Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 9:21 am

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the lizards are hanging on my deck, and someone is smoking some pig nearby. This pinup is by Greg Hildebrandt, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. PJ Media covers CNN thinking the word infested is raaaaacist when Trump says it
  2. Althouse discusses the purity racquet in the Democratic party
  3. Flopping Aces has proof that Rep. Cummings’ district is, in fact, a sh*thole
  4. Climate Change Dispatch notes AOC’s ploy to mainstream eco-fascism
  5. Jo Nova discusses “hyperwarming weirdness” and the Pause
  6. No Tricks Zone notes CO2 going up in Europe due to the things they are doing to bring it down
  7. Weasel Zippers covers Dem politicians discussing Baltimore’s crime problem (which was OK)
  8. The Right Scoop features Rand Paul telling Ilhan Omar to go back to Somalia so she can be grateful to the U.S.
  9. The People’s Cube notes the Jihad Squad hating America
  10. The Lid discusses kids being taught hate and violence in Chicago
  11. The First Street Journal has a newspaper story from 2025
  12. The Daley Gator notes that Socialism sucks the life from everything
  13. The Crawdad Hole notes that “not exonerated” means “innocent”
  14. The American Conservative discusses insane Jessica Yaniv being the Dem party poster “gal”
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline has this week in pictures, Mueller Time edition

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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Can’t Move On: Democrats Want Grand Jury Material For Mueller Report

By William Teach July 28, 2019 – 7:59 am

Democrats have had their little narrative on Russia Russia Russia since even before Trump was elected, but ramped it up to a Category 5 hurricane the minute he was elected, as you all know. The constant screeching. Elected Nutters like Swalwell and Nadler proclaiming that they have the evidence, but never showing it. All sorts of hearings, for which nothing came from them. Getting this whole idiotic Mueller investigation, which came to nothing. Demanding, DEMANDING, that Mueller himself testify. All for nothing. So, now

House panel seeks grand jury material underlying Mueller report

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Friday that his committee is filing an application in court to obtain the grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.

Nadler said that the panel is seeking the material in order to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump — perhaps the Democratic chairman’s most significant and public acknowledgement that his committee is considering impeachment as a possibility.

“Because Department of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of the sitting president, the United States House of Representatives is the only institution of the federal government that can now vote President Trump accountable for these actions,” Nadler said at a press conference Friday afternoon, quoting from the application his committee was about to file in court.

Strange, because the majority of Democrats voted against impeachment the other week.

“To do so, the House must have access to all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional duty power of the utmost gravity — recommendation of articles of impeachment. That duty calls in the first instance to the House Committee on the Judiciary,” he continued.

The case was filed in the Washington, D.C., District Court Friday afternoon. The filing argues that the committee needs the grand jury material in order to determine whether to recommend impeachment articles, and it equates the committee’s position to the one Congress was in during the Nixon era when a court disclosed grand jury information from the Watergate investigation.

The Justice Department has allowed Nadler and other Democrats to view a less-redacted version of Mueller’s report that still restricts grand jury material. That information is subject to secrecy under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e), unless a court rules otherwise. (snip)

Roughly 10 percent of Mueller’s public report is redacted to conceal details related to ongoing investigations, classified information, details that could infringe on the privacy of third parties and grand jury material. According to The New York Times, about one-fifth of the redacted portions restrict grand jury material.

Nadler is attempting say this is just like Nixon and Watergate, but, really, this is just Trump Derangement Syndrome, and easy to recognize for even the most partisan of judges. It’s a fishing expedition.

Legal experts have told The Hill that Democrats are unlikely to win a case for the grand jury material unless they launch a formal impeachment inquiry. Rule 6(e) generally provides that grand jury proceedings be kept secret, with a few exceptions allowing a judge to grant a court order to release them.

All these Democrats are doing is making it easier for Trump to win re-election in 2020.

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Climate Insanity Today: EU Commission Blames Earthquakes On Climate Scam

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 4:41 pm

This isn’t just some minor group making this unscientific link

Insane.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean soon to rise up and swamp all the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day Weasel Zippers, with a post on Guatemala reversing course on asylum agreement, giving Trump a win.

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Eco-Apartheid: The Climate Crisis (scam) Is Intersecting With Housing And We’re Doomed

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 10:48 am

Here’s one more thing that the Cult of Climastrology is attempting to hijack

Eco-Apartheid Is Real
The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing.

The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much of Western Europe. And this weekend sweltering heat baked half the United States. For some media outlets and climate advocates, the heat waves were a chance to remind people: This isn’t normal. This is what the climate emergency feels like, and this is how it kills. We also saw some media outlets publish recent maps that show which parts of cities are heat islands. Of course, those converge with low-income and racialized neighborhoods, while greenery that cools the air is found disproportionately in white and affluent areas.

To top it off, we learned on Monday that New York utility Con Ed intentionally cut off power to the majority-black Canarsie neighborhood to avoid risking broader blackouts. Amazingly, the utility wasn’t prepared for a major heat wave and sacrificed low-income black customers to ride out the crisis. Eco-apartheid, which I define as a regime of greening affluence for the few at the expense of the many, is the path of business as usual.

And yet there was something frustratingly superficial about all this coverage, even when it focused on inequality.

In the era of the Green New Deal, journalists and activists still struggle to convey just how profoundly the climate emergency, our political economy, and social inequalities are connected. As a result, they’re still missing how much egalitarian green investment—like a Green New Deal for Housing—could address social, economic, and environmental crises at the same time. And while this policy idea is specific to the US context, an intersectional analysis here could enrich global debates about what effective and equitable green investment could look like around the world.

Strange that what is supposedly a science issue always seems to dovetail in perfectly with every other Modern Socialist complaint, eh? See, if we could just pass a Green New Deal, and one for housing, we could fix all these problems with taxes, fees, and controlling citizen’s lives, limiting freedom and choice.

Also strange is that so many of these problems appear to happen in cities run by Democrats.

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Think Progress Says We Only Have 14 Months Left To Save The Climate Or Something

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 7:24 am

There have been lots of bad Warmist predictions, such as Doom by 2000. NYC would be under water and be like Daytona Beach. That the Earth would be 2-4 degrees higher by than 1988 by 2018. And, so, since those and all the others were not working out , we then got doom in 2100. Then 2050. Then it was 20 years. Then 12. Then 18 months. And now

It’s fantastic that they use a photo with AOC and her Green New Deal. You know, the one she refuses to demand a vote on, freaked out when the Senate voted on it (along with not quite getting that a Senator co-sponsored it and submitted it in the Senate), and has said it’s more of a “blueprint”. Anyhow, why fourteen? What’s going through Excitable Joe Romm’s head?

Scientific reality makes clear that the only plausible way to preserve a livable climate — and hence modern civilization — starts with aggressive national and global cuts in carbon pollution by 2030.

But political reality makes clear that such cuts can’t happen instantly — and that global action requires leadership from the United States. After all, the U.S. is the richest country in the world and the biggest cumulative source of heat-trapping emissions over the past century.

With eight years of a pro-science president, Barack Obama, the nation made steady progress on reducing emissions and committing to future reductions, enabling a global climate deal in Paris in 2015. But with just two and a half years of an anti-science administration, national and global progress have both stalled under President Donald Trump, who has begun to abandon the Paris Accord and undermine action here and abroad.

That means November 3, 2020 — the U.S. presidential election — is the deadline for Americans who do not want to destroy the health and well-being of current generations, their children, and future generations. If Trump is reelected, the prospects for the necessary national and global cuts in carbon pollution by 2030 will be gone.

The First Street Journal notes that math is hard

I wondered: what would happen in fourteen months that would be the tipping point? According to Mr Romm, it’s the presidential election, and how President Trump must be defeated, to save the world.

Trouble is, fourteen months from July 26, 2019 is September 26, 2020, more than a month before the presidential election. Had he written fifteen months, that could have been literary license, given that the election is fifteen months and eight days away. But fourteen months? I’m supposed to give credence to the supposedly scientific arguments made by a guy who can’t even count?

Well, of course, since none of this stuff emanating from the Cult of Climastrology has anything to do with science, math, or any hard disciplines….. Joe is just pimping his normal doom and gloom. Make sure to read both articles in full.

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Not Open Borders: Activists Protest ICE Picking Up Illegal Alien In Orange County, NC

By William Teach July 27, 2019 – 7:02 am

What’s not to protest? This guy is just a poor illegal trying to make a better life, you know

Advocates protest Orange County sheriff after man taken into ICE custody

A Hillsborough man is being held in ICE custody and supporters are accusing Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood of giving tips to federal authorities, something the sheriff’s advocates said he would not do.

Jocsan Cornejo was arrested on June 23 for charges including driving while impaired, assault on a female and assault on a child under 12 years old. He was taken into ICE custody July 18, before he had the chance to bond out of county jail, according to his wife.

“This experience has been a nightmare,” Maria Huerta said. “He is our only support. I’ve had to go back to work, even though doctors have recommended against it. My kids are suffering a lot, too.”

Who is she? Wife, girlfriend, friend? Are the kids his? What about the part of DUI, assault on a female, and assault on a child under 12? And not mentioned in the above article is that he was also driving on a suspended license. Do those things matter? These are not minor issues. Or, do the Open Borders advocates prioritize making sure no illegal is deported over assault on a woman and a child? Yes, they apparently do.

The Open Borders advocates were apparently protesting the Orange County sheriff releasing Cornejo to ICE, per this and most of the articles out there. Not particularly the best illegal alien to do the protest over, eh? Here’s what the Orange County sheriff’s office had to say

(WTVD) OCDC received a detainer request for Mr. Cornejo on June 23 from a California office. On June 25, we received a second detainer request from the Cary, NC office. Both detainer requests asked us to hold Mr. Cornejo for up to 48 hours after our authority to detain him would otherwise end. As per our usual practice, detention center staff filed a copy in Cornejo’s inmate shuck. He remained detained in our facility because no one posted his bond and because his state charges were not yet resolved.

As routinely happens, on the morning of July 18, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) called to inquire about inmates for whom they had submitted detainer requests, including a request for information about Cornejo. Later, the OCDC Administrator placed a call to DHS to clarify that Cornejo did indeed have a bond reduction hearing scheduled that afternoon. During that communication, DHS verbally renewed the detainer request, asking OCDC to retain custody over him for 24 – 48 hours. DHS was told the detention center would not hold him if he became eligible for release. DHS arrived prior to Cornejo’s bond hearing and took him into custody. When the hearing concluded, the district court judge ordered Cornejo’s bond unsecured, and the clerk file stamped the order at 4:06 pm. At that time, Cornejo had already been in ICE’s custody for approximately half an hour.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office has always complied with local, state and federal law. In addition, we cooperate with local, state, and federal enforcement agencies when working together furthers the safety of those we are entrusted to protect. Our cooperation with ICE is limited to the sharing of publicly available information.

He was being held anyhow, because no one (looking at you, Miss Huerta and the OB advocates) bonded him out.

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Trump Wins At Supreme Court On Border Wall Funding

By William Teach July 26, 2019 – 7:43 pm

Just a quicky bit of information

Now waiting for Democrats to rail against the Supreme Court being illegitimate because Orange Man Bad.

PS: I still maintain that there are better ways to stop most illegal immigration, but, no one in Congress has the cajones to make it happen.

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‘Climate Change’ Is Totally A Force In The 2020 Campaign Or Something

By William Teach July 26, 2019 – 3:33 pm

It’s probably a good thing that Forbes includes a question mark in the headline

Climate Change: A Real Force In The 2020 Campaign?

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Yet, all of this said, it remains unclear whether climate change will emerge as a truly pivotal issue in the 2020 general election. Since the 1970’s, when bipartisan anxiety over declining environmental quality drove a Republican president to establish the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans have on whole professed deep concern for the environment and, more recently, climate. We same Americans have tended to vote, however, on issues that have felt more immediate and pressing, such as jobs, healthcare and education, and around lighting rods like abortion and gun rights.

A critical question, given the growing number of warnings from the likes of the U.S. government and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that global warming imperils us all, is whether the country has finally reached the point where climate will in fact be a decisive issue for voters at the polls. Environmental sociology (yes, there is such a field) refers to this as a question of salience. When it comes to decision time, does the voter prioritize environment?

This question is in fact least important among voters who would be most likely to vote for a climate candidate….

‘Climate change’ is not the environment. And even Dems put ‘climate change’ way down the list of their concerns. And then then article attempts to shift focus from Democrats to Republicans and Independents. At the end, for all the yammering, anthropogenic climate change may get people talking, but it’s still low hanging fruit that is a minor concern.

Then there’s this

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 26, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is a fish that is being wiped out from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on a monument in South Carolina to fallen police officers being removed due to a Christian inscription because a few people complained.

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