How Big Is The Migrant Caravan? This Big

By William Teach October 23, 2018 – 6:58 am

This is what you get when one political party entices and incentivizes people to force their way into our country (photos by John Moore of Getty Images)

(Daily Caller) An estimated 5,000-7,000 Central American migrants have stormed past the Guatemalan-Mexican border and are marching toward the United States, according to the latest reports on the ground from Mexico.

The caravan has now swelled to many thousands, bringing into question the funding and motivation of the diverse group of migrants walking, driving and traveling by railcar to the US border.

At the White House Monday, President Trump doubled down on the assertion that the migrants had been infiltrated by nefarious elements that mean the US harm. “Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States,” Trump said, “Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergency. Must change laws!”

The most recent photos to come from the migrant mass traveling through Mexico show the sheer size of the caravan. Thousands of migrants stretch as far as the eye can see in some photos. All of the below photos were taken on the Mexican side of the border.

Pretty big, eh? Here’s one even more interesting

And this

Not a lot of women and children. Mostly men 45 and under. Strange, that. If they make it and we’re forced to take them in we should release them until processed in the city of Sacramento, the center of “resistance.”

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Not A Cult: Rabbi Blesses Electric Vehicles

By William Teach October 22, 2018 – 5:23 pm

Remember, folks, this totally isn’t a religion or cult or something

From the link

Last May, Rabbi Joel Abraham drove his Chevy Volt to Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. As rabbi of nearby Temple Sholom, he joined other local clergy for an interfaith blessing of electric vehicles.

At the event, electric cars and chargers were on display. The goal was to educate faith leaders about how EVs can help reduce air pollution in Newark.

Abraham: “Newark is a huge port, so one of the problems or challenges with the port is not only do you have many diesel operated vehicles coming into the port to pick up things and take them out, but also, the large equipment that’s used – the cranes, the dock vehicles, all of those things – use petroleum products and create all these fumes for the people who live in the area.”

The event rallied clergy behind campaigns that call for electric cargo handling equipment at the port, electric buses, and more EV-charging stations in the city.

Rabbi Abraham says there’s a moral reason for clergy to lead on this issue.

Abraham: “In the Jewish context, what we usually talk about is that we are given not dominion to rule over the earth, but really given the responsibility to care for the earth.”

The good Rabbi does realize that his Volt still uses gasoline, right? And that it was made using tons of fossil fuels and other things that put out “carbon pollution,” right? In fact, there are many, many studies that say that electric cars are bad for the actual environment. If the good Rabbi and his buds really cared, they wouldn’t drive vehicles at all. They’d have no houses of worship, which use vast amounts of electricity, and for which used lots of fossil fuels to be constructed. And all those who take fossil fueled trips to worship.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 22, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible can infused with carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on who’s pumping money in to block Conservatives on social media.

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To Stop ‘Climate Change’, Billionaires Need To Give Up Their Money Or Something

By William Teach October 22, 2018 – 10:34 am

And, really, change the entire economic system for the world. Because this all about science, folks

A scientist who predicted a ‘Hothouse Earth’ says the world’s billionaires need to give up their money to save us

This week, one of authors of that bleak “hothouse” report has co-authored a new one that models how the world and its people may fare in the coming decades. In brief, ecologist Johan Rockström, who directs the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Stockholm, thinks there might be a way to cut global emissions while eliminating poverty and hunger and keeping the world cool enough to sustain future generations.

“This is actually quite uplifting,” Rockström recently told a crowd at the TED Conference New York Headquarters, before the report came out.

But the plan requires enormous shifts in the way we do everything, from how we distribute money to the ways we grow our food.

Here’s his 5 part “plan”

  • Cut global greenhouse-gas emissions in half every decade, starting in 2020 (which will require Government force)
  • Increase food chain system efficiency, from soil to table, by 1% every year (only Government force can make this happen)
  • Investing more in education, health, and family planning (which would require massive government taxation, and, by family planning, they mean abortions and not allowing certain people to breed. As for health? It’s about government controlling people)

What of the other 2?

3. Fundamentally shift the way we create new wealth and prosperity

“We’re quite clever at short-term lifting people out of poverty,” Rockström told Business Insider. But there’s a hidden cost in our current models of economic development: “the wealth that we’ve created in countries like the US, or my own home country Sweden, has occurred at the expense of the climate system,” he said.

In other words, something other than capitalism. Say, a government run economic system? Warmists often do not want to truly spell it out.

4. Ensure the richest 10% of people on Earth don’t hold on to more than 40% of its wealth

Rockström’s plan also demands a dramatic reshuffling of the world’s cash. More taxes on top earners could pay for better infrastructure, while improvements in wages would be a welcome bump for middle class workers, many of whom haven’t seen their pay go up much since the 1970s. Some of that shared money would also get used for healthcare, while other funds could go to education and investments in more sustainable buildings and cities around the world.

Currently, the top 1% of people own nearly half of the world’s household wealth. According to Credit Suisse’s 2018 global wealth report, “the richest decile (top 10% of adults) owns 85% of global wealth, and the top percentile alone accounts for almost half of all household wealth (47%).” This is especially true in the US, which has more members of the 1% than any other country. Credit Suisse defines membership in the top 10% as having $93,170 or more in net assets, while the top 1% has $871,320.

So, this has what to do with ‘climate change’? It’s a tenuous link being manufactured, and simply exposes that this is all about far left political beliefs. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Bummer: Trump Admin Drafting Plan To Do Away With Obama’s Gender Confused Policies

By William Teach October 22, 2018 – 8:05 am

Yet another part of the Obama legacy that will end up in the garbage can, where it belongs

Feds Draft Plan to Discard Obama’s Transgender Ideology

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department will soon decide if agencies must follow biology when they document the legal sex of American women and girls, men and boys, according to a document leaked to the New York Times.

The policy would protect Americans’ civil rights from the transgender ideology which insists that everyone has an FBI-enforced federal right to switch their legal sex — regardless of their biology — when entering sports competitions, K-12 bathrooms, hospitals, gym showers, the military, or single-sex civic society groups.

This transgender ideology was promoted in 2016 by former President Barack Obama and is being imposed by many federal and state judges, despite visceral public opposition and scientists’ criticism.

The New York Times reported:

Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.

The department argued in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by The Times. Any dispute about one’s sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.

While the gender confused certainly deserve rights, they are the same rights as everyone else. Their rights should not be placed above everyone else’s, and should not have the ability to do things like invade the privacy of the bathrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms of actual women. The federal government, and state governments, should not be incentivizing nor condoning mental illness.

People who wish to live as members of the opposite sex are protesting via the Twitter hashtag, #WontBeErased. However, the proposal does not suggest agencies should stop people who are trying to live as members of the opposite sex but should simply defer to biology when documenting peoples’ sex.

Well, of course they are. Over at the NY Times there’s an op-ed by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Trump Cannot Define Away My Existence
The administration seems to think transgender people like me are as imaginary as hippogriffs.

Well, yes, because identifying as the opposite sex is rather insane.

On Sunday, news broke that the Trump administration seeks to narrowly define gender as an immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth. About 1.4 million Americans who identify as transgender would find that identity eradicated by the federal government.

They can identify all they want. That doesn’t mean that the other 300+ million Americans should be forced to be involved with the trans mental issues. Not at the force of government.

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Fake Indian Liz Warren Took DNA Test To Rebuild Trust In Government Or Something

By William Teach October 22, 2018 – 7:39 am

A Monday morning funny for you. It’s an Associated Press article that is being repeated ad nauseum all over the news media, including places that have little to do with a Senator from Massachusetts.

Warren took DNA test to help rebuild “trust in government”

Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday that she changed her mind recently and took a DNA test proving her heritage because Americans’ trust in government is “at an all-time low” and she wanted to help rebuild it by being transparent.

The incumbent Massachusetts senator spoke at her second debate against Republican state Rep. Geoff Diehl in the U.S. Senate race.

She was asked by a moderator why she had said, in March, that no DNA test was needed to prove she had some Native American heritage. She said she ultimately took the test, reporting the result last week that showed a relative six to 10 generations ago was Native American.

Ultimately, she said, she took a DNA test because she believes one way to rebuild trust in government is by posting her full family history online “so anybody can take a look. … I believe one way that we try to rebuild confidence is through transparency.”

It’s a cute little deflection as she tries to maintain that she’s some sort of Native American, despite only having a 1/1024 link, and they aren’t even sure which Indian tribe she’s linked to, if any. She surely took the test in order to “clap back” at President Trump, and figured that the Compliant Media would provide coverage for her. They didn’t as much as she thought.

If she really wanted to rebuild trust in government, she’d back reducing the size and scope of the federal government, putting the power back in the hands of the states where it belongs, except for those delegated powers, like stopping illegal immigration.

Diehl shot back that the issue “is not about Sen. Warren’s ancestry, it’s about integrity in my mind, and I don’t care whether you think you benefited or not from that claim, it’s the fact that you tried to benefit from that claim that I think bothers a lot of people and it’s something you haven’t been able to put to rest since the 2012 campaign,” when she first mentioned having Native American heritage that led President Donald Trump to start mocking her by calling her “Pocahontas.”

He added, “I don’t care what percentage she claims to be Native American; I just care that I’m 100 percent for Massachusetts and will be working for the people of this state.”

Sadly, this is Massachusetts, so, he’s still going to lose to her.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 21, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible plastic water bottle causing everything to dry out, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on how to avoid being separated at the border.

No theme this week. Cleaning out the folder.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 21, 2018 – 9:29 am

Happy Sunday! A beautiful day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, the Dodgers are in the World Series. This pinup is by T.J. Kuck, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Legal Insurrection notes that other diners weren’t down with the angry leftist mob
  2. Climate Change Dispatch discusses how Al Gore built the global warming fraud
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That shows that they’re now coming after hybrid vehicles
  4. 357 Magnum notes that self defense is legal in Illinois
  5. Bunkerville covers California parents losing more rights regarding their kids
  6. Chicks On The Right notes Senator Spartacus being accused of sexual assault
  7. Datechguy’s Blog notes that the Trump economy makes criminal justice reform possible
  8. DC Clothesline wonders who’s financing the immigrant caravan
  9. Gates Of Vienna notes that everyone is now a “Syrian refugee”
  10. Geller Report covers French fleeing to Hungary to escape the mass Muslim migration
  11. Hot Air Pundit notes Hillary could run a 3rd time
  12. Moonbattery covers eating while white
  13. MOTUS A.D. discusses the NPC meme which is making liberals nuttier
  14. Pacific Pundit has some bad news from CNN on memes
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline covers #JobsNotMobs

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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Supreme Court Puts A Hold On Kid’s ‘Climate Change” Lawsuit

By William Teach October 21, 2018 – 8:07 am

The climate activist adults and groups that are certainly behind this whole thing are probably bummed

(AP) The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked a high-profile climate change lawsuit brought by young activists who accuse the federal government of violating their constitutional rights with policies that have caused a dangerous climate.

Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order freezing the trial that was set to start in 10 days in federal court in Oregon until lawyers for the young people provide a response and the high court issues another order.

It marked a victory for the government, which under the Obama and Trump administrations has tried unsuccessfully for years to get the case dismissed. An expert says the Trump administration tried again before the Oct. 29 trial as the court shifted to the right with the confirmation this month of Brett Kavanaugh.

The Supreme Court refused to toss the lawsuit in July, calling it “premature.”

Justice Department lawyers asked again Thursday, arguing that the claim aims to redirect federal environmental policies through the courts rather than through the political process.

Julia Olson, a lawyer representing the young plaintiffs and chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust, said they are confident the trial will move forward once the justices receive their response, which is due by Wednesday.

The DOJ used a writ of mandamus, a rarely used judicial tool allowing a higher court to overrule a lower court before a verdict is made. Now we’ll wait to see if the Supreme Court will determine that the courts are not lawmakers, and policy should not be made by courts, but rather in the duly elected Legislative Branch as deemed/demanded by the Constitution.

The lawsuit wants a court to order the government to stop permitting and authorizing fossil fuels, quickly phase out carbon dioxide emissions to a certain level by 2100 and develop a national climate recovery plan.

That’s really not how our system of government should work. But, because the Cult of Climastrology hasn’t been able to convince the citizens to get Congress to do this, they want to force their beliefs on everyone via the courts. Which, really, Congress would ignore. And could lead to counter-suits from the Legislative Branch against the ordering court. If the court decides to keep pushing.

Jeffrey Wood, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s environment and natural resources division, said officials “firmly believe there is no legal basis for this case to be heard in federal court.”

The lawsuit “is an unconstitutional attempt to use a single court to control the entire nation’s energy and climate policy,” he said, according to prepared remarks for a speech he gave Friday at a conference in San Diego. “It is a matter of separation of powers and preserving the opportunity in our system of government for those policies to be decided by the elected branches, not the courts.”

I wonder how about the amount of fossil fuels that are being used to move the kids around for their heavily scripted appearances and such. Here’s a fun idea: tell the kids that they can only charge their Internet capable devices with solar power, and can only visit sites that are powered by “renewables.” Mom can no longer drive them anywhere in her fossil fueled vehicle. No more than a 2 minute shower. Handwash their clothes.

Oh, wait, we’d actually have to take away most of their smartphones and tablets, as they are made using plastic and other parts which require petroleum. Bummer.

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Good News: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Chimed In On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach October 20, 2018 – 2:45 pm

Just an FYI to the Cult of Climastrology: it’s hard enough to take your rantings seriously. This does not help

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/1053623761134669824

From the link

(Daily Caller) Democratic socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to address global warming the same way America defeated the Nazis during World War II.

Speaking at a campaign event on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez made the case that, since Nazi Germany and global warming are both “existential threats,” the same tactics used against one should be levied against the other.

“So, when we talk about existential threats,” said Ocasio Cortez, “the last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War II. So, we’ve been here before, and we have a blueprint of what we did before. None of these things are new ideas.”

“What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war,” she continued. “And what we did was that we chose to mobilize and industrialize our entire economy and we put hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country.”

This should work well.

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