If All You See…

By William Teach September 18, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise up and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…., with a post on driving down the street with your eyes closed.

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Judge Orders Mahmoud Khalil Deported To Syria Or Algeria

By William Teach September 18, 2025 – 10:30 am

It really should have been so easy to deport Khalil in the first place. He came in on a student visa in 2022 to attend Columbia University and immediately started protesting and whipping up hatred of Jews. His student visa ended. The US government has no need to keep him on any work visa. They do not have to give him any visa.  Threatening to kill Jews, destroy Israel, and destroy America is more than enough to get him booted. He’s a hardcore Hamas supporter, and that’s enough.

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria

An immigration judge in Louisiana has ordered pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the U.S., deported to Syria or Algeria for failing to disclose certain information on his green card application, according to documents filed in federal court Wednesday by his lawyers.

Khalil’s lawyers suggested in a filing that they intend to appeal the deportation order, but expressed concern that the appeal process will likely be swift and unfavorable.

The order from the immigration judge, Jamee Comans, came despite a separate order in Khalil’s federal case in New Jersey blocking his deportation while that court considers Khalil’s legal argument that his detention and deportation are unlawful retaliation for his Palestinian advocacy.

The Biden regime gave a guy who advocated death to Jews and destruction of Israel and the US while expressing favorable opinions and support for Hamas, a US designated terrorist organization. The US has every right to pull that green card when the person is a threat to the US and national security.

In a letter to the New Jersey federal judge, Michael Farbiarz, Khalil’s lawyers said they have 30 days from Sept. 12, the date of the immigration judge’s ruling, to appeal her decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The lawyers said they expect that process to be “swift” and that an appeal of the BIA decision, which would go to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is unlikely to be successful, since, they wrote, the appeals court “almost never” grants stays of removal to noncitizens.

“As a result,” they wrote, “the only meaningful impediment to Petitioner’s physical removal from the United States would be this Court’s important order prohibiting removal during the pendency of his federal habeas case.” And, they wrote, “nothing would preserve his lawful permanent resident status.”

In a statement, Khalil, a Palestinian originally from Syria, accused the Trump administration of using “fascist tactics.”

Yeah yeah yeah. Don’t be a terrorist supporter. You made your choice. Seriously, Democrats are defending this guy, but, then, so many Democrats hate Jews, hate Israel, and hate the United States.

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National Academies Goes Full Cult In Supporting Climate Doom

By William Teach September 18, 2025 – 7:15 am

If they were still respectable they would note the effect on the climate from things like land use, urban heat island effect, natural processes, and, oh yeah, the big ball of nuclear fire at the center of the solar system. But, no, they cannot even use the proper term which would be anthropogenic global warming. ‘Climate change’ replaced AGW in order to Blamestorm pretty much everything, including snow and cold weather

Climate change ‘beyond scientific dispute,’ National Academies report says

One of the United States’ most respected scientific bodies rejected claims from Trump administration officials that rising temperatures posed little danger, saying on Wednesday the scientific evidence of climate change was “beyond scientific dispute” and that impacts on the nation are worsening.

The conclusion from the the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine differs starkly from a draft report issued by the Energy Department in July, in which a panel of scientists known for their contrarian views argued that the risks of climate change have been overblown.

The nonprofit National Academies advise the government on scientific issues.

In sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s report, NASEM’s 135-page review of climate science says that our understanding of climate science has only improved since EPA in 2009 formally declared greenhouse gases a threat to human health and welfare.

That includes long-term observations that “confirm unequivocally” that human emissions are warming the planet, that climate change is already harming the health and welfare of U.S. citizens and that the severity of climate change increases “with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted.”

Reads more like blathering from a doomsday cult with skin in the game to keep the money train rolling. BTW, what about the observations that showed a warming pause for around 18 years?

“Much of the understanding of climate change that was uncertain or tentative in 2009 is now resolved and new threats have been identified,” the report concluded. “These new threats and the areas of remaining uncertainty are under intensive investigation by the scientific community. The United States faces a future in which climate-induced harm continues to worsen and today’s extremes become tomorrow’s norms.”

I have a recommendation: everyone at the National Academies should immediately give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. No one is allowed to travel to Brazil for COP30. The Academies should forgo all use of fossil fuels, AC, heating, and more at it’s offices, ban meat. And tell everyone who believes this report to do the same.

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Conservatives Pounce: Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Suspended Indefinably

By William Teach September 18, 2025 – 7:00 am

Let’s look at what Kimmel said during his monologue during what is supposed to be a late night mindless comedy/entertainment show

Hilarious stuff, eh? He realized he went too far and tried to apologize (in other words, the suits at ABC made him), but, yeah, he got yanked. Here is the hottest of hottakes I’ve found

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

Conservative cancel culture has come for Jimmy Kimmel: Walt Disney–owned ABC has announced it’s pulling new episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “indefinitely” following right-wing outrage over comments he made on his September 15 show about the reaction to the killing of right-wing podcaster and provocateur Charlie Kirk. Disney’s decision follows a move by one of its major affiliate groups, Nexstar, to preempt the show in response.

While Nexstar didn’t say exactly what Kimmel had said that it objected to, and ABC offered no further explanation of its move, FCC chairman Brendan Carr earlier on Wednesday denounced this part of the host’s Monday monologue, per Deadline: “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.” Around 6 p.m. ET Wednesday, Nexstar issued this statement: “Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.” When Vulture asked ABC for comment, a network rep replied, “Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be preempted indefinitely.”

See, it’s not the problem that Kimmel made reprehensible remarks on his low rated show, no, it’s that Conservatives noticed it.

Evil Blogger Lady says Jimmy Kimmel is a dirty liar and fraudster. And laughs that he is suspended.

And here’s the thing: Kimmel’s show has a lot lower ratings than Colbert, who had about 2.4 million a night. Kimmel was getting around 1.77 million (Carson got around 9-11 million a night.) I wonder if we are going to soon hear about how much Kimmel’s show costs, and that the plug is being pulled.

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Dublin City Council Has Fantastic Idea To Get Rid Of Garbage Bags

By William Teach September 17, 2025 – 5:04 pm

The peasants will comply

Lawmakers issue sweeping ban that will have major impact on stores: ‘We’re aiming … to have them all gone’

When we consider plastic waste, we normally don’t think about the items that are designed to collect that waste and keep it off the streets.

But in Dublin, the city council has started phasing out plastic garbage bags, per The Irish Times. They say the ban is necessary because animals frequently tear these bags apart, leaving loose rubbish behind.

A ban on such bags was originally passed in 2016, but many residents and businesses were excluded from the legislation because their properties were deemed unsuitable for wheeled garbage bins. Since then, those excluded from the ban have been allowed to leave plastic garbage bags on their curb for collection.

So, they have trouble getting garbage cans?

Now, starting in the northern part of the city, on-street trash compactors will be installed, eliminating the need for curbside collection. After that, similar compactors will be installed in other parts of the city where large numbers of people still use garbage bags.

“We’re aiming for the end of 2026 to have them all gone,” Derek Kelly, executive manager of the council’s environment division, told the Irish Times. “Things can always get in the way, but that’s the hope. We don’t want this to continue any longer than is necessary.”

Residents will be given key cards or codes to use the compactors, which will otherwise be sealed shut and not available for public use.

What could go wrong with having trash compactors on every street? Having to lug your garbage to them? How do you do that without garbage bags? Who gets it near their home, and has to deal with the sound and the stench? And having a nasty garbage compactor in site, with fallen garbage all around it? And on it?

Plastic consumption is one of the biggest issues facing our environment. Plastic manufacturing spews toxic fumes into our atmosphere, which have caused the planet to become significantly warmer.

Sigh.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 17, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is champagne which will soon disappear as it becomes too hot for grapes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on Jew hatred in Lisbon.

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Surprise: Democrats Increasingly Support Modern Socialism

By William Teach September 17, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s not real Socialism, per Politics 101. Real Socialism is on the left of the Democracy Model, with Classic Liberalism in the middle and Classic Conservatism (it’s what they practice in Europe, American Conservatives are really Classic Liberals). In real Socialism you get a belief in everyone voting on everything in the Political Core, Government staying the heck out of lives in the Personal Core, and government heavily involved in the economy, up to and including owning the means of production in the Economic Core. That last is true of today’s Modern Socialists, but, the Left wants government to run your life, and is fine with voting as long as it will come out in their favor. They’re Progressives in reality. Nice Fascists

Poll: Capitalism is out … and socialism is in

The socialist brand is on the rise, according to recent polling, fueling the left flank of the Democratic Party to argue its ideology is becoming more mainstream.

Shortly after Gallup released data showing Democrats and independents are cooling toward capitalism, a progressive organization is out with a poll finding that more than half of likely Democratic voters prefer socialist-aligned figures like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani to establishment politicians like Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jefrries and Nancy Pelosi.

Democratic voters also view elected officials who describe themselves as democratic socialists about as positively as those who identify as Democrats, and they prefer democratic socialism to capitalism when written definitions of each are read aloud to them, according to the poll conducted by Data for Progress and shared first with POLITICO. (snip)

Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose.

53%. Of course, how many really care and know the issues, and how many are just responding to personality and being promised free stuff? Being taught by their wacko teachers that Modern Socialism is great

Though Democratic voters reported viewing elected officials who describe themselves as Democrats or democratic socialists roughly equally, independent and Republican voters saw the socialists far more negatively. Both types of hypothetical politicians were described as having the same affordability-focused agenda.

The results help explain why socialists and progressives have found success in blue seats and cities — underscored by Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary in June — but have struggled to appeal to swing voters in battleground areas.

True, true. It might be popular in super-blue areas where Democrats have destroyed everything and are now promising free stuff to fix those same problem, but, those of us in the Real World know better.

In the poll, democratic socialists were defined as believing “that the government should take a more active role to improve Americans’ lives. They generally support higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners, support regulations that protect workers and consumers, and want more public ownership of key industries like housing, health care and utilities.”

In other words, run your life and run the economy, including companies.

(Breitbart) They survey defined capitalists as believing “that the private sector is best equipped to make improvements to Americans’ lives. They generally support lower taxes, oppose government regulations of businesses, and want the private sector to own key industries like housing, health care and utilities.”

Upon hearing each description, 74 percent of Democrat voters said democratic socialism most closely aligns with their views, while 16 percent say capitalism better reflects their opinion.

Well, good luck!

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Bummer: The Whole World Has Soured On Climate (scam) Politics

By William Teach September 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

I can only hope so

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

Ten years ago this fall, scientists and diplomats from 195 countries gathered in Le Bourget, just north of Paris, and hammered out a plan to save the world. They called it, blandly, the Paris Agreement, but it was obviously a climate-politics landmark: a nearly universal global pledge to stave off catastrophic temperature rise and secure a more livable future for all. Barack Obama, applauding the agreement as president, declared that Paris represented “the best chance we have to save the one planet we’ve got.” (snip through several paragraphs of yapping about Paris Agreement)

A decade later, we are living in a very different world. At last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP29), the president of the host country, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, praised oil and gas as “gifts from God,” and though the annual conferences since Paris were often high-profile, star-studded affairs, this time there were few world leaders to be found. Joseph R. Biden, then still president, didn’t show. Neither did Vice President Kamala Harris or President Xi Jinping of China or President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission. Neither did President Emmanuel Macron of France, often seen as the literal face of Western liberalism, or President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, often seen as the face of an emergent movement of solidarity across the poor and middle-income world. In the run-up to the conference, an official U.N. report declared that no climate progress at all had been made over the previous year, and several of the most prominent architects of the whole diplomatic process that led to Paris published an open letter declaring the agreement’s architecture out of date and in need of major reforms.

This year’s conference, which takes place in Brazil this November, is meant to be more significant: COP30 marks 10 years since Paris, and all 195 parties to the 2015 agreement are supposed to arrive with updated decarbonization plans, called Nationally Determined Contributions, or N.D.C.s. But when one formal deadline passed this past February, only 15 countries — just 8 percent — had completed the assignment. Months later, more plans have trickled in, but arguably only one is actually compatible with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the climate scientist Piers Forster recently calculated, and more than half of them represent backsliding.

Perhaps they are all tired of it? Perhaps the politicians pushing the scam realize that the peasants are tired of it all, and politicians usually do not want to lose their positions, eh?

And neither is it a story particular to America. The retreat from climate politics has been widespread, even in the midst of a global green-energy boom. From 2019 to 2021, governments around the world added more than 300 climate-adaptation and mitigation policies each year, according to the energy analyst Nat Bullard. In 2023, the number dropped under 200. In 2024, it was only 50 or so. In many places — like in South America and in Europe — existing laws have already been weakened or are under pressure from shifting political coalitions now pushing to undermine them.

And therein lies a big problem: more and more citizens are noticing that this has less to do with science and more to do with Government controlling the citizens, all while the people implementing these laws and policies refuse to practice what they preach dictate

Few advocates believed naïvely in the caricatured versions of those propositions, but even so, it was seductive to imagine a kind of flywheel effect unfolding, with faster action enabling still faster action through public enthusiasm for a new and transformative green industrial revolution. At least when it came to politics, the flywheel never got spinning. Globally, concern about warming is still rising, but only slowly — and while large majorities in many countries say they support faster decarbonization, other polls show that voters don’t actually prioritize decarbonization and, crucially, aren’t willing to pay much to bring it about.

Yeah, Doing Something is popular in theory, but, when it comes time to practice it? Not so much. I also suspect that those in the 1st World are tired of the constant litany of doom and gloom. You can only take so much.

I hope this trend continues.

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House Passes Two Laws To Make Criminals In D.C. Be Charged As Criminals

By William Teach September 17, 2025 – 6:45 am

I love the Washington Post headline

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults

They went with hyper-partisan fearmongering one, but, as usual, the devil is in the details. It’s also behind the paywall, so

House passes two DC crime bills focused on juvenile crime as part of bid to bolster Trump’s federal crackdown

CNN’s headline is also wackadoodle. Bolstering cracking down on crime? How dare Trump!

House Passes D.C. Crime Bills as Trump Crackdown Continues

Yeah, the NY Times isn’t much better. How dare Trump *checks notes* crack down on crime in the nation’s capital!

The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed legislation to allow stricter criminal penalties for younger offenders in the District of Columbia, moving to overhaul the city’s criminal justice system as President Trump continues his crackdown on the city.

The pair of bills, which both drew some support from Democrats, are part of a package House Republicans are pushing through this week to impose tighter federal control over Washington, as federal officers and the National Guard still patrol the streets and Mr. Trump threatens to again take over the local police force.

One measure would lower the age at which children accused of certain violent crimes can be charged as adults, from 16 years old to 14 years old. That would make them eligible for harsher sentences and adult prisons — a policy change Mr. Trump has called for. Several states have similar provisions, and eight Democrats joined Republicans to pass the measure by a 225-to-203 vote.

Most states have similar provisions. The problem now is that anyone under 16 could not be charged with a felony except in the most extreme cases, which is why roving gangs of 13, 14, and 15 year olds were stealing cars/carjacking throughout DC. They couldn’t be charged with anything. Jeanine Piro talked about 3 laws that were causing massive problems with crime, including those 22 and under.

The other would roll back a local law that allows judges to give more lenient sentences to people younger than 25, by lowering the limit on that law to 18 years old and requiring judges to adhere to mandatory minimums for youth offenders. Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill, 240 to 179.

Pretty much wiping out The Youth Rehabilitation Act and the Incarceration Reduction Act, which were majorly soft on crime. And, yes, the Congress can do this. In fact, they are ultimately responsible for any law passed by the DC “home rule”, because the Constitution puts Congress in charge of D.C. Period.

But unlike other cities, the District of Columbia is subject to significant federal oversight that allows Congress to review its legislation and rewrite its laws. The roughly 700,000 residents of the District, many of whom are Black, do not have a vote in Congress but are represented by a nonvoting House delegate, Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, who can serve on committees but cannot vote on bills.

The Paper of Record is unfamiliar with the Constitutional provision putting Congress in charge of D.C. No matter what power they give to the DC mayor and city council, as well as the Executive Branch, it all rolls uphill to Congress.

5140 was to lower the age. For HR4922, Dems apparently switched a lot of votes, because the final tally was 240-179, per Byron Donalds, who introduced the bill. Now they are on to the Senate: will Democrat block these?

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Climate Cult Now Looking To Teens Writing Journals On Economics

By William Teach September 16, 2025 – 3:52 pm

I distinctly remember when the doomsday cult told us we should only listen to those with degrees in climate science

California Teen Starts an Online Journal on the Power of Economics to Confront Climate Change

Mira Shah was in sixth grade five years ago when a brush fire ignited on the hill in front of her house. Shah had heard that global warming was making natural hazards like wildfires more common and destructive. But climate change seemed like an abstract threat until a fire burned so close to home.

Then, in January, a series of catastrophic fires ravaged several Los Angeles communities, not far from one of Shah’s cousins and an aunt. Climate change made the hot, dry, windy conditions that fueled those fires 35 percent more likely, according to the international research organization World Weather Attribution.

For Shah, who had a burgeoning interest in economics, the L.A. fires crystallized her concern that climate change posed an urgent threat to lives and livelihoods. She started a small fundraiser to support firefighters and displaced families, and to raise awareness about the growing costs of a warming world.

But she wanted to do more.

So, at this point she’s 16 or 17, still in high school, and we’re supposed to listen to her opinion on economics and climate doom? Really? All because someone did something stupid and caused a wildfire, made worse by the decisions of Democrat politicians?

She worried that her generation would bear the brunt of global warming’s consequences but seemed unprepared to combat it. “I decided I wanted to make my impact on the world and stop it from getting too bad,” said Shah.

Shah launched an online journal in July called Karbon Economics with the help of a few likeminded friends at Quarry Lane School, a private college prep school in Dublin, about 35 miles east of San Francisco, and nearby Monte Vista High School.

Karbon (Shah used a “k” to help it stand out) features essays, explainers and soon-to-be-published student research that explores “how economic forces shape our world—from the climate crisis and carbon markets to inequality, trade and development.” The student-run journal will enlist young voices “to shape a better-informed world” by making the economic dimensions of climate change more accessible.

Hmm, so, the cult is pretty much about everything? When do the youts stop using so much energy to make their own carbon footprints zero?

“At a time when the United States seems to be abandoning the future to runaway global heating, it’s wonderful to see high-school students, especially three girls of color, launch this gorgeous venue for well-written, accessible articles about the current state of climate economics,” said Genevieve Guenther, an expert reviewer for the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and founding director of the volunteer-run organization End Climate Silence. “I look forward to them developing their understanding of the issues as they dive further into the political economy of the climate crisis.”

Of course we have to include a raaaaacist component. Pretty sure that “climate economics” means “the government is going to take all your money and make your life super expensive.”

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