If All You See…

By William Teach March 5, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to dust from Other People eating burgers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bookworm Room, with a post on ignorance and a lack of logic in Progressive’s anti-gun position.

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Who’s Up For Lab Grown Clean Meat To Stop ‘Climate Change’?

By William Teach March 5, 2018 – 11:07 am

All the Warmists will rush out and get this instead of eating regular meant, right?

Lab-grown ‘clean’ meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer

Meat grown in a laboratory could be on restaurant menus by the end of the year, one manufacturer has claimed.

In vitro animal products, sometimes referred to as “clean meat”, are made from stem cells harvested via biopsy from living livestock, which are then grown in a lab over a number of weeks.

Some environmentalists believe the process could be the key to reducing global warming, with one study predicting it could lower harmful greenhouse emissions by 96 per cent. (snip)

Chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras created using the technique could be served in restaurants in the US and Asia “before the end of 2018”, he told CNN.

No thanks!, But, apparently so will, in theory

But one recent study revealed one third of Americans would be willing to eat clean meat regularly or as a replacement for farmed meat.

Um, see, this is why we call the media biased. 31.1 would be definitely willing to try, 34.2% would probably try. On 7.2% would be definately willing to have it to replace farm grown meat, and 24.3% would probably be willing to do so.

Anyhow, here’s your thing, Warmists! Get to it!

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Bummer: Today Is Last Day For DACA

By William Teach March 5, 2018 – 7:18 am

What a shame. Let’s start deporting them all now

(ABC News) Six months ago, when he announced he was ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, President Donald Trump picked March 5 as the deadline for Congress to work out a solution to prevent DACA recipients from facing deportation.

But the president’s plans were thwarted by multiple court challenges, rendering Monday’s deadline all but meaningless. Now, as Congress and the Dreamers await a resolution in the courts, lawmakers have paused their legislative efforts and some 700,000 DACA recipients have been plunged into a constant state of uncertainty.

Two separate federal court injunctions have effectively halted the president’s rescission of the DACA program with the judges ordering the Department of Justice to maintain the current program as it was before Trump’s announcement last September.

In January, a federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction that prompted U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin taking DACA renewal applications again.

Since then, DACA policy for renewals has been operating on the Obama-era terms that were in place before it was rescinded.

Realistically, Trump can just do what Obama did numerous times: ignore the courts, especially since federal law takes precedence over an executive order that even Obama said was un-lawful and un-Constitutional. And he can also let the clock run out. No new applications are being accepted for DACA.

Of course, we need a sob story with this (the annoying autoplay video with the story also has a sob story)

While the DACA cases make their way through courts on both coasts, young people affected by the policy, like Sarahi Aguilera, are living in limbo.

Aguilera was born in Camargo, a city in the eastern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua. She arrived in the United States at the tender age of six as an undocumented immigrant. She is a DACA recipient.

“For most of us, DACA was the only opportunity we had to come out of the shadows and show everyone what we are capable of doing, regardless of the legal status in which we stand in,” Aguilera said in a testimonial provided by the Center for Popular Democracy to ABC News.

Hey, it’s easy to come out of the shadows. Go home with the parents that brought you in violation of our immigration laws.

Anyhow, as long as Democrats and other illegal alien supporters demand a “clean” DACA bill nothing will get done. If they want some sort of legal status for Dreamers, they are going to have to give up a lot to get it.

(NBC News) DACA recipient Javier Gamboa sees this year’s midterm elections as crucial to electing officials as a willing to find a solution for Dreamers and immigrants with no legal status.

As the director of Hispanic media for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, his job is to get Democrats elected to the House. Although the focus of the party he’s working for is centered on becoming the majority, the ambition also is personal.

“We are going to hit the deadline and nothing has been done and nothing has been passed to provide a solution for DACA,” Gamboa said. “We belong in this country and it is a fight to remain in this country. It is a fight for my future.”

No, you don’t belong in this country. If you want to stay, you should ask nicely. But, if you think Democrats will do anything, you’re going to be disappointed. They do not want a fix for this: they want to whip up their voters to get out and vote. If the problem is solved, that hurts them at the ballot box. They could have done something in 2009, when Republicans couldn’t stop them. They didn’t even consider it.

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Want To Watch Porn And Offensive Content In Rhode Island? That’ll Be $20

By William Teach March 5, 2018 – 6:50 am

Remember, Democrats are totally supportive of sex workers and freedom and stuff. Oh, and don’t forget they really, really love net neutrality. Except when it’s government doing the blocking

(Fox News) A new bill aims to charge Rhode Island residents a one-off $20 fee to access sexually explicit content online and impose stringent rules on Internet providers that do not comply with the law.

Two state Democrats, Sen. Frank Ciccone and Sen. Hanna Gallo introduced a bill on Thursday that would mandate Internet providers to block “sexual content and patently offensive material,” The Providence Journal reported.

Consumers will be able to lift the block but only if they pay a fee of $20.

The fees would be collected by the state government and go to the state’s treasurer and fund the operations of the Council on Human Trafficking.

Some people expressed opposition to the bill, criticizing the lawmakers for conflating sex work with human trafficking.

Whose thought immediately went to “how in the hell does this not violate the First Amendment, as well as the Constitution of Rhode Island”?

The text of the initiative does not specify what constitutes “offensive” material online.

Meaning that virtue signalers/SJWs will soon be deciding what is offensive. What could possibly go wrong?

But the companies could face monetary damages if they do not create effective reporting systems, allowing consumers and the state’s attorney general to sue for leaving offensive and sexually explicit content accessible with a block.

For every piece of content reported – but still accessible to the consumers – the attorney general or a consumer may file a civil suit against a provider and seek damages up to $500. The winning party may also ask the losing party to cover the legal fees.

Not only censorship, but fines if companies do not comply. It’s most likely not going to pass, and probably won’t even make it out of the Judiciary Committee. But, it is interesting that Democrats would even put up such an anti-free speech bill.

But, hey, let’s consider something: Democrats (and fake conservatives) are trotting out talking points that we follow the 2nd Amendment as it applied in 1791, so, only muskets and blunderbusses and single shot pistols. And swords (how cool would it be if we all carried a sword?). Because that’s what they had then. So, since there was no film then, and no Internet, every liberal would be just fine with the RI bill which would not be censorship and a denial of free speech at the time, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 4, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…are trees planted because Someone Else purchased carbon offsets, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Trump making a joke and the media going nuts.

It’s cowgirls week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 4, 2018 – 9:19 am

Happy Sunday! It’s a wonderful day in America. The sun is shining, there are beavers in the back pond, and the mockingbirds are out in force. This pinup is by Walt Otto, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. 357 Magnum notes the old addage “don’t bring a knife to a gunfight”
  2. Adrienne’s Corner explains the reality of the coming gun marches
  3. Bizzy Blog notes Angela Merkel finally acknowledging Germany’s no-go zones
  4. Blazing Cat Fur covers discrimination that seems to be OK with certain people
  5. Chicks On The Right discusses the Oscars being all kinds of ackward
  6. Common Cents has 5 facts gun grabbers hate
  7. Creeping Sharia covers a school protecting Muslims from Words
  8. Free North Carolina notes Italy being tired of their migrant invasion
  9. Jihad Watch covers a woman facing jail time for making jokes about Islam
  10. Legal Insurrection notes the shocking failure of Philly’s soda tax
  11. Maggie’s Farm has a quick introspection on achieving economic equality
  12. Moonbattery covers the license to parent
  13. Neo-neocon has some interesting stuff on why parrot’s parrot
  14. Pacific Pundit discusses more failures by the Sheriff’s office in the Parkland shooting
  15. And last, but not least, Patterico’s Pontifications notes the media whining about Conservatives noting the Coward County Sheriff’s department failures

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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The Leftist Entertainment Industry Needs To Stop Glorifying Violence And Misogyny

By William Teach March 4, 2018 – 7:48 am

A good Sunday morning to you! There are two articles of interest to me this morning, and are rather intersectional. The first comes from the Chicago Tribune

‘I’m a gun owner, but I am for gun control’: Protesters gather outside gun show at Lake County Fairgrounds

Twelve-year-old Ruth Turpin of Hammond struggled through tears Saturday to explain why she wanted to participate in an anti-gun-violence protest outside of a gun show at the Lake County Fairgrounds.

“I can’t believe that something as horrible as this could happen,” Ruth said, referring to the mass shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that resulted in the deaths of 17 students and faculty members. “It’s ridiculous. I don’t understand. It’s not something that should happen to kids.”

Bad Things happen in this world. Children are murdered, abused, enslaved, sold of to older men, forced to have their genitals mutilated, and so much more by radical (and sometimes not so radical) Islamists. Yet, these same Leftists do all in their power to defend any denunciation of a portion of Islam as being Islamophobia.

Ruth’s father, David Turpin, Jr., said his wife worries for his daughter’s safety while she is in school, and the family came to the protest to support sensible gun regulations. Turpin said while such measures would be a step in the right direction, the solution to violence is multi-faceted.

“We have created a culture of violence by glorifying it. We need to rethink that seriously,” Turpin said. “I’m a gun owner, but I am for gun control.”

Let me ask: what is the biggest creator of this glorified violence? We’ll return to that in a bit.

Indiana is one of 29 states that does not require universal background checks, Halstead said. That means there is no required background check when purchasing a firearm from a private seller at a gun show like the one underway at the fairgrounds through Sunday. Federally licensed gun dealers are required to do background checks but nothing prevents a private seller from legally obtaining a gun and then selling it to someone who cannot pass a background check.

First, this is a canard. The number of people who purchase firearms in this manner is shocking small. Second, if someone is purchasing in the manner describe, that could easily be considered a straw purchase, rather than some who had some guns and is selling them. Personally, I have no problem requiring all gun sales/transfers to have a federal background check performed, even if it is from father to daughter. We could draft very simple legislation on this, but, Democrats are opposed to small bills, because they want to restrict and even ban guns and citizens from owning them.

There’s lots more in this, worth the read, but let’s move on to this NY Times opinion piece, one of many at the paper today and yesterday, what with the Oscars (tomorrow’s headlines: “Oscars have lowest viewership in decades”)

We Got Rid of Some Bad Men. Now Let’s Get Rid of Bad Movies.

The Oscars are here: the first Oscars since powerful men started falling to #MeToo, a Trump-era Oscars, a #TimesUp Oscars, an Oscars in the shadow of “Black Panther.” Some big chairs will be empty. Some big secrets will stalk the red carpet, newly unleashed.

In an America where the ruling party seems willing to sacrifice many things — including decency and justice — to reassert white Christian masculinity as the tentpole of the universe, the best picture category offers a contrasting vision: a flaw-free indictment of that same colonial pathology (“Get Out”), a blazing affirmation of young womanhood (“Lady Bird”) and an aching gay romance (“Call Me by Your Name”), among others.

Let me ask: would anyone at the Times dare write anything negative and stereotyping as “to reassert white Christian masculinity…” in terms of Islam, where women are treated as owned things, required to wear several different types of body covering clothes, have their genitals mutilated, 11 year olds are married off to 50 year old men, etc and so forth?

Jordan Peele has the chance to become the first black person ever to win best director; Greta Gerwig would be only the second woman. Yance Ford, whose film “Strong Island” is up for best documentary feature, would be the first trans director to win an Oscar. Vulture reported last week that some older Academy voters refused to even watch “Get Out,” calling it “not an Oscar film,” a dismissal more air horn than dog whistle. Identity politics loom large over the 90th Academy Awards, as well they should.

TV and film are in the thick of an unprecedented sociopolitical reckoning, the first ever of such scale and ferocity, a microcosm of our ever-more-literal national culture war. But to make that reckoning stick, we have to look ahead and ask ourselves what we want of this new Hollywood, and look back to avoid repeating the past.

It’s interesting that op-ed writer Lindy West is almost demanding that Hollywood not make certain movies, that they be censored. Get Out is a horror movie: not many get nominated for an Oscar except for things like makeup.

It’s also interesting that it seems as if Hollywood is rather racist and sexist.

Hollywood is both a perfect and bizarre vanguard in the war for cultural change. Perfect because its reach is so vast, its influence so potent; bizarre because television and movies are how a great many toxic ideas embedded themselves inside of us in the first place.

What do both articles share? The notion that Hollywood is a horrendous hive of scum and villainy. The first on guns, when we start referring to a culture of violence, where is this coming from? It’s in TV shows, it’s in movies. It’s hypocrites

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It’s also Hollywood which has perpetuated all the racism and sexism as portrayed by Lindy West. As a straight male, I certainly appreciate the female body. But even I will point out how women are treated as sex objects by Hollywood for the sake of being a sex object. How many times have you watched a show and said “that scene with a woman was simply gratuitous?” Or seen a movie poster where the man is dressed and the woman is wearing a few scraps of clothing. Like this

Perhaps Hollywood and the entertainment industry should take a deep look at itself first.

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Southern Californians Totally Know That Pleasant Weather Is Real, Deadly, And Here

By William Teach March 3, 2018 – 4:10 pm

These are the same people who refuse to give up their own fossil fueled lifestyles and go carbon neutral, but, the UK Guardian is Totally Concerned

Southern Californians know: climate change is real, it is deadly and it is here
An earthly paradise is ravaged by inferno and flood, the earth itself rising to proclaim a horrifying and deadly new normal

I love that subhead. Very apocalyptic.

People who visit from colder climates have been complaining lately. Last year, when it finally rained after six years of drought, and we were practically on our knees with gratitude, a woman from New England remarked, “I didn’t come here for the rain.” I almost said, “Well, then, why don’t you go back home?” Another pestered a friend: when was her club in Montecito going to open? My friend replied, “I think it’s under eight feet of mud.” She wanted to add, “And they’re still looking for the bodies.”

It’s always been a struggle here to have a normal life, to hold on to reality.

In December, we got a mega-dose of reality when the biggest fire in California’s history burned more than 270,000 acres. Seven cities were evacuated.

When the air was labeled “hazardous” for three days running, we made plans to leave. On Sunday morning, my phone pinged a mandatory evacuation for Montecito. I called a friend who lives there. “Packing,” she said. The fire was less than a mile away. I drove through the brown air and falling ash to a gas station and when I got there, my credit card wouldn’t work; the power was out. I stood in the zombie snow as others lined up behind me. Finally, we drove north to a hotel on the coast, where, with evacuated friends, we hiked and walked together along the shore.

See? Wildfires, which have always happened (and are also made worse by the draconian enviroweenie demands to stop all clearing of brush till the area is a tinderbox) are hell on earth, you guys.

After we’d been there a few days, I woke up at 3am and thought of a movie I’d watched years ago. Ava Gardener and Gregory Peck waiting for the fallout from a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere to float on the wind to them in Australia. They were going to die, and everyone and everything they cared about was already dead or was going to be. I remembered a lot of drinking and dancing, fruitless searching by submarine along the coasts of the United States for survivors and Fred Astaire fixing up his sports car so he could rev it up in his garage and commit suicide.

I thought, we are On the Beach.

And we know now what the dread was we felt in December. Call it climate change or climate collapse, that was the Big Dread behind the smaller ones. Climate believers, climate deniers, deep in our hearts we think it will happen somewhere else. Or, in some other time, in 2025 or 2040 or next year. But we are here to tell you, in this postcard from the former paradise, that it won’t happen next year, or somewhere else. It will happen right where you live and it could happen today. No one will be spared.

Oh, and hey, just to illustrate doom on earth, they provide this picture of doom

Refer back to facepalm GIF.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 3, 2018 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turned to desert, except where it’s flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Lady Liberty 1885, with a post on no more free rides for the Moral Monday crowd.

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CNN: Trump Totally Changed The Rules To Arrest More “Non-Criminal” Illegals!

By William Teach March 3, 2018 – 10:37 am

Of course, they have to term them “immigrants”

How Trump changed the rules to arrest more non-criminal immigrants

A businessman and father from Ohio. An Arizona mother. The Indiana husband of a Trump supporter. They were unassuming members of their community, parents of US citizens and undocumented. And they were deported by the Trump administration.

You could stop right there. That they’re “undocumented” means they are unlawfully present, violated our laws and sovereignty, and should be deported.

It’s left many wondering why the US government is arresting and deporting a number of individuals who have often lived in the country for decades, checked in regularly with immigration officials and posed no danger to their community. Many have family members who are American citizens, including school-aged children.

If I had been stealing CNN writer Tal Kopan’s newspaper for 20 years, think she would be OK with that?

Where the Obama administration focused deportation efforts almost exclusively on criminals and national security threats, as well as immigrants who recently arrived illegally, the Trump administration has also targeted immigrants with what are called final orders of removal — an order from a judge that a person can be deported and has no more appeals left.

In other words, these are people who have orders that even preceded Obama’s time in office who should have been kicked out a long time ago. Because, you know, when a judge issues a final order, it should be followed.

Of course, the story goes on into “gut wrenching”, “heart breaking”, and other types of feelings based journalism, failing to note that what the Trump administration is doing is, get this, following the law as written. Trump didn’t change any rules: he’s following them.

Don’t like it? Try and get the laws changed. Go for it. Please tell the American citizenry that they are less important than the people who are illegally present in the nation, and that you want to create a situation where more will come illegally/overstay their visas.

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