…is a world turning to sand from Other People’s use of fossil fuels, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Last Tradition, with a post on Iran threatening to expose those who took bribes to pass Iran deal.
It’s motorcycles week, as recommended by Jonathan Smith.
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Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America. The sun is shining, the squirrels are squirreling, and have you called you mom yet? Hope you sent a card or flowers or something. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.
What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15
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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Here’s one that isn’t really making the news much, because it would make Donald Trump look good, and the totally non-partisan, utterly un-biased media can’t have people knowing things like this
(Breitbart) North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Saturday that the communist regime would hold a ceremony on a date between May 23 and 25 to permanently shut down the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, and journalists from five countries, including the United States, were invited to attend.
The announcement appeared on the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website, and appeared to be a gesture of goodwill towards the international community, which has pressured North Korea for years to dismantle its illegal nuclear weapons program. The ceremony will occur less than a month before a planned in-person meeting between dictator Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, scheduled for June 12.
The press release from the Foreign Ministry did not specifically name the Punggye-ri site, describing it only as the “northern nuclear test ground of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea].†There is no evidence, however, that North Korea possesses any other nuclear test sites, active or otherwise.
“A ceremony for dismantling the nuclear test ground is now scheduled between May 23 and 25, depending on weather condition,†KCNA announced. “Dismantlement of the nuclear test ground will be done in the following sequence: making all tunnels of the test ground collapse by explosion; completely blocking entries; removing all observation facilities, research institutes and structures of guard units on the ground.â€
The North Korean Foreign Ministry affirms that, following the ceremony, the site will be “completely closed.†It adds that international journalists will be welcomed into the country “to conduct on-the-spot coverage in order to show in a transparent manner the dismantlement of the northern nuclear test ground.†Journalists applying to cover the event will be limited to citizens of China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea, due to the remote and diminutive nature of the site.
One has to wonder how many U.S. journalists will go to North Korea to witness this, and report back on it honestly. How many will give him credit for what’s going on with North Korea. And, yes, they should give some credit to the presidents of South Korea and Japan. But, you just cannot dismiss Trump’s policies for helping make this all happen.
Now, could it be a trick? Of course. This is North Korea. And we can’t forget that Kim is still are despicable, brutal, violent dictator running a regime that acts in the same way. Perhaps this could be a step forward in reforming the system. Regardless, a denuclearized North Korea is a great thing.
But, the press is already trying to poo poo the dismantlement thing, as we see in one of the few articles on the subject
Dismantling North Korea nukes could be costly and take years to complete
If President Trump is successful in convincing Kim Jong Un to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons program the effort would be unprecedented in its size and complexity, analysts say.
“This would be the biggest undertaking by the international community when it comes to denuclearization or disarmament,†said Olli Heinonen, an arms control expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a national security think-tank.
If Trump and Kim reach an agreement, the process could take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, Heinonen said.
Perhaps I’m reading too much into this, but, it sure seems like the USA Today is trying to put a negative spin on this, does it not? You have to know that the article would be completely different, vastly more positive if this was happening under Obama, or a President Hillary Clinton. Speaking of Obama
John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser, said that the dismantling of Libya’s nuclear program in 2003 might serve as a model.
“One thing that Libya did that led us to overcome our skepticism was that they allowed American and British observers into all their nuclear related sites,†Bolton told CBS News recently. “It wasn’t a question of relying on international mechanisms. We saw them in ways we had never seen before.†(snip)
Several years later Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was removed from power by rebels backed by NATO air support. Ironically, Gadhafi’s fate is one of the reasons Kim has clung so steadfastly to his nuclear weapons.
Kim sees the survival of his regime as linked to the country’s nuclear program.
Hmph. They forgot to mention who screwed up Libya, and caused NK to cling so steadfastly.
Regardless, give Trump credit where credit is due.
Read: Winning: North Korea Invites Media To Event Shutting Down Their Nuclear Test Site »
Many other places, like museums and aquariums, have implemented small sections of their property to Hotcoldwetdry, but this is all about it
First Look: The world’s first visitor centre devoted to climate change opens in Wicklow
“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.”
Barack Obama was quoting one of America’s governors, Jay Inslee, when he said this at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015.
This quote is also one of the first things you’ll read when you visit Wicklow’s Cool Planet.
This interactive visitor centre is thought to be the first of its kind in the world, taking children and adults on a journey of what the world will look like in 2050 if we keep up the lifestyle habits that are damaging the planet.
In other words, this is like looking in a crystal ball with Madam Zelda. And her prognostications are probably closer to reality, because most Warmist prognostications have failed so far. Still ice in the Arctic, and Manhattan is not under water.
Anyhow, one has to wonder how much in the way of fossil fuels, concrete, and other Evil things for ‘climate change’ were used to make this indoctrination center. And how much in the way of fossil fuels will be used to visit it.
Read: Good News: You Can Now Take A Fossil Fueled Trip To World’s First ‘Climate Change’ Center »
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…is carbon pollution floating through the sky, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Feral Irishman, with a post on Australia’s restrictive gun control working almost as well as Chicago’s.
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Ah, the People’s Republik Of California, a hotbed of diversity, tolerance, multiculturalism….raaaaacism? (via Twitchy)
Family wants to create awareness after BBQ confrontation at Lake Merritt
A family’s weekend barbecue outing at a popular East Bay spot had the potential of turning seriously ugly.
Police were called in because of a dispute about where people can set up their charcoal grills.
“This is exactly what is the problem with Oakland today. This lady wants to sit here and call the police on them for having a barbeque at the lake as if this is not normal,” said Michelle Snider.
Snider used her cellphone to record the woman you see on the video who called Oakland police because she said “it is illegal to have a charcoal grill in the park here.”
Of course, the people grilling out were black, and the woman on the phone was white, so, the Usual Suspects had fits. Like Fake Black Sean King
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/994694982996054018
Of course, this is California, where they have lots and lots and lots of rules about everything, especially when it comes to Evil Barbecues releasing Evil carbon pollution, and….
According to an official Oakland Park and Rec map of Lake Merritt, there are six designated barbecue locations, three stationary charcoal locations, and three non-charcoal portable grill locations.
Smith and Snider were charcoal grilling in a non-charcoal grilling location.
Oops. So, raaaaacism denied. But, refer back to the headline
Smith was allowed to continue his weekend family barbecue by the lake like he says since he was a child.
“Honestly I want some kind of awareness. We need to be able to talk about this in an open forum,” said Smith.
And if that happens, it could be the beginning of building a better community.
How about this: follow the rules and grill out in designated locations. That’s the only “awareness” needed. The only thing we need to talk about.
Read: Tales From California: White Woman Calls Cops On Black Family Grilling Out »
See, in Liberal/Warmist World, everything is bad for citizens without the Helping Hand Of Government at the wheel, as we see Paul Bledsoe, who served on the White House Climate Change Task Force under (serial rapist) President Bill Clinton, bloviate in the opinion pages
Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Rollbacks Will Hurt Drivers
President Trump met with auto industry executives at the White House on Friday, arguing for his planned rollback of fuel efficiency and emissions standards, and telling them he wanted them to build “millions more cars†in the United States.
Let’s assume they would. If they did, any cars they made would also be dirtier and more expensive for consumers to drive without the fuel efficiency and emissions rules that the president wants to discard.
How much more expensive? A draft proposal by the Trump administration that emerged in recent weeks would result in additional fuel costs of “$193 billion to $236 billion cumulatively between now and 2035†depending on oil prices, according to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, a research firm that examines the market impact of energy and climate policy.
And those higher gasoline costs are likely to hurt most the very families President Trump claims to care so much about — the ones living paycheck to paycheck.
The fuel efficiency and tailpipe emission standards targeted by Mr. Trump were designed by the Obama administration and require automakers to meet escalating efficiency standards: 41.7 miles per gallon by 2020, and 54.5 m.p.g. in 2025. (Those numbers represent laboratory measures; on the road, they are equivalent to about 32 and 42 m.p.g., respectively.)
Let’s consider 4 of the most popular 2018 sedans
None are even close, right? But, the standards are about overall car lines, so having hybrids and full electric vehicles kick up the overall number. However, it still means that manufacturers have had to do different things to make each vehicle more and more fuel efficient, which has made them more dangerous, and more costly. At what point do the CAFE standards go beyond helping the consumer and making them either less safe and/or spend way more money?
Here’s the thing: does anyone think automakers will suddenly say “Oh, standards are rolled back, so we’re going to make everything super gas guzzly”? Well, Warmists like Bledsoe apparently do. What is more likely to happen is automakers will keep their current standards, and perhaps attempt to improve on them, while potentially coming out with a few vehicles that aren’t so fuel efficient, because Trump rolled them back to pre-Obama, he didn’t get rid of them altogether.
And having more choice is good for consumers. Think people who drive big V8s do not understand that they pay a lot for gas? Why are Warmists/Progressives against choice? If I want to drive a V8 Challenger, Camero, or Mustang, that should be my choice, not Government’s.
President Trump is pushing to reduce fuel efficiency requirements just as global oil prices rise from $50 a barrel to over $70 — in part because the oil markets are nervous about the president’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
These announced changes to the CAFE standards occurred well before withdrawal for the Iran deal. Leftists just making crap up now.
Given rising oil and gasoline prices, fuel efficiency would seem to be a worthy goal, both for consumers and the environment.
It is, but it should be up to the consumer and companies, not government.
Read: NY Times: Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Rollback Will Hurt Drivers Or Something »
When will NY Democrats give up their armed security at their places of government business?
(Daily Caller) New York Democrat Linda Rosenthal introduced legislation to ban shooting sports from New York schools Friday, claiming the sports “spread gun culture.â€
If the legislation is passed, high school shooting teams, including air rifle and even archery clubs, would be disbanded, Time magazine reported on Thursday. These programs can lead to violence, Rosenthal claimed, citing the Parkland shooter’s involvement in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program before executing his mass killing.
“Schools should not be supporting the spread of gun culture in society,†Rosenthal told reporters. “If parents want their children to have shooting instruction, there are opportunities that have nothing to do with the school.â€
Interestingly, if parents object to their children receiving sexual instruction on things like oral, anal, and same gender sex, the schools will shame them. If parents object to the gender confused using the bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms of their children, the school will tell them to pound sand. Unsurprisingly, Rosenthal represents a part of Manhattan, so, she’s probably not familiar with the outdoors activities in a goodly chunk of the state of New York.
She should try taking a stroll through the district she represents, which encompasses the Upper West Side and Hell’s Kitchen, in the wee hours of the morning, and see the real “gun culture” in the Democratic Party run areas, versus how safe she’d be in the more suburban/rural areas.
Also, why does she hate female empowerment, as we switch to the TIme Magazine article
Air riflery is currently the smallest varsity sport in New York state, with 28 teams statewide and 266 participants last year. It has also emerged as a very female-dominated sport, with girls winning 19 of the last 31 state individual air rifle championships.
This small sport led to Jillian Zakrzeski gaining a spot in the Junior Olympics. Rosenthal wants to take these chances away from women. And, yes, it does go after archery clubs, because there’s lots of gun crime being committed with bows and arrows.
The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit Friday against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulatory bureau for what it labeled a “blacklisting campaign†aimed at the gun advocacy group.
According to NRA attorney William A. Brewer III, Cuomo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) attempted to impede the association’s right to “speak freely about gun-related issues and defend the Second Amendment.â€
People like Cuomo may not like Other People having firearms for protection, but, we still have a Constitution, and so does the state of NY.
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Everyone wants to be a Victim, some more than others. But, in today’s society, they should remember there are tons of different technologies that may well be recording them. An officer having a body cam is kinda shocking, eh?
South Carolina woman’s claims of being harassed by ‘white cop’ are questioned as new footage emerges
A South Carolina woman who said being pulled over for speeding by a “white cop†was a “traumatic experience†is having her story questioned after police body camera footage from the incident showed a less intense series of events unfolding.
Dawn Hilton-Williams, in a Facebook Live video on April 27, accused a Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office sergeant of racism after she was ordered to sign a summons asking her to appear in court or pre-pay a traffic ticket. The officer said he clocked her going 70mph in a stretch of rural Route 58 in Virginia that has a 55mph limit.
“It doesn’t matter how polite you are, it’s all sick, crazy bullying and the police are ridiculous,†Hilton-Williams says in the 11-minute video, at times wiping tears from her face and speaking in a frightened tone.
But in video footage released Monday by the sheriff’s office, when confronted with the summons – Hilton-Williams immediately starts questioning the officer where there are signs that say the area has a 55mph limit.
Here’s an idea: don’t speed and you won’t get pulled over. I’ve had speeding tickets. I was speeding (got away with it one time, long story). And, yes, I’ve also been pulled over by a jerkoff cop in a city in NJ that is renowned for doing just that (also a long story).
Hilton-Williams, after signing the paperwork, then drove off and took to Facebook Live to blast the officer.
“I have had a traumatic experience and I want the people who are not African-American who know me to really get where we are coming from,†she says. “When I saw the police pull up behind me, the state trooper, I was immediately afraid.”
“This is the area I’m in,” she said, panning the camera around to show the rural roadway. “In the middle of, this kind of stuff. This is where I am, so it’s not like I’m not afraid, because this is where we got lynched.”
Drama queen city. But, you were speeding, honey. Bless your heart. It is despicable to accuse the cop of racism, smearing him because you were breaking the law and he was doing his job.
Fortunately, body cam to refute her baseless allegations.
Read: Woman Playing Race Card After Traffic Stop Shocked To Learn Of This “Body Cam” Thingy »
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…is a world turning to desert from too much carbon pollution atmosphere cancer, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post on equality and paying bills.
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