Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach July 8, 2018 – 9:11 am

Barbara Ellen Segner Beach Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fantastic day in America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, MAGA is rising. This pinup is by Barbara Ellen Segner with a wee bit of help.

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

  1. The Right Scoop notes the threat from the Mitch McConnell protesters
  2. Ice Age Now covers Cape Town getting snow for the first time
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That finds that thermometer that set that Scottish “record”
  4. Watts Up With That? highlights an ice cream truck causing that “record”
  5. Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler discusses civility not being overrated, but having a time and place
  6. Bunkerville flashes back to Obama on bringing back jobs
  7. Chicks On The Right notes CNN worried that no one cares about Russia Russia Russia (we don’t)
  8. Cold Fury covers a poll on socialism vs a free economy
  9. Doug Ross @ Journal discusses the Jim Jordan smear imploding
  10. Jihad Watch notes why a Muslim rapist was acquitted in Canada
  11. Legal Insurrection discusses a college requiring review of the Declaration Of Independence for distribution
  12. Moonbattery notes that Facebook also blocked the Declaration as hate speech
  13. Outside The Beltway covers the Army refuting the immigrant discharge story
  14. Pacific Pundit notes the percent of immigrant families on some sort of welfare
  15. And last, but not least, Raised On Hoecakes covers duty to retreat and Stand Your Ground

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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Immigrant With PhD Rocked By Military “Discharge” Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2018 – 7:50 am

If you haven’t read the initial AP story which started this little hyperventilation by Credentialed Media folks who are so unbiased that they are actively looking for stories to Slam Trump, start here with this tweet-storm. Suffice to say, the unhinged, hyper-partisan headline

became something different deeper in the article, and something different when people actually offered Facts. But, hey, it’s a fun TDS Narrative for the media, so we get this from ABC “news”

Immigrant PhD candidate rocked by sudden US Army discharge

Growing up in eastern China, Panshu Zhao fell in love with America. He read the Bible his parents gave him, watched Hollywood movies and studied the ideals of democracy. He jumped at the chance to attend graduate school at Texas A&M University.

In 2016, Zhao enlisted in the U.S. Army as part of a special recruitment program offering immigrants in the country legally a path to citizenship.

The future, he said, was bright.

Now, he is one of the dozens of immigrant recruits and reservists struggling with abrupt, often unexplained military discharges and canceled contracts. They traded being willing to risk their lives for the prospect of U.S. citizenship, a timeworn exchange that’s drawn linguists, medical specialists and thousands of other immigrants to the military since the Revolutionary War.

How horrible! So mean! Being discharged after going through all that training, having one’s hope being dashed…oh, wait

The Pentagon said Friday that there has been no policy change since last year, when Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said no one could enter basic training without completion of a background investigation.

And Army spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said that any enlistee entering the military undergoes security screenings.

Zhao, 31, said his “ship out” date to basic training was delayed for two years as he underwent background checks, counterintelligence interviews and rigorous reviews added as requirements for immigrant enlistees.

So, it was initially delayed under Barack Obama. Weird that his name is not mentioned.

In April, Zhao visited Washington, D.C., for the first time, touring the White House and visiting the Republican National Committee.

That same month, he got word from his unit commander: He was being discharged. He was told simply that his discharge was “uncharacterized,” he said.

He never actually started training. He was never accepted into the military. For whatever reason, his application was denied, most likely based on either lying about something or failing a security check.

If you are offered a job, but fail the drug test and/or background check and are told “nope, bye”, you aren’t really being fired from a job. You never started the job in the first place. You were never on the payroll.

But, you know, they have to find ways to slam Trump, because they’re utterly partisan and deranged.

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NYTimes Editorial Board: Democrats Need To Go “Godfather” On Judicial Picks

By William Teach July 7, 2018 – 6:27 pm

Thank goodness the NY Times Editorial Board tells us that “The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.” In other words, a call to violence and illegal actions represents the opinion of the NY Times

Democrats: Do Not Surrender the Judiciary

With Republicans controlling the Senate and the judicial filibuster dead, the Democrats’ odds of denying President Trump a second Supreme Court appointment are slim. Barring some unforeseen development, the president will lock in a 5-to-4 conservative majority, shifting the court solidly to the right for a generation.

This is all the more reason for Democrats and progressives to take a page from “The Godfather” and go to the mattresses on this issue. Because this battle is about more than a single seat on the nation’s highest court. With public attention focused on all that is at stake with this alignment, this is the moment for Democrats to drive home to voters the crucial role that the judiciary plays in shaping this nation, and why the courts should be a key voting concern in Every. Single. Election.

This call to arms may sound overly dramatic. It’s not

They’ve seen the movies, right? The ones which feature murders, hits at restaurants, riddling a guy with bullets non-stop from heavy caliber automatic weapons, strangling people with garrotes, putting horse heads in beds, starting mob wars, stabbings, general mayhem, etc.

And the NTYEB wants this over not just the Supreme Court, but all federal judiciary

Long after Mr. Trump is nothing but a toxic memory, the federal judiciary — from the Supreme Court on down — will bear the smear of his fingerprints. The coming confirmation battle will be fierce, but no matter what happens, the fight cannot end there. On Nov. 6, voters will have their first chance to arrest Mr. Trump’s warping of the judiciary. Reversing the damage already done will require a much longer-term commitment.

They can position this as a war of words and elections (“Elections have consequences. We won, you lost. Get over it.” Barack Obama), but it sure looks like a call to arms. As written.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 7, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will soon rise dozens of feet by 2050 because Other People refuse to be taxed, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on people claiming to be leaving the Right who were never Conservative to start with.

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‘Climate Change’ (scam) Doom Bring Extreme Anxiety And Climainsanity

By William Teach July 7, 2018 – 10:30 am

This is what all the doomsaying from the Cult of Climastrology has caused

The Threat Of Climate Change Brings Both Anxiety & Apathy

The young man believed he only had five years to live. “Not because he was sick,” said Kate Schapira, “not because anything was wrong with him, but because he believed that life on Earth would be impossible for humans.”

The sign on Schapira’s booth read: CLIMATE ANXIETY COUNSELING 5¢ THE DOCTOR IS IN. Time to earn her pennies.

On that muggy June day, she had set up shop in Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. Schapira is not a trained therapist — a fact she makes clear to visitors — but she is happy to chat with anyone suffering from anxiety about climate change. “A lot of what I do is listen and ask questions,” she said.

Over the coming decades, rising temperatures will fuel natural disasters that are more deadly than any seen in human history, destabilizing nations and sending millions to their death. Experts say that we need to prepare for a hotter, less hospitable world by building sea walls, erecting desalination plants and engineering crops that can withstand punishing heat and drought, but few have considered the defenses we need to erect in our minds. Some, like Shapira, have called for more talking, more counseling to process our grief. But will that be enough? Climate change will do untold violence to life on this planet, and we have remarkably few tools to deal with its emotional cost.

So, people are told that they are utterly doomed (unless we impose a tax and let government control their lives), and then need counseling (really that guy needs to see an actual licensed professional mental health worker who has a PhD) because they have been indoctrinated into coming doom from an issue that is mostly made up.

The tall, sharply dressed man said humans were a cancer on the Earth. He said that he resented his parents for raising him to be “super hedonistic, just monstrously gaining things.” He said he had grown nihilistic, that he wanted to take up chain smoking and die a slow death. When Schapira asked if he was angry at his family, the young man replied, “I love my family. It’s so hard to know that you only have five years left to love people.”

The man was undoubtedly troubled, his vision of the future decidedly more apocalyptic than the one offered by science. But, his anxieties were real and, perhaps, understandable given the dire predictions of climatologists. While none believes human civilization will crumble in the next five years, the forecasts get hazier 30, 40 or 50 years down the road.

See? He’s supposed to be freaking out about Doooooom! This is the type of article that makes you understand just how dangerous this whole fantasy about anthropogenic climate change causing Everything Bad actually is. And it continues on and on, even bringing up Winston Churchill and his speeches regarding the danger from Nazi Germany

Climate change is a problem with the scope and urgency of World War II, and while it will unfold more slowly and less predictably than the war, it demands a response on the same scale. Like the war, rising temperatures threaten violence, depravation and the deaths of millions. Writing in The New Republic, author and activist Bill McKibben, argued, “By most of the ways we measure wars, climate change is the real deal: Carbon and methane are seizing physical territory, sowing havoc and panic, racking up casualties, and even destabilizing governments.” And, like the war, climate change demands the massive and immediate mobilization of American industry.

Good grief.

And so, faced with overwhelming odds, we might do as Churchill would. Acknowledge the difficult road ahead. Feel our dread and despair. And then commit to do better. Understand that anxiety is not action. Worry is not resolve. In times of crisis, people want to be soldiers, not victims. They want to feel community, solidarity and empowerment. This, perhaps, is what Schapira sought in setting up her humble wooden booth. Filled with dread, she took up arms against that which she feared most. “I’m asking people about their anxieties that have to do with climate change,” she tells visitors.

I would recommend that all Warmists give up their use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral. That should make them feel better, just like living in the 900’s.

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Gun Grabbers Look To Shut Down Major Chicago Road Saturday Morning

By William Teach July 7, 2018 – 7:35 am

They want more gun control, because Chicago doesn’t have enough regulations on law abiding citizens owning guns

(Fox32) Father Michael Pfleger is set to lead anti-violence protesters on a march that will shut down a mile-long stretch of the Dan Ryan Saturday morning.

The march is scheduled start at 10 am at 79th Street and go north on the inbound lanes to 67th Street. But state police say they plan to arrest protesters if they step onto the expressway.

“Our youth are very determined. It is important to me that this is a non-violent demonstration,” Father Pfleger said.

Father Pfleger says it’ll be the youth leading the way onto the Dan Ryan expressway Saturday, including students like Rieonna Holman.

This is a group linked to the astroturfed March For Our Lives, backed by big money groups like Bloomberg’s Everytown and Mom’s Demand. Despite all the massive gun control for Chicago, 7 were wounded on July 4th. Two were killed, two were wounded in shootings on Friday. Controlling guns stops nothing. This is people violence.

Unsurprisingly, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who’s presided over a big jump in violent crime in Chicago, says he’s super supportive of this.

Meanwhile, few papers are covering this (and the Washington Post put in deep in the paper)

Conservative students speak out on gun rights, plan marches in 10 cities Saturday

As a pro-gun, conservative student, Anthony Bartosiewicz believes his opinion has been drowned out. The 16-year-old from Wheaton, Ill., said classmates who learn that he is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment have called him a “school shooter” or have pushed him into arguments about guns.

The highly publicized wave of student-led gun-control activism after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school in February has left some conservative students feeling as though their views are not being taken into consideration in the debate about how to stop school shootings. As the March for Our Lives movement has been trying to push gun-control legislation across the country, a group of students who want to protect Second Amendment rights is sponsoring rallies nationwide on Saturday.

“The problem that I saw was I didn’t necessarily have a voice,” Bartosiewicz said. “It’s gotten to the point where another reason that I feel like we’ve been drowned out of the conversation is because people who are pro-gun aren’t confident enough to speak their mind.”

A lot of them probably do not want to speak out as they’re worried about literally being assaulted by Liberals.

Organizers say they feel as though their right to bear arms is in danger and that the wave of gun-control activism could lead to certain types of guns being banned. The students are calling for the safe, responsible use of guns. They would like to see increased security in schools, including armed guards. Some would like teachers to be armed.

The group spearheading the rallies — March for Our Rights — has planned marches in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington on Saturday, with sister events in seven other cities. The rallies are expected to be modest, but organizers hope to lay a foundation for growth in coming years. Speakers include conservative radio host and former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh at the Chicago rally and NRATV host Cam Edwards at the Washington march.

Good for you, youngsters. Don’t take the bait when Leftist agitators attempt to goad you into fights.

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Oregon Initiative Looks To Overturn Illegal Alien Sanctuary State Status

By William Teach July 7, 2018 – 7:15 am

Of course, this will end up being deemed mean, bigoted, raaaaacist, xenophobic, etc and so on

(KGW8) Petitioners for an initiative that would undo Oregon’s sanctuary state status for undocumented immigrants submitted 105,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office Thursday afternoon.

The Secretary of State must certify that 88,184 of those signatures are valid for Initiative Petition 22 to appear before voters in November. Signatures can be submitted until 5 p.m. Friday.

“This afternoon, our committee took a huge step toward repealing Oregon’s sanctuary statute and thereby freeing our police and sheriffs to cooperate more easily with federal immigration authorities enforcing U.S. immigration law,” said Cynthia Kendoll, president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform.

It could be several weeks before it’s known if IP 22 has enough valid signatures to qualify. The initiative was filed in April 2017 and signature gathering began in October.

The law the initiative aims to remove bars Oregon law enforcement agencies from arresting individuals whose only crime is violating federal immigration law.

Does it have a chance in what is considered a very Democratic Party state?

OFIR (Oregonians For Immigration Reform, which is backing this initiative) was previously successful in helping orchestrate the defeat of Measure 88, a referendum that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to secure driving rights. The state Legislature had passed the law, but Oregon voters rejected it by a margin of 2 to 1.

So, yes, it has a chance. And, of course, the article has to point out that the Southern Poverty Law Center nutters consider OFIR to be an anti-immigrant hate group. Anyhow, good luck, Oregonians.

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We Might Have To Ditch Our AC’s Even Though ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Is Making It Hotter

By William Teach July 6, 2018 – 3:24 pm

All I have to say to Kelly Kasulis is “You first, chump, you first”

Climate change is making our planet hotter — but we might have to ditch the AC

Americans love air conditioning — and to a serious fault. At least three quarters of all homes in the U.S. have an air conditioner, according to the Department of Energy, and Americans consumes more energy for cooling alone than what the entire continent of Africa uses for all purposes combined.

That’s not without serious consequence. The burden of a high utilities bill aside, fossil fuel is ultimately being burned and converted into the electricity that’s chilling our homes this summer. As a result, an estimated 117 million extra metric tons of carbon dioxide is being pumped into the air solely because of U.S. air conditioning.

Now, a study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has a disturbing new revelation: In a simulation of a three-month summer period, air pollution directly related to fossil fuel burning that powers air conditioning accounts for about 1,000 deaths. Even worse, that figure only covers the Eastern United States. And as climate change turns increasingly turns up the heat, the problem could get worse as more Americans compensate by further refrigerating themselves indoors. (snip)

Nevertheless, this issue is global. An estimated 35% of all air conditioners in the world are in China, and 10% of the planet’s energy consumption comes from these machines. Meanwhile, some climate models predict that the global temperature could increase by as much as 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. If that’s the case, it’s hard to imagine that those used to the luxury of air conditioning will simply forego their comfort. Energy-efficient air conditioners would help with damage control, but researchers ultimately believe our source of energy fundamentally needs to change.

In other words, this little Cultist is saying we should be forced to give up our air conditioning. Or, well, really, she’d probably be OK with keeping her own and forcing those black, brown, and yellow people in Africa and Asia not be allowed to get theirs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 6, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from use of refrigerants for Popsicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Powerline, with a post on voters rejecting socialism.

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TDS: Woman Blames Inability To Open Jars On Donald Trump

By William Teach July 6, 2018 – 10:30 am

No, really

Good grief

It was November 2016 and the only person I knew who believed Trump would win the US election was the owner of my gym. This was clearly a ridiculous prediction so, seeing the chance for some easy money, I offered to bet him $100 that Hillary would win.

But the gym owner, clearly not wanting to do his dough, pointed at this horrible thing in the corner with the name “sled” and said: “If Trump wins you have to pull 70kg on it.” (snip)

After Trump claimed victory, I went up to the gym in a foul mood. “Just fucking load up the fucking sled, all right, and let’s get it over with,” I said without much grace as I strapped a belt around my waist.

I pulled the sled like a human oxen while being filmed and the gym staff cheered. I did it. But the Trump victory soured my successful show of strength.

Yeah, I could pull a pretend sled. But how was that going to help me when the world had been destroyed by nuclear weapons or climate change?

So far, it hasn’t, but, don’t let your derangement go, honey. So, she went to a restaurant and had a bad meal

I never went back. But I also didn’t return to the gym. I associated it now with Donald Trump, the bad meal and pulling the sled.

It was 9 November 2016 and my thinking about fitness changed almost overnight. In tune with the times, it became more Trump, less Obama.

In the spirit of the Donald, I drank more bottles of Diet Coke and ate more McDonald’s. I dropped the gym – embracing Trump’s belief that we are given a certain amount of energy and if we use it then we are depleting a finite resource.

According to the book Trump Revealed: “Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, ‘You are going to die young because of this.’”

I didn’t want to die young, so I didn’t go to the gym.

This keeps going on and on and on.

I walked. I this. I that. Months passed. Then a year. Trump was going to be in power for another 1,000 years. Or at least that’s what it felt like. Could I really avoid the gym for the entirety of his presidency?

I missed being strong enough to open jars and carry groceries. So, last week, I returned to the gym, slinking back in as if no time had passed. I hoped that by wearing a puffy jacket and MC Hammer pants I could hide my lack of definition – that I could pretend I had maintained my fitness on my own. At home, running to the building next door. On the couch. While tweeting.

These people. Seriously.  Just insane.

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