LOL: Starmer And Macron Try To Stay Relevant With Post-War Strait Of Hormuz Shipping Plan

By William Teach April 17, 2026 – 10:30 am

These two are hilarious, it’s like Argentina joining the Allies as Germany was defeated, Russia declaring war on Japan after the US had dropped both A-bombs on Japan

Starmer and Macron accused of ‘playing at being relevant’ with Strait of Hormuz plan

As British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron convene a summit Friday on the future of the Strait of Hormuz, the two leaders are pushing a European-led plan to reopen the vital shipping lane after the war, without U.S. leadership.

The proposal envisions a post-conflict naval mission made up of Britain, France and other “non-belligerent” countries that would deploy only after fighting ends. Unlike President Donald Trump’s current strategy of blockading Iranian ports with U.S. naval power, the Anglo-French initiative is intended to be separate from the warring parties and focused on restoring commercial shipping.

A senior European official insisted the initiative is not meant to go around Washington, telling Fox News Digital that Paris began discussing a future maritime mission “from day one” of the conflict and is now formalizing those plans jointly with London.

Yeah, so, once the United States gains control of the Strait and eliminates all naval and land dangers from Iran, which we mostly have, these weenies think they can waltz in and provide security? Hell, they can barely project sea power now, despite the size of their navies, France ranked 8, UK 9. Most EU navies are for defense of nation only, not for deploying power. Italy, Germany, and Spain are the only other top 20, and they cannot project power. France with 1 aircraft carrier and Britain with 2 aren’t exactly powers. They, like Canada, pretty much rely on the United States.

Macron and Starmer are expected to host a summit to advance what both governments describe as a “coordinated, independent, multinational plan” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz once the fighting ends.

“France and the United Kingdom will also host a conference in Paris this Friday, bringing together by video conference non-belligerent countries ready to contribute, alongside us, to a multilateral and purely defensive mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait when security conditions allow,” Macron wrote on X.

Starmer similarly described the effort as a “coordinated, independent, multinational plan to safeguard international shipping when the conflict ends,” saying Britain had already convened more than 40 nations around the initiative, Reuters reported. Washington was not part of those earlier talks.

“When it ends.” These two wash their cars in the rain a lot, eh?

The European senior official said the proposed force would be “strictly defensive” and would only deploy after active fighting and bombardment have ended, with the goal of restoring normal shipping rather than enforcing a wartime corridor.

The more I read it the more I laugh. What need of a few patrol ships after Trump takes care of this?

Britain and France are overstating what they can realistically achieve, The Henry Jackson Society analyst Barak Seener said.

“Britain and France are playing at being relevant as so-called ‘Middle Powers’ in international affairs,” Seener told Fox News Digital.

“It is laughable that a European coalition of ‘non-belligerent’ countries that are only willing to engage once hostilities have ended can even speak of protecting its shipping lanes,” Seener added.

Will Trump humiliate these two and any others by telling them to “Patrol over there and stay out of the way?” You know something will be said if Starmer and Macron can ever come up with a plan.

More: They actually gave this thing a name

And they’re doing it virtually, instead of in person. LOL.

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Possibly One Of The Dumbest Top 50 Rock Bands Lists Of All Time

By William Teach April 17, 2026 – 9:35 am

Get a load of this

Any list that puts U2 in the top 20, much less 3, is a fail. Radiohead and Nirvana in the top 10? Who the hell are The Strokes, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Kraftwerk, Primal Sream, and Franz Ferdinand? I mean, I know there are a lot of bands, but, one would think a top 50 rock band would be easily known.

Public Enemy is a hip hop group.

Where’s Van Halen? Rush? The freaking Jimi Hendrix Experience? This list is so bad it hurts my head to type these words.

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Wackadoodle Kamala Tries To Blamestorm On Gas Prices

By William Teach April 17, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is the same chick who wanted to ban fracking and end fossil fuels, right?

It directed the US to “divest from fossil fuels,” phase out oil, gas, and coal production and remake the entire economy around subsidized green mandates.

Your 2020 campaign was shorter than a Garden Gnome but managed to work in these gems: You told the CNN town hall: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”

On Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show: “We will end fracking once and for all” while committing to the Green New Deal.

Your $10 trillion climate plan called for no new fossil fuel leases on federal lands, phasing out all oil & gas (even if renewables weren’t ready), a carbon fee, and doubling U.S. payments to the UN Green Climate Fund.

Before that, as California Attorney General (2011-2017), you built a reputation suing our industry.

The lawfare you pursued laid the foundation for the collapse of the California refining industry we are witnessing right now

You even sued the Obama-Biden administration to block new offshore permits off California’s coast.

And gas prices hit over $5 nationally while she was VP. It hit $4.634 in NC. She should have done this spot in California. And, the Garden Gnome crack? Classic.

BTW, notice how many takes she has to do for a 31 second spot. Watch the cars in the background. They had to splice it all together. And, in response to the Garden Gnome

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Wacko Minneapolis Prosecutor Thinks She Can Charge ICE Agent With Assault

By William Teach April 17, 2026 – 7:00 am

Does this AWFL think this is really going to work?

ICE Agent Charged With Assault After Motorists Say He Brandished Gun

Prosecutors in Minneapolis on Thursday charged a federal immigration agent with assault, accusing the agent of pointing a gun at motorists along a state highway during the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities in February.

It was a rare instance of state prosecutors charging a federal agent for on-duty actions, and the first such case, officials said, connected to the federal government’s 10-week operation in Minnesota.

The prosecutor in Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, described the assault case as one of 18 incidents involving federal agents now under investigation by her office and indicated that charges against other agents were possible.

The agent, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, pointed a gun at two people in a car as he attempted to pass them in an unmarked vehicle on the shoulder of a highway, according to the criminal complaint.

Crazy people

After the incident, Mr. Morgan, 35, told state investigators that he “feared for his safety and the safety of others” after a vehicle swerved in front of him and “cut him off,” according to the state complaint. Mr. Morgan told the investigators that the events took place as he was nearing the end of his shift and driving back to a federal building to get gas.

He and the other federal immigration agents have had to deal with complete nutcases interfering with their lawful operations, nutcases who were violent and/or threatening.

State prosecutors face formidable practical and legal obstacles in pursuing criminal charges against federal agents. Federal agents also have broad immunity from prosecution in state court for on-duty conduct. State officials also say the federal government has refused to provide local investigators with basic information, including the names of agents, in many cases.

The NY Times could just stop there, because this is going to go nowhere, Hennepin County has zero jurisdiction, and no need of any “basic information.” Give them the names and they will leak them to the wackjob liberal base, putting the agents and their families in more danger.

Still, Minnesota prosecutors have spent weeks investigating the actions of federal agents who took part in the crackdown, known as Operation Metro Surge, which led to near-daily clashes between agents and residents.

Doing this instead of the violent moonbats assaulting federal law enforcement. Oh, and then there’s all the fraud in Hennepin. And then there’s also all that crime, with Minneapolis being a 1, with only a 0 being worse. Every metric is well above state and national metrics. They’re doing all these investigations to protect illegal alien criminals.

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LA Mayor Karen “Failure” Bass Has New Climate (scam) Plan Or Something

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Does it involve failing to have the firefighting infrastructure in place, letting it burn, and screwing with homeowners, making it hard to rebuild, and then trying to get them to sell so they can build “affordable” housing, making sure NGOs, friends, and donors get a cut?

Mayor Bass has a new plan for addressing climate change in Los Angeles

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass released a new plan Thursday setting goals for the city to combat climate change and adapt to a warmer future.

Bass’ Climate Action Plan calls for doubling local solar power in Los Angeles by 2030 and reducing the use of fossil fuels in buildings and city buses.

Will it include Bass not using fossil fuels to be limo’d around, or flying to Ghana?

It outlines how the city intends to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at the Port of Los Angeles and L.A. International Airport. And it sets targets for reducing water use, addressing risks from extreme heat, and expanding parks and green spaces to cool neighborhoods and restore natural habitat.

So, costs for goods coming through the port will skyrocket (when they aren’t stolen). Why even allow the airport, which uses tons of fossil fuels? Shut it down! As for the rest, it’s just more control of the citizens, and will cause more to leave California.

“Cities are the front lines for the climate crisis. Angelenos are living with the impacts every day — from devastating wildfires and floods to rising heat and longer heat waves,” Bass wrote in a letter announcing the document. “This plan outlines how Angelenos will benefit from a resilient, carbon-free L.A.”

Yeah, watch your wallets, LA residents! But, then, most voted for this crap, so, don’t complain.

Bass’ strategy includes 14 objectives and more than 50 targets and actions, which it says are “designed to deliver concrete, measurable climate outcomes.” The goals include:

  • Increasing renewable energy to 80% by 2030 and 100% by 2035. (where? Where will it be located? How will this work? The devil is in the details)
  • Converting all of the L.A. Department of Transportation buses to electric by 2028. (this should be fun)
  • Working with airlines and fuel suppliers at LAX and Van Nuys Airport to increase the use of sustainable fuel by 28% by 2030. (sustainable fuel is in its infancy, and costs a hell of a lot more)
  • Passing a new ordinance this year to prohibit new oil and gas drilling, and creating a process to end current oil and gas extraction in the city. (who’s currently drilling in the city of LA now? It’s not worth it)

There’s more to it, but, it’s all just a big power and money grab. Again, you voted for this, so, pipe down.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled boat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post wondering how we turn the Sun off.

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AP: Guy Who Just Immigrated To US Killed Two, Including DHS Employee

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 10:30 am

This is one hell of a headline to go with the story

What to know about Atlanta-area attacks that killed 2, including a federal worker

A man who had immigrated to the U.S. has been charged in a string of deadly attacks in the Atlanta suburbs that quickly drew the attention of President Donald Trump’s administration.

U.K.-native Olaolukitan Adon Abel, whose name appears in different variations in court and government records, is accused of killing two women, including a Department of Homeland Security employee, and critically injuring a man.

Homeland Secretary Markwayne Mullin called the shootings “acts of pure evil” and raised concern that Adon Abel, 26, was granted U.S. citizenship in 2022, when Democrat Joe Biden was president.

The first victim, who has not been identified publicly, was found with gunshot wounds near a Decatur-area restaurant around 1 a.m. She was taken to a hospital but died, DeKalb County Police Chief Gregory Padrick said.

Then, a 49-year-old homeless man was shot multiple times while sleeping outside a Brookhaven grocery store, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) northwest of the first attack, Brookhaven Police Chief Brandon Gurley said. The man, whose name hasn’t been released, remains hospitalized in critical condition.

DHS worker Lauren Bullis, who was out walking her dog more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away in Panthersville, was found around 7 a.m. with gunshot and stab wounds. She died at the scene, Padrick said.

Rather antiseptic version, eh?

Military records show the defendant enlisted in the Navy in 2020, last serving in the Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron in Coronado, California, and as a petty officer received a Navy “E” Ribbon for superior performance for battle readiness.

Adon Abel pleaded guilty in October 2024 to assaulting two police officers with a deadly weapon and attacking another person when he was stationed in Coronado, according to California court records.

He faces malice murder, aggravated assault and firearms charges in Monday’s attacks, court records show. He waived an initial court appearance Tuesday, and a public defender listed as his attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

Mullin said Adon Abel has a criminal record that includes a sexual battery conviction. Online court records show that someone listed with a similar name and the same birth date pleaded guilty last June in Chatham County, Georgia, to four misdemeanor counts of sexual battery.

No one is sure if there were criminal acts preceding the Biden regime just up and giving him easy and free citizenship. But, with a record like this, there must have been. They say he is a “UK resident”, did Biden’s DHS bother checking in Britain?

Read that Matt Van Swol tweet, and then wonder why the fuck he was out on the streets at all.

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Bummer: Methane Is Leaking From Dams And Reservoirs

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 7:00 am

Now, I will 100% agree that methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere than CO2, but, it is considerably more potent. So, um, what’s the solution here?

A gas that causes climate change is bubbling out of reservoirs

climate cowMethane, the second-biggest contributor to climate change, is spewing into the atmosphere from the oil and gas industry, landfills and dairy farms. It’s also coming from another lesser-known source: reservoirs.

As plants break down underwater, they form methane, which then bubbles to the surface. California doesn’t monitor how much is coming from these waters, but now several environmental groups are urging air regulators to find out, and some experts agree it’s important.

“Reservoirs constitute an important source of methane,” said John Harrison, a professor at Washington State University’s School of the Environment who studies the greenhouse gases that reservoirs emit.

Tracking it, he said, would help California make better decisions about hydropower as part of its energy mix and “enhance the state’s status as a climate policy leader.”

OK, other than studying it (and getting all that government money), what do you want to do about it? End the dams and reservoirs?

The coalition of environmental groups — including Friends of the River, Tell The Dam Truth and five other organizations, as well as the clothing company Patagonia — submitted a petition last month saying the California Air Resources Board should require reports on greenhouse gases from dams and reservoirs. They oppose dams because they harm rivers.

Yes, yes they do. After getting lots of scam money.

They found that some hydropower plants give off small amounts of planet-heating gases, while in some extreme cases, emissions can be “greater than those from coal-fired power plants” per kilowatt of electricity generated.

For decades, damming rivers has generated bitter fights in places around the world, and international lenders have come under pressure not to support new projects. But there are currently 3,700 new hydroelectric facilities planned or under construction around the world, so scientists say it’s important to thoroughly analyze the long-term climate footprint of each project.

“We should recognize that hydropower is not a carbon-free — in the sense that it has no greenhouse gas emissions — source of electricity,” said Steven Hamburg, EDF’s chief scientist and the study’s co-author. “In building any new facilities, we want to carefully look at those impacts and minimize them.”

I understand why the extreme-enviroweenies hate dams, but, the cultists told us water power was super green and carbon neutral. No?

It’s also important when planning any new dam, Harrison said, to analyze how much greenhouse gases it will release into the atmosphere over its lifespan.

The California Air Resources Board plans to respond to the petition by the end of July.

These are unelected bureaucrats who will make decisions that will, get this, make power even more expensive in California. Have fun! You voted for this.

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Six Idiot Republicans Vote With Democrats To Keep Haitians In The U.S.

By William Teach April 16, 2026 – 6:45 am

We can almost always expect some Republicans to go pure Squish

House opposes Trump on immigration with move to help Haitians

Several House Republicans joined Democrats to oppose President Donald Trump on his immigration policy Wednesday, forcing a vote on a measure to reinstate temporary protections for some 350,000 Haitians living in the United States.

Six Republicans voted with 212 House Democrats and one independent reaching the threshold to advance the bill, which would keep Haitians eligible for temporary protected status [TPS] for three years. The program is intended for foreign nationals from countries facing dangerous conditions, such as armed conflict and environmental disasters.

The vote was forced using an increasingly popular legislative tool called a discharge petition that allows 218 or more representatives to circumvent the House speaker to bring a vote to the floor. Final passage of the bill in the House is expected Thursday or Friday.

“I have one of the largest Haitian populations in the country in my district,” said Rep. Michael Lawler (R-New York), who voted Wednesday push the bill to the House floor. “… If you end [temporary protections] without addressing work authorization, it will cause a huge crisis in our health care system, especially in an area like mine, where a lot of our Haitian TPS holders are nurses.”

Why can’t we have Americans working as nurses? Why can’t they go home and apply for visas? One problem is that too many Americans are getting worthless degrees from college, to many ones that bring no value, rather than working for degrees that have value.

“These 350,000 Haitian nationals are our neighbors. They’re valued members of our community,” said Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Massachusetts), who whipped support for the bill, in a video posted to her Instagram account this week. Pressley co-chairs the House Haiti Caucus.

TPS: temporary. Not permanent. But, Democrats want them with a legal status that allows them to vote in local, county and state elections, and, whoops, the ballot happened to have federal offices on it. Our bad! Anyhow, because they want a few nurses, we have to keep all the ones who are pure 4th world (completely failed state). There’s a reason the Dominican Republic has a wall on it’s border with Haiti. But, didn’t Democrats say Haiti is great?

Weird that she hasn’t visited Haiti

Republican Reps. María Elvira Salazar (Florida), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pennsylvania), Lawler (New York), Don Bacon (Nebraska), Carlos Giménez (Florida) and Nicole Malliotakis (New York) voted to advance the bill.

Of course little miss amnesty Maria Salazar voted for this. Fitzpatrick, Lawler, and Bacon are also cosigners of her “Dignity” Act.

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One Of The Problems With Binging Shows Is That You Notice They Aren’t Actually That Good

By William Teach April 15, 2026 – 3:17 pm

See, back in the day when you watched a show you saw it once a week, for typically 18+ episodes per season. So, you might not have noticed the DRAMA!!!!! being absolutely no fun. Or, that, nothing is getting solved, it’s just all too convoluted. Or that there is little development of characters. But, now, when you can blow through multiple episodes a day back to back? Those deficiencies show up.

Take a show like Lost. It was great back in the day when we saw 1 episode a week. Now, I tried to stream it and realized that it was just too weird, more and more weird was piled on top, the characters were actually pretty stupid, and we are not getting any real reasons for what’s going on. I gave up on it in season 3. The Sawyer character become incredibly annoying, as did Kate.

How about Manifest? The premise is fantastic. But, here’s what a few on Reddit wrote

  • I have no doubt that the central mystery is explored in later season and episodes. They probably want a multi-season arc about it, like Lost, but where Lost effectively “teased” the central mystery throughout and gave ‘peeks’ into clues about in most plotlines (depending who you ask), Manifest instead tries to buy time by distracting the viewer with less-interesting side-plots and characters.
  • It actually gets so much worse when they start to unravel the “mystery”. It got so convoluted so fast. Last thing I remember they were pulling shards of Noah’s ark out of the plane wreckage. Didn’t make it much longer after that.
  • It the Wish version of Lost. The premise is good enough, so it keeps you in for that, but instead of trying to tell a tight version of what it is that is happening, they just start stacking more junk on top of it that makes no sense until the whole thing is a narrative mess. It doesn’t help that the side plots are dull and the acting is pretty bad. People love this show and I definitely don’t get it.
  • Yeah. On paper it sounded like something I would like. I’ve tried to watch it 3 times now, and then get about 4 episodes in, and reminded how dreadfully boring it is, and how the main mystery is just… absent.

I made it to season 1 episode 14, and found it tedious, being DRAMA!!!! There was really no one having fun, no one smiling. If characters did stuff like have a nice dinner or end up in bed they’d have to then have a Serious Deep Conversation rather than just enjoying the moment. Everyone is always frowning or having a Serious Face. And who the hell is this The Major person. They keep mentioning her, and always capitalized. The Major. You might not have noticed if you watched it once a week.

I know everyone seemed to love The Sopranos, but, I found it got tedious watching so many episodes so close, where it seemed more about psychological venting than a mob show. Didn’t make it that far (I also cancelled HBOMax at the end of the special price time).

Falling Skies? Starts out depressing, wasn’t getting better.

I’m trying The Blacklist now, and, it seems to be going down the road of too much DRAMA!!!! Without James Spader it would be utterly tedious. Animal Control is interesting, a little lighter fare. Justified seemed too intense with no fun. It can’t be all frowning. Look at The Rookie, Landman, Tulsa King. Some serious crap goes down, but, they throw fun in. You have to humanize it. Even Grey’s Anatomy (which I gave up on in like season 21, just too much crazy), which could get stupid and had some really unlikeable characters when you think about them, had lots and lots of fun. It wasn’t all frowning. And you learned about the characters.

Alien: Earth? Still haven’t seen the final episode of season 1 (if there is going to be a season 2, no idea, no care). Just too convoluted, too DRAMA!!!! Couldn’t care less about the characters, who we barely learned about. The latest season of The Witcher? Forgot everything about the characters from the previous seasons because it was too long between seasons. Black Summer seemed interesting. Zombies! But, overly serious, no fun even while whacking zombies, no characterization. Only made it a few episodes in for Castle Rock, too serious, no fun. Give me some Psych, Eureka, Warehouse 13. Suits knew how to have fun, as absurd as the premise was. Blue Bloods was excellent, it was more than just procedural cop stuff. Characters were people. Vikings knew how to generally keep it simple. These were people to viewers. They were upset when a character was killed off.

With so many shows today, particularly on streaming, they throw so much into the show that it’s hard to know what is going on, and characterization suffers. I had also tried Dune: Prophecy, and it suffered from “what the hell am I watching? I have no idea what’s going on.” Not sure how much further I’m going to get for The Blacklist. Also slowly working through Star Trek: Voyager. Had given up on Strange New Worlds, when they did the cartoon crossover with Lower Decks, and knowing there was a musical episode coming up? Nah. Too bad, they did make the show about the characters first.

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