotters of the attack against the FBI and CIA, whom he at the time dubbed the “real terrorists.”

During subsequent trials, Wahhaj testified in support of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman — the infamous “blind sheikh” and leader of a terrorist sect out of Egypt — calling the man a “respected scholar.”

The Imam is a homegrown terrorist, having been born in Brooklyn.

Wahhaj has also derided the LGBTQ community as “a disease of this society,” the report found.

Aren’t Democrats supposed to be 100% supportive of LGBTQ?

Wahhaj is a mentor of Brooklyn-based Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, the intelligence report notes.

Yeah, she’s a wackjob Islamic extremist

The Israel-hating, Palestinian-American firebrand is one of Mamdani’s mentors and has played a big role in his mayoral campaign.

Will the Jews in NYC vote for Mamdani?

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Trump Admin Helps Scuttle Global Climate (scam) Shipping Tax

I mentioned the other day that the Trump admin was heavily against this, and, now

US helps sink world’s first global carbon tax after threatening sanctions against countries supporting it

A fierce Trump administration push to stop the global shipping industry from paying for its own climate pollution appeared to have been successful Friday, as efforts to approve the “world’s first global carbon tax” collapsed.

It had been widely assumed the tax would be adopted during a summit in London at the International Maritime Organization, the UN-backed body that governs global shipping. But after four days of fraught negotiations, countries agreed to delay a vote on whether to approve it by 12 months.

The decision came after a vociferous US campaign, with President Donald Trump calling it a “scam tax” and the State Department threatening reprisals on countries supporting it.

Experts say the collapse of the talks marks not only a significant blow for attempts to clean up a heavily climate-polluting industry, undermining decades of negotiations, but also represents yet another failure of climate diplomacy.

How about this: all the people, particularly the Elites, who are pushing climate taxes and stuff should make their own lives carbon neutral? No more fossil fueled flights, no more luxury autos, live in small homes, etc and so on? Leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

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If All You See…

…is ghastly carbon pollution driving heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on climate cultists performing a “citizens arrest”.

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“Louisiana Man” Charged With Being Part Of October 7th Hamas Attack

Louisiana Man is the new Maryland Dad

US charges Louisiana man with participating in deadly Hamas atrocities that sparked war

A Louisiana man described by prosecutors as a “monster” was charged Oct. 17 with participating in the Hamas surprise attack in 2023 that sparked the deadly conflict with Israel.

Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub Al-Muhtadi, 33, was arrested in Lafayette, Louisiana, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The native of Gaza belonged to a Palestinian military group, according to court papers. On the day of Hamas’ attack, cell phone location data placed him at the scene of a kibbutz just outside the Gaza Strip where dozens of people were killed and 19 people captured.

“After hiding out in the United States, this monster has been found and charged with participating in the atrocities of October 7 — the single deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement announcing the arrest. “While nothing can fully heal the scars left by Hamas’s brutal attack, this Department’s Joint Task Force October 7 is dedicated to finding and prosecuting those responsible for that horrific day, including the murder of dozens of American citizens.” (snip)

The suspected terrorist fighter entered the U.S. on Sept. 12, 2024, by providing false information on a visa application, according to prosecutors.

Who was president then? Who gave him the immigration visa as he entered from Egypt and failed to vet him?

In fact, I see a ton of headlines calling him Louisiana Man or “lived in Louisiana”, all in an attempt to deflect from who he really is.

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Say, What Did Trump’s Win Teach Dems About ‘Climate Change’?

Anything? Did they learn anything?

What Trump’s Victory Taught Democrats About Climate Change

Climate policy is decidedly unfashionable in 2025 — among Democrats.

The party isn’t embracing climate change denialism like many in the GOP, nor is it endorsing the Trump administration’s attacks on clean energy. But as Democrats continue groping for a way forward after their 2024 defeat, they’ve clearly decided they need to change how they talk about climate and energy issues. And in some cases, it goes beyond rhetoric to the actual policies they’re promoting. The bottom line for Democrats: Climate is out, affordability is in.

With Donald Trump having won back the presidency amid broad frustration with high prices, it’s perhaps no surprise that Democrats are trying to make gains in the affordability debate. But it’s still striking to see longtime climate champions in the party shift gears, and it speaks to concern among Democrats that their focus on climate change has weighed them down.

“It’s an issue that I think we need to continue to engage on and speak out on and work to legislate on, but it’s not a top three issue right now,” Sen. Chris Coons, the Democratic co-chair of the Senate’s bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, told me.

So, they learned to use misdirection, to put the scam on the backburner till they win again?

In a recent op-ed, Coons pinned Delaware’s rising electricity costs on Trump — and didn’t mention climate once.

Indeed, party leaders are trying a two-pronged affordability-centered strategy: tying higher electricity bills nationwide to Republicans’ dismantling of their signature climate package, while also downplaying climate policies within the states Democrats do control.

Coons spends A LOT of time yammering about ‘climate change’ on social media. And, Dems can try this route all they want, most of the skyrocketing of energy prices happened during Biden’s years as he did all he could to skupper fossil fuels while promoting “green” energy, but, not actually building anything close to necessary to replace what he killed off.

“The way to victory is to talk about price,” the Hawaii Democrat said at a New York Times event last month. “You could talk about the planetary emergency and mitigation and adaptation, and you could throw in some environmental justice rhetoric, and by the time you’re done talking, people think you don’t care about them.”

Are you getting the idea that Dems haven’t really dropped the matter, just talking about it differently? They will never give up on the scam, because it is a route to higher taxes/fees and more control of the peasants.

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NY Times Notices Obamacare Prices Already Skyrocketing

Hey, remember when we weren’t allowed to call it Obamacare?

Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States

Health insurance prices for next year under the Affordable Care Act are now available in about a dozen states, giving Americans their first look at the sharp increases many will pay for coverage if Congress does not extend subsidies that have made some plans more affordable.

The annual enrollment period for Obamacare is expected to begin Nov. 1, but the costs for some Americans are becoming publicly available piecemeal through some state marketplaces. The federal website healthcare.gov, which includes 28 other state marketplaces, is slated to post prices before the end of October.

People shopping for coverage can now preview the costs they face from potentially expiring subsidies and sharply rising premiums in many markets, including California, New York, Nevada, Maryland and Idaho. Some consumers also found out that they would have fewer choices because their insurers dropped out of some markets for 2026.

Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year because they would no longer qualify for more generous subsidies, said Gideon Lukens, a health policy researcher for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which supports extending the subsidies.

Older people will also see sharp increases, according to his calculations. In Kentucky, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 per year could face an increase of $23,700 in annual premiums. In Nevada, a similar couple could pay an additional $18,100 in annual premiums, while in Minnesota, the cost might be $15,500 more and, in Maryland, an additional $13,700.

Wait, nothing blaming Republicans?

President Trump has also signaled some interest in making a deal. But since Democrats made the demand a centerpiece of shutdown politics, Republican congressional leaders have said they will not consider extending the subsidies as part of a short-term bill to fund the government.

Surveys by public pollsters and Republican firms have found that the subsidies are popular with voters. A recent poll from KFF found that 59 percent of Republicans favored an extension. But it would be expensive — costing around $350 billion over a decade, according to a recent estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. And conservative critics have assailed the generous subsidies as a handout to the insurance industry and an invitation for fraud.

Weird, I thought the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act would make it all less expensive?

Democrats were told this would happen from the get-go. And it got worse and worse. Maybe they should be thinking about ways to work with Republicans to actually make it affordable.

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Your Fault: Ocean Less Green Because You Ate A Steak

It’s always some sort of complete coming doom with this crowd

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds

The world’s oceans are losing their greenness owing to global heating, according to a study that suggests our planet’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide could be weakening.

The change in the palette of the seas is caused by a decline of phytoplankton, the tiny marine creatures that are responsible for nearly half of the biosphere’s productivity.

The findings, which also have alarming implications for oxygen levels and food chains, are based on a groundbreaking study of daily chlorophyll concentrations in low to mid-latitude oceans from 2001 to 2023.

Chlorophyl is a green pigment responsible for photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and phytoplankton convert sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose. It is one of the foundation blocks of life on Earth.

Here’s the thing, there are reasons for a loss of plankton, one of which is ocean pollution. The second is more fresh water in the higher latitudes. The latter is something that can, in fact, happen during any Holocene warm period, but, they adjust, because warm and cool periods happen. We do not have to invoke witchcraft, er, Your Fault

Using deep-learning algorithms, the authors of the new paper compiled data from satellites and monitoring ships to assess the change in the oceans’ hue. They found a significant decline of greenness – about 0.35 micrograms per cubic metre each year – over the more than two decade period of the study. The trend was twice as high in coastal regions and more than four times greater near river estuaries.

And there you go, yet another study based on a computer model, rather than actual on-site research.

The new paper says the change was probably caused by rising temperatures associated with climate change.

“Probably”? Meaning, this is all a guess. Perhaps they should have done actual Science to determine the cause, rather than fearmongering in Cult.

This confirms theories about the impact of global heating on ocean stratification. Collaborating author Michael Mann, of the University of Pennsylvania, said: “This is the first study to robustly demonstrate that, yes, we can confidently conclude that we are seeing a decrease in the greenness of the ocean, indicating a lowering of marine productivity, constituting yet another threat to humanity associated with fossil fuel burning and human-caused planetary warming.”

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If All You See…

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

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a Quran burner getting victory in court.

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Washington Post Upset That GOP Brands “No Kings” Rallies As Anti-American

Are you ready for yet another day of old people whining about no kings on Saturday?

GOP tries to brand anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protests as ‘hate America’ rallies

Ahead of thousands of anti-authoritarian “No Kings” protests planned for Saturday across the United States, Republicans are trying to brand the demonstrations as “hate America” rallies, ramping up their rhetoric about the millions of people expected to peacefully protest President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies as they did in June.

For more than a week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and other GOP leaders have cast the “No Kings” rallies as un-American, using increasingly hyperbolic language. Johnson and other members of House GOP leadership, including Majority Leader Steve Scalise (Louisiana), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (Minnesota), and Republican Conference Chair Lisa C. McClain (Michigan), have all described the protests as events for people who “hate America,” with Johnson and Emmer going as far as to suggest they are meant to appease a “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party.

“We call it the ‘hate America’ rally that will happen Saturday. Let’s see who shows up for that,” Johnson said Wednesday at a news conference with other House GOP leaders. “I bet you you’ll see Hamas supporters, I bet you’ll see antifa types, I bet you’ll see the Marxists on full display, the people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.”

None of that is incorrect. You’ll see people being weird in support of LGBTQ, you’ll see people saying violent things towards ICE.

Democrats and organizers of the more than 2,600 events scheduled for Saturday have strongly rebuffed this characterization, defending the protests as peaceful and pointing out there were relatively few disruptions at the rallies in June, while also warning of the attempts to stifle First Amendment rights.

Rebuffed! That’ll show ’em!

“Speaker Johnson said this is a ‘hate America’ rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns about massive cuts to health care and the movement toward authoritarianism. It’s not a hate America rally, it’s a love America rally,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) said Wednesday at a town hall on CNN with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).

They can never actually say what rights Trump is trying to take away or why Trump actually allows these wacko demonstrations if he’s an authoritarian, why he doesn’t arrest those demonstrating.

In a video posted Wednesday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) accused Republicans of amping up their rhetoric and trying to brand protesters as “terrorists” to suppress rally turnout. Murphy, who is scheduled to speak at the D.C. “No Kings” rally on Saturday, urged people to show up in big numbers anyway to demonstrate “peacefully but forcefully.”

So, it’s OK for Democrats to amp up their rhetoric but not Republicans? Strange. I wonder how many Palestinian and Hamas flags and such at the demonstration? Will Antifa, which the media has said doesn’t exist, fly their flags? Will we see more beheaded Trump exhibits? The media tries to hide this stuff, but, they forget that there is this thing called social media.

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