If All You See…

…is an evil CO2 infused can of beverage, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Political Clown Parade, with a post on Mexico paying for the wall by becoming the wall.

It’s smiles week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The trees are getting water, fish are free to swim all over, and the Dodgers are still kicking butt. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Independent Sentinel covers the big win by Gibson Bakery over Oberlin College
  2. Weasel Zippers notes the TSA policy on Americans needed papers to fly, but not illegal aliens
  3. The Right Scoop has Maxine Waters losing her mind over Trump’s Mexico win
  4. The Other McCain covers guy who tweeted that Trump should be in jail finding himself in jail for solicitation of minors
  5. The Lid discusses Democrats in the House thinking they deserve a pay raise
  6. The American Conservative discusses the summer of grievance grift
  7. Raised On Hoecakes covers students not having heard of D-Day
  8. Powerline notes ‘climate change’ causing water to go up and down!
  9. Patterico’s Pontifications highlights Connecticut saving us from the scourge of unlicensed eyebrow techs
  10. Moonbattery shows what teaching in the face of 3rd World invasion looks like
  11. LL1885 covers the failure of Common Core
  12. Legal Insurrection notes Ilhan Omar against supporting Jew hating Linda Sarsour
  13. Jihad Watch covers Islamic teachers instructing on youths to riot in Indonesia
  14. hogewash highlights a gorgeous spider in space
  15. And last, but not least, Geller Report shows Leftists calling for annihilate the Jews Day in NYC

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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Democrats Seem Pretty Upset That Trump Forced Deal With Mexico To Limit Illegal Immigration

See, it’s pretty interesting, as past Congresses have passed laws against illegal immigration, as well as the Constitution requiring that it work to stop invasion of the nation

Democrats blast Trump for forcing Mexico deal to cut illegal immigration

Democrats lashed out in all directions at President Trump after he won concessions from Mexico to try to stop the flow of illegal immigrants at the border.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chided the president Saturday for his method, saying his threat of tariffs was unbecoming of a friendly country’s treatment of a neighbor.

But Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer took a different approach, saying — seemingly with as much sarcasm as can drip on Twitter — that since Mr. Trump has struck a deal, he can stop talking about illegal immigration.

“Now that that problem is solved, I’m sure we won’t be hearing any more about it in the future,” Mr. Schumer said.

Just days before Mr. Schumer had predicted Mr. Trump would cave and find a reason to revoke his tariff threat.

It’s almost like Democrats want unfettered access to the U.S. by non-citizens. Of course, the same Democrats threw hissy fits when reports of Trump bandying the notion of releasing illegal aliens in sanctuary jurisdictions came out.

Trump’s big win leaves critics sputtering

Because President Trump emerges as a clear winner from his week-long confrontation with Mexico over our neighbor’s lax enforcement of its southern border, reflexive Trump critics will scramble to find some way of containing what is a clear Trump triumph, which came with assists by Vice President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who conducted the key negotiations.

Already we have heard about long-term damage to trust between the North American allies, about investor nervousness and Trump’s unpredictability. This sort of flailing-about to deny the obvious says nothing about Trump and much about those critics who can no more admit he played high-stakes poker and won a round on border security than they can admit that the president delivered a magnificent tribute to the heroes of Normandy on Thursday.

In front page article, the Washington Post also notes

Pelosi accuses Trump of ‘threats and temper tantrums’ in Mexico negotiations

That’s all she and the Democrats have. Whines. Because the way Trump did it mostly worked. It should be mentioned that the #NeverTrumpers on the Right are also melting down. They’ve allowed their personal animosity up to hatred of Trump to affect their belief in policies that benefit America and limit illegal immigration..

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Coca Cola Is Totally Fighting ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

Are they doing this for real or just patronizing climarubes?

The article from the We Mean Business tweet is actually from July 2018, but, Warmists love to reuse everything again and again. One has to wonder, though, how much “carbon pollution” is output from Coke’s massive use of fossil fueled vehicles to transport and distribute all their CO2 laden products pretty much everywhere.

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If All You See…

…is an evil refrigerator causing the temperature to spike very soon!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on what the media’s missing as they obsess over trash white supremacists.

And get your butt off that clean counter.

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Hot Take: Dodgeball Is A Tool Of Oppression For Dehumanization Or Something

The researchers are probably the people picked last in school and the ones always getting pelted with the balls

(Washington Post) One of gym classes’ most common games is being used as a tool of “oppression,” according to a team of Canadian researchers.

Dodgeball in phys-ed classes teaches students to dehumanize and harm their peers, professors from three Canadian universities said in a presentation this week at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Vancouver. A paper on the subject is set to appear in the journal European Physical Education Review.

“When you’re setting up the environment for students to learn, and you introduce the idea that it’s okay to slam the ball at whomever you like, even if it’s with a soft ball, the intention is there,” Joy Butler, a professor who studies pedagogy and curriculum development at University of British Columbia, said in a phone interview.

“When students think it’s okay because they’re being told it’s okay to do that, what do they learn? People say [dodgeball] is being used as an outlet for aggression or catharsis. I suspect that this is where they’re learning that.

Researchers observed the more athletic and authoritative students in the class established rules and practices without input from other students, including creating their own teams, which allowed them to gang up on other students.

ZOMG, they’re learning real life? The Horror!

Gym classes are largely centered around games, she said, which is can be great, but can also exclude students with different strengths.

“If one thing were to come out of this it would be for P.E. teachers to look at their curriculums and look for balance,” she said. “And that could mean dropping games and including other activities: outdoor education, fitness, gymnastics, aquatics.”

That’s at the end, and something I can agree with. Really, dodgeball is a game, and a violent one, that most kids like playing, but, does it really help with physical education and getting more fit? Not really. Which is why it was rarely played. It’s something that the gym teacher trots out once in a blue moon. Do they really need dodgeball? Nope. But, really, the point of the article is basically Barking Moonbat Category 5.

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Excitable Jay Inslee Says Trump’s Stance On ‘Climate Change’ Is Treason

Poor Jay Inslee, still trying to get noticed as he bases his whole campaign on his ‘climate change’ beliefs and policies, despite failing to get the citizens of the state where he was governor to pass those policies

AOC referred to Warmists who refuse to implement ‘climate change’ policies as “climate delayers”, saying they were as bad as people who do not believe in anthropogenic climate change. I’d say that climahypocrites are delayers, right? From the article

In a Wednesday interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington governor and longshot 2020 Democrat candidate Jay Inslee told NBC News correspondent Cynthia McFadden that President Trump’s stance on global warming is “treason.”

A partial transcript is as follows: 

CYNTHIA MCFADDEN: Last night President Trump was interviewed by Piers Morgan and he said he was just shocked, amazed that Prince Charles cared so much about climate change. After all, he was a prince and he didn’t need to worry about the future like that. So it’s a serious question. There are those, including the president of this country, who are climate change deniers. Is it worth having the debate with them, the scientific debate with them? Or do you just skip over them and go to the people who believe?

GOV JAY INSLEE: First off, a lot more people, despite the constant lies—and, by the way, we ought to be aggrieved morally by this. I was thinking—I was shaving this morning thinking about what we were going to talk about today. The fact that we have the elected leader of the United States of America who willfully lied to us about something that is an existential threat ought to be something that we are outraged about. We should not become inured to this or passive about this. If we had a president of the United States who told us that the communist threat was just a hoax perpetrated by the Council of Foreign Relations—you know, that would have been if not treasonous, at least something that—a moral abomination. And we cannot allow ourselves to become accustomed to this.

Interesting, because so many Democrats were telling us that the communist threat was over-blown. They were and are also saying that the threat from Islamic extremists is over-blown and “Islamophobia.” We actually had and have facts on those two situations. All we have is that the climate has warmed, but not rock-sold scientific facts assigning blame beyond that this is normal for earth. Anyhow, if you’re running around the country using tons of fossil fuels to complain about climate change from fossil fuels, aren’t you, in fact, saying that this is all a hoax?

This is a moral outrage. It is a gross failure of the commander in chief. And I don’t use the word treason very often, but when someone lies to the American people, when the entire intelligence community is telling the president of the United States that this is a national security threat of the first dimension and he is willing to lie to the American people, I don’t think we should take this lying down. I don’t think it should go without comment. And I think people should raise their voices about it, as I am here. And if you want to know why some people still deny climate change, well, the president of the United States is telling them to deny climate change. It’s really not really their fault. And so I think that we need to be a little more vocal about this, number one.

What’s the morality of using tons of world killing Bad Weather causing fossil fuels to tell us that we’re doomed?

Number two, he is failing. He’s failing in many ways. He’s failing on trade policy. He’s failing to unite the country. But he’s failing to fool people, because in the last twelve months the number of Americans who believe climate change deserves a commonsense response has gone up twelve percent, despite his lies and his tweets. And the reason this is happening is you just can’t ignore seeing a town of twenty-five thousand in Paradise, California, burn to the ground. I went there at night and drove around at night with Jerry Brown’s security forces. And it felt like a post-apocalypse Hollywood movie.

Who’s lying now? That fire was caused by Mankind, yes, in the form of malfeasance by the utility company, Pacific Gas and Electricity. In an area that typically gets very dry because of geography, made worse due to environmental policies on clearing brush and old growth. Nothing to do with climate change, natural, man-caused, or any combination.

But, hey, Jay needs someone to notice him, so he does his Goracle podium thumping schtick.

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Trump Announces Deal With Mexico To Avoid Tariffs

Who’s hit worse, the #Resistance or the #NeverTrumpers? I’ve seen more #NeverTrumpers losing their minds on Twitter, in comments, and on their blogs than #Resistance over the threat of tariffs. Maybe you’ve seen the other way. They just don’t get that Trump does things differently, but, they are all infused with TDS

US makes deal with Mexico on tariffs, immigration, Trump announces

The U.S. has reached an agreement with Mexico that heads off the start of tariffs on Monday.

The deal, announced by President Trump via tweet on Friday night, is said to include plans to return migrants seeking asylum to Mexico, where they will remain until their claims can be processed.

“I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico. The Tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the U.S. on Monday, against Mexico, are hereby indefinitely suspended,” he said. “Mexico, in turn, has agreed to take strong measures to….stem the tide of Migration through Mexico, and to our Southern Border. This is being done to greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration coming from Mexico and into the United States. Details of the agreement will be released shortly by the State Department. Thank you!”

Mexico promises to deploy its National Guard throughout Mexico, particularly at the border, increase actions to dismantle human trafficking operations to smuggle individuals across the border, and take extra steps to coordinate with the American government to share information and “better protect and secure our common border,” according to a statement from the State Department.

Trump thinks of things along a business related line, not a typical diplomacy related line, which can take forever to get done. He is rather the bull in the china shop. It doesn’t always work, but, neither does diplomacy.

Some Democrats responded with ire even in the wake of the new deal. One was 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who tweeted: “The damage of Trump’s reckless trade policies and tariffs has already been done. What we see is yet another example of him trying to be both the arsonist who created this problem in the first place and the firefighter who wants credit for addressing it.”

Poor Beto, still trying to get noticed. Regardless, if Mexico sticks to the agreement, you can bet Trump will try and hook them up on some deal, offering the carrot.

PS: The minute I flipped over to Twitter after posting this, I ran across multiple #NeverTrumpers finding a way to make this negative. Sigh.

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NY Times Warmist Upset That Democratic Party Is Trying To Downplay ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

Warmist Justin Gillis rears his head, and, strangely, I somewhat agree with him

The Democratic Party Is Trying to Downplay Climate Change. Don’t Let It.

Now we know. The Democratic Party establishment in Washington really believes it is going to get away with running another round of presidential primaries in which the climate crisis is basically hidden in the attic.

The proof came this week, when the Democratic National Committee informed one of the candidates, Jay Inslee, that it had turned down his call to hold a candidate debate specifically about climate change.

People are roasting alive in California towns hit by the deadliest wildfires in the state’s history. Midwestern cities are reeling from deluge upon deluge. Coastal communities are starting to drown from a relentlessly rising sea.

None of that is enough, apparently, for the Democratic Party to choose to put this issue front-and-center in the primary campaign. Not only did the D.N.C. turn Mr. Inslee down; according to him, the party informed him that he would be banned from party-sponsored debates if he took part in any unofficial candidate debate on climate change.

In a statement, the party declared it would not schedule any single-issue debates, so that voters would “have the ability to hear from candidates on dozens of issues of importance.” That might make sense if the D.N.C. were only planning two or three debates. It is planning 12; surely the party can afford to devote a twelfth of its debate time to the issue that threatens to throw human civilization into crisis.

I wonder why they’re trying to stay away from this in televised debates?

In fairness to the Democrats, turning the climate issue to their advantage in a general election is certainly going to be tricky. Only a decade ago, Republicans like John McCain took the problem seriously, but now the Republican Party can be counted on for relentless demagogy about any solutions proposed by the Democrats. The Bolsheviks are coming! (big snip)

So I have a proposal for the Democratic candidates: All of you care about the climate crisis, and many of you have already put a lot of work into showing the voters that you do. I suggest that you simply refuse to accept the D.N.C. edict. If the party will not host a climate debate, agree among yourselves that you are going to have one. Ask one of the cable channels to put it on the air.

Which is why I agree with Justin: they should hold at least one debate on ‘climate change’, and make it a bigger part of all the others. That way, the People will know exactly how the Dems policies will harm their lives and money and freedom.

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If All You See…

…is an area flooded from extreme weather from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on prayers now being a political weapon.

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