This Should End Well: Nike Picks Colin Kapernick For “Just Do It” Campaign

By William Teach September 4, 2018 – 8:08 am

Colin is no Bo Jackson

Nike selects Colin Kaepernick for ‘Just Do It’ ad campaign

Nike selected the controversial former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the new face of the athletic wear company’s “Just Do It” campaign, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

“Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt,” Kaepernick, who has been with Nike since 2011 though hasn’t played on an NFL team since the 2016 season, posted on Twitter on Monday afternoon.

This has led to a lot of blowback

In the time-honored tradition of consumers expressing their rage at companies lining up with perceived liberal policies, people took to Twitter on Monday to light their own property on fire.

This time, it was Nike gear.

The offense? Partnering with Colin Kaepernick as the face of their “Just Do It” campaign.

And we get things like

There’s plenty of that. And people cutting the Nike logo off their socks. And shirts. And destroying the products in all sorts of ways. And

Obviously, some are supporting Nike, while others are taking a “meh” attitude, not supporting Nike, even not liking the decision, but, not really planning on boycotting or anything.

How will this end up? You know that the idea was two-fold. First, to generate buzz for the brand which had become a bit lackluster of late. A bit of the old “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” Second, they’re attempting to attract the younger demographic who support Colin because they’ve been taught that cops are bad and to hate America. Nike has forgotten that the people who buy the shoes for the younger crowd are parents, and a lot of them will refuse to buy Nike apparel.

Me? I don’t buy Nike stuff to start with. I think their shoes are overpriced, and my feet like Asics and Soucony sneakers for walking and working out. Nike is, again, overpriced and tends to be too tight for my size, and way too loose if I go up a half size. I like UnderArmor for shorts, they fit well, and I typically buy cheap workout shirts, because they will get destroyed from sweat after a time. I have one old pair of Nike sneakers, which I almost never wear. No, I won’t be burning them. I won’t go out of my way to not buy Nike, but, I certainly won’t bother with them. I guess we’ll see if this little campaign affects their bottom line, positively or negatively. And someone in the Yahoo comments makes an interesting observation

I wonder how those who promote Nike; golfers, basketball players etc will respond to the latest from Nike. Going to be interesting. As for me I’ll never purchase another Nike product as long there is kneeling to the Flag of those who gave their lives for us all.

Most have contracts to advertise the brand. Might they opt-out when fans let them know their opinion?

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Despite Democrat Unhinged Opposition, Kavanugh Pretty Much Set To Sail Through Confirmation

By William Teach September 4, 2018 – 7:46 am

Democrats have been going full on Barking Moonbat since the announcement of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. It hasn’t stopped. We get things like

That’s just the NY Times today. And Alyssa Milano and her $30k+ custom fish tank brings her standing Very Serious with crossed arms

Then Kamala Harris, who proves that this has nothing to do with Judge Kavanaugh, just being unhinged towards Trump

They can posture all the want: they have no power. There is no Gandalf coming to save them

Unborkable: Kavanaugh heads into confirmation hearings on cruise control

More than 30 years ago, Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court produced attention-grabbing hearings that took a toll on his already lackluster popularity with the viewing public.

“Bork came across on television as coldhearted and condescending,” the Washington Post’s Tom Shales wrote at the time. “He looked and talked like a man who would throw the book at you — and maybe like a man who would throw the book at the whole country.”

Bork’s nomination failed on the Senate floor by a vote of 42 to 58.

Yet when Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh takes his seat before the Senate Judiciary Committee at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week, he’ll face Republicans who are confident of collecting what may be the last significant reward of one-party rule before the midterm elections. Democrats have no clear path to stopping the installation of a justice who may solidify the court’s conservative majority for a generation.

On paper, Kavanaugh’s own personal unpopularity (among Democrats), his low-support positions on hot-button issues, the suspicions raised over withheld documents and the plague of scandal surrounding the president who appointed him may seem like the right combination of factors to produce a repeat of the Bork phenomenon. However, few in Washington expect anything so dramatic.

As much as the article attempts to link Kavanaugh to Bork, he’s going to sail through confirmation no matter what Democrats do.

Democrats are focusing on Kavanaugh’s positions casting doubt on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, opposing access to abortion and taking an expansive view of the power of the president. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office last week released the list of Democratic witnesses who will appear at the hearings, including experts on health care, reproductive rights, executive power and investigations of the president, as well as firearms, labor and environmental issues.

The Democrats will focus on abortion on demand through the whole process, as they’ve done so far, showing them to be the unhinged baby killing supporters they are. It won’t be a good look. But, there’s nothing they can do: Bretty Kavanaugh will be approved as a Supreme Court Justice by the end of the month.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible carbon pollution created desert, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on the DNC’s self-awareness fail.

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Warmists Really Warming Up To This Whole “Don’t Debate” Thing

By William Teach September 3, 2018 – 11:22 am

I had actually had something similar to this, from the UK Guardian, I believe, sitting in my GetPocket account a few weeks ago, but, never got around to bothering to write a post on it. There had also been something in the LA Times opinion section about not printing anything from Skeptics, and the BBC has been under assault to not allow dissenting voices against the Cult of Climastrology to be heard. This whole “no debate” thing is growing

Disempower far-right climate change deniers. Don’t debate with them

After a long, hot summer beset by record temperatures, drought and deadly fires, imagine my shock, on returning to the European parliament, to be confronted with a report that denies the reality of climate change. Given it could influence the allocation of the next round of environment funding under the EU’s Life programme, it is deeply disturbing to see such a report, based on wholly discredited science, wending its way down the corridors of Brussels.

Some of the claims made by the report’s author, the Ukip MEP Stuart Agnew, are, frankly, pretty hair-raising. For instance, he claims that the effect of CO2 levels on our climate is “negligible”, and that it is “one of agriculture’s greatest friends”. Agnew claims there is a lack of concentration of CO2 and as a result there is no problem for the EU to solve.

So how could it be that someone with a track record of shameful ignorance of the science of climate change ends up being assigned the task of compiling this report?

(blah blah blah, whining but offering no proof that the climatic changes are mostly/solely caused by Mankind)

Given the dangers posed by the far right and the very real threat of a significant bloc of populist, climate change-denying MEPs after next year’s European elections, it is time for those of us who back the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change to take back control. That is why I joined other politicians, scientists, academics and campaigners in signing a letter pledging we would refuse to debate those who deny that human-caused climate change is real. We can no longer give voice to the pseudo-science of climate change deniers; we must urgently move the debate on to how we address the causes and effects of dangerous climate breakdown.

This was by Molly Scott Cato, the Green MEP for the south-west of England, who we can pretty much bet that she hasn’t given up her own use of fossil fuels and gone carbon neutral.

This is not how Science works. You have to be able to debate and defend your ideas. But, then, Warmists pretty much can’t, and have been avoiding debate for decades. Because this isn’t science.

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Warmist Super Excited To Enact Carbon Tax After “Pearl Harbor” Moments

By William Teach September 3, 2018 – 7:16 am

Interestingly, like most Cult of Climastrology members, Mark Reynolds, group executive director of the Citizens Climate Lobby, fails to push Cultists to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. He just wants taxes. It’s almost like this is about empowering government

It’s time to act on climate change with a tax on carbon

Those of us who understand the existential threat posed by climate change have been waiting for the “Pearl Harbor moment” that galvanizes people and politicians alike into taking action to minimize that threat. 2018 is turning out to be a “Pearl Harbor year,” where a majority of Americans support taking action, and we’re ready for Congress to press forward.

We thought the wake-up call on climate change occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina slammed and devastated New Orleans, a disaster that left 1,836 people dead and displaced tens of thousands more. Four years later, when legislation to price carbon made a run in Congress, any sense of urgency to deal with climate change was lost amid partisan squabbling and pushback from special interests.

The next opportunity for action came in 2012 when Superstorm Sandy roared up the East Coast with a storm surge that put much of New York City under water. The cover of Bloomberg Businessweek proclaimed, “It’s Global Warming, Stupid.” But again, nothing happened. Likewise, last year’s back-to-back-to-back storms — Harvey, Irma and Maria — left a swath of destruction from Houston to Puerto Rico totaling some $300 billion in damage. This, too, was not enough to spur action. (snip)

The terrifying vortex of fire that swept through Redding, is the latest Pearl Harbor moment for climate change in a year filled with such moments. Let us hope this year of infamy, together with the growing desire for action, will finally set the wheels in motion for Congress to enact meaningful solutions.

This comes via Eric Worrell at Watts Up With That?, who notes

My first thought when I hear about a weather disaster is usually “I hope those people are receiving the help they need”. But perhaps not everyone shares my sense of priorities.

There is that. But, Warmists do not care. They’ll take advantage of every weather event to push their hardcore progressive doctrine, which will do harm to the lower and middle classes. Hundreds of years ago the people “who understand the existential threat” of bad weather blamed witches and the gods. Now they blame trace amounts of carbon dioxide.

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Washington Post Is Upset That Murder Of Mollie Tibbetts By Illegal Brought Up Immigration Politics

By William Teach September 3, 2018 – 6:59 am

The Washington Post, like most leftist outlets, is more than happy to jump to politics after every shooting (excluding all the ones that occur in gun restricting Chicago), but, when it comes to illegal immigration, they are exasperated that foes of illegal immigration would dare make it political

After arrest of undocumented immigrant in Mollie Tibbetts case, Iowa town tries to escape the inescapable: politics

Before one of their own went missing, before the nation’s gaze found them, before the White House made what happened here about immigration politics, the residents of this farming community of 1,500 people say they lived in relative harmony.

Together, the town of whites and Latinos, liberals and conservatives, spent their time on Jackson Street, dining on the south end at the one sit-down restaurant in town and attending class on the north end at Brooklyn’s only high school. They mingled at lunchtime in the Brooklyn Grocery and learned to smoke meat at the hardware store.

By late August, harvest season was coming, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church was accepting sign-ups for fall confirmation classes, and the residents of Brooklyn were entering their fifth week without answers in the disappearance of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student who left for an evening run July 18 and never returned. Her hometown had spent the summer searching, praying and planting “missing” signs in the yards surrounding John Wayne’s boyhood home and Brooklyn’s “Community of Flags” display. Residents were united in their belief that eventually she would resurface — that soon all would be back to how it was before.

Then, police found Tibbetts’s body discarded in a cornfield. They charged Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a local farmhand, with her murder. And they announced that Rivera, who had no prior criminal history, was an undocumented Mexican immigrant.

What Brooklyn wanted was to mourn, to avoid the politics.

“It was a crime that was committed because of something on the inside,” said Tibbetts’s close friend, Paris Flack, 17, “not because of his skin on the outside.”

But within hours of Rivera’s arrest, the tragedy within this small community became about partisan political division everywhere else.

Yet, it didn’t need to be about partisan political division. This didn’t need to happen at all. Sadly, one political party, and a few squishy Republicans, take the side of people who are unlawfully present in the United States. They entice people to come to the U.S. illegally through their support of illegal immigration, as well as overstay their visas. They oppose border security, and want to get rid of the agencies tasked with enforcing federal law.

President Trump seized on the case, too, framing it as evidence that illegal immigration is a violent threat. At a rally in West Virginia after Rivera’s arrest, Trump presented Tibbetts’s death as a cautionary tale of us vs. them.

“You heard about today with the illegal alien coming in very sadly from Mexico,” he told the crowd, referencing Tibbetts’s death. “Should’ve never happened. . . . The immigration laws are such a disgrace.”

Seized! But, the one thing that the WP forgets to say is that Trump is 100% correct, per our laws. Here in Raleigh over the weekend

Raleigh police have arrested a man following a fatal motorcycle crash on New Hope Church Road. Neri Damian Cruz-Carmona, 26, has been charged with felony hit and run causing serious injury/death.

Officials say Cruz-Carmona is an undocumented or illegal immigrant and is under an ICE detainer.

Police were searching Saturday for the driver of a car that fled the scene after crashing into a motorcycle. The accident occurred about 12:45 a.m. on New Hope Church Road between Atlantic Avenue and Green Road, police said.

This should never have happened.

And how about

The list of violations goes on and on. The fault for these crimes resides on those who committed them. Those who support and enable illegal immigration bear a responsibility for the illegals who are committing these crimes.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible rising sea that will soon put cities below the sea, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on segregation of the sexes coming to Sweden.

We’re doing curvy girls this week, and who better than Marilyn to start out? Next week is hiking.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 2, 2018 – 9:06 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, we’re getting close to Autumn. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The People’s Cube takes on the new America dismissing movie First Man
  2. The Political Hat covers “They Day”
  3. The Powers That Be discusses NY Gov Cuomo’s slurring of ICE
  4. The Right Scoop notes a study on why so many kids are turning gender confused
  5. This ain’t Hell…. has Sunday morning feel good stories
  6. Victory Girls Blog says that Beto O’Rourke’s DWI does matter
  7. Virtual Mirage discusses some serious slime balls
  8. Watcher Of Weasels has the Democratic Party and the China syndrome
  9. Weasel Zippers has the Pope crying “squirrel!”
  10. The Lid remembers when the liberals used to hate on John McCain
  11. The Last Tradition discusses the Sadiq Khan bikini clad balloon
  12. The Daley Gator covers the reality of mass shootings
  13. Powerline notes our new Teflon President
  14. Patterico’s Pontifications covers the Dems calling for a boycott of In-and-Out Burger
  15. And last, but not least, Pacific Pundit catches Twitter deeming the U.S. flag too sensitive to show

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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Katrina Survivors Link Reproductive Rights With ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach September 2, 2018 – 7:49 am

How many times have I written that ‘climate change’ is really all about Leftist politics, being a subset of the overall Progressive/Socialist/Marxist/Whatever push? And that the Cult of Climastrology will link just about any issue with their cultish beliefs? Well, the abortionistas do this, as well, and we end up with this bit of bat-shit insane writing by Jeremy Deaton (it’s always interesting that Leftist men push abortion on demand harder than the women, eh?)

From the unhinged screed

Katrina, they say, wasn’t an anomaly, but an introduction.

One of the lessons from the storm was that women are at greater risk than men in times of crisis. To prepare for the next Katrina, advocates say, the government must provide more protection for women, including higher wages, more affordable housing and better access to health care — including contraception and abortion which are disproportionately used by cis women.

“This is not just about recovering from Katrina. This is about building a system of recovery for what we know is coming,” said Colette Pichon Battle, executive director of the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy at a town hall Wednesday on protecting women from natural disasters. The event was part of the Freedom to Breathe Tour, which is bringing together experts and advocates in cities across the South and West for conversations about climate change and social justice.

“We cannot address climate change as solely an environmental problem,” said Michele Erenberg, executive director of Lift Louisiana, at the town hall. “It is also a human rights imperative, and thus, a women’s rights imperative.” Speakers noted that New Orleans is exquisitely vulnerable to severe storms. This is partly a function of geography — most of the city sits below sea level, making it prone to flooding — but it is also a function of inequality, a matter of who can afford shelter and health care. (snip)

On the link between climate change and reproductive rights, Erenberg said, “These movements share a common concern about the health of families and communities, and both recognize the right of all people to reproductive health, including the right of all women to have healthy pregnancies and to raise their children in safe and healthy environments.”

If you’re thinking the rest is just as insane, you’re correct. It is.

And the most interesting thing of this is the reality that they’re calling for reduction of black children through contraception and abortion. It’s almost like the Cult of Climastrology is rather racist and hateful towards blacks, since we see the same thing aimed at Africa in terms of making sure the women have access to abortions and contraception there.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 1, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrid carbon pollution flood, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on Chicago’s Zulu war.

I still have a ton of extras to clear, but, who has an idea for next week’s theme?

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