New Aquarium!

By William Teach August 12, 2018 – 7:50 pm

I was actually visiting the parents from Wednesday, came back Saturday afternoon. It’s a good thing I did. The plane was way late leaving Trenton due to thunderstorms, and I walked in to check my two tanks. Notice a little water around the edge of the 10 gallon, a nice Marineland with the day/night type light. Looked great. Moved it to look under, and saw a leak. Thought I could get away with it till Sunday, but, not, leak became worse and worse, had to put the fish in a tiny tank and put the other one outside.

I had only planned on getting a 20 gallon, but, this one is on sale at Petsmart for $78, 29 gallons.

I went from 20 inches wide, 12 width, 12 height to 30x12x18. I like the width, didn’t necessarily need it so high. To build one would have cost a whole lot more. Light covers are not cheap, add in about $38 for a 20 gallon wide tank, filter, wouldn’t need another heater, though. Now I have to get a few bigger decorations, though I’ll have to see how the plants grow. Also, a background. And I’ll have to get a bunch more Fire Gouramis and Tiger Barbs, down to 2 and 3, respectability. My pleco, which had gotten a bit big for the 10, will love it. Only downside is there is no moonlight, and, perhaps it might be a little too bright. Of course, without tall decorations, the light doesn’t get diffused much.

Have to move the painting above it up a bit.

I can’t move the Blue Gourami from the small tank on the right, though. Only fish he gets along with are Mollies, especially the reddish/orange ones. The whole purpose of that tank was for that one fish, which chased all the others around. No nipping, just chasing. Petco has replaced the 6.6 gallon with a 6.8, it’s a gorgeous tank for a shelf. You have to be reeeeealy careful with live plants, though, because they can foul the filters fast.

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We’re Living In A ‘Climate Change’ Diaster Movie Or Something

By William Teach August 12, 2018 – 5:32 pm

Your mother called and said to stop being so overly dramatic, it’s just a paper cut

Big Smile, No Teeth: Did you realise? We’re living in a disaster movie

The future is now. Unfortunately, when I say that I mean the disaster of a future we all feared would show up when we spoke about the need to curb climate change.

Cape Town, South Africa, was fast headed to Day Zero, the day the water would run out, which was staved off only by the residents learning to use substantially less water; now, winter rains are refilling their depleted reservoirs.

The summer’s global heatwave has seen hundreds of people killed by heatstroke across the globe as countries see new temperature records, with Japan hitting 41.1°C, a city in Algeria, Ouargla, recording the highest temperature in Africa at 51.3°C, and a town called Quriyat in Oman logging the hottest ever night in recorded history at 42.6°C.

This is not normal weather. (proof?)

Having a heatwave somewhere in the world isn’t surprising. Having a heatwave everywhere in the world at the same time is the start of a disaster movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. This is not going anywhere good.

Well, that movie didn’t do so well, and Climatruthers do not want to change their behavior to match their talking points. Anyway, the author continues his tale of dooooom, ending with

And so too must the rest of the world. We can make changes to help decrease our carbon footprint. We have to. Just like the residents of Cape Town, all of us have to do what it takes to avoid global disaster.

Humans have a tendency to wait until the last moment to jump out of the way of disaster even though we can see it coming from a long way off.

We must demand decisive action on climate change from our governments because the third act of that disaster movie is coming up and we want a happy ending.

Funny, writer Jason Godfrey forgets to offer solutions. Nor did Andy Martin with his “Climate change has doomed us – now what on earth should we do about it?” essay. Just lots of gloom and doom and whining and stuff. I had a boss way back in the day who said “if you’re not offering solutions, you’re just whining.” You know what my solution would be: Warmists should walk the talk and make their lives carbon neutral.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 12, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is extreme weather dropping oodles of extreme rain, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison being accused of beating and threatening former girlfriend.

I’d almost never drop my 2 cents in on these posts, but, extraordinary accusations require extraordinary proof, and, despite Ellison being a horrible human being, he is innocent till proven guilty.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach August 12, 2018 – 9:25 am

Patriotic Pinup Walt Otto

Happy Sunday! It’s a gorgeous, if not soggy, day in America. The birds are singing, the flowers are getting watered, and parents are starting to do their back to school jumping on social media. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. Not A Lot Of People Know That covers “green guilt” exaggeration
  2. No Tricks Zone highlights hot weather hysteria
  3. 357 Magnum covers a Democrat shooting someone over a political disagreement
  4. Blazing Cat Fur notes the open, stinking urinals in ultra-chic Paris
  5. Chicks On The Right covers the RNC’s excellent ads of late
  6. Creeping Sharia notes what happened to a jihadi in Canada
  7. DaTechGuy’s Blog has his own special day for August 16th
  8. Doug Ross @ Journal highlights who America’s real Fascists are
  9. GeeeZ… discusses a liberal turned conservative
  10. Hot Air Pundit notes Trump playing up Nancy Pelosi
  11. Jihad Watch highlights another great example of ‘sploding
  12. Legal Insurrection covers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses an Israeli/Jew hater
  13. Moonbattery shows fake news being created to protect migrants
  14. Pacific Pundit covers ABC news admitting to using actors on an anti-Trump news clip
  15. And last, but not least, Powerline shows more fake news at the Washington Post

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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“Anti-Racists” Go To Charlottesville, Show They’re Anti-Police

By William Teach August 12, 2018 – 8:12 am

The anti-cop hatred from the political left continues. Here’s The Hill soft peddling it

Anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville angered by heightened police presence, riot gear

Anti-racist protesters staging non-violent demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday said they were aggravated and perplexed by the heightened police presence that involved dozens of law enforcement officers in riot gear.

The nearly 200 protesters were gathered to march against white supremacy almost one year after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville turned violent, resulting in the death of local resident, Heather Heyer.

On Saturday, hundreds of police officers surrounded Charlottesville’s downtown area throughout the day in order to preclude any violent outbursts, according to multiple reports. Though there were no white nationalist events scheduled, many feared a repeat of last year, when authorities were blasted for being underprepared for the violence that broke out.

According to The Washington Post and Associated Press reports, the nighttime protesters mobilized against the police presence, which some described as aggressive and which some compared to last year’s white supremacists.

“Last year they came with torches,” said a large banner in downtown Charlottesville, according to the Washington Post. “This year they come with badges.”

A goodly chunk of these “anti-racist” people support anti-white writer Sarah Jeong, who’s now part of the NY Times Editorial Board. Oh, and goodly chunk of these “anti-racist” people are members of Antifa, and prone to violence, and usually starting the violence.

https://twitter.com/Cameron_Gray/status/1028427967238733824

First these Useful Idiots cry that the police didn’t protect them, then they cry that they are over-protecting them. And, perhaps the police were needed because these Antifa nutters like to put their hands on people

Of course, the media are doing their best to protect the violent Antifa members while slamming the neo-Nazis (they deserve condemnation).

Pollak: Almost Nobody Cares About Charlottesville Except NBC, CNN, and 200 Neo-Nazis

The media — particularly NBC and CNN — are abuzz about the anniversary of last year’s Charlottesville riot, which Americans had largely forgotten.

The only people who care are a handful of neo-Nazis, and the journalists who amplify them in an effort to tarnish the White House, boost Democrats’ election prospects, smear conservative media, and vent their contempt for the rest of America. (snip)

Ahead of the anniversary on Sunday, President Donald Trump condemned racism — again — on Saturday: “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted in senseless death and division. We must come together as a nation. I condemn all types of racism and acts of violence. Peace to ALL Americans!” His daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, offered a more elaborate condemnation of racism and violence, and urged all Americans to come together.

It is a plea that will fall on deaf ears.

But, the media is also in a tizzy over those remarks, showing their deaf ears, such as the NY Times with Before ‘Unite the Right’ Rally, Trump Does Not Condemn Supremacists. Hey, the NY Times forgot to condemn their resident racist Sarah Jeong, so, their moral authority is rather tainted.

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Doom Today: The Black Widow Spiders Are Coming Because You Eat Burgers

By William Teach August 11, 2018 – 2:37 pm

It’s always something with these Climahysterics. Always some sort of coming doom. Here’s today’s

BLACK WIDOW SPIDERS ARE HEADING NORTH DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

As climate change warms the earth, black widow spiders are moving north.

The spiders are notorious, because venom is 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s. A bite can cause aches, pains, and paralysis of the diaphragm which make breathing difficult.

In a study published in PLOS One on Wednesday, Canadian researchers reported that over the past 60 years the northernmost point black widow spiders live has moved 31 miles north, into southern Canada. The scientists believe that the spread of the spiders, which prefer a temperate climate, is due to climate change.

Of course, this is not proof of anthropogenic or natural causation. It’s just happening. But, how did they arrive at this conclusion?

The team used citizen data to make updated species distribution maps for the spider. “In our project, the citizen science data was essential in modeling distributions of spiders,” Christopher Buddle, a co-author on the study and professor at McGill University, said in a statement. “People who are excited about discovering where species live can contribute in meaningful ways to scientific progress and this is exciting, important, and is changing how we do research.”

If people are finding cobras in NYC, that doesn’t mean they have established a foothold: it just means one escaped from the zoo. Regardless, things change on earth. The climate changes. Species ranges change. It’s like these people who say that Darwinism is holy writ immediately drop that belief for Hotcoldwetdry.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 11, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world drying out from too much carbon pollution, except where its flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on deporting a California assemblywoman.

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Peak 2018: Tourists In Rome Come To Blows Over Best Place To Take A Selfie

By William Teach August 11, 2018 – 10:30 am

You might be thinking “well, why didn’t one take a selfie then get out of the way for the other?” Because they’ll take dozens of selfies in order to get that one perfect one, especially if they’re trying to get that sexy one for Instagram

Female tourists set off 8-person brawl at Rome’s Trevi Fountain — and it’s all because of selfies

One of Rome’s most famous landmarks was the backdrop for a vicious brawl Wednesday night — and it all started with a desire to take selfies.

The Guardian reports that local police were called to the Trevi Fountain — the iconic, Nicola Salvi-designed tourist destination famous for appearing in films such as Roman Holiday and La Dolce Vita — after two women came to blows. The reason for the dispute? Both women wanted to use the same spot to take selfies.

As Italian newspaper La Repubblica was the first to report, the two tourists — a 19-year-old Dutch woman and a 44-year-old Italian-American — argued over the space, with their respective family members eventually getting involved. All told, eight people were reportedly involved in the fight, which required four police officers to break up.

There’s already plenty of bad behavior going on at this fountain, and many others. People wading in (and recreating the scene from Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita, in which the late Swedish actor Anita Ekberg wades into the fountain), dipping their toes, swimming, dropping food in, and so forth. Rome authorities are looking at ways to make it so people walk by scenes such as the Trevi Fountain without stopping. Bad apples are ruining for everyone else.

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Boston Globe Wants Media To Go To War With Trump Next Week

By William Teach August 11, 2018 – 8:17 am

Here’s Excitable Joe Scarborough

The thing is, the media has already gone to war with Trump. This started before he even won the primary, and would have gone on no matter who won the primary. It goes on against elected Republicans and Republican voters. We didn’t start this, Trump didn’t start this, but, we’ve been calling for decades for elected Republicans to stand up and take on the media. And when Trump did this we get

BOSTON GLOBE CALLS FOR ALL MEDIA OUTLETS TO PUBLISH ANTI-TRUMP EDITORIALS NEXT WEEK

The Boston Globe has called for the coordinated publication of editorials by any and all news outlets criticizing President Trump’s rhetoric on the press, scheduled for next week.

They have asked a number news organizations to publish editorials condemning the president’s labeling of the press as “the enemy of the people.”

Marjorie Pritchard, who oversees the Globe’s editorial page, says dozens of newspapers have agreed so far to write their own editorials, according to the Associated Press.

The Globe’s decision comes as a response to the president’s increasingly hostile rhetoric towards many news organizations — what the Boston newspaper calls his “dirty war against the free press.” Trump has consistently called out specific news organizations like CNN and MSNBC

What they want are papers to publish them on August 16th, but, really, this will be virtually nothing different from the rest of the week. Month. Year. If Trump came out in support of an assault weapons ban, keeping abortion illegal, a stronger Paris Climate Agreement, etc, the media would still find a way to slam him.

The media may not be the enemy of the people, but it sure is the enemy of Republicans/Conservatives. And anytime you think “perhaps Trump went a little too far by saying/tweeting X”, remember that the Boston Globe, a news outlet, wants all news outlets to band together to go after the duly elected president. But barely even chided Obama when he was literally spying on reporters.

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DNC Decides They’d Once Again Love Some Of That Sweet, Sweet Fossil Fuels Companies Cash

By William Teach August 11, 2018 – 7:56 am

After railing against fossil fuels and fossil fuels companies, after many Democrats at the state and local levels, with the blessing of national figures, suing fossil fuels companies, and passing a resolution stating they won’t take fossil fuels companies money, and having ‘climate change’ in their platform, which includes

Climate change is an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time. Fifteen of the 16 hottest years on record have occurred this century. While Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax,” 2016 is on track to break global temperature records once more. Cities from Miami to Baltimore are already threatened by rising seas. California and the West have suffered years of brutal drought. Alaska has been scorched by wildfire. New York has been battered by superstorms, and Texas swamped by flash floods. The best science tells us that without ambitious, immediate action across our economy to cut carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases, all of these impacts will be far worse in the future. We cannot leave our children a planet that has been profoundly damaged.

…We will transform American transportation by reducing oil consumption through cleaner fuels, vehicle electrification increasing the fuel efficiency of cars, boilers, ships, and trucks. We will make new investments in public transportation and build bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure across our urban and suburban areas. Democrats believe the tax code must reflect our commitment to a clean energy future by eliminating special tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies as well as defending and extending tax incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy.

…Democrats believe that climate change is too important to wait for climate deniers and defeatists in Congress to start listening to science, and support using every tool available to reduce emissions now.

The pretty much want to stop frakking, do away with gasoline/oil, they mention they back Obama on stopping Keystone XL, and oppose drilling on all public lands. Yet

From the link

The Democratic National Committee passed a resolution Friday afternoon that activists say effectively reverses a ban on fossil fuel company donations.

The resolution introduced by DNC Chair Tom Perez states that the party “support[s] fossil fuel workers” and will accept donations from “employers’ political action committees.” It was approved by a 30-2 vote just two months after the committee adopted another resolution prohibiting donations from fossil fuel companies by a unanimous vote.

The new resolution nods to “forward-looking employers” that are “powering America’s all-of-the-above energy economy and moving us towards a future fueled by clean and low-emissions energy technology, from renewables to carbon capture and storage to advanced nuclear technology.”

Some Democrats are livid, and they’ll take long, fossil fueled flights and car rides to let the DNC know. The DNC is mostly waffling on the reasons for this, but, this looks like a biggie

Hinojosa said the resolution came in response to “concerns from Labor” that the original fossil fuel donations ban “was an attack on workers.” Just 4.4 percent of workers in the mining sector ― including coal, oil and gas ― are union members, according to the Union Membership and Coverage Database. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, however, remains a strong supporter of building pipelines and donated more than $305,000 to the DNC this year.

On one hand they’re trying to kill off projects that put money in the pockets of workers, on the other they’re trying to get campaign donations from those same workers.

The question now becomes whether any of the companies will give money to Democrats. They have to know that it would be a waste, because it won’t influence Democrats to offer support to the companies.

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