Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach November 4, 2018 – 9:02 am

Patriotic Pinup Valery Barykin

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the geese are honking, and the economy is killing it under Trump. This pinup is by Valery Barykin, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Geller Report has some interesting info on the synagogue vandalizer
  2. Yid With Lid discusses the ACLU suing a Montana sheriff for following federal immigration law
  3. Watcher of Weasels notes the inherent racism in Progressive elites
  4. This ain’t Hell… has your Sunday morning feel good stories
  5. The Right Scoop features a GOP effigy hung in utter irony
  6. The Powers That Be covers a totally “random” person interviewed by CNN
  7. The Last Tradition notes Biden and Ocasio-Cortez threatening violence
  8. The Hayride covers protesting enviro activists being litterbugs
  9. The First Street Journal discusses the unemployment rate of 3.7%
  10. The Daley Gator notes another leftist narrative biting the dust
  11. Powerline wonders if the midterms will be a wakeup call for Democrats
  12. Patterico’s Pontifications covers the male millennial layabout
  13. Pacific Pundit wonders how a radical leftist from Kentucky got a San Diego postmark
  14. neo-neocon wishes a professor good luck after writing about the lack of intellectual diversity
  15. And last, but not least, Moonbattery discusses the Trump ad that set the Left’s hair on fire

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. 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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New Democrat Idea: Let 16 And 17 Year Olds Vote For President

By William Teach November 4, 2018 – 7:49 am

Democrats should always remember that their attempts to hijack things political can always come back to bite them, like when they decided to go with the nuclear option

Washington, D.C., could lower the voting age to 16: City council is weighing proposal to give teenagers a say in the 2020 presidential election

The Washington, D.C., City Council is preparing to vote on a bill to lower the voting age to 16 for all elections, both local and federal.

WTOP-FM reports the bill won 3-0 approval in the Judiciary and Public Safety committee Thursday and will get a final vote before the full council this month.

The 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizens 18 and older the right to vote, but scholars have said it doesn’t prevent a state, or in this case, the nation’s capital, from setting a lower age.

Council member Charles Allen says his bill will ‘enfranchise the District’s young people and bring their voices into the political process.’

The new law would allow approximately 10,400 teenagers between the ages of 16 and 17 to vote in the 2020 presidential election.

More than 80% of them are identified as youth of color, WIJLA reported.

Vote16DC Campaign Manager Dave Chandrasekaran told the news outlet: ‘DC is poised to become the first major American city to grant voting-rights to 16- and 17-year-olds.

‘At a time when political discourse in this country is so divisive, it’s really inspiriting to witness how passionate D.C. youth are about having a voice and positively influencing our community.’

On one hand, the 26th may, in fact, allow a lowering of the voting age for federal elections. On the other hand, there are and have been multiple pushes for a new Constitutional Amendment to lower the age to 16 for federal elections. So it sees constitutionally shaky that D.C. can do this. You can expect a massive amount of lawsuits filed against the Democratic Party run city (crime index is 3, meaning it is safer than just 3% of U.S. cities. Most violent and property crimes are well over the U.S. average) if they pass this.

But, what’s the point? Adding 10,000 or so mushy heady, hormone addled votes won’t change anything in D.C. in the vote for president, as the city has never voted their 3 electoral college votes to anyone other than a Democrat. And how many might they actually provide? 1,000? Of course, what we will surely see is school field trips to bring the kids to vote.

What if states where the parents trend Republican and teach their kids to vote Republican were to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote for President? Well, see, a lot of these places are seeing an influx of Democrats escaping from turning their cities and states into crime ridden, over-priced, job losing, government controlling 2nd class states. Those right leaning kids could take that purple and turning it bright red.

And if we’re trusting them to vote, a very heavy responsibility, then they should have the right to have a firearm. Don’t think people won’t make that argument, including in D.C. if this passes.

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ZOMG, Daylight Savings Is Here, And Here’s What You NEED TO KNOW!!!!!!

By William Teach November 3, 2018 – 6:08 pm

If you don’t pay attention your are freaking doomed!

Daylight saving time is coming; here’s what you need to know

It’s almost time to fall back.

What’s going on: Daylight saving time will officially end this coming weekend, giving everyone an extra hour of sleep. Finally.

  • Beginning at 2 a.m. on Nov. 4, the clocks will roll back one hour.
  • So your 7 a.m. today will be your 6 a.m. next week.
  • You’ll want to set your clock back one hour if you’re awake before 2 a.m.
  • If you’re awake around 2 a.m., wait until the morning to change your clocks.

Why?: “Daylight saving time gives people that extra hour of sunlight during the warm summer months, then comes standard time when that extra hour of daylight is snatched away in the evening and shifted to the morning hours. It’s an age-old tradition that officially isn’t that old,” CBS News reports.

Did you pay attention? I really, really hope you paid attention, This Is Important!

Seriously, people, do we really need these kinds of articles? “What you need to know”? It’s a simple concept, like brushing your teeth in the morning. You turn your clocks back one hour. That’s it! No need for an article like this.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible fog caused by carbon pollution, making it hard to see the world, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on the purpose of illegal immigration.

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Bummer: Democrats Lack Robust Hotcoldwetdry Plan

By William Teach November 3, 2018 – 12:20 pm

This has give the UK Guardian a case of the sads

‘Precious little’: Democrats lack robust climate change plan despite global crisis

Democrats don’t have a plan to address climate change comprehensively – or even to a significant degree – if they regain control of the US government in the near future, despite criticizing Republicans as the party of pollution.

After failing to get conservatives on board to limit planet-warming gases through legislation or regulation, Democratic leaders in Washington are now wary of wading into another tough political fight, despite an intensifying environmental crisis.

If Democrats win back the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections, their strategy is to hold oversight hearings on Donald Trump’s environmental rollbacks and pursue more incremental and popular measures, according to close observers and a senior Democratic aide.

Environmental advocates hoping progressive politicians will lead efforts to save the planet may be shocked to learn there’s no wide-ranging strategy or headline-grabbing legislation waiting to be unveiled – even if Democrats take the White House in 2020.

You know why? Because they really do not care, either, unless the plan raises taxes and gives government more control over citizens, private entities, and the economy. Their polling surely shows that ‘climate change’ is a bottom end, negligible issue. Few even bother mentioning it at all. They know it won’t really fire up voters.

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Surprise: Warmist Drags ‘Climate Change’ Into Tree Of Life Shooting

By William Teach November 3, 2018 – 7:29 am

You just had to know that some member of the Cult of Climastrology would do this, in this case, Eve Andrews at Grist

Tree of Life and our deadly climate of change

As the rest of the country tried to figure out why Robert Bowers had targeted Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in the worst anti-Semitic massacre on American soil, news reports tied the shooting to a partnership between HIAS, the Jewish refugee-resettling organization, and Dor Hadash, one of the congregations that meet at the temple.

Dor Hadash was the congregation I grew up in, a bit of a raggedy and itinerant troupe of Reconstructionists (basically progressive Jews). In my 29 years of life, our little temple has wandered across the eastern Pittsburgh neighborhood of Squirrel Hill from the Hebrew Institute to St. Philomena’s Church (sorry, Jesus, we had to take the cross down) to Tree of Life’s giant, modern synagogue. I spent seven years in the temple’s school Dor L’Dor — a similarly scruffy affair that shifted between the living rooms belonging to its students’ families — where we learned how to read inky characters from right to left and about tzedakah. (snip)

These days, environmental stewardship is actually far less planting trees in Israel and more finding new homes for people who have been forced to leave theirs due to changing climate and natural disasters — like the cruelly maligned “migrant caravan” or victims of the Syrian crisis, or any of the Pacific Islanders who have seen their shores subsumed. The social action committee of Dor Hadash simply chose to address the human consequence of altered ecosystems. (snip)

Our new world under climate change is terrifying in many ways. But we cannot go back in time, and it’s useless to try. The best way to survive is to determine how to flourish in the new world — and Jews have been surviving for millennia, so we’ve developed some pretty good strategies.

I am mourning. I am praying every day for the healing of my mother and my family and the families of my temple and my home and my Earth. I will not waste one more thought on Robert Bowers. He is a relic of an expired world that we have no time for.

This is shameless. Does that even need to be said? Ms. Andrews is using the horrific shooting to promote her pet cult.

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NY Times: The Migrant Mob Is No Threat And We Have Laws To Deal With This Or Something

By William Teach November 3, 2018 – 7:10 am

The NY Times Editorial Board, featuring confirmed racist Sarah Jeong, has finally chimed in on the mob of Central Americans making their way to America in an attempt to force their way in. Thousands have taken Mexico up on their asylum offer. Thousands more haven’t

Common Sense on the Caravan
A group of desperate migrants walking toward the Texas border is not a threat. We have laws to protect us — and them.

The caravan of people slowly making their way on blistered feet (riding in buses and trucks paid for by someone) and thin hopes toward America’s southern border sometimes seems like an election gift to President Trump, giving him fresh meat to throw to his base on the eve of fateful midterm elections.

The Central Americans, estimated at about 3,500 people, many of them women and children (but mostly young men, just like with all the “refugees” who invaded Europe), have morphed in the president’s immigrant-bashing demagogy into an “onslaught of illegal aliens” concealing “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners,” all enabled by Democrats and, Mr. Trump “wouldn’t be surprised,” by George Soros, a favorite villain of far-right conspiracy-mongers. (snip)

Most of Mr. Trump’s description of the migrants is untrue or unwarranted. But none of it is surprising. Demonizing immigrants is his go-to move, from his “big, beautiful wall” to his call to end birthright citizenship. Not to mention the race-baiting campaign ad he tweetedfeaturing a Mexican immigrant who was convicted of killing two police officers. (um, the illegal did kill two police officers, and sanctuary jurisdictions, as run by Democrats, refused to do anything about him) (snip)

The right way to deal with the caravan crisis is to make clear that it is no crisis. The marchers pose no threat. The United States has clear laws governing refugees and well-funded agencies to enforce those laws, and it’s an embarrassing waste of money to send troops to the border. In fact, illegal border crossings have significantly declined in recent years. The country must and will continue to enforce the laws that control its borders, as Mr. Obama himself did as president during an earlier, actual surge of Central American migrants, when he took the difficult step of dispatching National Guard troops to the border and detaining many mothers and children.

And that’s where it breaks down. Yes, we do have laws. But, they have to be enforced. And when thousands just show up at the border with claims of asylum, it’s a long, long process to go through all those claims, and there aren’t enough judges. What do you do with the people? If you detain them, Democrats complain and file lawsuits. If you let them go, only a small percentage show up for their hearings. The rest disappear into America. When those who disappear are caught, Democrats will work to protect them, especially if they have been here for a few years, and more if they have children. If they are caught in a sanctuary jurisdiction for some other crime, the authorities will let them go.

Right at this moment, there is an illegal alien in Portland, Oregon who is now accused of killing his wife. ICE wanted him held for deportation, but the sheriff’s officer refused to hold him.

We don’t really know who these people are. If they get here, the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for their food, shelter, healthcare, clothing, and so forth. And will have to bear the burden of the cost when they do not return for their court dates. Money that could be used for Americans.

People seeking to partake of the American dream have always been central to America’s identity and strength. How the country treats them goes straight to its core values. The Democrats cannot sit this one out, especially when the Republican leader is so blind to the true sources of America’s greatness.

These same people are denigrating America and carrying the flags of their own countries, as well as attempting to force their way in. That’s not the case of identifying with living the American dream, that’s the case of being foreign invaders.

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Last Jobs Report Prior To Midterms Is Spectacular

By William Teach November 2, 2018 – 2:00 pm

So many are saying that this election is a referendum on Donald Trump. If that’s the case, then he’s doing an excellent job

Of course, Democrats will say this is still part of Obama’s recovery, that his policies suddenly started working. Even after 8 years of malaise. The worst post-recession recovery ever. And here we have Chuck Schumer trying to poo-poo the excellent report (via Twitchy)

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 2, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrendous fossil fueled vehicle used for climate change wars, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Right Wing News, with a post on why the Kavanaugh hearings got him (John Hawkins) started the website Brass Pills, a website for men.

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Governments Will Have To “Nudge” People To Eat Less Meat Or We’re All Doomed

By William Teach November 2, 2018 – 10:30 am

This comes from people who refuse to tell us that they have mostly given up their own eating of meat

Save the Climate, Eat Less Red Meat

The way we eat is going to have to change — that is, if we are to preserve a livable climate on Earth. A new international study makes this clear. Over the next three decades, the food system’s impact on the environment stands to at least double if humanity carries on eating the way it does now. The negative effects include pollution and species loss, but the greatest threat by far is posed by greenhouse-gas emissions from growing, processing, packaging and transporting food.

More than two-thirds of those food-related emissions come from meat production, according to the 23 researchers involved in the study — led by Marco Springmann of Oxford University (and including Jessica Fanzo). Hence, their critical recommendation: Consumers, especially those living in certain high-income countries where meat is a significant part of the daily diet, are going to have cut back and adopt a more plant-based “flexitarian” diet. (snip)

Governments, of course, will have to help nudge dietary change and encourage sustainable food production, even as they continue to support economic growth and public health. At a minimum, they’ll need to give farmers incentives to adopt sustainable practices, and regulate the use of land and fresh water required for agriculture.

For significant change to happen in any country, the food and beverage industry will need to be persuaded to revise its offerings to deliver healthy choices within environmental limits. By diversifying the foods it produces, it could help steer consumers in affluent countries toward a more plant-based diet, and help people in low-income countries achieve balanced diets in line with their national dietary guidelines — that is, a healthful mix of fruits and vegetables with enough meat and dairy for adequate protein.

See, but “nudge” and “help” they mean implement all sorts of laws, rules, and regulations that force compliance. Opinion writers Jessica Fanzo and Shreya Das forget to tell us how they’ve gone to a “flexitarian” diet, and are pushing for Bloomberg News to dissallow meat to enter the offices. Linked to this is PETA, which got a bit ahead of themselves

Can’t wait to see what’s on the menu at the upcoming UN IPCC COP24 climate change meeting, where over 10,000 people will head to Poland using fossil fuels, and will want meat on the menu. Will the UN make sure that only 10% of the food offered is meat? Yeah. Right. Good luck with that.

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