Trump Picks Brett Kavanaugh For Supreme Court

By William Teach July 10, 2018 – 7:34 am

And liberals explode. There are entirely too many hottest of hot takes to even link. Here’s a fun one

Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Is Probably the End of Abortion Rights and Same-Sex Marriage

Uh huh. How about

Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s drastic shift to the right, cartoonsplained

There was zero problem from the media when Obama’s picks pushed it way to the Left. And Excitable Bob Casey

Casey: Trump Supreme Court Pick Represents a Corrupt Bargain and I Will Oppose It

Might want to actually interview him, as is your duty, Bob. And Democracy For America (snicker)

DFA says Kavanaugh “represents a generational assault on justice, freedom, core democratic values”

Then Loopy Ezra Klein

The Supreme Court vs. democracy

The Women’s March got a bit ahead of themselves in their press release

https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/1016499063657844736

Twitchy has, of course, lots of Liberals losing their minds (the norm). You have Terry McCauliffe warning of a high body count, Cory Booker having a meltdown, and a whole gaggle of Democrats bloviating. Obviously, the NY Times is in a snit, saying we don’t know enough about Kavanaugh (funny, we knew almost nothing about Obama and they were good with that). The Washington Post is against him, as well. We expected that. And there are plenty of anti-Kavanaugh op-eds there, well, let’s face it, it’s all based on anti-Trump sentiment. The LA Times is suddenly wondering if the Supreme Court nomination process can be repaired. Paul Begala offers CNN’s opinion in stating that Red-state Democrat Senators should oppose Kavanaugh in total. Why? Like the rest, just because. They can couch their opposition in whatever terms they like, but, it’s all based on TDS and Republican Derangement Syndrome. If it was super squishy Jeb Bush in office, they’d do the same thing.

If they do not like it, then, per the paraphrase of Obama “Elections matter. I won; you lost. Deal with it.”

But, who really is Brett Kavanaugh? In reality, he has few vulnerabilities, and was actually the safe pick

Even though Democrats will go to any lengths to stop Kavanaugh, he presents them with few vulnerabilities.

He has written no opinions on their holy-of-holies, abortion or gay marriage. To the extent that he has written on these topics, he has observed that the government might have a compelling interest in providing contraceptives and that an alien might have a due process right to an abortion.

He has written no major opinions on free speech or religion, nor has he displayed any sympathies for the criminal defense bar.

Instead, Kavanaugh’s creates a deeper challenge to liberalism: rolling back the administrative state.

Progressives have evaded the Constitution’s checks and balances on the federal government by unceasingly expanding its regulatory reach, transferring the actual authority to make the rules from Congress to unelected bureaucrats, and then demanding that judges defer to the results virtually without question.

It is through this judicial-agency industrial complex where, as the Obama administration displayed on everything from immigration to education to health care, progressives have imposed their views on the American people and the states with little democratic accountability.

Kavanaugh has repeatedly challenged the foundations of this runaway state. He has written significant opinions overturning two misbegotten examples of this dynamic.

In the first, he found the Consumer Finance Protection Board (CFPB) violated the Constitution because it vested all power over consumer finance in the country in one person, but insulated him from removal by the president.

In the second, he struck down a new federal accounting board, because it too was insulated from presidential control, even though Article II of the Constitution vests the president, and the president alone, with the duty to see that “the Laws be Faithfully Executed.”

Let’s see Democrats argue that limiting power of the federal bureaucracy is a bad thing, as is returning power to the Legislative Branch.

But, what’s going to happen is Democrats and their minions will assail Judge Kavanaugh over what they see as a Constitutional Right to kill the unborn willy-nilly, along with a few other Left-wing commandments. It won’t be pretty, and they might not get the support they think they will from the average America

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Climastrologists Are Upset That Cuts In Govt Funding Not Leading To Funding From Private Sector

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 3:07 pm

It’s rather shocking. One would think all these deep pocketed Cult of Climastrology members and groups and companies would step up to the plate and offer their own money

Trump’s Cuts In Climate-Change Research Spark a Global Scramble For Funds

… (stuff on Obama giving lots of U.S. taxpayer money for Hotcoldwetdry stuff)

After the 2016 Presidential election, the Trump Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress reduced U.S. support for climate-change-related research, causing the Centre’s program and similar initiatives around the world to scramble for funding. A U.S.A.I.D. official told me that American funding for the Centre’s project will end in 2019, instead of in 2020, because of a change in “the Administration’s foreign-policy and national-security priorities.”

Under Obama, the United States was the world’s largest donor to the Green Climate Fund—a global reserve fund created to, among other things, help developing countries invest in renewable and low-emission technologies. Obama pledged three billion dollars, a third of which was contributed before he left office. Trump, who has dismissed climate change as a hoax spread by China, has pledged no money to the fund. Earlier this week, the fund’s director resigned, and some began to question its viability after no new projects were approved at its most recent board meeting.

So the money from the U.S. government, forcibly taken from the taxpayers to be used for projects based on a scam, and on projects which have zero relation to the U.S., has been significantly cut? Bummer! This kind of thing continues for a few more paragraphs, with Obama pledging money and Trump saying “No”, till we see

“We are already severely strained financially in our governments, so, once we lose funding and support, it makes it difficult for us to move forward,” Diana Ruiz, who runs trainings for the Centre, told me. “All of our assets, our livelihoods, and everything, is at risk, so it puts us at a disadvantage.”

Well, why aren’t all these private entities stepping up? Why are the Warmists not giving their money for the research? It’s almost like they can’t survive without government money.

Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1st, and researchers fear a repeat of last summer: extreme storms with little planning on how to mitigate their impact. “It’s a source of frustration for a lot of people,” a former U.S.A.I.D. adviser told me. “The money flows into the countries for a disaster, and, as soon as the disaster’s over, it will completely disappear with no prep work for the next one.”

This has zero to do with ‘climate change’. Tropical systems have been happening longer than mankind has been around. Perhaps we should take all that Hotcoldwetdry money and use it for relief and planning. And, think how much we’ve pissed away that could have gone into upgrading infrastructure in places like Puerto Rico (of course, Dems would have pissed that away, too).

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If All You See…

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

…is a world flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Newsbusters, with a post on Crazy Michelle Wolf and abortion.

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Bummer: Unseasonable Ice Storms Cause ‘Climate Change’ Problems For Gardens

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 10:30 am

The UK Guardian’s Catriona Sandilands can totes look out her back window and see climate change doom

I see my garden as a barometer of climate change
I worry about my beautiful, compromised plants, exposed to unseasonable ice storms and heatwaves

…

On that particular afternoon, I had to wait until the sun had passed over the deck to do this work, or it would have been just too hot. It was nearly 31C that afternoon with high humidity: not quite record-breaking, but unseasonable for Toronto. Summers, here, are getting longer and hotter, and winters warmer and more unpredictable. This year, the thermometer hit 16C in February: that’s in a Canadian city in which the historical average high for the month is -3C. Now, we are in the middle of an extended heatwave.

In a year of large contrasts, there was also an exceptional storm in mid-April that turned roads and sidewalks to glass for days, and with such high winds that insurance companies threw up their hands at the number of claims related to roof damage, including mine. Then in May – May! – there was a heat alert. This is enough drama to make even my least environmentally-conscious friends make noises about global warming.

The garden has suffered this year, especially the lower-growing plants; even some of the hardy, well-established lavenders packed it in. The problem is not that it was too cold (although there was a top-10 longest and coldest polar air event in December/January), or that it was too warm in those double-digit February days, or that there was the ice storm in April, or that it was 31C in May, or even that there are now again record-breaking temperatures. The problem is that all of these things happened in a remarkably short time span, and that longer-term climate changes have already begun to destabilise plant communities, making them more vulnerable to extreme weather events.

Weather isn’t climate except when it’s used to push a Narrative. And shouldn’t roads be banned since they carry fossil fueled vehicles? And, I hope it’s a tiny home, otherwise, big carbon footprint.

To me, more than anything, gardening in these times means two things. First, looking after my little backyard demands that I pay close attention to the present and future: what are the plants telling me about the ways the climate is changing? What do they need that I can give them? What do these needs tell me about the larger scale of the changes in which we are immersed? What can I do, concretely, to mitigate change, to adapt to it, and even to resist it?

Second, and more foundationally, this garden invites me to reflect on the past and present: on gardening itself, and how the particular plants I am tending are part of larger processes of colonial, global transformation in which histories of plant movements are bound up with those of capitalist, fossil-fueled developments. We can, perhaps, more easily think about cotton, wheat, sugar cane, and corn at this level: plants that were central to slavery, to the rise of industrial agriculture, to what some scholars call “ecological imperialism.” But gardens are also part of this picture.

Dealing with these people are like dealing with Flat Earthers or those who totally discount any sort of evolution. The Earth changes. The climate changes.

But, hey, I’m sure we can solve this with a tax, right?

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Trump To Pick New Supreme Court Justice: Who Will It Be?

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 7:21 am

Today is the day Mr. Trump, the duly and Constitutionally elected President of the U.S.A, will pick another Supreme Court justice

(Washington Post) President Trump said he was “close” to choosing a Supreme Court nominee Sunday after a weekend at his New Jersey golf club evaluating four leading candidates and mulling the likely response of key senators and his core supporters to each prospect, according to White House officials and Trump advisers involved in the discussions.

Over rounds of golf with friends, meals with family, and a flurry of phone calls and meetings with aides, Trump remained coy about his final decision, which is expected to be announced Monday evening from among the four federal judges atop his shortlist: Brett M. ­Kavanaugh, Thomas Hardiman, Raymond Kethledge and Amy ­Coney Barrett.

“I’m very close to making a decision,” Trump told reporters Sunday afternoon. “Have not made it official yet. Have not made it final.” (snip)

Hardiman, a runner-up when Trump chose Neil M. Gorsuch as his high court nominee last year, received a wave of new attention in the weekend discussions, according to two people briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about it. (snip)

At various times, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Kethledge have been seen as the leading candidates. Trump likes the suspense: With a showman’s sense of timing, he boasted last year that he kept Gorsuch’s selection closely held until the prime-time announcement.

Who will it be (and why did we not see any sneering when Obama had a showman’s sense of timing when releasing his picks?) We’ll find out sometime today. Kavenaugh seems a bit squishy on social issues and illegal immigration. People can always find something to complain about. As long as we do not end up with another Anthony Kennedy or David Souter.

Regardless of who is picked, you can bet there are tons of opinion pieces and editorials ready to go about how Utterly Horrible The Pick Was and How We Are All Doomed. And you can expect abortion, the murder of the unborn by people who had unprotected, irresponsible sex with people they didn’t want to have children with, to be front and center in all of them.

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We Need To Revamp The 2nd Amendment To Stop Gun Violence Or Something

By William Teach July 9, 2018 – 7:00 am

Remember, they’re not trying to take away our guns, they just want some common sense reforms. And along comes “Alan L. Moss, former wage-hour chief economist and congressional fellow to the late U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, is the author of six books, including “Selling Out America’s Democracy”” to blow that little thing away. He spends the majority of the opinion piece regurgitating things that have happened, like a few shootings (some by gang bangers. Why won’t they follow the law?), some stats, blamestorming the NRA, mentioning the gun grabbing March for our Lives, and he seems pretty upset about some having 1s Amendment Rights by the time we get to paragraph 15

To stop gun violence, we must revamp 2nd Amendment, remove big money from federal elections

…..

Attempts to limit campaign contributions that give the gun lobby (and others) the ammunition to win political support also have been decimated by the Supreme Court (Buckley v. Valeo, 1976). In that and later decisions, it found that campaign-expenditure limits contravene the First Amendment provision on freedom of speech; corporations were given the go-ahead to spend from their general treasuries to influence ballot initiatives; and aggregate limits on political giving by an individual to candidates, political action committees and party committees combined were found to be unconstitutional. These decisions have opened the floodgates to bribery through campaign donation.

How dare these people be able to express their 1st Amendment Rights!!!!!! It’s not just Free Speech, but the ability to petition for redress of grievance. Prick a Democrat, they’ll bleed in Fascist.

First, the Second Amendment must be revised to allow restoration of the assault-style weapons/ammunition ban, universal background checks and comprehensive gun bans in high-crime areas. These steps should be combined with gun-buyback programs to help rid neighborhoods awash with firearms and the violence they bring, and initiatives to bar dangerous individuals from gun ownership.

But, remember, they don’t want to take your guns. Perhaps Mr. Moss can tell us how the massive gun restrictions in a place like Chicago are working? But, hey, go for it, gun grabbers: try and change the 2nd Amendment. Be exposed for the Fascists you are.

Second, a new amendment must be fashioned to relieve federal political candidates of the burden to raise campaign funds. Formulas should be developed to estimate reasonable funding requirements for those who represent a minimum of voter potential either through party acceptance or other proof of popular support. Under this system, the federal allocation of campaign funds would be the only financial resources devoted to election expenditures.

I wonder if Mr. Moss objected when Mr. Obama broke his promise to use the money designated for the general election in 2008 and continued to fund-raise and spend well over that $75 million? I wonder if he would consider an exception so that groups like public sector unions and abortion groups can continue giving lots of money to Democrats? Or is he just concerned with the small amount of money spent by lobbyists for the 2nd Amendment?

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Remember, ‘Climate Change’ Is All About Science, Not Politics

By William Teach July 8, 2018 – 5:56 pm

Tweeted out using a capitalist created technological device

https://twitter.com/morganastra/status/1015725778682535937

I wonder if Rosa, and all the others pushing for Socialism (not really textbook political definition Socialism, since that model features government staying the hell out of our lives), can tell us exactly how the environment fared under the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc?

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If All You See…

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

…is

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on lefty policies being sickening.

It’s Italians week!

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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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