Don’t Have Acceptable ID For Flying? You Can Pay $45

By William Teach December 2, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s not that simple, but, if we’re requiring certain documents for verification through security why is a simple verification and $45 OK?

Travelers without REAL ID face $45 fee at airport security starting February 1

Starting Feb. 1, air travelers without a REAL ID or another acceptable form of identification will have to pay a $45 fee to get through airport security.

According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the fee will be used to cover costs associated with the operations and technology of its modernized alternative identification verification system, known as Confirm ID.

TSA authorities hiked the fee from the $18 first proposed in November, citing higher expenses than initially forecast.

“This fee ensures the cost to cover verification of an insufficient ID will come from the traveler, not the taxpayer,” the announcement read.

Officials recommend travelers pay the fee in advance by uploading documents into a future online portal, otherwise they could be hit with delays at airports.

According to the NCDMV, in November 2025, around 57 percent of people in North Carolina had a Real ID.

People had plenty of time to get a Real ID. Or a passport. There are a bunch of acceptable forms of ID without those. But, if you just have a regular state ID or driver’s license? Pay $45 and complete the Confirm ID process, which can take up to 30 minutes and is good for 10 days. The TSA notes, in an older post

The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint, where you may be subject to additional screening.

I would hope they are going to ask for more than that.

The announcement comes on the heels of a busy travel weekend, with victims of delayed flights and cancellations continuing to pour into Raleigh Durham International Airport Monday morning.

Victims? Really? You got stuck because of weather. It happens. That doesn’t make you a victim. Good grief.

Anyhow, about 94% have acceptable forms of ID to pass security without having to use Clear ID. I guess it is helpful if you lose your ID or it gets stolen when away from home.

Seriously, though, victims? Get over yourselves.

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Oh, Well: Zillow Removes Climate (scam) Info From Listings

By William Teach December 2, 2025 – 7:15 am

Of course, was anyone actually seeing them? That scam info was usually way down the page, so, it was mostly unhinged Warmists looking at the “data”

Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales

Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listing site, has removed a feature that allowed people to view a property’s exposure to the climate crisis, following complaints from the industry and some homeowners that it was hurting sales.

In September last year, the online real estate marketplace introduced a tool showing the individual risk of wildfire, flood, extreme heat, wind and poor air quality for one million properties it lists, explaining that “climate risks are now a critical factor in home-buying decisions” for many Americans.

If you’re looking to move somewhere, you should probably have an idea of those things to start with, not needing a real estate site for it. Poor air quality is not a “climate risk”, but, mostly a Democrat run city issue

But Zillow has now deleted this climate index in the wake of complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The complaints included those from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which oversees a database of property data that Zillow relies upon.

Zillow said it remains committed to help Americans make informed decisions about properties, with listings now containing outbound links to the website of First Street, the nonprofit climate risk quantifier that had provided the on-site tool to Zillow.

Yeah, I’ve mentioned them before, and they are utterly unhinged climate cultists. Unsurprisingly, they want you to subscribe to actually get the information, looks like $37 a month.

Matthew Eby, founder and chief executive of First Street, said that removing the climate risk information means that many buyers will be “flying blind” in an era when worsening impacts of extreme weather are warping the real estate market in the US.

“The risk doesn’t go away; it just moves from a pre-purchase decision into a post-purchase liability,” Eby said. “Families discover after a flood that they should have purchased flood insurance, or discover after the sale that wildfire insurance is unaffordable or unavailable in their area.

It’s almost like information is not available. I easily knew back in 2009 that hurricanes and tornadoes could happen. It’s Raleigh. I knew the humidity would be higher being so close to the river. I knew it gets hot. I live in NC. I also knew that the chance of flood was beyond minimal, as the flood plain puts me in a 1 in 5000 year area, even with the river being right there. Elevation above it, how it would flood the other side and flow. It would really have to be Biblical for flood to get anywhere near my townhome. Pollution? It’s the city, but, it is a bit less being on the edge.

Eby claimed that the push to delist the First Street ratings from Zillow is linked to a challenging real estate environment, with a lack of affordable housing and repeated climate-driven disasters that are causing insurers to raise premiums or even flee states such as California.

Or, because most do not care. I doubt most get too deep on the Zillow listing to get to the climate scam info.

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Fired Immigration Whines About Lots Of Stuff In Lawsuit

By William Teach December 2, 2025 – 7:00 am

Always the victim

Fired worker sues government in a case that could upend civil rights laws

Tania Nemer is one of dozens of immigration judges fired by the Trump administration this year.

But a new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., suggests what happened to Nemer — and why — has the potential to scramble the federal workforce and upend foundational civil rights laws.

Nemer alleges that despite top performance reviews, she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat. Those reasons, she says, are all in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment.

The government has responded by arguing that the president’s power to oversee the executive branch under Article II of the U.S. Constitution essentially overrides that core civil rights law, Nemer’s attorney said.

They serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States Of America. Said POTUS doesn’t even necessarily need a reason. And, why in the hell is anyone with dual citizenship serving in the federal government, be it Lebanon or Canada? Anyhow, these judges are under the DOJ, and many of them have just ended their 2 year probationary period or in that period, before they are converted to full government employees. Nemer was hired in 2023, and most likely was going soft on illegal aliens, like many Democrat appointed judges.

Nemer filed a formal discrimination complaint with an Equal Employment Opportunity office a month after she was fired. That office dismissed her claims in September, asserting in its decision that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act conflicts with the president’s power to remove federal workers within the executive branch.

Learn to code?

(Hindustan Times) Tania Nemer is an Ohio-based attorney and former federal immigration judge. A John Carroll University graduate with a J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. She built her career in criminal defense and immigration law, working for Catholic Charities, the International Institute of Akron, and as Of Counsel in private practice.

So, most surely because she was being soft on illegals, based on her previous work

“According to the final agency decision, the President may now fire female federal workers like Ms. Nemer — because of their sex — and the law would have nothing to say about it,” according to the new lawsuit. “According to the final agency decision, the President can now fire federal workers born to immigrant parents with dual citizenship like Ms. Nemer — because of their national origin — and they would have no recourse. And under the same logic, the President can fire federal workers like Ms. Nemer — because of their political activities and affiliations — and the courts would be powerless to act.”

Yeah, political activities and affiliations. Just like always.

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Bummer: Warmists Worried They Are Losing The Information War

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 3:24 pm

If they didn’t publish “information” like a cult would and actually practiced what they preached would they be worried about losing?

Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War

When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over.

Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever.

As delegates wrapped the annual United Nations climate talks last Saturday, those who have campaigned to reduce the use of fossil fuels expressed growing alarm that forces arrayed against them are gaining ground in the information war.

The oil, gas and coal industries continue to downplay the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is dangerously heating the planet. It’s a strategy that has been echoed by oil-rich countries such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and — under the Trump administration — the United States.

Can someone remind me how many tens of thousands took fossil fueled trips to Brazil for the climate (scam) conference, which included cutting down a piece of the Amazon to build a road for fossil fueled vehicles, as well as housing thousands of people on diesel powered ships?

The final statement of the U.N. talks, which were held in Belém, Brazil, did not even use the words “fossil fuels.”

“We thought that good ideas would get people to act,” J. Timmons Roberts, a researcher at Brown University and executive director of its Climate Social Science Network, lamented in a briefing on the eve of the talks.

Why would anyone else act when the people attending climate conferences won’t in their own lives?

Even so, Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, opened the talks by denouncing obstructionists who “reject scientific evidence and attack institutions.”

“They manipulate algorithms, sow hatred and spread fear,” he said, describing a surge in disinformation and propaganda aimed at blocking action to slow climate change.

Sounds like some nice doomsday cult propaganda, considering how much they have manipulated data, used BS climate models, and consistently talk doom and gloom. And fear. Not sure how Skeptics are sowing fear, unless it’s pointing out that the cult wants everyone’s money and freedom

“There’s a lot of reality that has hit,” said Steven J. Milloy, the founder of JunkScience.com, a website that has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change. “People are realizing now that we need fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are here to stay.”

They sure need them to attend climate conferences, eh?

Polls consistently show that a majority of adults globally and in the United States consider climate change to be a serious threat.

And, yet, it always comes down to it being theoretical, since the vast majority of those answer that we’re doomed refuse to change their own lives, give up fossil fuels, etc and so on.

Mr. Whitehouse said profits will always be the bottom line for the fossil fuel industry and others opposed to meaningful efforts to fight climate change.

“At one level we’ve been losing the climate disinformation war all along,” Mr. Whitehouse said. “We are where we are because we were completely ineffectual in fending off a decades-long disinformation bombardment.”

Didn’t he fly to Brazil? And pretty much every COP conference?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon rise dozens of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on Mamdani’s first endorsement.

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Surprise: House Democrats Want Taxpayer Funded Armed Security

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

Democrats are super happy to disarm you The People, keeping you from protecting yourself, but, for themselves

Democrats push for lawmakers to get armed security

As members of Congress grapple with growing personal threats, top Democrats in the US House are lobbying Republicans to let each lawmaker’s office employ an armed staff member to accompany them in their districts, as well as a law enforcement coordinator.

Rep. Joe Morelle of New York, the top Democrat on the committee in charge of member security, told Semafor that he and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have discussed pushing House Speaker Mike Johnson and committee chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., for the additional hiring capacity.

Their push, which includes other priorities, comes as lawmakers gain access to a new $20,000 monthly personal security allowance starting Monday.

The law enforcement coordinator could “try to mitigate [threats] in advance and really do the prep work necessary,” Morelle said, while the armed staff member would be “someone who’s probably a former law enforcement, former military, who meets all the requirements of being able to carry a gun.”

Morelle placed “much of the blame” for the increase in threats to members — which he said have jumped tenfold since 2016 — on President Donald Trump, who most recently instructed the FBI to investigate six congressional Democrats who filmed a social media video telling military members not to follow illegal orders.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have broadcast a video telling service members to refuse orders they “feel” are illegal while blowing off the chain of command, all because they decided to die on the hill of caterwauling about strikes against foreign drug running boats.

Maybe Democrats should exercise their own 2nd Amendment right and carry a firearm.

Sure, Raphael isn’t carrying the gun himself, but, most private citizens cannot afford a private security guard following them around.

Weird, since her Islamist buds in Hamas, Hezbollah, and in Somalia all have guns. She’s not trying to take them away.

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Swiss Nix 50% Tax On The Rich Mean To Fight Climate Doom

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

Doing Something about ‘climate change’ is always an interesting theoretical conversation, but, once it enters the real world the rational people, and, heck, lots Basic Warmists say “nope

Swiss voters reject tax of up to 50% on large donations or inheritances, fearing exodus of wealthy instead of fighting climate change

In a referendum, over 84% of voters rejected the “citizen service initiative” and none of the country’s 26 cantons, or states, came anywhere near voting in favor. Proposals need a majority of both voters and cantons to pass.

A separate proposal to impose a new national tax on individual donations or inheritances of more than 50 million francs ($62 million) was shot down by more than 78% of voters. The revenues were to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. (snip through all the info on the national service plan)

The government also opposed the proposal for a new tax on large donations or inheritances, arguing that approval could prompt some of the wealthiest in Switzerland — an estimated 2,500 people — to move elsewhere. Sums beyond 50 million francs ($62 million) could have been hit with a 50% rate.

$62 million. Seems rather a lot. Are the citizens seeing the downside of all the rich folks leaving and taking their money and businesses with them? Because that is literally all there was to this referendum. And, of course, perhaps they saw that the climate cult would then start lowering that $62 million threshold down and down and down

(The Brussels Times) The tax initiative was introduced by the Young Socialists and aimed to fund climate measures using revenue from taxing inheritances and gifts valued over 50 million Swiss francs (approximately €53 million).

The proposal also sought to apply the tax retroactively to prevent wealthy individuals from moving their assets abroad. It was estimated to affect around 2,500 people, representing the wealthiest 0.03% of the population.

Funny how they always want to tax Other People, but, aren’t willing to pay the piper themselves.

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NY Times Super Concerned Over “College Student” Deported Over Thanksgiving

By William Teach December 1, 2025 – 6:45 am

They’re a little late to this party

5 times. And they waited till the last paragraph for the important stuff

College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving

A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said on Sunday.

The student, Any Lucia López Belloza, was brought by her parents from Honduras to the United States when she was 7. Her father, Francis López, said in a telephone interview on Sunday that neither Ms. López nor her mother knew there was an order for her deportation.

“When they arrested Any, that’s when they told her,” said Mr. López, a tailor.

Ms. López’s lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, described an opaque process for obtaining information about her case, including the grounds for her deportation.

He said she had been deported in violation of a court order that a federal judge signed on Friday that said Ms. López could not be removed from the United States while her case was pending.

She was arrested on Thursday, transferred to Texas, and deported on Saturday. The judge granted the 72-hour stay on Friday at 6pm. I doubt the system works that fast. They left that part out.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency told The Boston Globe that an immigration judge had ordered Ms. López deported in 2015, when she was a child. The agency did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. (snip)

The family emigrated nearly 12 years ago because of the rampant crime and insecurity in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Mr. López and his wife feared for their daughter as the news was filled every week “with deaths and murders,” he said. “That’s the reason we left.” The family had applied for asylum, he said, but it was denied, and they were never told they had to appeal to avoid a deportation order.

“Emigrated,” ie, came to the US illegally. Asylum was denied. They should all be deported. Instead, we’re treated to sob stories.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 30, 2025 – 2:07 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike offseting the horrible cow produced ice cream, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on a Virginia bill aimed at law enforcement face coverings.

It’s bike week

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 30, 2025 – 9:15 am

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in Returned America. A nice winter chill in the air, I don’t have to watch the Giants play today which wastes hours, and we’re almost in Christmas season. I think this was actually created by AI, cannot quite read the signature nor find it anywhere else. If AI, it really captures that old pinup spirit

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Jo Nova: The phase-change continues: The Sierra Club loses 60% of members, 350.org is suspended
  2. No Trick Zone: Ecological Impacts Of Offshore WindParks Are Worse Than Expewcted, New Study Finds
  3. American Greatness: Public Schools Are Failing and Parents Are Bailing
  4. Campus Reform: UW–Madison faces federal civil rights complaint over transgender access policy
  5. Chicks On The Right: No Fly Zone! Trump Closes Venezuelan Airspace
  6. Geller Report: Dearborn: Entire Muslim Crowd Chants “Death to America”
  7. IOTW Report: Brooklyn Serial Spitter Targeting White Women Bloodied in Brutal Beatdown After Quick Release from Custody
  8. Jihad Watch: DHS Docs Reveal National Guard Shooter Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Afghan Refugee Jihadis
  9. Klyker: Interesting Pictures with Captions #183 (20 photos)
  10. Knuckledraggin My Life Away: Yeah, I wouldn’t want to tackle him either
  11. Legal Insurrection: Anti-Israel Protesters Attempt to Ruin Black Friday Shopping in New York City
  12. Moonbattery: Biden Judge Weeps After Timely Removal
  13. neo-neocon: You can take the Somalis out of Somalia …
  14. Newsbusters: Liberal Tears! White House Launches ‘Media Offender of the Week’ Page
  15. And last, but, not least, Pacific Pundit has Tampon Tim Walz more than $1 billion fraud for Somali “immigrants” exposed by the left wing New York Times

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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