If All You See…

…is ice cream from world killing cow milk, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on tone deaf Code Pink in Cuba.

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TDS: Washington Post Very Concerned Over Trump’s Threat To Washington

It’s what type of threat that’s the funny part

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812

A loosely circular driveway sweeps through the White House grounds, just below the beloved South Portico of the mansion. Its shape echoes a larger park, known as the Ellipse, which connects the president’s home to the National Mall. It also mirrors the curving pathways of nearby Lafayette Square, on the north side of the complex.

The simple symmetry of this modest roadway and the grace of the White House south grounds are no accident: They were the vision of the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., one of the original members of the Senate Park Commission, which created the monumental core of Washington as we know it, more than a century ago.

The geometry of this driveway — a small but resonant element of Olmsted’s master plan for the White House campus — will soon be erased, now that a federal judge has allowed President Donald Trump to proceed at least temporarily with construction of his 90,000-square-foot, $400 million ballroom. The ballroom, which will be larger than the original mansion, is so gargantuan that the original curving road simply won’t fit. To make room for Trump’s entertaining and fundraising space, a large notch will be clawed out of the driveway, according to drawings released by Shalom Baranes Associates, the D.C.-based architecture firm overseeing one of the most unpopular projects of the president’s second term.

We’re still doing this? Still whining about the ballroom?

Trump is the most significant threat to the city’s architectural and design legacy since British forces burned the Capitol and White House during the War of 1812. He has already demolished the East Wing of the White House, which dates to the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He will replace it with a building that makes James Hoban’s neo-Classical executive mansion a mere appendage to a space meant to function like a hotel-convention-center-entertainment venue. He has proposed (but temporarily delayed) painting the next-door Eisenhower Executive Office Building a blinding shade of white, which preservation groups argue could irreversibly damage the stone facade.

He wants to build a 250-foot-tall memorial arch near the most hallowed ground in the country, Arlington National Cemetery. His “Independence Arch,” which he has said will honor himself personally, would dwarf the largest victory arches in the world, including the arch in Pyongyang, built in 1982 to honor North Korea’s murderous dictator, Kim Il Sung. Only Eero Saarinen’s slender ribbon of steel, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, would be taller. Although it would be built in a traffic circle on the Virginia side of the Potomac, the Trump arch would compete with some of the tallest buildings in Washington, including the Washington Monument and Washington National Cathedral, fundamentally altering a meticulously preserved skyline.

The president’s proposed “National Garden of American Heroes” would introduce a forest of quickly designed statues to the banks of the Potomac almost opposite the new triumphal arch. A sylvan space defined by monumental memorials to Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Jefferson would be cluttered, wax museum-style, with hundreds of stubby tributes to showbiz stars, folk heroes and sports celebrities.

I mean, personally, a lot of the things Trump is doing and has proposed are kinda stupid, but, good grief, the WP’s Philip Kennicott is going pure batguano insane on this. Is this article really necessary, especially being web front page and pretty high on placement? Maybe they could spend some time investigating graft and fraud and waste in the federal government? Crime in D.C.? And this is not a short piece. It’s long.

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Who Had Climate Cultists Linking Their Cult With March Madness On Their Bingo Card?

We’ve all seen the wackos links sports to climate doom, often specifically, but, this is the first time I’ve seen March Madness included, and it comes from doomy Warmist Marshall Shepherd, of course

Lessons From A March Madness Game About Climate Change

The Georgia Lady Bulldogs lost to the Virginia Cavaliers in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament on Saturday. The Iowa Hawkeyes, the home team, also beat the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights in the second game. Beyond the basketball game itself, something else caught my eye about the games yesterday. By the end of the Georgia -Virginia game, the court temperature was above 80 degrees Fahreheit. The commentators remarked several times about the heat, and it was clear that coaches, players, and fans were also impacted. There is a lesson in plain view from this game.

Is the lesson that perhaps the stadium in Iowa City should have some air conditioning if it going to host games at this time of year?

Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa does not have air conditioning, yet a heatwave gripping much of the United States sent temperatures into the eighties yesterday. Before you scoff at the fact that the arena does not have air conditioing, consider this. “Per U.S. Climate Data, the average temperature in Iowa City in March is 48 degrees,” reported CBS News. The same report went on to say, “It got up to 84 degrees on Saturday, which broke the city’s previous record high for March 21 of 78 degrees.”

Interesting, because the actual previous high temperature was 84F in 1938. Took 2 minutes to find that.

Iowa star Ava Heiden, who scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Hawkeyes to victory, downplayed the conditions.

“We practice in that gym in the summer in the full Carver heat, so I think we’re used to it for the most part,” Heiden said. “It was just a little early-summer feel for us.”

They’re athletes. Things are fine. But, it’s Still Your Fault.

BTW, how did all the teams travel there? And the broadcasters? All the fans?

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Liberal Heartache: ICE Will Start Being In Airports Starting Monday

Well, that was quick. I wonder if there were already plans to do this in motion before Trump said anything

Trump border advisor says ICE to deploy to U.S. airports Monday

What began as a social media post from President Trump on Saturday has grown quickly into a full-scale plan to deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports.

Amid a partial government shutdown, TSA lines have grown to be hours long at some U.S. airports, creating problems for travelers across the country. Call-out rates have started to increase at some airports, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said at least 376 TSA agents have quit since the partial shutdown began Feb. 14.

White House border advisor Tom Homan said that ICE plans to dispatch agents to airports as soon as Monday, and that he was working with other officials to determine where to send agents.

“It’s a work in progress,” Homan said during a Sunday appearance on CNN. “But we will be at the airports tomorrow helping TSA move those lines along.”

Homan stressed that ICE agents would provide support where possible, so that TSA staffers could better fulfill specialized positions.

Basically, ICE agents will be doing things like guarding exits, roving patrols, and other non-specialized duties that allows TSA to do the specialized duties like x-ray machines, scanners, reading IDs in screening, and so forth. Many ICE and other immigration agents have already been working in airports. Anyhow, Democrats are not taking this well, as you’d imagine

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a statement that read, “Masked, armed police at travel checkpoints is a hallmark of dystopian movies. Now, Donald Trump is threatening to bring this tool of fascism to America. He is manufacturing chaos at airports for political leverage and trying to force Democrats to accept unaccountable secret police at security checkpoints around the country.”

It’d be funny if ICE and any others simply wore TSA uniforms, or ones that said “Police”. If Bennie’s constituents weren’t unhinged, and violent, tools masks would not be a problem.

Also speaking to CNN on Sunday, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said, “The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or, in some instances, kill them. We’ve already seen how ICE conducts itself.”

It’s great how Democrats paint all ICE agents with one broad, demonizing brush, eh? I wonder if it’s possible to sue for defamation? Perhaps Democrats could simply vote to fund DHS, instead of trying to protect illegal aliens and get rid of ICE, border security, and so forth. What happens if this works and airports get back to normal? What then? Expect all sorts of wacko Democrats to show up at the airports who aren’t taking flights and be a nuisance.

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Happy Pollen Season!

Why don’t we have a national pollen month? I was talking to some new neighbors earlier, just moved down from New Hampshire. They wondered what was on fire. Yeah, no, that’s not smoke, that’s pollen. And it will continue for a while. Thought about washing the car, said, nah. What’s the point?

Anyhow, this is probably one the funniest replies I have seen today. Really didn’t expect that

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If All You See…

…is a horrible weapon of war that makes climate change worse, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline Blog, with a post on Maryland Man possibly being sent to Liberia.

It’s dresses week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another wonderful day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, a nice warm day today, and the squirrels are going nuts out there. I’m pretty sure this pinup is by AI, I added nothing.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Hot Air: The Shocking Implications of Iran Missile Attack on Diego Garcia – For Europe
  2. Wake Up America: And Then The World Changed: The Rise Of Alt-News Across The Internet Provokes The MSM To Lie Harder In The Face Of Better Narratives
  3. Virtual Mirage: Empire
  4. Victory Girls Blog: ICE Funded Until 2029, But Democrats Still Vote No On TSA Funding
  5. The Right Scoop: BREAKING: Trump issues MAJOR threat to Iran over Strait of Hormuz
  6. The Other McCain: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Cougar Crossing’ Is the Perfect Symbol of Californication
  7. The Last Refuge: Grassley Releases Evidence of Manipulated Political Targeting within Mueller Probe Via FBI Whistleblower Report
  8. The Gateway Pundit: Zohran Mamdani Angers People of Staten Island With Plans to Build All-Male Homeless Shelter in Residential Area
  9. Pacific Pundit: All the hypocrites whining about Trump’s reaction to Mueller’s death stayed silent while Democrats mocked Charlie Kirk
  10. Newsbusters: MS NOW’s Capehart Calls for 25th Amendment Talk After Trump’s Pearl Harbor JOKE
  11. neo-neocon: MeToo has come for Cesar Chavez, rather late in the game
  12. Moonbattery: Australian Prime Minister’s Mosque Visit Goes Awry
  13. Legal Insurrection: Intersectionality Ideology “anathema to learning and education” – LIF to US Civil Rights Commission
  14. Jihad Watch: Canadian Cops Arrest Man for Burning Iranian Flag
  15. And last, but, not least, IOTW Report has “Judicial Watch to Argue Case Fighting Late Ballot Counting Before SCOTUS”

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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Trump: Hey, Maybe I’ll Send ICE To Help Out TSA At Airports

Every problem has a solution, and, if Democrats want to keep playing games in refusing to fund DHS because they hate ICE and all immigration enforcement, well, Trump and his people will find solutions they never considered doing in Washington

Trump threatens to send ICE to airports amid DHS standoff

President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send federal immigration agents to airports across the country on Monday if Democrats don’t agree to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, now approaching five weeks.

“If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country,” he wrote.

“Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia” would be targeted with an especially firm hand, the president wrote on Truth Social.

“I look forward to moving ICE in on Monday, and have already told them to, ‘GET READY.’ NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!” he wrote in a separate Truth Social post on Saturday.

Obviously, this has caused a massive meltdown with the Democrat part, because, Orange Man Bad, and, really, Trump will do this. I really wouldn’t be surprised if ICE and other immigration officials started showing up at airports by Wednesday.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the Senate Appropriations Committee vice chair, mocked the plan.

“Oh yeah, I’m sure the next thing the American people want after long lines at TSA is to get wrongfully detained, beat up, and harassed by ICE,” Murray wrote in a post on X. “No blank check for ICE. We need reform & accountability. In the meantime, how about you tell Republicans to just vote to pay TSA.”

I love how Patty has denigrated everyone who works for ICE, and thinks they give a crap about detaining Americans. They’d prefer not to, except, the Democrat base loves to interfere with law enforcement.

(NY Times) Mr. Trump wrote that the ICE agents staffing airports would also conduct aggressive immigration operations, in what would be an escalation of immigration enforcement tactics for an agency already under scrutiny for what critics in both parties say is a heavy-handed approach.

The president said that their duties would also include “the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia,” continuing his attack on a population he has disparaged in defense of his contentious immigration operation in Minnesota. Two U.S. citizens protesting the operations were killed by federal agents.

Of course, they really wouldn’t necessarily have time to bust illegals if they’re helping get people through TSA checkpoints or doing other TSA things. But, the very threat of ICE being there to illegals would keep them away from airports.

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Oh, Noes, The US Likely Maybe Broke The March Heat Record

First, we haven’t gotten out of March. Second, you had the huge cold snap in March. Third, they were also blaming your for the February record cold and snow. Fourth, I though they said one area having weather is not ‘climate change’ and doesn’t matter in the grand scheme

The US broke the all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change

An unprecedented heat wave in the West broke the record for the hottest March temperature anywhere in the United States: 108 degrees. It’s an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

Yuma, Arizona, hit 109 degrees on Friday afternoon, which broke the national March record of 108 degrees set at Rio Grande City, Texas, in 1954 and 1902, according to a database of weather records from the National Weather Service and other networks.

The new record could be even hotter. The temperature near Martinez Lake, Arizona, hit 110 degrees on Thursday and 112 degrees on Friday, but it’s a temporary weather station that is not quality controlled, which calls into question its accuracy. The National Centers for Environment Information told CNN it does not validate or confirm monthly temperature records.

Wait, it was super hot in 1902?

An unusually strong and sprawling heat dome is the catalyst for the heat, but the magnitude is undoubtedly being worsened by planet-warming pollution. Heat waves are becoming more frequent, more severe and lasting longer as the world warms.

“Undoubtedly” = We’re guessing. Scaremongering.

Also

And if things are so bad then why

California OKs a lot of new freeway lanes during climate change-fueled heat wave

The California Transportation Commission approved billions in funding for car-centric projects this week during a record-breaking March heat wave in the state fueled by climate change.

Supporters of the decisions praised the commission for a taking “balanced” approach in the State Transportation Improvement Program and the State Highway Operation and Protection Program — awarding money to safety-enhancing and climate-friendly projects as well as highway projects. But transportation advocates lined up to protest their funding choices for not more urgently prioritizing road safety and climate change.

Huh.

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If All You See…

…are horrible carbon pollution made Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on Trump considering winding down Iran operations after almost all objectives met.

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