Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 22, 2020 – 9:15 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! A strange day in America, but, it’s always better to be in America than anywhere else. The rain has knocked down some of the pollen (I’m allergic to oak and grass, so, looks like I have Corona, when it is just allergies), the mockingbirds are singing the song of other birds and frogs and stuff, and we will get through this. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is going on in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. I’ll give Gateway Pundit a rare link, with a post noting the Washington Post pushing for no one to cover Trump’s press conferences
  2. Hot Air covers Maryland Democrats killing a gun bill that would punish criminals
  3. Adrienne’s Corner covers Rachel Maddow calling for Trump to be kept off TV
  4. Blazing Cat Fur features class warfare in the Hamptons
  5. Blogs For Victory has some lockdown thoughts
  6. Bustednuckles notes how many people could be on lockdown worldwide
  7. Chicks On The Right covers NY advising people on how to have safe corona sex
  8. Climate Depot discussing the risks of contracting mass hysteria
  9. Real Climate Science highlights Dems setting their priorities, which is ‘climate change’
  10. Not A Lot Of People Know That notes the UK’s biggest solar farm being a risk to public health
  11. Datechguy’s Blog discusses the expectations for the Tom Brady Tamp Bay Bucs
  12. Diogenes’ Middle Finger covers Sleepy Joe Biden doing Mystery Science Theater on Trump’s press conferences
  13. Gates Of Vienna notes that jihad doesn’t stop in the time of Wuhan
  14. Geller Report News covers Democrats opposing all the travel bans that are now being put in place worldwide
  15. And last, but not least, IOTW Report highlights the fear factor.

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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Latest Fearmongering: DOJ Wants To Suspend All Sorts Of Constitutional Rights

By William Teach March 22, 2020 – 7:59 am

The Coronavirus fearmongering has obviously been flying around for weeks. We keep getting all the “Trump’s shutting down the nation for (X) long!!!!!!!”. No one ever actually has a named source, but, they keep having to knock this down, like

Where are the sources for these things? And the media itself isn’t helping. Here’s Rolling Stone, which used to be about music, taking a Politico screed to an even higher Moonbat level

DOJ Wants to Suspend Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency

The Trump Department of Justice has asked Congress to craft legislation allowing chief judges to indefinitely hold people without trial and suspend other constitutionally-protected rights during coronavirus and other emergencies, according to a report by Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan.

While the asks from the Department of Justice will likely not come to fruition with a Democratically-controlled House of Representatives, they demonstrate how much this White House has a frightening disregard for rights enumerated in the Constitution.

First, if you read that Politico article, they offer zero sources nor do they show us these “documents” to decide for ourselves.

The DOJ has requested Congress allow any chief judge of a district court to pause court proceedings “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation,” according to draft language obtained by Politico. This would be applicable to “any statutes or rules of procedure otherwise affecting pre-arrest, post-arrest, pre-trial, trial, and post-trial procedures in criminal and juvenile proceedings and all civil processes and proceedings.” They justify this by saying currently judges can pause judicial proceedings in an emergency but that new legislation would allow them to apply it “in a consistent manner.”

Wait, so they can already do this, but the DOJ (if the documents are real) want this done in a consistent manner? How horrible! Here’s where it gets fun

But the Constitution grants citizens habeas corpus which gives arrestees the right to appear in front of a judge and ask to be released before trial. Enacting legislation like the DOJ wants would essentially suspend habeas corpus indefinitely until the emergency ended. Further, DOJ asked Congress to suspend the statute of limitations on criminal investigations and civil proceedings during the emergency until a year after it ended.

Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, told Politico the measure was “terrifying,” saying, “Not only would it be a violation of [habeas corpus], but it says ‘affecting pre-arrest.’ So that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. I find it absolutely terrifying. Especially in a time of emergency, we should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.”

“That is something that should not happen in a democracy,” he added.

Hmm, suddenly Liberals, OK, Modern Socialists, find it terrifying to grant Government new powers. Welcome to Conservatism, folks!

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NC Deputies Find Stolen Truck With 18,000 Pounds Of Toilet Paper

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 3:59 pm

Yup

Some serious sh*t was going down

(NPR) On Wednesday, deputies from the Guilford County Sheriff’s office in North Carolina said they came across the 18-wheel tractor trailer as it was traveling on Interstate 40 in Whitsett.

It is unclear why they decided to follow the vehicle, but deputies said the excursion paid off. They followed the truck to a warehouse/dock facility near the interstate.

“After further investigation, it was determined the 53′ foot Hyundai dry-van trailer was reported stolen locally and was being utilized to transport nearly 18,000 pounds of commercial, bathroom paper products,” the department said.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a mask needed to stave off carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post wondering if the media should stick to actual news.

Doubleshot of relevance below the fold, so, check out The Feral Irishman, with some LOLZ from the Ethernets.

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Say, Could A Runaway Greenhouse Effect Turn Earth Into Venus?

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

Doomsday cultists gotta doomsday cultist. It’s all about attempting to scare people into giving up their money and freedom to Government

A runaway greenhouse effect turned Venus into ‘hell.’ Could the same thing happen here?

Is there a temperature rise number that will result in a runaway greenhouse effect sending the Earth towards the fate of Venus?

— Richard, New Boston NH

Once upon a time, around small yellow sun, there existed a world with a rocky surface and a molten core. It harbored water and may even have been hospitable to life.

Then the planet got hot — really hot. Its atmosphere filled with heat-trapping gases. Water evaporated into its atmosphere and then was lost to space. Whatever mechanisms the planet may have had for balancing its climate were broken. Nothing, not even a robot, could survive there.

That would be Venus, which is much closer to the Sun, rather than being in the “Goldilocks zone“.

Human-driven climate change will never get quite as bad as that, said Giada Arney, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. But the story of Venus’s transformation from potentially Earth-like planet to the “closest thing to hell in our solar system,” she said, holds important lessons for people navigating a warming world.

Climate change is a much more immediate concern. Much the way a warming sun broke Venus’s temperature control system, humans have disrupted Earth’s natural cycle by burning fossil fuels, scientists agree. The buried carbon of ancient organisms that would otherwise have stayed locked up beneath Earth’s surface is now being released release at least 60 times as fast as it would under as natural processes. The planet is heating up at a rate of about 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit per decade –faster than any known change over the past 4.6 billion years.

Good grief. They have no direct observations of this assertion.

We’re unlikely to see our planet become Venus anytime soon, Byrne said, even if we burned every gallon of oil and ounce of coal currently in the ground. Earth’s average temperature would have to rise by dozens of degrees Fahrenheit to trigger a runaway greenhouse effect, and the worst climate change scenarios don’t project warming greater than 8.1 degrees by the end of the century.

“But I think it’s certainly worth us being humble,” Byrne said. “Planetary systems are kept in a very fine balance … and it’s important for humans to realize it doesn’t take very much to tip the balance and really fundamentally change things.”

Hogwash. Utter unhinged hysterics. Anyhow, the answer to the headline question is “no”. But, you should still give up your money and freedom to be “humble”.

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Wuhan Virus Gives Us A Dose Of Reality About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

Green Biz’s Joel Makower attempts to make a point about this, but, unintentionally makes a different point

COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality

It’s too early to tell whether COVID-19 is linked in any way to the climate crisis. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t; we’ll likely never know for certain. Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world.

In the immortal words of the ‘70s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. The Pentagon, for example, started raising concern back in 2003 in an independent study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Defense. It warned that “As famine, disease and weather-related disasters strike due to the abrupt climate change, many countries’ needs will exceed their carrying capacity.”

See, we don’t know if Wuhan has any link at all to ‘climate change’, and most likely has none, because it seemed to have everything to do with there always having been viruses and people in filthy open air markets cooking bat or pangolin (or, yes, possibly it getting out from a biological center right down the street from the market)

Clearly, this is not a “someday” situation. According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization since 2017, “As man-made climate change has taken hold over the last four decades, dozens of new infectious diseases have emerged or begun to threaten new regions, including Zika and Ebola.” Moreover, he writes, “Bubonic plague, spread by rats and fleas, is predicted to increase with warmer springs and wetter summers. Anthrax, whose spores are released by thawing permafrost, could spread farther as a result of stronger winds.”

Bubonic plague. Anthrax. Suddenly, coronavirus feels rather tame.

Ebola, like other Hemorrhagic diseases, predates the current warm period, as does Anthrax and the Bubonic plague. In fact, the massive bubonic plague that killed anywhere from 75 million to 200 million occurred during a Holocene cool period back in the 1300’s. (see the big graphic below the fold)

He is correct, though, that this is a warm-up act for a Hotcoldwetdry government policy world, where people are not working, where travel is restricted, people are stuck at home, where food and goods are in short supply, where jobs are not available, and government is telling you what to do, where you can and can’t go, and how to live your life.

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Extinction Rebellion Says There’s No “Going Back To Business As Usual” Or Something

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 7:08 am

Even if you believe that the slightly elevated climate is mostly/solely caused by the actions of humanity, you should sit back and think on what the hardcore disciples of the Cult of Climastrology actually want and whether you want to be a part of this, much like many Muslims sit back and say they want nothing to do with the beliefs and goals of the radical Islamists

‘No going back’ after coronavirus say Extinction Rebellion Furness climate change activists

THERE should be no going back to “business as usual” when the coronavirus outbreak dies down, say environmental campaigners.

An XR Furness spokesman said the reduction in flights and driving as people work from home has led to a huge improvement in air quality, much less CO2 being released into the atmosphere and a new feeling of community.

“In China, deaths from coronavirus stood at 3,208 yesterday,” he said.

“But the improved air quality there as a result of the outbreak could have prevented between 50,000 and 75,000 deaths from air pollution. Here we’re enjoying seeing – although at a safe distance – our friends and families more in the open air and being part of a community, helping each other in a way that feels right. We’ve got to learn from this that there are better ways to live.

Go that? It was worth 3,200 people dying. Is this a really great message to put out? That we should kill off and/or let die thousands to mitigate a slight 1.5F increase in global temperatures, an average Holocene warm period?

But the fear was, said the spokesman, that instead of building on the improvement in the quality of people’s lives, the old system would be rebooted as the outbreak slows.

“That happened after the 2018 financial crash. Emissions of CO2, which had been down, shot up again.

“We can’t go back to the rat race that was driving us to extinction.

“We’ve got to learn from this that there are better ways to live.

“Some people may think this is pie in the sky. But to think we can go on as we were, despite clear warning from scientists, is completely unrealistic.”

This would be the old system that provided food, clothing, housing, and so forth, versus the one XR wants, which looks like empty shelves, which, when finally replaced, you’re restricted. Many stores are restricting the amount people can buy. Guy I work with has a large family, and could only buy one pack of chicken breasts. Not enough. XR would prefer things look like Venezuela.

As NotFarWrong writes in the story comments “Unfortunately people can’t live on fresh air. They have to work. Work brings prosperity and prosperity brings better environmental controls. China had been working its way towards that end but the actions of its communist government have put a very large stumbling block in the way of that.”

And that fresh air has nothing to do with “carbon pollution”, but, real environmental pollutants.

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Whining Whiners Who Whine: Washington Post Wonders Where Trump’s Wartime Response Is

By William Teach March 21, 2020 – 6:51 am

I don’t know about you, but, I’m sick and tired of the uber-partisan Credentialed Media with their never helpful, over the top, doomsaying, negative let’s bash Trump coverage, which is rarely ever helpful, and continues to drive people into fear, when we should be pushing optimism to get over this. Real people’s lives are affected, and the media do not really seem to care, just their hardcore politics. Was the media this negative during WWII? Here’s the Washington Post editorial board, which ends up contradicting their entire piece, but, do people make it that far into the piece?

We face a wartime supply shortage. Where is Trump’s wartime response?

A TROUBLESOME bottleneck threatens to undermine all the hard work of health-care workers and others to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Reports from across the country reveal dire shortages of personal protective equipment, including masks, chemical reagents needed for testing and other supplies essential to coping with an expected onslaught of illness. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been reduced to suggesting scarves and bandannas where masks are unavailable.

(multiple paragraphs about shortages)

President Trump suggested in a news conference this week that the shortages are a problem for the governors to deal with. “The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping,” he said. “You know, we’re not a shipping clerk.” Then on Friday he said the government had ordered the production of millions of masks and that these would be delivered directly to states. He offered contradictory statements about the Defense Production Act, a 1950 law allowing the government to address supply shortages by giving directives to industry to ramp up production, first asserting he had invoked its authority and then saying he had not used it because companies had responded voluntarily.

It is better that the states deal with as much as they can, as they are closer to the shipping points, distribution centers, and manufacturers. And, just like Trump said, since they left it out of the piece, the federal government will help where they can, hence, the order for production. And then you have that Defense Production Act, the kind of thing that they will excoriate him as being an authoritarian if he starts to use it.

And, prediction: if he uses it, the media will excoriate Trump by saying he’s 1. telling companies to produce the wrong things and 2. telling people to work when they should be isolating themselves.

We are told that factories making masks are already running at full tilt; it may take time and investment to create new assembly lines to manufacture needed supplies. Instead of passing the buck to governors, Mr. Trump ought to deploy every tool at his disposal to address the shortages now.

If this is a wartime scale of a problem, where is the wartime response?

So, wait, factories are already running full tilt? What more can they produce? And, yes, it will take time to create new assembly. Who does this? It doesn’t happen overnight. You know what would great to convert? Newspapers. They have plenty of room, and you quickly know where the offices are. Trump should use his power to convert them. The rooms which produce dead tree papers would be perfect, right?

This is all just continued whining rather than attempting to come together. But, we’ve seen this same theater not long after 9/11, where the leftist media and Democrats started going after Bush 43 a few weeks after, because hardcore politics is their life.

Oh, and if they really want a wartime response, Trump will tell the media how their news will be published, just like in WWII.

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Democrats Attempt To Push Their “For The People Act” To Reclaim Democracy

By William Teach March 20, 2020 – 3:25 pm

Yeah, yeah, getting beyond that we are not a pure democracy, but, hey, at least they didn’t mention Coronavirus. Just kind of implied it. Here’s Democrat Sensators Jeff Merkley and Tom Udall

What our democracy needs now: Legislation that returns power to the American people

What do prescription drug pricing, gun safety and the climate crisis have in common? Strong majorities of Americans want Congress to act on these issues, but special interests and political corruption keep Washington, D.C., gridlocked.

That wouldn’t return power to the people, it would give it to the Central Government

Many Americans have resigned themselves to the current reality of our politics. But our government doesn’t need to — and shouldn’t — operate this way. We can and must reclaim government of, by and for the people.

Last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1, the For the People Act —sweeping anti-corruption legislation that would represent the biggest reform of money and ethics in government since Watergate.

We are leading the For the People Act in the Senate because this legislation is the road map we need to take our democratic republic out of the hands of the powerful and privileged, and give it back to “We the People.”

The For the People Act represents a powerful step to reclaim our government from  insidious forces that have maintained power for the privileged few and broken our politics.

You know who those insidious forces are? “Cynical politicians” at lower levesl who do things constituents want, like voter ID

The For the People Act does precisely that by combating these insidious laws and instituting automatic voter registration instead.

What if people do not want to be registered? And then

Perhaps worst of all, special interests and billionaires have exploited loopholes in federal campaign spending — like the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United ruling — to dump unprecedented sums of special interest money into American elections.

See, it’s those pesky private citizens and companies, which are often made up of little people (take a look at Opensecrets.org and see who gives money to the two senators), who dare attempt to sway elected lawmakers. How dare they think that elected lawmakers should be responsive to citizens, not the other way around. The even go on to write that “special interests” have too much power. Aren’t citizens and citizen groups supposed to have the power?

The entire bill is about giving massive amounts of power to the government and taking it from the private sector, including citizens. It is a horrible, horrible authoritarian bill, which is why the Democrats like it.

If they really want to return power to the people, then they should institute term limits and repeal the 17th Amendment. Put the power back where it belongs in our federalist system.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 20, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is everything horrible for climate change … dogs, cars, roads, concrete, electricity, OMG, panic!!!!!…. you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on some Coronavirus good news.

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