Slate Spins Wheel And Decides That Deodorant Is Now Part Of The Patriarchy

By William Teach June 24, 2019 – 10:30 am

There are some days I think that Trump should start a big war with Iran, because it would mean that the nutters would stop inventing things to whine about. The thing about Peak Wokeness is that you never get there: the virtue signaling barking moonbats will always be able to find some minor, tiny thing and turn it into a mountain

From the “article“, which is nominally about the rise of natural deodorants, but, goes all woke

The answer is a little bit of both. We don’t need aluminum-free deodorant, but the social implications of products that allow women to sweat are good anyway. Deodorants were first sold in the late 1800s, with antiperspirants following shortly thereafter. But it took a bit of time for the concept of masking and/or stopping sweat to take off. Early marketing campaigns, as journalist Sarah Everts has reported, were designed to make women—and they were first marketed just to women—embarrassed about the entire concept of perspiration. A few years ago, Everts dug up sponsored newspaper stories from an early antiperspirant company called Odorono (that expands to: odor-o-no). They had titles like “The most humiliating moment in my life: When I overheard the cause of my unpopularity among men” (spoiler: it was sweat) and “If you long for romance don’t let your dress offend with ‘armhole odor.’ ”

Nowadays, it’s practically expected that women aren’t supposed to sweat through their armpits, which is why I’ve been using antiperspirants since I was in middle school. Using Clean Queen would be something of a sweating experiment for me, and one I was embarking on during the beginning of a new relationship. He’s a nice guy, but thanks to a literal century of the kinds of ads in the vein of the above, it felt fundamentally unwise. So, I planned my outfits carefully to not show pit stains: a tank top paired with a billowy cover-up, a jumpsuit in a dark color.

Sorry, chickie Shannon Palus, men aren’t expected to sweat through their non-workout clothes, either. And, yes, controlling odor. I use it every day even though I’m not much of a pit sweater, nor do I get stinky (more of a head and foot sweater). Some people need to use it more than others.

So, me and my luxury deodorant are not exactly bucking the patriarchy. Either way, our week together was a little slimy, but overall it exceeded my expectations. I’ve been using antiperspirants for so many years that I was surprised at how little I sweated, and I quickly stopped worrying so much about if my clothing would hide it. Plus, the Clean Queen kept my pits smelling like baking soda, though I’m now curious if I’d even smell that bad with nothing. The best part: I texted the new boyfriend, whom I had spent a significant chunk of my experiment hanging out with, to ask if he had even noticed the switch. A firm “nope.”

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Say, What Will It Take To Win A Green New Deal Or Something

By William Teach June 24, 2019 – 6:58 am

Remember, folks, that the Green New Deal has nothing to do with Socialism nor politics, they just want to save the planet from having a fever

What Will it Take to Win a Green New Deal?

The push for a Green New Deal (GND) that’s become a big topic of political discussion in the US has come north. At the beginning of May 2019, the Pact for a Green New Deal was launched publicly in Canada. It was endorsed by a range of organizations and prominent individuals. Behind the scenes, staff from a number of major NGOs including Greenpeace and Leadnow are playing key roles in the initiative.

The Pact calls the GND “a vision of rapid, inclusive and far-reaching transition, to slash emissions, protect critical biodiversity, meet the demands of the multiple crises we face, and create over a million jobs in the process. It would involve the full implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) including the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), dozens of other pieces of legislation, new programs and institutions, and a huge mobilization calling on the creativity and participation of all of us.”

The Pact sets out “two fundamental principles” for a GND: “1. It must meet the demands of Indigenous Knowledge and science and cut Canada’s emissions in half in 11 years while protecting cultural and biological diversity”, and “2. It must leave no one behind and build a better present and future for all of us.” (snip)

It does matter what the specific GND policies will be – but not only or mainly for the reason that some anti-capitalists think. Some radicals in the US have dismissively criticized the GND championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic politicians for not targeting the capitalist system itself. In a much more constructive reflection, British socialist Richard Seymour has asked if the GND depends “on magical thinking about technology and capitalism? Are the legislative tools it looks to adequate? Is it internationalist, or can it be? Does it risk further commodifying the natural world?” Seymour suggests “we need the GND plus something else.”

In other words, they want to make sure they target the capitalist system itself. In case you missed it, the link goes to The Socialist Project, which is pretty much as far Modern Socialist as you would think, and was originally published in The New Socialist

It’s more useful to think about a GND in the way McDonald suggests: “what a Green New Deal must do is begin to establish the political and cultural conditions in which this scale of transition becomes possible.” As US socialist Thea Riofrancos puts it (quoting left critic of the GND Jasper Bernes): “‘shifting the discussion, gathering political will, and underscoring the urgency of the climate crisis.’ If, through the vehicle of the amorphous Green New Deal, left forces might achieve these three tasks, that strikes me as an exceedingly important development; not an end in and of itself, of course, but it’s unclear to me how a pathway to radical transformation wouldn’t pass through these three crucial tests of political capacity.”

Put simply, what matters most about a GND is that it can serve as a tool that people can use to start to build a larger and more powerful movement for climate justice. What we need is many more people in motion. Another document that, like the Leap Manifesto of 2015, gets some people talking and influences left politics but doesn’t lead to mass action won’t cut it.

They want to use the manufactured “climate crisis” to institute all their Modern Socialism ideas. That Leap Manifesto is a doozy of far, far, far left ideas, which are actually far, far right ones, since they involve more and more government, moving into the Authoritarian model.

A clearer strategy for winning a GND has been proposed by 350.org’s new Our Time campaign. Our Time aims to mobilize young people “to vote for Green New Deal champions and against politicians in the pocket of Big Oil” in the federal election this fall and then “be ready after the election with a mass movement.”

They want the people who do not really understand Real Life yet, who do not understand the implications of their beliefs, and how they would be giving up their modern lifestyle, money, and freedom to Government.

We’ll need a really powerful movement because we’re not just up against the fossil fuel companies. The banks and other large corporations with significant investments in fossil fuels will also oppose any GND worthy of the name. So too will other capitalists who hate the idea of FPIC, massive public sector spending that doesn’t boost their profits, and a government job guarantee for anyone whose job is lost in a transition to renewable energy. In other words, supporters of a GND are up against the Canadian capitalist class (although some sectors are more hostile than others). We also have to contend with political parties that enthusiastically defend or, in the case of the NDP, accept the system that has us on a path to catastrophic climate change: capitalism.

Nope, this has nothing to do with Socialism at all.

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Surprise? After Trump Delays Deportations Operation Pelosi Calls For Amnesty For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach June 24, 2019 – 6:43 am

President Trump reportedly spent twelve minutes talking with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the planned operation to pick up roughly 2,000 illegal aliens who are under final deportation orders as signed by federal judges. He supposedly wanted to give Congress time to get something done on funding to deal with the current crisis at the border. The House and Senate have slightly different ideas on how the $4.5 billion would be allocated, and need to reconcile their two bills. So, of course, we get this garbage

Nancy Pelosi to Donald Trump: Thanks for Halting a Few Deportations, Now Give Us a Giant Amnesty

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to President Donald Trump’s decision to delay the deportations of a few hundred recent illegal migrants by asking for a nationwide amnesty for millions of migrants living in the United States.

“Mr. President, delay is welcome,” she tweeted, adding, “Time is needed for comprehensive immigration reform.”

In recent weeks, Democrats have been stepping up their calls for “comprehensive immigration reform,” usually by praising the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty and cheap-labor bill. Democrat’s use of “comprehensive immigration reform” is shorthand for a political deal that would promise better border security for Americans in exchange for an immediate nationwide amnesty that would provide Democrats at least 10 million new voters in a decade.

Pelosi’s tweet is a direct response to Trump’s tweet

Democrats say they aren’t for open borders, but, they entice people to come illegally, they’re against the Border Patrol, ICE, any border barriers, requiring asylum seekers to show up in court, nor deporting any illegal, even those that are clearly criminals. And they want to give them cheap and easy amnesty, jumping the line that lawful citizenship seekers are waiting in, following the rules, and paying the money.

Oh, and here’s this schmuck

https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1142824856809037824

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Police Arrested 70 Hotcoldwetdry Protesters Outside Of Evil Carbon Polluting NY Times Building Or Something

By William Teach June 23, 2019 – 3:12 pm

Who can blame them? The NY Times building has a huge carbon footprint, and the company itself uses vast amounts of fossil fuels to gather, create, and disseminate their version of the news

Police arrest 70 climate change protesters outside New York Times

Police arrested 70 environmental protesters outside the New York Times headquarters who laid down in the street and climbed onto the building to demand the newspaper start referring to climate change as a climate emergency, police and media reports said.

New York police arrested 67 people and Port Authority police arrested three others, a police spokesman said. Charges were pending.

Protesters blocked the street by lying down in a “die-in” and affixed a banner to the skyscraper in midtown Manhattan saying “climate change = mass murder,” with the word “change” crossed out and replaced with “emergency,” according to pictures posted by the website of 1010 Wins radio.

Another banner was attached to the Port Authority Bus Terminal across the street saying simply “climate emergency.”

Demonstrators chanted “tell the truth,” a reporter for The Guardian on the scene tweeted.

According to 1010 Wins, a spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion, Eve Mosher, said the group wants the media to report on “the climate emergency” so that “people can start pushing for more radical responses.”

Another protester, Donna Nicolino, told The Guardian she was ready to be arrested because “we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change as the crisis it is.”

Yup, these are the American offshoot of the UK created Extinction Rebellion nutters, who apparently think that the NY Times, which has propagated all sorts of climate hysteria through the years, is part of the problem.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 23, 2019 – 1:42 pm

…is

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post wondering if you really want you daughter to read Teen Vogue.

It’s ladies on the water week! As always, these posts are open discussion.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach June 23, 2019 – 10:06 am

Patriotic Pinup Marina Kmet

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. Summer is in the air, there’s a hawk that keeps flying around behind my townhouse (which is cool), and the Dodgers keep on winning. And, if you’re going to have a touch of insomnia, it’s great when it happens on a night were you can sleep in. This pinup is by Marina Kmet, with a wee bit of help (and, yes, I know she’s Russia. I’ve hijacked pinups from artists from other countries, as well)

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline discusses the crazy documents about Ilhan Omar’s marriages
  2. Climate Etc. covers climate science’s “masking bias” problem
  3. Ice Age Now wonders when we start burning “witches” to solve ‘climate change’
  4. Adrienne’s Corner notes that Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t on Iran
  5. American Power covers decriminalizing magic mushrooms in California
  6. Brass Pills notes that almost no straight people want to date the gender confused
  7. Chicks On The Right covers what the father of a man killed by an illegal has to say to AOC on “concentration camps”
  8. Creeping Sharia explains the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association
  9. Datechguy’s Blog re-answers the question of why the left loves Islamism
  10. DC Clothesline covers LGBT people intentionally contaminating the blood supply
  11. Flopping Aces notes pervy Democrats sexually harassing Hope Hicks
  12. Jihad Watch discusses the UK finally arresting rape gang members (who are Muslims)
  13. Just One Minute covers NY’s crazy green new deal
  14. Legal Insurrection notes Anarchists threatening to dox any freshman who joins a Conservative group at UT Austin
  15. And last, but not least, Maggie’s Farm discusses human hazards of conservation

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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Trump Delays Plan To Deport Illegal Aliens Under Final Orders

By William Teach June 23, 2019 – 8:54 am

This really does make one wonder what the real idea is behind this. Is he really attempting to play nice with Democrats? Or is he setting them up? Or, it could be that ICE wasn’t ready, or that the delay will make it easier to get the illegals in a week or two

Trump Says He’ll Delay Deportation Operation Aimed at Undocumented Families

President Trump on Saturday delayed plans for nationwide raids to deport undocumented families, but he threatened to unleash Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in two weeks if Democrats do not submit to changes in asylum law they have long opposed.

The announcement, made on Twitter as Mr. Trump was meeting with aides at Camp David, was the president’s latest attempt to pressure his adversaries into making immigration changes. Last month, he threatened to levy tariffs on Mexico unless it did more to stop the flow of migrants into the United States.

Immigration agents had been planning to sweep into several immigrant communities in 10 major cities — including Miami, Los Angeles, Baltimore and Chicago — beginning on Sunday. Officials said on Friday that they had targeted about 2,000 families in a show of force intended to demonstrate their strict enforcement of immigration laws. Children of immigrants — some of whom were born in the United States — had faced the prospect of being forcibly separated from their undocumented parents.

The president’s abrupt reversal on Saturday came as lawmakers were considering a measure to send $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the border, money the Trump administration has said is desperately needed to handle a huge influx of migrants.

Some Democrats, including members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, had threatened to withhold their support for the funding package when it comes to a vote in the House this upcoming week, in protest of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies. The specter of high-profile immigration raids had risked imperiling its chances of passage.

So, Democrats were willing to block a bill meant to help all the people showing up at border demanding asylum because a federal agency was going to do the job they were created to do, namely, enforce federal immigration laws regarding people being unlawfully present in the United States? After all this time of whining about “concentration camps”? Huh.

BTW, not once in this NY Times piece, you know, The Paper Of Record, is it mentioned that the illegals in question are under final deportation orders, having gone through the full process and judges making those final determinations.

Democratic lawmakers and immigration activists had demanded in recent days that the raids be prevented, calling them a cruel attack on minority communities whose only crime was illegally entering the country.

The law states that the penalty for such is a small fine and deportation. If they do not like this, change the law. Consider that many have actually broken other laws, usually including identity theft, which harms citizens. They are also sucking up funds and resources that should go to legal U.S. citizens.

But Mr. Trump made clear he planned to use the threat of family deportations to extract concessions from Democratic lawmakers. He said he had delayed the raids “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, Deportations start!” he tweeted.

Of course, Democrats are still nutso

That came out right before Trump said he would delay the raids. Here’s a sitting member of the U.S. Congress, who took an oath to uphold the Constitution and all laws, telling people they should shelter illegal aliens under final deportation orders. People were wondering if she would open up her own fancy pants home to shelter illegals.

If Democrats are smart, they’ll negotiate to help fix some issues at the border. We all know they won’t, because there are enough nutters like AOC, who will be tweeting and speaking out, getting their soundbites, and telling U.S. citizens that they aren’t serious about protecting the U.S.

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Your Fault: Mental Stress Of Coastal Residents Rising Due To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 22, 2019 – 4:07 pm

See, if only you hadn’t driven a fossil fueled vehicle and/or taken a fossil fueled flight to vacation in these coastal areas providing them with money and jobs they wouldn’t have mental stress, you guys

Mental Stress on Rise as Coastal Towns Confront Climate Threats

When community leaders in the town of Piermont, just north of New York City, ask residents, “How long do you want to live here?” the question is more than a personal one.

Piermont, parts of which are set on a narrow peninsula that juts out into the Hudson River, is hugely at risk from rising sea level rise linked to climate change, and may become one of the early U.S. communities that need to retreat to higher ground.

Right now, flood walls can buy time. But in Piermont, “retreat has been on the agenda for a long time”, said Kristin Marcell, who has helped residents discuss the idea as part of her job with the New York State Water Resources Institue.

In other words, her jobs is to Scare people which gives them all this mental stress

Dealing with worsening land losses can take a massive toll on communities who are preparing to uproot themselves as their homes vanish under their feet, said Robin Bronen, who heads the Alaska Institute for Justice.

The group has been working with 15 remote coastal Alaskan communities facing imminent climate-related threats, she said at the gathering at Columbia University.

“There’s an enormous amount of grief from leaving these places,” she said.

“This conversation needs to really, really include what is the mental health” situation of the person moved, she said.

The closest station to Piermont, NY, is at The Battery, at the lower tip of Manhattan. The actual tide gauge, with actual data that goes back 1856, shows “The relative sea level trend is 2.85 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.09 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1856 to 2018 which is equivalent to a change of 0.94 feet in 100 years.” That’s below average for a Holocene warm period. If idiots want to scare themselves over something that is entirely normal and has little to do with Mankind, well, when are they going to give up their own use of fossil fuels? If they really cared, they would demand that Route 9W be moved outside their town. Or blow it up. And no more fossil fueled ships at their marinas.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 22, 2019 – 1:00 pm

…is carbon pollution floating freely in the sky, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on ABC News covering Joe Biden and his son’s sketchy dealings while Joe was VP.

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Bummer: ICE Set To Start Mass Arrests Sunday

By William Teach June 22, 2019 – 10:30 am

This will make the supporters of illegal immigration super sad all weekend long

ICE set to begin immigration raids in 10 cities on Sunday

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pressing forward with a plan to remove, arrest and deport families with court-ordered removals in 10 cities beginning Sunday, according to a senior immigration official, after President Donald Trump’s tweet revealing an operation was imminent.

ICE has said it was considering options to arrest and deport families who have gone through their legal proceedings but has refrained from publicly providing the scope and timeframe of the operation, which officials say could lead to a situation where a family is separated and could cause a backlash against the department. (snip)

Last year, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the nation’s immigration courts, announced that it had begun tracking family cases filed by the Department of Homeland Security in 10 immigration court locations: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco.

The cases are being expedited to try to process the families in under a year.

Morgan said ICE had worked closely with the Justice Department on the family expedited docket and that the “results were very disappointing,” claiming that some families haven’t attended their immigration hearings.

In February, ICE sent around 2,000 letters to families who already had received final orders of removal by judges in absentia, asking them to self-report to local ICE offices by March to comply with the orders, Morgan said. The upcoming operation is expected to target approximately 2,000 people, according to the senior immigration official.

Once arrests take place, families will likely be moved to ICE family residential detention centers as the agency works with consulates to obtain travel documents, according to the official. Some people will likely appeal their cases, but eventually some will be removed.

The official added that when there are US citizen children in the family, the parents will be fitted with an ankle bracelet and allowed to stay with that child to allow time to get affairs in order while other undocumented family members remain in custody, the official added, nothing that no one wants a situation where a child is left alone.

It’s time for them to go goodbye. They have their final deportation orders, and did not leave. Now they will be made to leave. Announcing this operation is most likely a way to attempt to get the families to gather together, rather than being separated, making it easier to catch them all.

And anything that happens is on the illegals.

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