House Republicans Health Insurance Plan, No Subsidies Included

By William Teach December 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Obviously, no matter how good it is Democrats will vote against it, and it will never make it through the filibuster in the Senate

House GOP unveils health care bill without ObamaCare subsidies extension

House Republicans on Friday unveiled a health care bill they will bring to a vote next week that includes items that are broadly popular in the party, like cost sharing reductions and reforms to the pharmacy benefit manager industry, but will exclude extension of expiring enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.

House GOP leaders will allow an amendment vote on extending expiring Obamacare subsidies, a GOP leadership aide signaled, in a concession to moderates who had been calling to go on the record on the matter. The exact contours of the amendment are not yet settled.

“We expect that there will be an amendment that I believe is being worked on. So, the process will allow for that amendment,” a House Republican leadership aide said.

As distasteful as they are they subsidies should be kept for a year or two, allowing other measures to be put into place to decrease the premiums for real, not cover them up, which have gone up at least 10% ever since Obamacare went into effect.

The bill will also include a provision to make it easier for businesses to fund their own insurance plans, and protect themselves from going bankrupt from large, expensive claims.

It will expand association health plans, and will also include provisions to make the PBM industry more transparent.

It should allow for catastrophic plans, which Obamacare killed off. It should allow for more customized plans and erase a lot of the requirements. Men do not need measures meant for women only….oh, right, Democrats cannot tell the difference. The whole plan needs to be rejiggered so that it doesn’t end up being about giving money to the insurance companies who then have an incentive to keep costs high.

Eliminating all the waste and fraud would be helpful, as well

Hey, remember when the CBO said that Obamacare would pretty much pay for itself? And some of these false hoods?

But, Republicans did not get out and vote for Squishy Mitt Romney, who would have been a damned sight better than Obama, in 2012, which would have been the time to kill Ocare before it too effect.

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Old And Busted: Polar Bears Are Doomed. New And Hot: Polar Bears Are Adapting

By William Teach December 13, 2025 – 7:15 am

But, they’re still probably doomed

Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be extinct by 2050 with total extinction predicted by the end of this century.

First, the majority of that time period was an ice age. Second, they have absolutely no direct measurement data from during previous Holocene warm periods to say this.

But in our new study my colleagues and I found that the changing climate was driving changes in the polar bear genome, potentially allowing them to more readily adapt to warmer habitats. Provided these polar bears can source enough food and breeding partners, this suggests they may potentially survive these new challenging climates.

We discovered a strong link between rising temperatures in south-east Greenland and changes in polar bear DNA. DNA is the instruction book inside every cell, guiding how an organism grows and develops. In processes called transcription and translation, DNA is copied to generate RNA (molecules that reflect gene activity) and can lead to the production of proteins, and copies of transposons (TEs), also known as “jumping genes”, which are mobile pieces of the genome that can move around and influence how other genes work. (big snip)

Over time the DNA sequence can slowly change and evolve, but environmental stress, such as warmer climate, can accelerate this process. (snip)

Our research found that some genes linked to heat-stress, ageing and metabolism are behaving differently in the south-east population of polar bears. This suggests they might be adjusting to their warmer conditions. Additionally, we found active jumping genes in parts of the genome that are involved in areas tied to fat processing – important when food is scarce. This could mean that polar bears in the south-east are slowly adapting to eating the rougher plant-based diets that can be found in the warmer regions. Northern populations of bears eat mainly fatty seals.

So, can we compare these minor changes from during the previous Holocene warm and cool periods over the last 8,000 years? Darwin and others noted that many animals and birds saw minor changes during different climate periods, like drought and wet. People living in cold regions adapt to that while ones in hotter areas adapt physically. That’s how life works.

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ICE Is Using TSA Flight Data To Find Illegal Aliens

By William Teach December 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

More heartburn for the illegal alien supporters, keeping antacid companies very happy with their quarterly returns

Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort

The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants it wants to expel.

Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people.

It’s unclear how many arrests have been made as a result of the collaboration. But documents obtained by The New York Times show that it led to the arrest of Any Lucía López Belloza, the college student picked up at Boston Logan Airport on Nov. 20 and deported to Honduras two days later. A former ICE official said 75 percent of instances in that official’s region where names were flagged by the program yielded arrests.

What the NY Times “forgets” to mention is that Belloza has had a deportation order for ten years, and failed to appear for court

ICE has historically avoided interfering with domestic travel. But the partnership between airport security and the immigration agency, which began quietly in March, is the latest way the Trump administration is increasing cooperation and information sharing between federal agencies in service of the president’s goal of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in U.S. history.

“The message to those in the country illegally is clear: The only reason you should be flying is to self-deport home,” said Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security.

The Trump admin should be telling everyone about it, and, I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing was leaked to the Times so that illegals will see it and only fly to leave the country. The harder you make it for illegals the fewer come and the more leave.

Airline passengers have long been subject to some federal scrutiny. Airlines typically provide passenger information to T.S.A. after a flight is reserved. That information is compared against national security databases, including the Terrorist Screening Dataset, which includes the names of individuals on a watch list of known or suspected terrorists.

In fact, TSA regularly flags people with warrants and reports them to law enforcement in the airport who detain until law enforcement from outside the airport come to take them away. Oh, well. Maybe illegals should consider just leaving.

“If you have more officers conducting arrests at airports, it puts more strain on the system, delays and complications may annoy and frighten some travelers, and those who are unsure about their status will move away from air travel,” said Claire Trickler-McNulty, a senior ICE official during the Biden administration. “It will continue to reduce the space where people feel safe going about their business.”

Illegals should never feel safe.

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Say, What Does Climate Doom Mean For White Christmases?

By William Teach December 12, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Wow, the doomsday cult is out a bit early for this

What Climate Change Means for White Christmases

stop global warmingIf you’ve been dreaming of a white Christmas, be warned that it might not become a reality.

Yeah, I live in North Carolina, so, it almost never happens. The last time on “record” was 2010, but, really, it started snowing in the wee hours of the 26th, because I remember leaving the parents house at 4pm on Christmas day, and it was still not snowing in Raleigh when I got home just after midnight.

Many people have memories of watching the snow fall on Christmas Day—but data shows that, across the country, a white Christmas occurs less frequently than you might think.

The National Weather Service will only deem it a white Christmas if there is an inch or more of snow cover on the ground Christmas morning—when volunteer observers report the snowfall. Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that from 2003 through 2024, the average Christmas morning snow cover blanketed just 36% of the contiguous U.S. states. (That’s because some regions, like the Texas Gulf Coast or stretches of the West Coast, rarely see snow in December.) In fact, according to the Weather Channel, there’s few places beyond the Mountain West, northern New England, and the far northern tier states like Michigan and Minnesota, and northern New England where the odds of a white Christmas are higher than 50%. (snip)

But while many people across the country might lament the white Christmases of their youth, the truth is that many places typically don’t see snow in late December—people just think they did.

“People tend to remember that one snowy Christmas, and they forget that it was surrounded by five Christmases that weren’t,” says David Robinson, New Jersey State climatologist and Rutgers University professor whose research focuses on snow cover.

The thing is, the data really doesn’t go all that far back to determine if there has been a lessening of the chance of having a white Christmas in the areas that have a decent chance of having snow on the ground at Christmas. Most measured data put together only goes back to the early 1980s. Really, it’s a Holocene warm period, things get warmer. No need to drag witchcraft into it. But, they have to

That doesn’t mean that winter weather hasn’t changed over the years. Climate change is causing temperatures to rise across the country—and it’s impacting precipitation patterns.

“Decembers have warmed three to five degrees across the country in the last 75 years,” says Robinson.

Horseshit. Complete horsheshit. I’m not even using the normal GIF for this, this is a complete pantload. The 6 month old just fill the diapers, and it now stinks. And there is zero chance they can actually show that 3-5 degrees in actual measured data.

That’s due to a mix of climate change and climate variability, the natural fluctuations in climate patterns in a given region. The northeast, upper Midwest and New York and New Jersey are some of the areas where this trend is strongest, says Globe. Climate change is also causing shorter, warmer winters. But that doesn’t mean that a white Christmas will become a thing of the past. Some areas that often see snow might see more intense storms due to climate change, as a warmer atmosphere is able to hold more moisture.

Warmer gets you more snow, too, because it is a cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an island which will soon be underwater from carbon pollution sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on on yet another criminal, thieving BLM leader.

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Good News: Over 80% Of Somalis In Minnesota On Welfare

By William Teach December 12, 2025 – 10:30 am

Anyone attempting to go through the normal process to become a US citizen must not be on government assistance programs. But, hey, if you can get the US government to bring you in from a violent, Islamic extremist 3rd world shithole, you have it made

Minnesota: ‘Nearly Every’ Somali Household with Children Is on Welfare

More than 8-in-10 households headed by Somali refugees in the state of Minnesota are on one or more forms of American taxpayer-funded welfare, new data published by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals.

The data, based on 10 years of data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), shows drastic disparities between native-born American households and Somali-born households in Minnesota, where nearly 80,000 residents have Somali ancestry compared to zero who had Somali ancestry in 1990.

In particular, the data shows that 81 percent of Minnesota households headed by Somali refugees are on one or more forms of welfare, including 27 percent who are on cash welfare, 54 percent who are on food stamps, and 73 percent who are on Medicaid.

Compare this massive welfare use to native-born Americans residing in Minnesota, only 21 percent of whom are on one or more forms of welfare, including just 6 percent who are on cash welfare, 7 percent who are on food stamps, and 18 percent who are on Medicaid.

Like this

Welfare use goes even higher for Somali households where children are in the home, the ACS data finds.

For example, 89 percent of Somali-headed households with children in Minnesota are on one or more forms of welfare, as 86 percent are on Medicaid. About 62 percent of Somali households with children in the state are on food stamps, while 23 percent take cash welfare.

So, American taxpaying workers are paying for Somalis to live off the government while they refuse to assimilate and demand that America change to accommodate their extremist religious views. The others not on welfare suddenly turn nothing into $30 million, like Ilhan Omar, or steal money meant to feed children.

Somali refugees in Minnesota also tend to be vastly less educated than their Minnesotan counterparts.

While only 5 percent of native-born Americans in Minnesota do not have a high school diploma, almost 40 percent of Somali refugees say the same, including more than 28 percent who have lived in Minnesota for more than 10 years.

They’re just living their Somali lives, without all the pirates and paramilitaries in the streets.

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Cultists Against Road To Mines In Alaska

By William Teach December 12, 2025 – 7:00 am

They demand “green” energy, but, they do not seem to want to allow the things necessary to actually make it, at least here in the US

A proposed mining road in Northwest Alaska sparks debate amid climate change impacts

electric vehicleIn Northwest Alaska, a proposed mining road has become a flashpoint in a region already stressed by climate change.

The 211-mile Ambler Access Road would cut through Gates of the Arctic National Park and cross 11 major rivers and thousands of streams relied on for salmon and caribou.

The Trump administration approved the project this fall, setting off concerns over how the Inupiaq subsistence way of life can survive amid rapid environmental change. Many fear the road could push the ecosystem past a breaking point yet also recognize the need for jobs.

The Ambler Mining District holds one of the largest undeveloped sources of copper, zinc, lead, silver and gold in North America.

Demand for minerals used in renewable energy is expected to grow, though most copper mined in the U.S. currently goes to construction — not green technologies.

Do you or do you not want the materials to make “green” stuff?

The Ambler road would cross a vast, largely undisturbed region. Building it would require nearly 50 bridges, thousands of culverts and more than 100 truck trips a day during peak operations.

Federal biologists warn naturally occurring asbestos could be kicked up by passing trucks and settle onto waterways and vegetation that caribou rely on. The Bureau of Land Management designated some 1.2 million acres of nearby salmon spawning and caribou calving habitat as “critical environmental concern.”

Mining would draw large volumes of water from lakes and rivers, disturb permafrost and rely on a tailings facility to hold toxic slurry. With record rainfall becoming more common, downstream communities fear contamination of drinking water and traditional foods.

So, what I’m reading is that making “green” stuff is bad for the environment.

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Unsurprising: 4 Republicans Vote To Extend Ocare Subsidies In Senate

By William Teach December 12, 2025 – 6:45 am

The squishes keep squishing

4 GOP senators break ranks to vote for Democratic extension of ObamaCare subsidies

Four Republican senators, including two vulnerable incumbents who are up for reelection next year, broke ranks Thursday and voted for a three-year extension of enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) all voted for the Democratic proposal, which was introduced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.).

They joined all forty-seven Democrats in voting to advance the measure, which failed to reach the 60-vote threshold necessary to move forward. The motion to proceed to the measure failed 51 to 47. The vast majority of Republican senators voted against the measure.

No one should be surprised by Collins and Murkowski, they always do this. Hawley and Sullivan are disappointing.

Collins on Monday introduced a bill with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to extend the enhanced health insurance premium subsidies under the ACA for two years while limiting their availability to households earning less than $200,000 a year. They also proposed requiring lower-income Americans who participate on the ObamaCare marketplace to pay at least $25 monthly premiums.

$200K? Really? That’s insane. How about a year extension with a requirement for utter and complete reform. Ocare is not going away. The time to kill it was before it went into effect. It’s time it was completely overhauled. It started with absurd deductibles that made it almost unusable, then the premiums kept going up at least 10% ever year. The COVID era subsidies merely hid several years of big rises. Democrats do not want reform, because, while the original intention was to put health insurers out of business, it quickly morphed into Democrats making sure those same hated insurance companies got lots of taxpayer money, which then gets funneled back to Democrat election coffers.

Blame Republicans for our health insurance mess

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A recent survey found that 76 percent of people who get their insurance through the ACA and want the subsidies extended would blame President Donald Trump or Republicans in Congress if they are not. The broader public, the vast majority of whom would also like to see the aid extended, agrees; 48 percent of voters blame the GOP, while 32 percent pin it on the Democrats, per a new Morning Consult poll.

And, because Republicans are bad at messaging and too many are squishy, and the vast majority of the media are Democrats, they get this result.

This is wholly a problem created by Democrats, but, elected Republicans and the GOPe are idiots.

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Cult Now Trying To Hijack The Affordability Debate

By William Teach December 11, 2025 – 2:49 pm

It just goes to show that no matter what the issue is the doomsday cult wants in, and will attempt to hijack it

Affordability As One Possible Response To Climate Change

Reasons for the lack of new affordable housing seem nearly limitless. Depending on whom you talk to, factors can include inflation, NIMBYism, governmental red tape, labor shortages, material costs and others. All contribute to the ongoing crisis of a shortage of 7.1 million affordable and available rental homes, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). The NLIHC estimates just 35 affordable and available homes exist in the U.S. for every 100 extremely low-income renter households.

Well, let’s see: COVID causing housing prices to skyrocket, as so many blew out of higher priced big cities and moved elsewhere, like the South. Biden letting in Lord knows how many millions of illegals, fake asylum seekers, refugees, and TPS recipients, putting a strain on housing. Democrats constantly pushing “affordable” housing, so we get more townhomes and apartments, rather than houses. Owners jacking up the cost of rent due to COVID even though their own costs barely rose. The cost of building going up because of government mandates on things, such as AC and heating.

But some developers and architects believe if new affordable housing cannot be built in sufficient volume, there exists a next best idea: Creating more old affordable housing by renovating and preserving already existing structures.

OK, that sounds like a great idea. There are tons of buildings, commercial and lving, they can do that with that. Of course, government gets in the way. How’s that whole permitting thing going in the Los Angeles area?

BTW, most of the permits are from the feds. None from local, county, state (why are the feds even involved?)

The added benefit of doing so is it is a more sustainable solution than building anew. Renovating old housing avoids the environmental tradeoffs of new construction, including carbon emissions and demolition waste. Renovating existing buildings to provide housing helps trim waste, lower energy usage and fortify those communities most susceptible to the impact of climate change.

The vast majority of the article has little to do with environmental concerns nor the green scam, yet, you look at the headline and see that the cult requires it’s blood sacrifice in every article.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 11, 2025 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Woodsterman, with a post on Libturd Thursday.

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