If All You See…

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

…are trees that will die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Blazing Cat Fur, with a post on Comrade Bernie bringing out Jew hater Linda Sarsour as a surrogate.

It’s Brazil week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 8, 2019 – 9:01 am

Happy Sunday! It’s a gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the squirrels are squirreling, and the NFL is back (let’s see how they try to ruin it this season). This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Ice Age Now discusses there being no climate emergency
  2. Watts Up With That? covers the dirty underbelly of clean energy
  3. Independent Sentinel notes the man who shot a California cop was in country illegally, protected by sanctuary laws
  4. Virtual Mirage explains the liberal cult
  5. This ain’t Hell… covers a first, with sisters making general
  6. The Right Scoop discusses AOC being wrong again, this time on housing being a right
  7. The People’s Cube has intersectuality denial in Maryland
  8. The Lid notes that AOC fund-raised for Antifa
  9. The Last Refuge covers Kamala’s “mentally retarded” gaffe
  10. The Hayride notes the liberal hit-job on Drew Brees, who is one of the really good guys in the NFL
  11. The First Street Journal says that the more Dems talk, the more they’ll lose
  12. White House Dossier discusses Biden lying about his support for Iraq war
  13. Powerline wonders if China is trying to elected a Democrat
  14. Pacific Pundit features Ilhan Omar claiming the government is purposefully infecting illegals with the mumps
  15. And last, but not least, Neoneocon covers Rufuspetasumphobia, a fear of red hats

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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Democrats Releasing More Criminals From Jail While Cracking Down On Law Abiding Citizen’s 2nd Amendment Rights

By William Teach September 8, 2019 – 7:54 am

This is exactly the problem with “gun control”: Democrats want to impede the rights of law abiding citizens for the actions of criminals, yet, want to treat criminals with kid gloves

(California Globe) The purpose of prison and jail is to separate the criminals from society through incapacitation so they are not able to harm innocent people, and to make them pay for their crimes through retribution. Rehabilitation is supposed to assist with changing criminals into law-abiding citizens once again. But not every criminal can be rehabilitated.

The purpose of putting criminals in prison is to help keep the rest of society safe from them. Citizens pay taxes to the government to pay for jails and prisons. However, in California elected Democrats have chosen to let criminals out of prison as a cost-cutting measure, ignoring the safety and well-being of its citizens.

California Democrats have also passed sanctuary city and state laws, which have served to allow criminal illegal aliens carte-blanche access to innocent citizens, and avoidance of and “sanctuary” from federal immigration officials.

Most recently, a California Appeals Court reversed the gun conviction of Kate Steinle’s shooter, a five-time deported criminal illegal alien. The realities and facts of the case remain unchanged, but the gun charges against the illegal alien killer were dropped.

What is going on in California?

California has an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, firearm registration requirements, and firearm confiscation orders, via Red Flag Laws, Awr Hawkins reports at Breitbart. “The state requires would-be gun owners to first obtain gun safety certification from the state and then requires a 10-day waiting period for all gun purchases. They also have a one-handgun-a-month purchase limit and a minimum age of 21 for all gun purchases, whether long guns or handguns. Campus carry is banned, K-12 teachers are barred from being armed in school for self-defense, and concealed carry permit issuance is constrained by a ‘good cause’ requirement.”

If you’re a citizen wanting a firearm for protection from the criminals that are protected by the State Of California, good luck. It’s not easy to obtain. Carrying it outside of your home? Good luck with that. And, there is no “stand your ground” outside of your home, and the burden is tough in the home. You’ll still probably be arrested and tried, leaving it up to a jury. If you’re the criminal, you will be treated well, and probably get out of jail early.

Proposition 57, also outrageously titled by California Attorney General Kamala Harris, The California Parole for Non-Violent Criminals and Juvenile Court Trial Requirements Initiative, was billed to the public as criminal justice reform, allowing early release for “non-violent offenders,” but the initiative not only failed to define who qualified as a “non-violent offender,” numerous heinous crimes qualified as “non-violent” under Prop. 57.

Notably, the crimes Harris considered to be “non-violent” include Rape by intoxication of an unconscious person, Human trafficking involving a sex act with minors, Arson causing great bodily harm, Drive-by shooting, Assault with a deadly weapon, and Hostage taking.

When we say that Democrats are soft on crime, that’s what we are talking about. And Democrats are doing this in their Democrat states around the country. And also Democrats

2020 Democrats Warm to Mandatory ‘Buybacks’ of Assault Weapons

As mass shootings pile up, several Democratic presidential candidates are embracing mandated “buybacks” of assault weapons, a proposal that sharpens the political divide on guns and raises the stakes for the 2020 election.

Kamala Harris speaks during the New Hampshire Democratic Party Conventionon Sept. 7.Photographer: Scott Eisen/Getty Images
In New Hampshire on Friday, Senator Kamala Harris of California told reporters that requiring owners of assault weapons to sell them to the government is “a good idea” because “we have to take those guns off the streets.”

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker said he supports the proposal. He noted that other countries have been able to take military-style semiautomatic weapons “off the streets” and that the U.S. can’t let the National Rifle Association “tell us what’s possible.”

At the New Hampshire Democratic convention on Saturday, former Representative Beto O’Rourke, who’s made buybacks a signature issue in recent weeks, pressed the idea to a cheering crowd that reflected the growing enthusiasm in the party for controlling firearm ownership. He said measures like universal background checks and “red flag” laws, which his 2020 competitors unanimously support, aren’t enough.

Yet, these same Democrats never talk about initiating harsh laws on those who use a firearm in the commission of a crime. Usually, they’re letting them out of jail, much like with Kamala’s law. They’re happy to forcibly take your legally acquired property for a small cash payment, though. Leaving you at the whim of a criminal.

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Democrats Must Go To War With Fossil Fuels Industry Or Something

By William Teach September 7, 2019 – 4:30 pm

I completely, 100% endorse this idea

Democrats must go to war with fossil fuel industry to take on the climate crisis

Nearly every candidate that participated in CNN’s seven-hour climate town hall agreed that we need to invest trillions of dollars in building a clean energy economy fit for the 21st century, and create hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs in the process. However impressive these commitments are, they won’t be worth much if they don’t also take on the fossil fuel industry.

There was plenty of common ground to be found on Wednesday night, where candidates happily focused more on presenting their own visions than tearing down those of their opponents. On what to do with dirty energy companies, though, the differences couldn’t be starker. (snip)

Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, has pledged in his plan for a Green New Deal to make the fossil fuel industry enemy No 1, cutting into their business model and holding them accountable for the years they spent spreading misinformation about global warming. Elizabeth Warren rightly called out the fact that focusing on plastic straws and lightbulbs – as last night’s moderators at CNN insisted on doing – distracts from the fact that responsibility for this crisis is concentrated among a small number of corporations; just 90 companies – most of them fossil fuel producers – have been responsible for two-thirds of manmade greenhouse gas emissions since the dawn of the industrial age.

There has been plenty of debate this cycle over candidates’ relative positions on nuclear energy, with policy wonks not unreasonably arguing that it could be risky to take that option off the table entirely. But any climate plan that doesn’t challenge the gargantuan power of the fossil fuel industry head-on is flatly denying several realities about our energy system. While the cost of renewables has plummeted over the last several years, their share of our energy mix has remained largely flat. Use of natural gas – what Amy Klobuchar called a “transitional” fuel – will need to decline 74% by mid-century, if we’re to take the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seriously, but is poised to grow dramatically over the next several years via fresh development in the Permian and Appalachian basins. Building even prodigious amounts of clean power won’t stop that, or magically outcompete incumbent fuels. In short, there is nothing “inevitable” about the transition to renewables. (snip)

There’s no way around it: curbing the climate crisis means going to war with the fossil fuel industry – not attending their fundraisers.

Well, good luck with this. They’d be promising to, again, skyrocket energy costs and the cost of living, all while making it almost impossible for citizens to get anywhere on their own, since most can’t afford to purchase an expensive hybrid (where will the energy to recharge them come from?). You can kiss air flights goodbye. How will the military operate? You can’t run a tank or non-nuclear ship on solar panels. So, they should push this line, showing citizens just how insane they are. It will make Trump’s re-election that much easier.

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If All You See…

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

…is the flag of an Evil carbon polluting nation causing hurricanes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post on Mayor Pete’s twisted scripture.

Cleaned out the folder of the final downloaded photo below the fold, so, also check out The Daley Gator, with a post on what Dakota Fanning is defending herself over

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Politico Advises Democrats To Ixnay On The Crazytay

By William Teach September 7, 2019 – 11:16 am

Gee, ya think?

From the article

Democrats’ verbal targeting of everything from plastic straws to cheeseburgers is stoking fears among anti-Trump forces that they’re unwittingly playing into Republican culture wars.

Conservative recrimination over the threatened wholesale takeover of society came swiftly after CNN’s marathon climate change forum with Democratic presidential hopefuls this week. Republicans gleefully painted the field as a bunch of out-of-touch elites: In one video, the Republic National Committee shared brief clips from the candidates, including Joe Biden, appearing to advocate a shutdown of coal-burning plants and taking gas-burning vehicles off the road “as rapidly as we can.”

The message: There are no moderates running for the nomination.

That’s the video I posted the other day. Anyhow, after highlighting the silliness of many of the contenders, we get

Even before the town halls, Trump’s reelection campaign and outside allies were weaponizing various daily inconveniences into arguments against making small sacrifices environmentalists believe are needed to help save the planet. The president’s campaign this summer unveiled laser-engraved plastic “TRUMP” straws ($15 for a 10-pack). Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale complained about the ineffectiveness of recyclable paper straws.

It is these seemingly little things that capture people’s attention, and make it very easy to understand what Democrats really want to do. And are doing. And the actual words of Democrats will be politically weaponized. Again, this is exactly why the DNC did not want a Hotcoldwetdry debate.

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Kamala Harris Wants Mandatory Buyback Of Scary Looking Rifles

By William Teach September 7, 2019 – 7:21 am

Well, good luck getting this one through Congress, Kamala. And, remember, every single one of these utterances will be stockpiled for Team Trump and other Republicans to pull out and highlight your Authoritarian impulses

Kamala Harris Supports Mandatory Buyback of Assault Weapons

Kamala Harris said Friday she supports a mandatory buyback of military-style assault weapons, taking a more aggressive position than her main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“I think it’s a good idea,” she told reporters after a campaign event in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

“We have to work out the details — there are a lot of details — but I do” support a forced buyback, Harris said when asked about the policy. “We have to take those guns off the streets.”

A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 49% of Americans oppose a mandatory buyback of assault weapons while 46% favor the idea. But among Democrats, 71% support the idea while just 23% are against it.

It might be popular among Democrats, but, that won’t help her during the general election, if she makes it to being the Democrat nominee. But, how would this work? After Australia banned most privately held firearms it has been estimated that only 20% were turned in. What percent does Kamala think would be turned in here in America? Can it even be realistically estimated? Does she think people will turn in their lawfully purchased property, purchased after passing a federal background check, for a pittance?

Will she be demanding that her own armed security give up their own assault rifles? Or is it just law abiding citizens she wants to disarm? Further, this is why the Democrats enhanced universal background checks is a bad idea, as it would require gun registration, so Los Federales would know who has what and where.

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Liz Warren Plans To Ban All Fracking, New Fossil Fuels Leases On Day 1

By William Teach September 7, 2019 – 7:04 am

And she would be sued out the ying yang on day 2

(Breitbart) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday promised to sign an executive order on her first day in office, putting a moratorium on new fossil fuel leases and pledged to ban fracking “everywhere.”

Warren promised in a tweet Friday to “sign an executive order that puts a total moratorium on all new fossil fuel leases for drilling offshore and on public lands” and vowed to “ban fracking — everywhere”:

Warren’s pledge to ban fracking follows Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) call, urging fellow Democrat candidates to support a “fracking ban on public and private lands.”

“Fracking is a danger to our water supply. It’s a danger to the air we breathe. It causes earthquakes. It’s highly explosive. Safe fracking is, like clean coal, pure fiction,” Sanders said in a statement Wednesday.

First, she doesn’t necessarily have the legal authority to ban all fracking across the nation: she can’t just change federal and state law with the wave of an executive order, even on federal land. At a minimum, she would be violating legal contracts. Second, she really is just exposing that she, like so many Democrats, are just despots in waiting.

Third, would this apply to re-authorization of existing leases? They need to be re-authorized periodically, so, would she kill those? Why does it seem that every Democrat wants to skyrocket the cost of energy for citizens, which will skyrocket the cost of living, all while running around the nation on fossil fueled vehicles? How would she get to work and other places without fossil fuels? What will she do when kids are freezing to death because the wind turbines and solar panels can’t provide enough energy for heat? And when people are cutting down more trees for fireplaces?

Seriously, she’s saying she wants to start destroying the economy and the lives of citizens on day 1. And lots of groups and companies would sue her on day 2 for violating contracts and exceeding her legal, Constitutional authority.

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Hot Take: The Founders Would Have Supported Socialized Medicare For All

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

Dr. Jeanne Abrams at the University of Denver thinks she’s on to something

Why the Founders would have supported Medicare-for-all

As the Democratic primary campaign unfolds, health care remains the subject of heated discussion. While the conversation about universal access and government responsibility has followed partisan lines in the 21st century, the idea that government has, could and should shoulder responsibilities to ensure the health and well-being of its citizens is at the heart of our country’s founding.

George and Martha Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James and Dolly Madison lived in an age where modern medicine was just beginning to develop. Even though they were part of the colonial elite, none were immune to sickness, disease and rampant epidemics, and concerns about both public and personal health frequently shaped the trajectory of their daily lives.

Despite their political differences, they all recognized early on that the economic, social and political health of the American nation clearly was connected to the physical health of its citizens, lessons leaders of both parties should remember today.

OK, so what does that have to do with The Government being in charge of all our healthcare?

The Founders’ personal encounters with illness and tragic loss of family members, including many of their children, made them acutely sensitive to issues surrounding medical treatment and disease. Smallpox and yellow fever epidemics provided the impetus for several early American health-care initiatives. As early as 1777, during the height of the Revolutionary War, John Adams recorded that the Continental Congress had passed legislation that expanded the Army’s Hospital Department. He lamented the fact that more soldiers died of smallpox than British bullets. The frugal New Englander wrote his wife, Abigail, with approval that, “The expense will be great, but humanity overcame avarice.”

Later, after Adams became the second president of the United States, he signed a bill in 1798 “to provide for the relief and maintenance of disabled seamen,” creating the U.S. Marine Hospital Service. It gave rise to a network of hospitals located at sea and river ports across the country, and over the next century it evolved into the national U.S. Public Health Service. The 1798 bill passed following a severe outbreak of yellow fever, as Adams and other politicians recognized that sailors often brought a variety of diseases with them to ports, including smallpox, yellow fever and malaria, and quarantine was sometimes necessary.

Still not to the point of Government generously taxing the living shit of citizens and being in control of who gets what for healthcare

This belief united the founding generation that was otherwise frequently divided over questions about the role of government in American life. For example, Franklin helped found the country’s first voluntary public hospital (financed through a combination of individual private contributions and government funds) and the first American medical school. Washington insisted on smallpox inoculation for all his Revolutionary War troops, as many of the young soldiers had never been exposed to the disease. Despite concerns about ineffectiveness and even the dangerous potential for contracting a severe case of smallpox, which could be fatal, Washington believed such a mandate could protect his troops and help ensure the success of the war effort.

Still not getting there

From the beginning, America’s Founders recognized that government had compelling reasons to shoulder some new responsibilities with respect to ensuring the health and well-being of its citizenry while still protecting individual liberty, an outlook which contemporary Americans from across the political spectrum should appreciate as they search for common ground over a contentious issue that personally affects us all.

Yeah, still not there, and that’s the last paragraph. “Should some new responsibilities” is a far cry from Government being out healthcare controller, eh? This is just a wishful fantasy from a Big Government leftist (who is probably against privately owned firearms and would screech about hate speech and stuff) who can only provide some small examples from a few of the Founders, forgetting that if they wanted government running healthcare, they would have put it in the Declaration Of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. The Founders believed in a very limited role of the Federal Government, and wrote the Constitution on those beliefs.

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If All You See…

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

…is a sea made rough by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on CNN and Sharpiegate.

BTW, all I got from Dorian here on the east side of Raleigh was about 2 inches of rain. Didn’t even blow a cup (now filled with 2 inches of water) off my back deck. No trees down, not even really branches.

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