Bummer: Pentagon Nixes Climate (scam) Studies

By William Teach March 11, 2025 – 3:00 pm

Is it bad for military academies and the military branches to know about the weather? No. How about learning what a warming climate can do in terms of future conflicts? No. Is it bad to teach indoctrination into the climate cult? Damned skippy

US Military Cancels Climate Change Studies That Pentagon Chief Derides

The U.S. military is canceling more than 90 studies, including some that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed as climate change garbage.

Military and intelligence officials have over the past decade identified potential security threats from climate change that include natural disasters in densely populated coastal areas and damage to American military bases worldwide.

“The (Department of Defense) does not do climate change crap,” Hegseth posted on X on Sunday. Hegseth took office in President Donald Trump’s new administration on Jan. 25.

The Pentagon said in a separate statement that it would be scrapping 91 social science-related studies on topics ranging from global migration patterns and climate change impact to social trends and would save $30 million in a year.

It listed as canceled studies including “Social and Institutional Determinants of Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Hazards in the African Sahel” and “Food Fights: War Narratives and Identity Reproduction in Evolving Conflicts.”

They need to be learning about fighting and stuff for today, not hypotheticals and cult crap. Do they need to know about how the sea will rise 6-8 inches over the next 100 years? Nope. How about that the fossil fueled vehicles they use to protect the U.S. and project power are evil? Nope. Or how ‘climate change’ intersects with LGBTwhatever or this or that? No. It’s doomsday cult woke garbage. We need military members to be strong, smart fighters, not cult warriors.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 11, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on the latest moonbattery from Jasmine Crockett.

Regarding my ankle, slightly better. Not a fracture, but, a slight chip and a tendon tear. Still going to take time to heal, and mobility is recommended to be limited, but, I have an ankle brace now instead of a boot. Means less energy when moving, and easier to walk. Restricted from most leg exercises, Ortho doc wants me to only do upper body when sitting. No problem with that. Still balancing too much on heal, not whole foot. And, can expect painful twinges longer than with a fracture, but, as the doc said, it’s still a better situation.

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Education Department Looking At 60 Colleges Over Jew Hatred

By William Teach March 11, 2025 – 10:30 am

Unsurprisingly, CNN, like the other leftist outlets covering this, do it in an antiseptic manner, as they do not want to upset the Jew hating/Hamas supporting base by highlighting that Jew hatred and harassment is a bad thing

Department of Education investigating 60 colleges and universities over antisemitism claims

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are under investigation for alleged violations “relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination,” warning institutions of possible consequences if they don’t take adequate steps to protect Jewish students.

The OCR said that it sent letters under its authority to enforce Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans any institution receiving federal funds from discriminating based on race, color, and national origin.

The announcement comes amid mounting pressure on university administrators to rein in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which have erupted periodically on college campuses across the country over the past year and led to the arrest of hundreds of demonstrators.

President Donald Trump’s administration has made combating what it considers anti-Israel and antisemitic movements on college campuses a priority.

He signed an executive order during his second week in office to “combat antisemitism” in schools and on university campuses, and on February 3 announced the creation of a multiagency task force to carry out the mandate.

But, see, since Trump announced this, and has said he will pull funding from Jew hating schools, it’s a Bad Thing. Something Democrats should oppose. Because Democrats like to defend the indefensible. But, then, we have seen the Israel hatred and support for radical Islam rise to hatred of Jews and support of Islamic terrorism heavily since 9/11, particularly on college campuses.

Before Monday’s announcement, the Department of Education had said in early February that it was investigating five of the 60 universities on the list: Columbia; Northwestern University; Portland State University; the University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

The fifty-five other universities are now under investigation or are being monitored “in response to complaints filed with OCR,” according to Monday’s statement. (snip)

“The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.

And the ED has every right to do this, since these schools take lots of federal money.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Could Maybe Possibly Affect Satellites

By William Teach March 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, this is a new one. I guess the cult put together a panel to look for something unique to bleat about

Climate change could be threatening satellites as they orbit in space: Study

The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has found.

By the year 2100, the “satellite carrying capacity” of the most popular low-orbit regions could decline by 50 to 66 percent due to the impacts of these emissions, according to the study, published on Monday in Nature Sustainability.

“Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years,” senior author Richard Linares, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement.

Linares and his colleagues determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases can cause the upper atmosphere to shrink.

The researchers found that the contraction of the thermosphere — the atmospheric layer where the International Space Station orbits today — causes a plunge in density, leading to ripple effects.

Could. Could. Might. Maybe. We think. And, of course, it’s something doomy 75 years from now. All because you refuse to give your freedom of choice to government.

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The Caregiver Industry Is Doomed Without Illegal Aliens Or Something

By William Teach March 11, 2025 – 6:45 am

Hey, how about all those federal employees who are dead weight learn to work in the caregiver industry?

The caregiving industry relies on immigrants. These workers fear deportation under Trump

double standardsA homecare worker wakes at 3:30 a.m., showers, and prepares for a more than 10-hour day of attending to her clients.

She cooks. She cleans. She replaces catheter bags. She bathes her clients, checks their blood pressure, and ensures they take their medication. When she wraps up her shift at the home of a disabled U.S. Iraq War veteran at 4:30 p.m., she is off the clock but returns to the house of her first client, a 92-year-old woman with dementia who lives alone, and cooks her dinner.

She earns $18.50 an hour and is provided no health care benefits. She loves her job but worries President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and plans for mass deportations could threaten her ability to do it.

“Not all immigrants who come here cause harm. Most are here to contribute,” the homecare worker told USA TODAY in Spanish through a translator. “It’s sad and disheartening to see how immigrants are being treated.”

The homecare worker has asked that her real name not be used for fear of being targeted for deportation. USA TODAY has confirmed the homecare worker’s identity, agreed to provide her anonymity, and will refer to her as “Julia.”

No, not all illegals come to cause harm. Many have been beneficial. Agriculture. Housing. Caregivers. But, they are here illegally. If you break the law you break the law. And it doesn’t help their cause when so many Demand housing, money, healthcare, food, education, and more, all while refusing to learn the language, refuse to assimilate, fly the flags of their home country, and denigrate Americans and America. I’ve long said we should have a much better temporary visa system.

Julia is one of many immigrants living in the country with no clear path to citizenship. She came to the U.S. 23 years ago from El Salvador as a Temporary Protected Status holder after an earthquake wreaked havoc on her home country. She now faces growing uncertainty as Trump targets others with similar legal but fragile immigration statuses, a focus that could disrupt the caregiver industry which is heavily dependent on foreign-born workers.

Temporary. Operative word. But, you know what, I do not blame them, I blame the politicians, judges, and bureaucrats for refusing to send people back.

Julia is one of many immigrants, both with legal status and without, on which the U.S. caregiver industry depends. Foreign-born workers help address the growing need for care given the nation’s aging Baby Boomer population.

Well, hey, perhaps the education system should stop teaching stupid subject and educate the kiddies in worthwhile subject. It is funny, all these youts say They Care, but, all they do is protest and demand, but, rarely get out to help.

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GOP Looks To Claw Back Money For USPS EV Trucks

By William Teach March 10, 2025 – 4:42 pm

Why? Well, you see

DOGE lawmakers look to defund Biden’s anemic-paced $3B EV postal truck ‘boondoggle’

Two top DOGE lawmakers are introducing a bill to claw back $3 billion authorized under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which was designated to create an electric vehicle (EV) fleet for the United States Postal Service (USPS).

A South Carolina defense contractor responsible for the 60,000-vehicle order was already “far behind schedule” as of November. A Washington Post exposé revealed that by then, fewer than 100 of these vehicles had been delivered to USPS.

Citing that, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, DOGE Caucus chair, and Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, will be forwarding the “Return to Sender Act,” seeking to recoup what is about 30% of the overall appropriation in Biden’s law that was intended to be geared toward reducing inflation.

The Postal Service was to receive an initial order of 50,000 EV delivery trucks from defense contractor Oshkosh within the next three years, but only 93 had been produced by November, according to the Post.

“The order needs to be canceled with the unspent money returned to sender, the taxpayers. I am defunding this billion-dollar boondoggle to stamp out waste in Washington. Tax dollars should always be treated with first-class priority.”

93. They do not know what they are doing. In fairness, a lot of delivery folks for the USPS like the limited number they have received. But, there’s no way they can get serious numbers any reasonable time frame

“Three years later, taxpayers are still waiting while the Postal Service refuses to provide basic transparency on where the money went. The Return to Sender Act takes back the $3 billion in taxpayer money that has been wasted in this project,” Cloud said.

If they won’t be transparent, then the head honchos need to be dragged in front of Congress and cited with contempt if they won’t answer. Further, the bill is meant to end all unobligated money from the BS Inflation Reduction Act.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon bike which Everyone Else should have to ride, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Monday morning stimulus.

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NY Times Is Concerned IRS Won’t Have The Staff To Audit The Peasants

By William Teach March 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

Does the Times think that this headline about stalled audits is going to give any American other than the hardcore Democrat base a big sad? (non-paywalled version here)

Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.

Beth Crowell was proud to work for the Internal Revenue Service.

She had spent much of her career as an accountant for large corporations, gaining intimate knowledge about how they do — and sometimes don’t — pay the taxes they owe. Working for the I.R.S. in Colorado, she hoped to put her skills to a new use. She wanted to help collect more money for the federal government.

Not long after joining last July, she had her chance. Ms. Crowell, 64, joined a team that had started an audit of a company earning roughly $3 billion a year. The I.R.S. had never examined the firm before, Ms. Crowell said, because the agency hadn’t had enough employees with the skills for such complex cases. “They’re a large multinational company, and it is not a normal thing to not have been examined,” she said, declining to name the firm.

By hiring Ms. Crowell and thousands of other experienced tax professionals like her last year, the I.R.S. was trying to fill those gaps and rebuild its ability to enforce tax laws after years of decay. The effort was expected to help the United States recoup billions in additional tax revenue.

So, it sounds like the IRS went after the company for the hell of it. Was it necessary? Were there irregularities in their previous filings? Did someone at the company say something? Because it sure looks like the worker bees simply went after the company Because They Could.

Then the layoffs started. With Trump administration targeting recent hires across the government, the terminations hit particularly hard in Ms. Crowell’s division, large business and international. Of the more than 7,000 people laid off from the I.R.S. so far, roughly half worked in her department.

In 2020 there were 80,200 IRS employees, which was down from 92,000 in 2010. Then they added a lot, and were reportedly over 100,000 by January 2025. This is called “understaffed”. Maybe they should do more with less, like in the private sector, rather than having people with little to do but decide they do not like that person or company and go after them. Remember, you are guilty till proven innocent when it comes to IRS audits.

Firing probationary employees like Ms. Crowell was just the beginning of President Trump’s far-reaching agenda for the I.R.S. The administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force the I.R.S. to shed as much as half of its 100,000-person work force — a drastic reduction that could mean many Americans face less scrutiny, and receive less help, on their taxes. At the same time, Mr. Trump is asserting more political control over an agency that has historically been insulated from changes in leadership at the White House.

No one is crying except the moonbats at the Times and hardcore Democrats. Few need help on their taxes. There are plenty of online tax companies, as well as tax professionals. As for “political control”, we all remember how the IRS went after Republican organizations and people, right? Commiserating over layoffs at the IRS is really not “oh, no!” the Times thinks it is.

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Earth Blew Past The Imaginary Doom Line 4 Years Ago Or Something

By William Teach March 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

Well, if only all those Warmists had given up their use of fossil fuels

Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline

Whatever your stance is on climate change (it’s real, let’s move on) (WT-it is real, the debate is on causation. If it’s mankind, then why do so few Warmists practice what they preach?), it’s impossible to have missed the near-ubiquitous call to action to “keep temperatures from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.” Over the past few years, the somewhat bureaucratic phrase has become a rallying cry for the climate conscious.

This ambitious target first surfaced following the Paris Climate Agreement, and describes a sort of climate threshold—if we pass a long-term average increase in temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius, and hold at those levels for several years, we’re going to do some serious damage to ourselves and our environment.

Well, a paper from the University Western Australia Oceans Institute has some bad news: the world might’ve blown past that threshold four years ago. Published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the paper reaches this conclusion via an unlikely route—analyzing six sclerosponges, a kind of sea sponge that clings to underwater caves in the ocean. These sponges are commonly studied by climate scientists and are referred to as “natural archives” because they grow so slowly. Like, a-fraction-of-a-millimeter-a-year slow. This essentially allows them to lock away climate data in their limestone skeletons, not entirely unlike tree rings or ice cores.

Zoinks! 4 years ago! Doom…..oh, wait, 6 sponges in Australia? That’s it? That’s the proof? Using temperatures from one part of the ocean to determine there is global warming is not science, it’s the complete opposite; It’s speculation.

By analyzing strontium to calcium ratios in these sponges, the team could effectively calculate water temperatures dating back to 1700. The sponges watery home in the Caribbean is also a plus, as major ocean currents don’t muck up or distort temperature readings. This data could be particularly useful,as direct human measurement of sea temperature only dates back to roughly 1850, when sailors dipped buckets into the ocean. That’s why the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) uses 1850 and 1900 as its preindustrial baseline, according to the website Grist.

Yeah, and what was 1700? Deep in the Little Ice Age. Which ended around 1850. Leading into a Holocene warm period. Which have happened numerous times over the last 8,000 years.

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Bummer: ICE Arrest Pro-Hamas Leader Of Columbia Protests

By William Teach March 10, 2025 – 6:45 am

Oh, and, yeah, they are looking to revoke his visa and boot him off

ICE arrests Palestinian leader of Columbia’s anti-Israel protests, revoking student visa and green card: lawyer

President Trump is giving this anti-Israel campus rabble-rouser a ticket to study abroad — for good.

A Palestinian activist who led a coalition of twisted radicals seeking the “total eradication of Western Civilization” responsible for riotous protests at Columbia University and Barnard College has been arrested by ICE agents, according to his lawyer.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest leader Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Ivy League Columbia in December, also potentially faces having his visa revoked and his green card canceled following President Trump’s crackdown on unrest at colleges, attorney Amy Greer said Sunday.

He was inside his university-owned apartment a few blocks from campus Saturday night when ICE agents entered the residence and took him into custody, Greer said.

Despite graduating months ago, Khalil, who earned his undergraduate degree in Beirut, still lived in school-provided housing due to a policy allowing students to remain on campus after graduating, a source told The Post.

Yeah, probably your tax dollar are paying to keep this Israel and Jew hater/pro-Islamic terrorism nutter in his dorm. Anyhow, if the student visa is over, and he doesn’t seem to be going for a PhD, why is he still here? Did he receive a green card for work? Is he working? Well, they can all be cancelled

He has remained active in recent disruptive protests, including last week’s takeover of the Milstein Library at Barnard College. Videos and photographs posted on X depict him holding a bullhorn near the library entrance and engaged in discussion with school administrators.

That protest featured violent propaganda flyers that purportedly came directly from the “Hamas Media Office,” including one pamphlet titled “Our Narrative… Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” which justified the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people — and in which women were repeatedly raped, whole families were executed and 251 hostages were taken to the Gaza Strip.

When does he have time to work with all the protests? The article has lots and lots more info on his conduct.

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