If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are trees that will soon die from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on a month in America by Islamists.

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Thanks, Obama: Al Qaeda Is Stronger Than Ever

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 10:33 am

Over at the LA Times, Nabih Bulos has an interesting expose on al Qaeda

Seventeen years after Sept. 11, Al Qaeda may be stronger than ever

In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, the United States set out to destroy Al Qaeda. President George W. Bush vowed to “starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.”

Seventeen years later, Al Qaeda may be stronger than ever. Far from vanquishing the extremist group and its associated “franchises,” critics say, U.S. policies in the Mideast appear to have encouraged its spread.

What U.S. officials didn’t grasp, said Rita Katz, director of the SITE intelligence group, in a recent phone interview, is that Al Qaeda is more than a group of individuals. “It’s an idea, and an idea cannot be destroyed using sophisticated weapons and killing leaders and bombing training camps,” she said.

The group has amassed the largest fighting force in its existence. Estimates say it may have more than 20,000 militants in Syria and Yemen alone. It boasts affiliates across north Africa, the Levant and parts of Asia, and it remains strong around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

It has also changed tactics. Instead of the headline-grabbing terrorist attacks, brutal public executions and slick propaganda used by Islamic State (Al Qaeda’s one-time affiliate and now rival), Al Qaeda now practices a softer approach, embedding itself and gaining the support of Sunni Muslims inside war-torn countries.

Look, Obama did a decent job in quietly going after Islamic terrorists while president. He loved him some drone strikes and sending in special forces. Some serious strikes. But, the very fact is that people like Obama and his people refused to acknowledge that radical Islam is an idea, and that it is growing, especially as more and more Muslims are indoctrinated into the hardcore beliefs. Al Shabbab is one of AQ’s largest franchises, then you have the Nusra Front in Syria, which is working with the rebels against Bashar Assad. These types of groups enjoy more support amongst Muslims than ISIS, being less brutal and attempting to be more inclusive.

They’re growing, being in Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen, among others. Until you call out the mindset that creates the hardcore Islamists, you can’t hope to defeat it.

(graphic from this article)

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If We Don’t Address ‘Climate Change’ We’ll All End Up In Caves Hiding From Methane Fireballs Or Something

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 8:02 am

We can fix this all with a tax, you know

The Most Honest Book About Climate Change Yet
William T. Vollmann’s latest opus is brilliant, but it offers no comfort to its readers.

Authors like to flatter themselves by imagining for their work an “ideal reader,” a cherubic presence endowed with bottomless generosity, the sympathy of a parent, and the wisdom of, well, the authors themselves. In Carbon Ideologies, William T. Vollmann imagines for himself the opposite: a murderously hostile reader who sneers at his arguments, ridicules his feeblemindedness, scorns his pathetic attempts at ingratiation. Vollmann can’t blame this reader, whom he addresses regularly throughout Carbon Ideologies, because she lives in the future, under radically different circumstances—inhabiting a “hotter, more dangerous and biologically diminished planet.” He envisions her turning the pages of his climate-change opus within the darkened recesses of an underground cave in which she has sought shelter from the unendurable heat; the plagues, droughts, and floods; the methane fireballs racing across boiling oceans. Because the soil is radioactive, she subsists on insects and recycled urine, and regards with implacable contempt her ancestors, who, as Vollmann tells her, “enjoyed the world we possessed, and deserved the world we left you.”

Good grief. Sounds like a fun read. Especially when the two books in question “No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies” and “No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies ” are 624 and 688 pages, respectively. And, as Eric Worrell points out

Author William T. Vollmann seems a bit special even for a climate advocate. Back in April this year, Vollmann called for “regulatory hell” to force everyone to accept a greener lifestyle – an insight Vollman apparently reached by bathing his face in gamma rays, and other risky sounding activities.

I wonder what the carbon footprint is for publishing and shipping his books?

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Annoyingly Woke Burger Employees Sent Home For Wearing Abolish ICE Buttons

By William Teach September 10, 2018 – 7:40 am

In Woke World, everything must be made political and this must be shown constantly (hence one of the reasons the NFL is having a problem). We can’t just go get a burger anymore without a side of Wokeness

Oregon burger chain changes policy after employees wear ‘Abolish ICE’ buttons

Employees at a Pacific Northwest burger chain triggered a new policy after employees wore buttons that read “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal” with their uniforms.

Ten employees of fast food restaurant Burgerville, located in Portland, Ore., were sent home for a day last month when they refused to remove the buttons while on their shift, The Oregonian reported.

The silent protest came amid national outrage regarding the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that previously separated thousands of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

Calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be dissolved has become a popular pledge for many Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.

Well, even in Oregon, there are people who complained, stating that they just wanted food, not personal and political viewpoints

“Guests provided feedback that they didn’t want to see personal and political messages while they ate,” Graham said. “Additionally, some employees expressed that the content of the buttons was drawing unwanted attention that made them uncomfortable.”

Wait, what? They wore the buttons and were upset that they drew “unwanted attention” that “made them uncomfortable”? What did they think was going to happen? Well, one thing that has happened is that the company now has an official written policy about wearing personal buttons, where they had previously just had a word of mouth type policy.

If they were wearing NRA buttons and such, I’d want them to remove them. Leave the politics at home. Have some propriety. And these kids should realize that future employers will see their conduct, their unwillingness to conform to company policy, their bringing of politics into the workplace causing problems with customers, and deep six their resumes.

They should also remember that an illegal alien just killed two Oregon residents while driving drunk. And another raped a girl younger than 14 earlier this year in Oregon. These are just some that made the national news, and who these Abolish ICE nuts are protecting.

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Well, Hurricane Florence Kinda Sucks

By William Teach September 9, 2018 – 4:55 pm

Yeah, so that’s pretty darned close to Raleigh, and would mean tropical force winds here. Of course, we have a long way to go to know for sure. And a lot of people say the warnings, because the WalMart I shop at was slammed on certain products (I usually hit the store on the way home on Sunday’s when I go in). Milk was hit pretty hard (I actually needed a small thing of it, gone). So was bread.

People need to remember that if the storm hits and power goes out, they are not making microwave meals, and so few have gas stoves they can’t cook there, either. Sandwiches will be your friend. But, don’t shop too early, especially for things that you’d otherwise have sitting around forever.

But, doesn’t hurt to get batteries and flashlights. You can never go wrong with having them. Buy a little pack of flashlights, do not have to be good ones, put them and some batteries in a plastic bag. Don’t put the batts in the lights. Put them in a special drawer with all the other batteries. I have one drawer where I keep all my batts. Charge up stuff like Kindles, charging sticks, even old phones, especially if one has a built in radio. Have some candles.

Sadly, I have an old handheld TV, but, won’t work anymore because it doesn’t get the digital over the air signal.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 9, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a canyon created by carbon pollution earthquakes, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Evil Blogger Lady, with a post wondering who’s next after Alex Jones.

It’s hiking week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach September 9, 2018 – 9:13 am

Patriotic Pinup Baron von Lind

Happy Sunday! A gorgeous day in America. The weather’s warm, the squirrels are running around, and it’s the first Sunday of the new NFL season (which is hopefully more exciting than Thursday’s game). This pinup is by Baron Von Lind, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Twitchy covers Serena losing her, um, cool over her US Open loss
  2. Legal Insurrection notes Kamala Harris’ big lie on Kavanaugh
  3. Patterico drops the NeverTrump and TDS for a moment to say he was wrong on Zina Bash
  4. Ice Age Now explains how we fight CO2 by reversing prosperity
  5. Jo Nova discusses the BBC’s “no debate allowed” belief
  6. No Tricks Zone says to be prepared for insane climate ambulance chasing on Florence
  7. The Deplorable Climate Science Blog discusses more climate fraud from the NY Times
  8. 357 Magnum notes another failure in the victim selection process
  9. Bunkerville has some disturbing info on Google and your credit card
  10. Chicks On The Right notes Linda Sarsour’s latest hating Jews comment
  11. Cold Fury notes the killjoys on the left going after balloons
  12. D.C Clothesline covers a court siding with a woman over Planet Fitness’s gender confused policy
  13. Gates Of Vienna discusses how to become an un-person in Swedish academia
  14. Geller Report covers a spike in forced child marriage in Sweden
  15. And last, but not least, Hogewash highlights some interesting news from space

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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Washington Post: “Veterans don’t get to decide what ‘respecting the flag’ means” Or Something

By William Teach September 9, 2018 – 8:07 am

Salil Puri, a staff sergeant with the Army’s Psychological Operations Regiment, served in Afghanistan. He is a senior consultant with The Culper Group now. And the Washington Post has given him a platform to rail against our military veteran’s having a voice in the on-going kneeling debate. Sure, he’s entitled to his own opinion. It’s utterly unsurprising that the WP picked this for their leftist viewpoint

Veterans don’t get to decide what ‘respecting the flag’ means

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But while most veterans have been measured in their responses, one strand of criticism is particularly disturbing: the notion that kneeling during the anthem is a specific affront to veterans and service members. As Kurt Schlichter, a combat veteran and contributor for Fox News, put it, Kaepernick “is targeting us. He knows what this means to us. He knows how insulting it is. He knows how disrespectful it is, and Nike is empowering it.” In a Facebook group for veterans that I belong to, someone wrote: “Anyone not respecting our flag should be deported. Many veterans and servicemen and women have died and suffered grievous wounds for this flag and anthem and constitution. Have some respect.” This argument isn’t new: Last year the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion chastised the protests as disrespectful.

This reasoning is rooted in a premise that is both wrong and dangerous. If kneeling for the anthem and the flag is a direct offense toward the military, that means veterans have a stronger claim to these symbols than Americans in general do. The argument insists that American iconography represents us more than it represents anyone else.

Yet the flag is not a symbol reserved for the military. It is a symbol of the United States of America, and it belongs equally to all citizens, including Americans who kneel during the anthem, or those who wear flag shirts (which is also in violation of the unenforceable flag code), or even those who burn the flag.

If we accept the idea that the military and veterans have authority over American symbols, we enforce a very narrow minority view of America and the American experience. Our cultural fabric is as rich as it is because the American myth has been interpreted, reinterpreted, criticized, praised and challenged by Americans of all backgrounds. If the military class were the arbiter of taste and ideology with regard to our iconography, we’d have a lot more of “13 Hours,” the bogus and hagiographical Benghazi movie, and a lot less of “Stripes” or “Catch-22.”

This line of thought continues on, with the core meaning being “veteran’s shouldn’t be listened to when they’ve been disrespected.” Puri even trots out the notion that this further divides the military from civilians and creates an “entitlement mentality” in the military.

We are not an elite class of citizen elevated above our neighbors. When we start thinking of ourselves as a warrior caste, removed from the people we defend, we exacerbate the civilian-military divide. We indulgein an entitlement mentality that isn’t healthy, demanding special treatment, such as discounts or restrictions on fireworks that might upset vets with post-traumatic stress disorder. The message is, You’re welcome for my service .

That’s interesting, because we’re supposed to listen to the tiny minority of U.S. citizens who are Offended that police officers arrest them.

We should be able to dislike something without seeing it as a personal affront. We should be able to oppose something without becoming frothy-mouthed and obsessed, as some veterans online have done over Nike’s ads. We should embrace Special Forces veteran Nate Boyer’s insistence that we show compassion for those we don’t agree with, while also acknowledging that everyone is free to boycott and destroy their Nike gear as they see fit.

Again, interesting, as the spokesperson for this wore socks portraying cops as pigs, loves him some dictator Fidel Castro, and gave money to a group that supports cop murderer Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba. And, perhaps, Puri should be talking to liberals, who see everything as a personal affront. But, in his world, veterans aren’t allowed to have an opinion, nor get upset when NFL players and liberals disrespect them.

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Brian Stelter Explains Why No One Trusts The Media Part Lots

By William Teach September 8, 2018 – 3:42 pm

This takes some serious Reality Avoidance and Lapdogism

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 8, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil, no good pig creating vast amounts of carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is D.C. Clothesline, with a post on some insanity coming from the VA.

And a doubleshot of curvy girls under the fold, so I don’t have more photos in the folder, Datechguy’s Blog (Ron Fournier) discusses the rude inheriting the earth.

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