Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 24, 2020 – 9:36 am

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in the great nation of America. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the nation is slowly reopening. This pinup is by Edward Runci, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That covers wind farms paid to turn themselves off
  2. No Tricks Zone discusses Mexico moving away from “renewables”
  3. Weasel Zippers notes that Alyssa Milano’s mask says everything about the Left
  4. This Ain’t Hell... covers Detroit nursing home abuse
  5. Theodore’s World highlights Trump calling houses of worship essential
  6. The Right Scoop notes a big reason why that dam failed the other day
  7. The Lid notes Biden being Jim Crow Joe yet again
  8. Raised On Hoecakes discusses opening for business and the ADA
  9. Powerline wonders if we’ve found the beginnings of Crossfire Hurricane
  10. Political Clown Parade has the Plantation Joe edition
  11. Pacific Pundit notes despot Gretchen Whitmer heading off to her summer home, citizens not allowed to do same
  12. neo-neocon notes that Trump was right yet again
  13. Moonbattery wonders if COVID-19 tyranny will turn California red
  14. Maggie’s Farm covers the other victims of lockdown
  15. And last, but not least, Legal Insurrection notes Texas’ governor wanting college football back this fall

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). 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.

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?

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LA Times: Biden Is Right That Black People Ain’t Black If They Vote For Trump

By William Teach May 24, 2020 – 8:05 am

Most of the liberal media have already put Joe’s racist comment behind them, something that would not have happened had a Republican said it. We’d be treated to straight news, opinion pieces, and investigative pieces non-stop. Instead, the NY Times’ only piece on racism is yammering about 10 U.S. bases named after Confederate leaders. Not a thing on Biden. Washington Post has a lonely article on how it all unfolded, which seems more of a “Republicans Pounce!” article. Barely anything anywhere. So, here’s Carla Hall

Opinion: Biden says if you’re black and don’t vote for him, you’re not black. He’s right

When the popular black radio host Charlamagne tha God told Joe Biden at the end of a spirited but friendly interview that he needed to come back on his show because “We got more questions,” Biden shot back:

“You got more questions. If you have a problem figuring out if you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

Good one, Joe.

As ridiculous as it was to say that to a black radio and TV personality who, among other things, wrote a book he calls a “self-help guide for the hood,” here’s the thing: Biden was right. He just didn’t have the right to say it.

Why not? If it’s true, say it. Or is it that Carla Hall enjoys her black brethren under the thumb of government?

Charlamagne was right to remind Biden on his show, “The Breakfast Club,” that Democrats take black voters for granted. That’s true. The Democratic Party has a history of assuming: Who else will black people vote for? And the Republican Party often acts as if it lost black folks from the get-go.

When Trump declared in 2016 at a political rally that black voters should choose him, asking them what did they have to lose, what had the Democratic Party done for them? I marveled, “Nice try.” But at the same time, it was preposterous. The New York Times documented a history of racial bias decades ago at rental properties owned by Trump and his father.

Yet, black unemployment has drastically decreased and business opportunities have skyrocketed. The rise of racist attitudes from blacks and whites while Obama was president has dropped. Home ownership for blacks has increased. More blacks are getting out of poverty under Trump.

Biden and the Democratic Party are a better choice than Trump and the Republican Party. It’s as simple and sometimes depressing as that. And not voting at all is dangerous. It only ups the possibility that Trump wins. Republicans vote, they don’t stay home. Even in a quarantine.

The interesting part is that Carla fails to mention one reason in the entire piece as to why blacks should vote Democrat. You’d think that would be an important part. What, exactly, has the Democratic Party given blacks? Instead of having obvious Jim Crow and segregation laws from Dems, now they give them government benefits and want them living in squalid slums in big cities run by Democrats, where the education system is poor, violence is rampant, and there is a sense of hopelessness, passing from generation to generation. Well, those that don’t abort their babies, which Dems advocate for, especially for blacks. And the family unit is destroyed, thanks to Dems.

So, other than treating blacks as chattel, what do the Dems offer? Why take a chance on voting for Trump when the Democratic plantation system works so well?

John James: Hey, Joe Biden, I’m black enough to think for myself

The Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted for decades, but on Friday former Vice President Joe Biden took this view to a new and very hurtful level. During a morning interview on a popular urban radio show, “The Breakfast Club,” Biden said: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, you ain’t black.”

In civil discourse, we must be able to disagree and to make our case without reducing American voters to the color of their skin. Biden’s statement is the epitome of arrogance and condescension. He challenged millions of black Americans – the descendants of slaves – to choose between our right to think for ourselves and our identities.

Biden backpedaled on his offensive comment later in the day after he got a well-deserved torrent of criticism. “I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy …. No one should have to vote for any party based on their race or religion or background,” he said in a desperate effort at damage control.

Biden didn’t walk back his comments because he thinks his remarks were wrong. It’s clear he thinks he knows what’s best for black people: dependence on and lockstep obedience to the liberal agenda and power preservation.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise to swamp all the land because Other People ordered stuff from Amazon, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Brass Pills, with a post on a professor winning a big lawsuit over a false rape accusation.

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We Need To Heed Bat Soup Viruses Warning Of “Climate Apartheid” Or Something

By William Teach May 23, 2020 – 11:42 am

The funny part of this new talking point is that it blames rich Democratic Party voters

We Need to Heed COVID-19’s Warning of “Climate Apartheid”

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Just last week, The New York Times released shocking data about the number of New Yorkers who have fled the city as the COVID-19 pandemic struck. According to the data collected, the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods have emptied out the most and emptied out the fastest over the last few months. In the Times’ coverage, professor Andy Horowitz characterized such flight as “an instinctive reaction.” Yet while everyone may feel the instinct to flee, not everyone can afford to do so when disaster hits. As the data makes clear, many of those who can afford to run away from the storm do so without hesitation, while those who cannot are left behind to weather it with no choice in the matter.

The gulf between those who can flee and those who cannot in the midst of the pandemic gives us only a small taste of what “climate apartheid” may look like in the decades to come. As the climate crisis accelerates, inundating coastal areas from Red Hook, Brooklyn to the Rockaways, Queens and beyond, it is the poor and marginalized who will be hit the hardest and hit first. But in one way or another, all of us will ultimately suffer the consequences of a fossil fuel-dependent system not built to withstand the damage to our planet and our homes that it produces. This stark reality is not unique to New York. Instead, it is emblematic of what cities and towns across the country and world may face as soon as 2030.

So, wait, is Ilana Cohen saying that rich Democrats will abandon their liberal strongholds leaving the poor behind to suffer? Huh.

There’s much more climafear mongering, all the normal kinds if idiocy you expect, but, consider: we have a time offered of 2030. When this doesn’t come to pass in just 10 years, what will the Cult of Climastrology then say? Oh, right, “may face as soon as.” They’ll just scaremonger than it is still coming. Cult.

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Cult Of Climastrology Now Recommends Adding ‘Climate Change’ To Death Certificates

By William Teach May 23, 2020 – 7:20 am

This is your fault for having that steak the other night and taking a long shower. A little birdie told me you ordered a face mask which means lots of road miles instead of making one yourself

‘Climate change should be added to death certificates’

Heat-related deaths have been underreported on Australia’s national records, according to experts from The Australian National University (ANU).

Researchers suggest the amount of deaths attributed to climate change is at least 50 times more than recorded on death certificates.

Published in Lancet Planetary Health, figures show over the past 11 years, 340 deaths in Australia were recorded as being due to excessive heat, but the statistical analysis found the real figure could be as high as 36,765 deaths.

Dr Arnagretta Hunter, from the ANU Medical School, said: “Climate change is a killer, but we don’t acknowledge it on death certificates.

“If you have an asthma attack and die during heavy smoke exposure from bushfires, the death certificate should include that information.

“We can make a diagnosis of disease like coronavirus, but we are less literate in environmental determinants like hot weather or bushfire smoke. Climate change is the single greatest health threat that we face globally even after we recover from coronavirus.”

In other words, they made up the information out of thin air using a statistical study, much like they did for the Iraq War, claiming 650,000 civilians had been killed by 2006, something The Conversation generously called “fudged numbers.” The Lancet study couldn’t even explain the basic elements of methodology.

However, the veracity of this Hotcoldwetdry deaths study is immaterial, just like the Iraq War one, because it is all about creating a narrative. It would probably be better to put “liberal policies” as a cause of death on the certificates. People have always died from the weather, there’s no need to assign witchcraft to it.

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Exercises In News Bias: Senate On Weekend Break And Biden’s “You Ain’t Black”

By William Teach May 23, 2020 – 7:07 am

Let’s start with the NY Times editorial board, which has forgotten some important information

With Unemployment Expected to Reach 20%, Senators Take a Vacation
Facing a calamity on par with the Great Depression, they left without a new relief package in place.

After three weeks in session, the United States Senate emptied out again on Friday, as lawmakers fled Washington for the Memorial Day recess. They left without even pretending to tackle the next round of coronavirus relief.

This is how the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, wants it. Many Republicans, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, are reluctant to embrace more government spending, so Mr. McConnell is taking a wait-and-see approach.

The Democratic-led House passed a $3 trillion relief package on May 15. That bill was imperfect but it was something. Mr. McConnell, on the other hand, has repeatedly said he’s in no hurry for the Senate to offer its own proposal. He has put talks on an indefinite pause, saying he wants to see how the economy responds to previous relief measures. The Senate may get around to putting together a plan when it reconvenes next month. Or perhaps it will in July.

Hmm, that would be the $3 trillion package which has zero chance of going anywhere, and was also passed while, get this, the House was essentially out, and has been out since mid-April. Both chambers took a break to self quarantine, but only the Senate came back. The House has only a couple members in the chamber to technically be in session, and voted on their insane bill remotely. They still aren’t back. So, big whoop, the Senate is gone for a couple days. The NYTEB never said word one about the House being out.

And, when it comes to Joe Biden, the Times had one, small piece which initially said that it “prompts outcry”, you know, Republicans pounce, and now discusses him “apologizing”. No opinion pieces, though. Imagine a Republican saying “you ain’t black”.

CNN downplays Biden’s ‘you ain’t black’ comments, avoids on-air coverage throughout the day

CNN, which often dedicates wall-to-wall coverage for any latest controversy from President Trump, virtually avoided covering Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” remarks Friday morning that sparked backlash throughout the day.

The presumptive Democrat nominee sparked a firestorm on Friday during an interview with Charlamagne tha God on the radio show “The Breakfast Club” as he defended his record with the black community.

“I tell you if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” Biden said.

Later in the afternoon, Biden walked back those remarks during a conversation with black business leaders, stopping short of a full apology.

Most outlets barely touched it. The Washington Post had a small, low on the page article which was as straightforward as you get and one lone op-ed, which defends the comment as a joke. Again, if a Republican had said something like that they would be excoriated. For days. Racist or not, it shows that Democrats think they own blacks and the black vote.

And just wait till Trump brings this up during the general election. You know he will. The media firefighters will look to rally the wagons around Joe, calling Trump the racist for bringing up Joe’s comment.

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Bat Soup Virus Is An Alarm Bell For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach May 22, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Oh, you thought the Cult of Climastrology would eventually give up on their linking of the two? Silly you. They never give up on a meme

COVID-19 is alarm bell for climate change, more outbreaks may follow: science historian

COVID-19 could well be nature’s warning against climate change because microbes are the first to ring an alarm and this could just be the first wave of the pandemic with bigger outbreaks likely to follow, according to science historian Rohit Gupta.

“Nobody in India seems to be concerned that a much larger problem is at hand: climate change. Isn’t it odd that the only thing helping us reduce carbon emissions globally — at the time we need that the most — is the coronavirus? What if this crisis is nature’s blessing in disguise?” Mr. Gupta, who graduated from IIT Kharagpur in chemical engineering and distinguished himself as a historian of science and mathematics, told The Hindu. (snip)

“Studies published in various journals, including one in Nature titled Scientists’ Warning to Humanity (2019), have emphasised the role microbes play in the emission and removal of greenhouse gases. So we can expect that if nature wants to warn us, it will do so through a micro-organism,” he said.

According to him, the current pandemic is not the real threat but simply a foreshadow of what is coming. “There are people worrying about the economy when they should actually be scared about ongoing mass extinctions of an entire spectrum of species that evolved much before us and helped humanity thrive,” he said.

He said humankind should abandon its obsession with speed and if it wants to save the planet, should go back to pre-industrial modes of transport when and if travel becomes possible again. “There is no reason to believe that the current crisis will ebb anytime soon. And when it does, things will be far from normal. Nature has pulled the rug from under our feet,” he said.

Everyone should go back to walking and riding horses or something. These people.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 22, 2020 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on those new gun laws in New Zealand.

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Whomever Biden Picks For VP Will Be A “Karen”

By William Teach May 22, 2020 – 10:30 am

Wait, are we allowed to call people a “Karen” nowadays? Isn’t that mean and racist or something? Technically, wouldn’t they all be Susans, except for Fauxahontas?

No Matter Who Biden Picks, His Running Mate Will Be A ‘Karen’

We’re still at least a month away from Joe Biden announcing who his running mate will be for the 2020 election. It’s hard to tell which way he’s leaning, but no matter who he chooses, it will be “Karen.”

Applying “Karen” as a pejorative is not as fresh as it might seem. Some uses of the name to describe a spiteful, unpleasant woman go back maybe as far as three decades. But the name has been more widely used as a cultural meme in recent months.

With apologies to those named Karen but aren’t “Karens,” a “Karen” in 2020 is, “an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman,” says dictionary.com. Wikipedia says a Karen “displays aggressive behavior when she is obstructed from getting her way.” She often wants to “speak to the manager” because it’s her nature to complain, hector, and rage. During the pandemic, we’ve seen Karens all over, screeching and nagging about masks, social distancing (both for and against it and on occasion taking both sides simultaneously), and any conduct she doesn’t agree with.

A Karen is a tattletale and a snob, mean girl who got older but didn’t grow up. And her defining traits, bullying, a desire to subjugate others, and rank hypocrisy, fit snugly with progressive-left politics.

The I&I editorial goes on to note the Karen-ness of the possible Biden running mates, such as

Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Maybe the most Karen of them all. Given the pulpit of a vice presidential candidate, and, Heaven help us, possibly the soapbox of the vice presidency, she will constantly howl about economic inequality, Wall Street, profit, and just about any principle that has made America the exceptional nation it is.

“She is a nag. A scold. An ideologue,” law professor Michael Greve wrote in 2012 when Warren was running for U.S. senator in Massachusetts. “An advocate of a nanny state beyond a Swedish socialist’s wildest imagination. A bureaucratic Bruegel who paints an America of victims — pathetic figures in a landscape of unremitting hostility. Also, professor Warren is an economic idiot.”

And Kamala Harris

“As California attorney general, she and her staff fought to uphold wrongful convictions and prevent potentially exculpatory evidence from coming to light (as has been well documented),” the Washington Monthly reported last year.

And while she “sells herself as a girl from Oakland who grew up to fight powerful interests,” it’s been revealed “that Harris relied on San Francisco elites and cushy appointments from her then boyfriend, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, to power her political rise.”

Also discusses are Amy Klobutcher and Gretchen Whitmer. What about the other potentials? Could Stacey Abrams be a “Karen”?

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Here We Go: Michigan Dam Failures Linked To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 22, 2020 – 7:06 am

Well, of course it was. This is what a cult does, make everything fit into their cultish beliefs

‘Expect More’: Climate Change Raises Risk of Dam Failures

The dam that failed in Central Michigan on Tuesday gave way for the same reason most do: It was overwhelmed by water. Almost five inches of rain fell in the area in the previous two days, after earlier storms had saturated the ground and swollen the Tittabawassee River, which the dam held back.

No one can say yet whether the intense rainfall that preceded this disaster was made worse by climate change. But global warming is already causing some regions to become wetter, and increasing the frequency of extreme storms, according to the latest National Climate Assessment. The trends are expected to continue as the world gets even warmer.

No one can say it, but the Warmists at the NY Times will give it a shot

That puts more of the nation’s 91,500 dams at risk of failing, engineers and dam safety experts said.

“We should expect more of these down the road,” said Amir AghaKouchak, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California, Irvine. “It’s unfortunate but this is what the trend is going to be.”

Overall, he and others say, dams in the United States and elsewhere are unprepared for the changes coming in a warming world.

ZOMG!

The dam, at Edenville Township, about 30 miles upstream from Midland, had severe design problems: It had been cited for having spillways that were inadequate to handle a maximum flood, whether affected by climate change or not. (A second dam at Sanford, 10 miles downstream, was overrun by the arriving floodwaters but did not collapse.)

Oh, so, the dam had serious issues?

As Breitbart News reported, federal authorities revoked the license of the private company that owns the Edenville Dam in 2018 due to fears the dam could not withstand heavy floods, and the company’s failure to expand the spillway.

But as Karen Drew and Derick Hutchinson of WDIV channel 4 reported Wednesday evening, the State of Michigan failed to take corrective action once it assumed greater responsibility for oversight of the dam in October 2018:

Excitable Gretchen is also blaming ‘climate change’, rather than the failure of her administration to properly fix the dam. Back to the Times

The average age of dams in the United States is nearly 60. And nationwide, about 15,500 are classified as having a high hazard potential; in Michigan, more than 170 dams are in that category, as was the Edenville Dam. Repairing and upgrading high-hazard dams alone could cost tens of billions of dollars.

So, bad dams, but, hey, it’s got to really be about you eating burgers and driving a fossil fueled vehicle

And there is little doubt that extreme rainfall events are getting more frequent. The fourth National Climate Assessment, issued in 2018, showed that the number of heavy precipitation two-day events has increased in all regions except the Southwest since the early 1900s. And since 1950, extreme events increased by more than 50 percent in the Midwest.

But Bill McCormick, who is in charge of dam safety for the state of Colorado and is the incoming president of the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, said short-duration extreme precipitation wasn’t the only problem.

Rainfall of longer duration but less intensity — an overall wetter climate, which climate models forecast for parts of the United States in coming decades — can contribute to the risk.

None of that proves anthropogenic causation. Also, consider that when those dams were built there was a lot less human construction in terms of roads and buildings, and more trees and land which took up the water. But, hey, the Cult always goes with witchcraft as their excuse.

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