If All You See…

…is a horrible gas grill cooking Evil meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on today’s linky luv.

It’s obviously America week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in Returned America. The Sun is shining, the mockingbird is doing ducks in a tree, and the Dodgers are still #1 in the West. This pinup is by DietzDolls, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel: President Trump Threatens to “Complete the Job” with Iran
  2. Wake Up America: ‘I Am Not A Nutritionist’: GOP Rep Brandon Gill Presses ‘Expert’ On Why Taxpayers Need To Pay For Soda For People On SNAP
  3. The Right Scoop: BOOM VIDEO – JD Vance explains to Bill Maher why Trump immigration enforcement hasn’t gone too far
  4. The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Resolved: That the Government Has the Right to Regulate the Internet
  5. The Other McCain: The Last Ride of Da’Quain Johnson
  6. The Last Refuge: Barbara Boyd Outlines The DSA New York Communist Program
  7. The Gateway Pundit: Don Lemon Admits Trump Is a ‘Media Genius’ Who Played CNN Like a Fiddle
  8. The American Conservative: Self-Control Goes Off the Rails
  9. Pacific Pundit: Odds of the SAVE America Act becoming law this year surge (but still unlikely)
  10. neo-neocon: No wonder Brits here for the World Cup sometimes praise our air conditioning
  11. Moonbattery: Anti-American Enviromoonbattery From Useless Hollyweirdos
  12. Liberty’s Torch: Race War News
  13. Legal Insurrection: Asked to Cite a Single Obama Accomplishment, Visitors to His Presidential Center Come Up Empty
  14. Jihad Watch: A Muslim Police Officer Is Fighting a Language War in Britain
  15. And last, but, not least, IOTW Report has “SF trans march turns violent”

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?

As a sidebar, it’s wild how man blogs I’ve seen die over the years for different reasons.

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Huh: “California” Is Getting To Raise Health Insurance Tax

Democrats: “How dare Republicans allow a subsidy lapse for the Ocare market! Health insurance is too much!”

Also Democrats:

California is getting ready to increase a health insurance tax. Will it affect your premium?

Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón, a Santa Barbara Democrat, told reporters earlier this week that there was no perfect plan for redesigning the tax and that the Senate still has concerns, but the proposal they voted through is one that would bring in money quickly.

“We have as a Senate been very clear that we needed revenue … it was a matter of making a decision which we could troubleshoot given what is happening at the federal level,” Limón said.

As part of the tax and spending law Congress passed last summer, the federal government imposed new restrictions on provider taxes, including the one imposed on health plans. Under existing rules, California received almost $8 billion annually from this tax; the new limits mean the state will receive billions less. The Legislature’s plan tries to fill at least some of that gap.

The plan does not directly raise health insurance premiums. Instead it imposes a higher tax on private plans, which have said they’d pass the cost down to consumers.

By “California” the LA Times means “Democrats”, who run the People’s Republic Of California general assembly with an iron fist. They can pretty much do whatever they want. And what they want is to tax the hell out of people who have health insurance.

The proposal would require all health plans, both public and private, to pay a monthly rate of $8.85 per enrollee — a total cost of about $1.5 billion a year for private plans. If health plans pass the entire tax to their members, Californians could see about a 1.5% increase in their monthly premiums, according to the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office. That’s on top of the yearly premium rate increases that people see year to year.

Doesn’t seem like a lot, but, health insurance costs are sky high in the PRC, along with everything else. And don’t forget they high cost of deductibles and how the availability of actual care is limited because of all the illegals in California

The California Assn. of Health Plans, the health insurance lobby, estimates this would translate to consumers paying about $100 more in premiums each year. That means a family of four could be looking at $400 more a year in health premiums.

Democrats will say “it’s just $400, no biggie”, because all these people making the laws are rich and/or get lots of graft money. Hey, maybe if California wasn’t spending $9.5 billion a year on healthcare for illegals it wouldn’t be an issue.

Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson, a San Diego Democrat, said she found the tax plan “extremely problematic” as she questioned the administration during a hearing Wednesday. “I am very uncomfortable with this proposal and the economic burden it will have on the families I serve as a senator but also a physician.” She voted for the measure on Thursday.

So, of course she voted against….wait, what? She voted for it? Kinda the way it goes with Democrats. They express concern, then vote to screw the peasants.

I wonder if California will throw even more subsidies to illegals?

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City Of Cary, NC Increases Taxes To Pay For Government Incompetence

And no one seems to be asking relevant questions like

  • “Why don’t you tighten your belt?”
  • “How about spending the forcibly taken citizen money responsibly?”
  • “How about an independent audit on previous spending?”

These are questions that the Credentialed Media should be asking, and asking hard, rather than writing a rather sanitized article

‘Breach of trust’: Town of Cary mayor blames former town manager for 2026-2027 fiscal year budget make up

On Thursday, the Town of Cary approved the 2026-2027 fiscal year budget at $579 million.

This budget is a 12.2% increase compared to last year’s budget and $6 million more than the recommended budget set in May.

Mayor Harold Weinbrecht said the town is playing catch up after the former town manager’s alleged misuse of funds.

“I mention the breach of trust because that’s the context in which this budget was developed,” Weinbrecht said.

A criminal investigation was opened by the Wake County DA in January into former town manager Sean Stegall’s actions, but, so far, nothing has come of it

Stegall is accused of allocating money for luxury hotel rooms, two land deals totaling more than a million dollars, and tens of thousands of dollars towards a master’s degree for Mayor Pro Tem Lori Bush, who later reimbursed the town.

So, why does that require $6 million more?

Weinbrecht said the Cary Police Department is understaffed by 89 officers, and Cary Fire response times are increasing as the town grows.

What were the mayor and town council doing when this was occurring?

Cary residents will see an 8% tax increase set at 2.75 cents (this is for property owners, hitting them up)

Doesn’t seem like much, but, it all adds up

The budget also includes 55 new Town of Cary jobs, including a budget director and two audit focused finance positions to create more transparency and accountability into the towns finances.

CBS17 asked the Town of Cary what those roles will consist of and what the base salary is for the position, but we were told the town could not address those questions.

Other than 3 mentioned specifically, what are the other jobs? Per WRAL, there will supposedly be a bunch of money to hire dozens of police, fire, and 911 workers. If you or I overspent, did stupid things, who do we go to and forcibly take money from? It just goes to show that even at the local level government is insane.

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If All You See…

…is a field perfect to be taken by government for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is GeeeZ…, with a post on crazy Gavin Newson’s taxing the rich.

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California State Workers Freaking Out Over Return To Work Mandate

I’m actually on Gavin Newsom’s side here, though, good grief, it’s halfway through 2026, and a return to work mandate is kicking in now?

Gavin Newsom’s delivers brutal message to workers fighting July 1 return to office mandate

Gov. Gavin Newsom is barreling ahead with forcing California state workers back to the office, flatly rejecting calls to soften a return-to-work mandate that unions warn could trigger a “mass exodus” of employees.

Starting July 1, roughly 100,000 state workers will be required to report to the office or the field four days a week, leaving just one day for telework under Newsom’s long-delayed executive order.

Despite mounting backlash from organized labor and state employees, the governor made it clear there will be no retreat.

Asked directly whether he’d consider easing the four-day in-office requirement, Newsom didn’t blink.

“No chance.”

He doubled down moments later, on a call with KCRA saying, “It’s ridiculous, four days a week.”

ZOMG, 4 days a week! How horrible to have to go into the office you were hired to work at! Let’s be honest, most of the jobs are Theater Kids jobs, no real work required and no accountability, does the People’s Republic Of California actually need them? Would PRC residents be better off without them?

The showdown is already escalating with SEIU Local 1000, the state’s largest employee union, which has warned the mandate could spark a wave of departures if enforced.

Union leadership argues workers have successfully kept state government running under hybrid schedules since the pandemic and see no justification for the stricter requirement.

Yeah, they’ve done a bang-up job, what with all those people Escaping CA.

I don’t think it’s particularly helpful to take part in a remote work event at the beach, either for the current job or for future jobs. There are multiple photos of people at the event. No one really thinks they are actually working except for the photos, right? It’s hilarious the situations that Democrats and their voters manufacture, eh?

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Your Fault: European Heat Wave Impossible Without ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

This piece of cult propaganda is all over the Credentialed Cult Media, many using this AP article, some writing their own like the NY Times and UK Guardian. They’re all apoplectic and doomy

Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say

The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would not have been possible without climate change, according to a new study.

The World Weather Attribution rapid study released Friday found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.

Millions in France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe are experiencing extreme temperatures and humidity this week associated with a heat dome. Daytime temperatures have topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in many places, while high nighttime temperatures have also made it harder to cool down and recover.

The scientists estimated that a heat wave with similar characteristics occurring in the climate of June 1976 would have been about 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 Fahrenheit) cooler during the day and about 2 degrees Celsius cooler (3.6 Fahrenheit) in 2003. The nighttime temperatures would have been about 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 Fahrenheit) cooler in June 1976 and about 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 Fahrenheit) cooler in 2003.

Back in 1976, when the media was worried about a coming ice age? Say, can they compare this to things that happened during previous Holocene warm periods? Without that knowledge and direct observation this is all just cultist claptrap.

Oh, and, of course, because they are running this it means that the weather in Europe will soon be cool, like when they yap about permanent drought and the weather soon turns wet (and then they also blame ‘climate change’).

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Washington Post Super Upset Over Loss Of Employees For Nursing Homes, Factories

The two AWFLs writing this screed, Maria Sacchetti and Lauren Kaori Gurley, miss the obvious conclusion that if a business depends on labor from illegals, fake asylum seekers, and TPSers who can be booted at any time they’re bad at it

Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling

Immigrants began making plans to sell or rent their homes, secure bank accounts and figure out thorny issues like child custody arrangements. Business owners started calculating how many days they can continue to employ workers whose legal status is set to expire. And nursing home leaders warned they would have fewer beds to offer if health aides are forced to leave the country.

Panic rippled through communities from Florida to Ohio and beyond in the hours after the Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration Thursday to strip humanitarian protections from Haitians and Syrians — and potentially all 1.3 million immigrants from over a dozen countries who had been previously shielded from deportation.

“The residents will be losing caregivers that they really have become attached to,” said Colin O’Leary, executive director at Laurel Ridge Rehabilitation & Skilled Care Center in Boston. Managers at the facility were racing to figure out how much longer staff members from Haiti with temporary protected status could continue taking care of patients. “That’s a lot for our residents to handle.”

Attorneys said Haitians and Syrians could lose work permits in little more than a month, but the deadline remained unclear because lower court judges must issue orders to implement the decision. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, told reporters Thursday that Haitians and others with temporary protected status should be detained and deported once they lose the benefit.

It’s always some sort sob story with these people, always forgetting that the law is, in fact, the law. It should mostly be devoid of emotion. But, um, hey, what’s this claptrap about “lower court judges”? The Mullin v. Doe ruling pretty much said the lower courts need to stay the hell out of it: Congress gave the Executive the power to grant TPS and cancel it, and courts have nothing to do with it.

Some of those immigrants have lived in the United States for decades and said they feared being sent back to conflict-ridden homelands that they barely know and whose languages some do not speak.

And that is a problem, because the T stands for temporary.

Harlaine, 38, a registered nurse in Florida, said she hasn’t been to Haiti since she left for the U.S. at age 7 and had never visited because everyone told her it was too dangerous. She spoke on condition that only her first name be used because she fears being targeted by immigration authorities.

She’s been here 31 years and hasn’t attempted to get citizenship? Or even Permanent Resident status?

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, characterized the decision as “a mistake” and said it is too dangerous to deport people to Haiti, including the more than 10,000 Haitians living and working legally in his state. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) vowed to fight the ruling, even as the path to challenging it is unclear.

Yes, let’s bring in all these people who are dangerous.

“I’m telling you it’s going to cripple our health care system,” Hochul told reporters. “Who’s going to show up tomorrow to take care of grandma? Who’s doing that? Who’s stepping up?”

And here’s the thing, Democrats have been telling the kiddies that they should get highfalutin degrees, ones which sound great but have little value in the real world, that jobs like caretakers and nurses and such are beneath them (even though they can earn some good damned money). They tell even those Dem voter kiddies of lower status that jobs working with your hands are for chumps, so, they rack of tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt for garbage degrees that let them feel Entitled. Because all the imports will do them.

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Venezuela And Japan Have Big Earthquakes, Climate Wackos come out

This one is pretty unhinged

Her glasses, clothes, belt, nail polish, phone she’s taking the video with, etc, are all made of petroleum. More below the fold

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If All You See…

…is a sea turning rough from fossil fueled boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Supreme Court striking down Hawaii law restricting concealed carry.

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