Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 8:24 am

Happy Sunday! Yet another fantastic day in America. The sun is shining, birds are singing, Dodgers are kicking butt. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Moonbattery notes moonbats wanting to ban lawnmowers
  2. Pacific Pundit covers veterans walking out on AOC after she bashed foreign policy
  3. Raised On Hoecakes wonders who owns you life story
  4. Weasel Zippers covers Team Trump vs CNN on whether he called Meghan Markle “nasty”
  5. Geller Report discusses former Obama officials speaking with Iran
  6. DaTechGuy’s Blog notes the after affects of the Obama presidency
  7. DC Clothesline covers the LGBT agenda ruining women’s athletics
  8. Chicks On The Right notes AOC making a great argument against abortion
  9. Blazing Cat Fur discusses the anti-Jew hatred sweeping through the Labour Party
  10. American Elephants notes why a Dem gov vetoed national popular vote bill
  11. 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny has some offbeat stories you may have missed
  12. Climate Change Dispatch covers how many stations show warming in Antarctica (zero)
  13. Climatism discusses record snow when Warmists said it would be a thing of the past
  14. Jo Nova notes idiots saying ‘climate change’ is influencing our language
  15. And last, but not least, The Lid covers Obama lying about machine guns in Brazil

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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Unhinged Democrat Base Clamoring For Impeachment Or Something

By William Teach June 2, 2019 – 7:14 am

This is where the old adage “be careful what you wish for; you might get it” comes into play. If they think this will play well outside of their safe blue districts, they have another thing coming, and that big thing will be Trump’s easy re-election

Democrats face voters clamoring for impeachment

House Democrats are hearing more calls from their constituents back home to move forward on impeaching President Trump, adding to the pressure as they return to Washington this week.

While many Democrats have long insisted that voters at town halls would rather talk about kitchen-table issues than special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, that began to change this week as the number of lawmakers endorsing impeachment climbed to at least 50.

The pressure began to extend to some swing districts, where constituents pressed Democratic members including Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.) and Donna Shalala (Fla.) to move ahead with impeachment proceedings.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.), a Judiciary Committee member who backs launching an impeachment inquiry, said the widespread support from her constituents at a Wednesday town hall “is a shift” from even a month ago.

House Democrats’ district town halls during the Memorial Day recess came as Mueller made his first public appearance to reiterate the findings in his report about Russian election interference and Trump’s efforts to obstruct the investigation. More than a dozen Democrats subsequently jumped on the impeachment train, citing Mueller’s assertion that “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

Of course, that’s not the way it works. If you do not have the evidence to charge, than the person is innocent.

Nearly all of the Democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry — with the exception of freshman Rep. Tom Malinowski (N.J.) — hail from safe blue districts. But the impeachment talk is starting to raise its head across the country, even if swing-district lawmakers largely aren’t ready to get on board yet.

Essentially, it is the hardcore Democrat base agitating for impeachment, primarily in those safe blue districts. But, overall, Trump’s poll numbers are going up post-Mueller, and majority of polled voters are against impeachment. This is why the Dem leaders, such as Nancy Pelosi, are against starting impeachment hearings. They know it is a quick way to losing the House and seeing Trump re-elected. Which is certainly why Trump is almost daring them.

But, what else do Democrats have? They have the Russia Russia Russia investigation a whirl. It failed. Do they actually think yapping about obstruction based on an investigation that should never have happened will work?

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Excitable Adam Schiff Is Very Concerned Over Intelligence Politicization or Something

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 3:40 pm

Hey, remember when he used to want all the information to be put out? Good times

House Intelligence chief warns spy agencies of Trump ‘politicization’

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Friday warned the FBI and U.S. spy agencies that President Donald Trump is trying to “politicize” U.S. intelligence and law enforcement.

Schiff criticized Trump for giving Attorney General William Barr “sweeping” powers to declassify or downgrade the secrecy of government reporting while conducting what the Justice Department is calling a “review” of “intelligence activities” related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign.

In letters to agency heads, Schiff said May 23 orders from Trump telling them to help with Barr’s review was “an effort by the President and the Attorney General to politicize the IC (intelligence community) and law enforcement, to deligitimize a well-founded investigation into the President, and to attack the President’s political enemies.”

Schiff sent his letters, which Reuters saw, to the directors of National Intelligence, the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency.

He asked them to keep his panel informed about Barr’s review; provide documents produced for it; and tell the committee about any moves by Barr to declassify material over agency objections.

In other words, he’s concerned like hell that the whole Russia Russia Russia thing will backfire on his Party, and he wants to find some talking points scapegoats for when the reality is exposed in the months to come, and the 1 1/2 till the general election

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a world drying out from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post wondering if it’s the government’s job to make us happy.

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Extinction Rebellion Considers Using Drones To Shut Down Heathrow Airport

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 11:29 am

This wouldn’t put too many people’s lives at risk, right?

Extinction Rebellion considers using drones to shut London’s Heathrow Airport

Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion have drawn up plans to use drones to shut London’s Heathrow Airport this summer in a campaign to stop the construction of a third runway at Europe’s busiest airport, the group said.

The internal proposal, seen by Reuters, emerged against a backdrop of renewed campaigning by environmental groups who argue that expanding Heathrow would be incompatible with Britain’s targets to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

“On June 18, we plan to carry out nonviolent direct action to ensure Heathrow Authorities close the airport for the day, to create a ‘pause’ in recognition of the genocidal impact of high carbon activities, such as flying, upon the natural world,” Extinction Rebellion said in a statement late on Thursday.

“This is not about targeting the public, but holding the Government to their duty to take leadership on the climate and ecological emergency,” the group said.

No, it’s pretty much targeting the public, because that’s who would be affected the most. People who can’t fly to their meetings and vacations.

Heathrow Airport said the use of drones would be a “reckless action.”

“We agree with the need to act on climate change, but that requires us to work together constructively — not commit serious criminal offenses just as hardworking people prepare to spend a well-earned holiday with their family and friends,” an airport spokesman said in a statement on Friday.

At this point, Extinction Rebellion is sounding like a terrorist group

In the internal proposal written by volunteers, activists suggested using drones to force authorities to ground flights at Heathrow Airport while other protesters held picnics. The activists said they would avoid any risk to aircraft by informing the airport of their plans in advance.

If the government does not cede to their demands after disruption on June 18, the activists proposed shutting the airport for the first two weeks in July.

Right there is something called “extortion.” It’s rather surprising the OK government has picked up ER members over this already, considering how the government jumps into action over mean tweets and Facebook posts. The government has sort of responded

Several hours after the demonstration was announced on Friday, aviation minister Baroness Vere issued a stark warning that culprits will face “the full force of the law”.

The Metropolitan Police has also said it will develop “strong plans” to counter the group, which brought parts of London to a standstill during two weeks of demonstrations in April.

What happens when a plane taking off or landing hits a drone? What then, ER?

I wonder what the genocidal carbon footprint is of all those clothes imported from around the world?

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Orange County Wants A Tax Increase To Help Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 7:33 am

Strange how this always seems to involve tax increases, instead of Believers practicing what they preach

Commissioner proposes tax increase to help Orange County meet its climate-change goals

Climate change is at a crisis point, Commissioner Mark Marcoplos says, and Orange County could mount a faster response with the extra money from a quarter-cent increase in the property tax rate.

“I’ve just been thinking about it and thinking about it, and suddenly, I thought, you know, this is serious business,” Marcoplos said. “We need to do something that requires a little bit of a sacrifice to put some serious money into battling climate change.”

The county has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26% to 28% by 2025, and also to make the switch to a 100% renewable energy-based economy by 2050. Marcoplos included a list of projects that potentially could help meet those goals in his proposal.

Marcoplos’ proposed increase of 0.25-cent per $100 of assessed property value would be on top of a planned tax rate increase the county manager has proposed to help pay for operations and debt. The commissioners could approve a final tax rate increase June 11.

County Manager Bonnie Hammersley already has recommended a 1.5-cent tax rate increase this year, and possibly more increases through 2022, totaling 9.13 cents. The commissioners could also raise the tax rate by 5.8 cents now and bank the additional money for future debt payments.

A 1.5-cent increase would make the county’s tax rate 86.54 cents per $100 in property value. The owner of a $300,000 home would pay a $2,596.20 property tax bill, roughly $45 more than the current bill.

Marcoplos’s proposed 0.25-cent tax rate increase would add $7.50 to the tax bill for that $300,000 property.

It may not seem like much, but you start adding this increase into all the other cost of living increases, and it starts adding up. Further, why burden just property owners? These same people would melt down if you said that only property owners should be given a vote. Why not spread the tax around to everyone? Especially since this is an extremely liberal county. It went overwhelmingly for Hillary, Obama twice, Kerry, and Gore, thinking back through this century. It wasn’t even close. Orange County is where Chapel Hill resides.

So, why do they need a tax increase? If 74% of the residents were Hillary voters (only 1 county had higher support, Durham, which is right next to Orange), one would think they could give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, right?

He takes the property tax rate “very seriously,” Marcoplos said, but his proposed increase is a small price to pay for practical solutions to “a planetary crisis” that experts say may cause irreversible damage in 10 to 12 years.

“We’re not just throwing money away to get some mysterious climate change benefit,” he added. “There are economic benefits, creating jobs, putting money in people’s pockets with weatherization (savings), the energy savings. Right now, alternative energy is roughly equal to grid energy in cost, and it is getting more and more cost effective.”

Sounds like more of an excuse to take more money from citizens.

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DOJ To Launch Anti-Trust Investigation Into Google

By William Teach June 1, 2019 – 7:12 am

If this report is to be believed, and, it is propagating across the media, it could get very interesting

Justice Dept preparing to launch antitrust investigation into Google: report

The Justice Department is preparing to conduct an antitrust investigation into Google, a move that could increase scrutiny on the tech giant.

People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that the agency’s antitrust division has spent recent weeks laying the foundation for the probe.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which shares the department’s antitrust jurisdiction, conducted an antitrust probe into Google in 2013 into whether its business practices threatened competitors, but it declined to take any punitive action.

Sources told the Journal that the FTC agreed to allow the Justice Department to oversee the upcoming inquiry, which will likely probe Google’s business practices.

The question is whether Google is breaking American anti-trust laws. They’ve supposedly broke EU ones

(Breitbart) Breitbart News reported in March of this year that Silicon Valley giant Google has been fined $1.7 billion by the European Union for the company’s third breach of E.U. antitrust laws in three years. The latest fine against the company relates to Google’s AdSense advertising service and “illegal practices in search advertising brokering to cement its dominant market position,” according to European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

It should be interesting when Democrat groups, those running for president, and those in Congress start coming out in favor of this Big Company.

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More Chicago Schools Freaking Over Circle Game Photos

By William Teach May 31, 2019 – 4:20 pm

I mentioned a different Chicago school the other day. It’s almost like the kids are, get this, playing a game, not virulent white supremacists

‘Circle game’ gestures found in Oak Park middle schools’ yearbook photos

Oak Park District 97 officials are discussing their next steps after finding photos of students making the “circle game” hand gesture were found in both of its middle schools’ yearbooks.

A May 29 letter sent to families by Brooks Middle School Principal April Capuder and Julian Middle School Principal Todd Fitzgerald confirmed images showing students using the upside-down “OK” hand gesture were printed in both sets of yearbooks.

The discovery comes the same month Oak Park and River Forest High School chose to spend more than $53,000 to reprint about 1,750 student yearbooks after photos of students making similar gestures were found.

The hand gesture, commonly referred to as the “circle game,” began as part of a juvenile “made-you-look” game, but has been appropriated in recent years by white supremacists.

The article even mentions later that it was a joke to punk the media. Looks like it’s still working.

Another Chicago-area high school will reprint yearbooks because of ‘OK’ sign photo controversy

The “circle game” has turned into an end-of-year headache for Chicago’s Walter Payton College Prep, which is paying more than $22,000 to reprint yearbooks without photographs of students making a hand sign that has been co-opted by white supremacists.

In the game, people flash the “OK” sign below the waist and try to get others to look.

“Our school resources and official publication will not be the home to symbology that is now being associated with white supremacy,” Principal Tim Devine wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to students, faculty and parents. “It is repugnant and odious and has no place at all in our Payton, American, and world communities.”

This article, also by the Chicago Tribune, fails to mention the 4Chan joke. Which, again, is working, as Devine goes on to lose his mind over kids playing a game.

Funny, the same people had no problem when Black Lives Matter were throwing up black power signs and saying black supremacist things for real.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 31, 2019 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Legal Insurrection, with a post on yet another nutty college course on “whiteness”.

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Good News: The New Godzilla Movie Is All About ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 31, 2019 – 10:30 am

Stuff like this guarantees the movie to not do well at the box office (and it still doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is an unlikely climate change movie

There’s an ostensible comic relief moment in Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters that accidentally recalls weather notices in today’s headlines. “Bad news,” declares a member of Monarch, the crypto-zoological agency formed to monitor the activity and habits of giant monsters around the globe. “You can just call it news,” replies chief warrant officer Jackson Barnes (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) with a defeated pout. “It’s always bad.”

The reptilian colossus Godzilla was originally conceived by Tomoyuki Tanaka, Ishirō Honda, and Eiji Tsubaraya as a nuclear-powered bugbear; Honda’s 1954 Godzilla film reflects Japan’s acute fear of atomic obliteration, a shared cultural terror rooted in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings on August 6, 1945. In the 65 years since Godzilla introduced the radioactive behemoth to the world, he has gradually evolved from antagonist to eco-hero. Where Honda’s original film taps into Japan’s national trauma to give form to nuclear devastation, Dougherty’s film recalls America’s present-day anxieties over increasingly intense weather patterns tearing across the country from coast to coast. Tornadoes are tearing across Indiana to Ohio; temperatures are rising to 100 degrees in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Savannah, Macon, all the way up to Charlottesville, a high for the season; parts of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas remain under flood watches. Last year, wildfires raged over northern California, taking a $3 billion toll on its inhabitants. Climate change, 2019’s collective boogeyman, is the monster whose name everyone knows but whose existence not everyone accepts.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters couches climate change fears in egomaniacal ignorance. Alan Jonah (Charles Dance), an embittered ex-Britishy Army colonel and determined misanthrope, foolishly believes humans have set Earth on a collision course with extinction, and that freeing the “Titans” — including King Ghidorah, the three-headed alien dragon serving as the film’s villain — will tip the scales in the planet’s favor. He and his team of eco-terrorists seek out the hidden locations of slumbering behemoths, wake them up, and set them loose on the world. Enter Godzilla, cranky at being disturbed from his long rest — he’s been MIA in the five years since the release of Gareth Edward’s Godzilla — and ready to rumble. Jonah convinces Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), one of Monarch’s paleobiologists, of his perspective; the film proves them woefully offbase. Only Godzilla can tip those scales by kicking monster butt.

This continues the long-established characterization of Godzilla as a force of nature; when Earth’s natural balance is thrown out of whack, Godzilla emerges from the depths to set things right by roasting foes with his atomic breath, incurring billions of dollars in property damage in the process. Of course, sending in a monster to contain a monster is an extreme answer to an extreme problem. A positive outcome still means countless lives lost, homes and businesses reduced to rubble and ash, and iconic baseball stadiums left smushed into pavement. When the ruckus ends and mankind’s monster triumphs, the damage has already been done. It’s hard to call that a victory. In its extravagant way, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, pleads for environmental stewardship: Jackson’s “bad news” line isn’t a throwaway but a sober acknowledgement. Weather reports are rarely good. In fact, they’re usually dangerous.

It really doesn’t get any better than that in the following paragraphs. In fact, it gets worse. Nutjobs, just complete nutjobs.

Can’t we just get a good movie without a Message anymore?

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