If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled grill cooking horrible carbon pollution meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on all the times Democrats said they were against illegal immigration.

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Mayor Pete Wants Democratic Presidential Contenders To Move Further Left

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 10:30 am

For the most part, what they really mean on the political science scale is moving further right, further into authoritarianism. To the left is less government. But, let’s not quibble, we know what they really mean

From the link

Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Friday that Democrats need to veer left of center in 2020, if they want to beat President Trump.

“He is deservedly unpopular, but he could win again,” Buttigieg said of Trump at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa. “I think he wins again if we look like we’re offering more of the same. I think the way he wins again, is if we look like defenders of a system that hasn’t worked.”

“And what that means is, surprisingly, the riskiest thing we could do is try so hard to play it safe, that we continue to walk down an establishment path that has Americans believe that we’re not speaking to them,” he continued.

The large Democratic field showed off an array of far-left positions in the first Democratic primary debates in Miami last week. A majority of the candidates expressed support for decriminalizing border crossings, providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants, unlimited access to abortion and drastic economic changes for the sake of preventing climate change.

If Pete thinks that’s “playing it safe”, I look forward to him and the others taking risks.

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We Need To Dismantle The U.S. Military For ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 7:03 am

Let’s face it, the majority who are members of the Cult of Climastrology here in the U.S. vote Democrat. And they have long despised the U.S. military, and have tried many times to reduce, even eliminate, its funding. Since that wasn’t working and didn’t play well with voters, they started infiltrating it to ruin it from the inside. But, hey, what if they could use the “climate crisis” to do the dirty work? The uber-leftist Common Dreams gives it a whirl

Why We Can’t Ignore U.S. Military Emissions

The U.S. military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks, and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our new study calculated the contribution of this vast infrastructure to climate change.

Greenhouse gas emission accounting usually focuses on how much energy and fuel civilians use. But recent work, including our own, shows that the U.S. military is one of the largest polluters in history, consuming more liquid fuels and emitting more climate-changing gases than most medium-sized countries. If the U.S. military were a country, its fuel usage alone would make it the 47th largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, sitting between Peru and Portugal. (snip to the end after much whining)

Our study shows that action on climate change demands shuttering vast sections of the military machine. There are few activities on Earth as environmentally catastrophic as waging war. Significant reductions to the Pentagon’s budget and shrinking its capacity to wage war would cause a huge drop in demand from the biggest consumer of liquid fuels in the world.

It does no good tinkering around the edges of the war machine’s environmental impact. The money spent procuring and distributing fuel across the U.S. empire could instead be spent as a peace dividend, helping to fund a Green New Deal in whatever form it might take. There is no shortage of policy priorities that could use a funding bump. Any of these options would be better than fueling one of the largest military forces in history.

Good luck with this notion, chumps. Maybe you can get a few of the Democratic presidential candidates to repeat this, see how that goes.

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Washington Post Is Suddenly Very Concerned Over Los Federales Tapping Into Facial Recognition Searches

By William Teach July 8, 2019 – 6:51 am

Now, granted, we should all be concerned when federal agencies are doing this, but, interestingly, the Washington Post and elected Democrats weren’t particularly concerned when someone else was in office

FBI, ICE tap in to state driver’s license databases for facial-recognition searches

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.

Thousands of facial-recognition requests, internal documents and emails over the past five years, obtained through public-records requests by Georgetown Law researchers and provided to The Washington Post, reveal that federal investigators have turned state departments of motor vehicles databases into the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure.

Police have long had access to fingerprints, DNA and other “biometric data” taken from criminal suspects. But the DMV records contain the photos of a vast majority of a state’s residents, most of whom have never been charged with a crime.

Neither Congress nor state legislatures have authorized the development of such a system, and growing numbers of Democratic and Republican lawmakers are criticizing the technology as a dangerous, pervasive and error-prone surveillance tool.

But, they also haven’t said they couldn’t do it, for the most part. The federal statutes seem to be devoid of saying “no”, because typical Congressional legislation is usually overly broad and leaves things in the hands of federal agencies to go hog-wild. That’s how you ended up with the Contraception Mandate when contraception is not mentioned once in the Affordable Care Act.

Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), the House Oversight Committee’s ranking Republican, seemed particularly incensed during a hearing into the technology last month at the use of driver’s license photos in federal facial-recognition searches without the approval of state legislators or individual license holders.

“They’ve just given access to that to the FBI,” he said. “No individual signed off on that when they renewed their driver’s license, got their driver’s licenses. They didn’t sign any waiver saying, ‘Oh, it’s okay to turn my information, my photo, over to the FBI.’ No elected officials voted for that to happen.”

And Jim has a damned good point, but, he’s concerned about U.S. citizens. The Washington Post and Democrats are worried about something else

Despite those doubts, federal investigators have turned facial recognition into a routine investigative tool. Since 2011, the FBI has logged more than 390,000 facial-recognition searches of federal and local databases, including state DMV databases, the Government Accountability Office said last month, and the records show that federal investigators have forged daily working relationships with DMV officials. In Utah, FBI and ICE agents logged more than 1,000 facial-recognition searches between 2015 and 2017, the records show. Names and other details are hidden, though dozens of the searches are marked as having returned a “possible match.”

Who was president during almost all that time?

The records also underscore the conflicts between the laws of some states and the federal push to find and deport undocumented immigrants. Though Utah, Vermont and Washington allow undocumented immigrants to obtain full driver’s licenses or more-limited permits known as driving privilege cards, ICE agents have run facial-recognition searches on those DMV databases.

See, most of this is being Concerned that federal agents charged with finding and catching people who are unlawfully present in the U.S. will use a the driver’s licenses provided to illegal aliens by Democratic legislatures to find and catch illegal aliens. Any other mention of searches that affect actual legal U.S. residents is incidental and of little concern, just thrown in by the Post to cover their Concern for illegal aliens.

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Radiohead Frontman Says Hotcoldwetdry Is Giving People Anxiety Or Something

By William Teach July 7, 2019 – 4:03 pm

Hey, remember the days when the Cult of Climastrology told us we were only supposed to listen to climate scientists?

Thom Yorke says climate change is giving people anxiety

Thom Yorke has said he believes issues such as climate change are giving people anxiety.

The Radiohead frontman spoke with The Sunday Times in an interview about his new solo album, ANIMA, where he also spoke about his band, thoughts on current music, and ongoing social and political issues.

“It’s good that depression and anxiety are being talked about more,” he said. “But they’re also on the rise… [there’s] much less security about what may happen in the near future. Much less trust of institutions there to protect them, as well as wider issues like climate change. This all makes people anxious, and it’s crazy that people don’t just acknowledge that.”

You’re going to have a tough time reading the entire interview, as The Times UK is behind the paywall, but, seriously, that’s what the UK Independent pulls out? A minor quote about insane, non-science cultists getting anxiety over a low-grade Holocene warm period?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 7, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that will soon swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on a man who took his battle to Nike headquarters.

No theme this week, just cleaning out the extra photos.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 7, 2019 – 8:42 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the rabbits are bouncing, and a mockingbird loves singing on my front porch in the morning. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Weasel Zippers notes Pelosi taking shots at AOC and her 3 twitter comrades
  2. Theodore’s World covers the best economy for small business in 50 years
  3. The Other McCain wonders which gringos are responsible for the Central American disaster
  4. The Lid covers liberals doxxing and threatening to kill Little AOC
  5. The Last Refuge discusses Biden stating that Russian interference wouldn’t have happened under his watch
  6. The Hayride notes Charlottesville  city council getting rid of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday
  7. The Daley Gator covers the latest thing to trigger the Outrage Mob
  8. The Crawdad Hole discusses Democrats wanting to resegregate the U.S.
  9. White House Dossier notes the cost of Trump’s 4th of July celebration in comparison
  10. Sonoran Conservative says that false outrage over the border is dangerous
  11. Watts Up With That? highlights global greening
  12. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog covers what climate fraud looks like
  13. Raised On Hoecakes notes what happens when a kid posts an Airsoft gun on Facebook and a school sees it
  14. Pacific Pundit covers an idiot Antifa schmuck unable to work matches
  15. And last, but not least, Noisy Room highlights CAIR’s new Islamophobia report

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.

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Bummer: Fear Builds In Illegal Aliens As Plans For Deportation Raids Builds

By William Teach July 7, 2019 – 7:24 am

It’s actually a good thing when unhinged news outlets which support illegal immigration trot out these stories, because it helps increase the fear among these law breaking illegal aliens, and hopefully gets reported to those who are looking to come illegally/overstay their visas

Fear of immigration raids builds as agency’s plans move forward

President Trump said his administration will move forward “fairly soon” with a plan to arrest thousands of migrant families in surprise roundups across major U.S. cities, with the two-week deadline he imposed on Democrats coming up on Saturday.

Trump tipped off the mass arrests in a June 17 tweet, vowing “millions” of deportations, but called them off five days later. The president tweeted that he delayed the raids for two weeks at Democrats’ request, “to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border.”

“If not,” he wrote , “Deportations start!”

Trump’s threats have left immigrants living in the United States illegally in a fog of dread, putting neighborhoods on edge and making residents fear venturing outside.

There is no specific timeline for the operations, but, on thing that Washington Post writers Nick Miroff, Josh Dawsey, and Maria Sacchetti forget to mention (either on purpose or because they failed to do the research) is that everyone on the list to be rounded up and deported have already exhausted their legal methods to stay in the U.S. after arriving illegally at some point. A goodly chunk were ordered deported while Obama was president, so they should have already been gone. Per federal immigration judges, they have no lawful reason to remain

Eva, who works at a plant nursery in Homestead, Fla., said she has stopped going to the park and makes trips to the grocery store every few weeks.

“I don’t know when I leave in the morning if I’ll come home in the night,” said Eva, who arrived illegally 19 years ago from Mexico and whose teen daughter is a U.S. citizen.

“They could come and get me at any time,” she said, asking for her last name to be withheld for fear it could help ICE find her.

Funny how these reporters can so easily find an illegal alien, eh? If you cannot deal with the penalties, do not do the crime.

Officials at ICE concede that few of the families on their list are likely to be encountered at the addresses provided to the courts. The agency is expecting to find some of those individuals and make “collateral” arrests of others they encounter who lack legal status or have outstanding deportation orders.

So they also lied to the courts? That’s a criminal offense.

The constant churn of threats and rumored raids has left those facing potential deportation on edge.

Good. They could avoid all that if they just left. Like federal judges ordered.

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Governments And Companies Sued 1,300 Times Over Hotcoldwetdry Since 1990 Or Something

By William Teach July 6, 2019 – 3:00 pm

Amazingly, most of the people bringing the ‘climate change’ suits refuse to practice what they want to force others to

Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis – report

Climate action lawsuits against governments and corporations have spread across 28 countries, according to a new analysis.

The study reveals that more than 1,300 legal actions concerning climate change have been brought since 1990.

While the US – with 1,023 cases – remains the leader in climate litigation, other countries are increasingly seeing individuals, charities and states take action.

Joana Setzer, co-author of the report by the Grantham Institute and the London School of Economics, said: “Holding government and businesses to account for failing to combat climate change has become a global phenomenon.

“People and environmental groups are forcing governments and companies into court for failing to act on climate change, and not just in the US. The number of countries in which people are taking climate change court action is likely to continue to rise.”

In the two and a half years since Donald Trump became US president, lawsuits have sought to prevent his attempts to undo environmental regulations. An analysis of 154 cases in the report shows that no such reversal of a climate regulation brought before the courts has yet survived a legal challenge.

Countries where legal cases have been taken include Australia, where 94 cases were launched, the UK (53), Brazil (five), Spain (13), New Zealand (17) and Germany (five).

Of course, most of these suits fail, and those that don’t result in minor adjustments that just barely comply, and amount to nothing in the end. But, hey, if they can’t actually convince other people in their cause, they’ll attempt to force it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 6, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on AOC’s special watch for her detention center photo op.

Also, double shot below the fold, so, check out The Right Scoop, with a post on a former DNC staffer chest thumping then running away like a little girl.

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